Maddalena BARENGHI

Professional experience

Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2018-2019

Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Department of History, University of Salzburg, 2016-2018

Postdoctoral Fellow (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange), Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2015-2016

Education

Ph.D. in co-supervision, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 2010-2014

MA Sinology, SOAS, University of London, 2009-2010

Publications in preparation

“State and Environment in the Ordos Loop,” in Nicola Di Cosmo, David Bello, Juerg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki (eds.), The Great Wall of China as a Climate Frontier: Environmental, Climatic and Historical Perspectives on the Ordos Region. Springer Nature (in review)

"Reexamining the Tang's Western Peripheries: Land Use, Land Loss, and Supply Infrastructure" (submitted to Tang studies)

"Towards an Environmental History of Military Farms: The Sui-Tang Imperial Frontier Landscape" (in preparation for the workshop: "Afro-Eurasian Empires and Ecologies at the End of Antiquity (c.400–c.1000 CE)," 3rd-5th July 2026, Cambridge)

Mercenaries, Military Patrons, and State Founders on the Fringes of the Empire: Becoming Shatuo in the 9th-10th Centuries, contracted for the Chinese Global Histories, 250-1650 series, Amsterdam University Press (now Taylor & Francis). (in preparation)

An annotated translation of "Jianyuan yilai houzhe" 建元以來侯者年表 (A Table by year for Marquises from after [the reign period] Chien-yüan on, Table 8), translation of Chapter 20 of Shiji, The Grand Scribe's Records, v.3, Chronological Tables (Indiana Un. Press, Nanjing Un. Press), with Clara Luhn (in preparation)

Talks at conferences

Early Medieval China Workshop, 21-23 November 2025, Prague

Sixth International Workshop (invited) Shiji 史記 Translation Project, July 24-27 2025, Madison, Wisconsin

"T'ang Studies Society Conference "Questioning Boundaries: Contemporary Approaches to Tang China," April 25-26 2025, Sarasota. 

Workshop (invited): "The Ordos Region: Climate, Environment, and History," May 20-25 2024, IAS Princeton.

Workshop (invited): “Volcanoes, Climate and History (VCH)," ZiF Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, November 27-30 2023.

Workshop (invited): "The Mobility of Nomadic and Sedentary Peoples in the Margins of China: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives," October 12-13 2023, Sorbonne, Paris.

"A Roundtable Read of 'The Offices and Rites of the Kitan' (Qidan guanyi 契丹官儀) by Yu Jing 余靖, AAS Boston 2023.

"The 'army of adopted sons': patterns of military patronage at the margins of the Tang Empire", IX Mediaeval Nomads (MeN) "Nomads and their Archaeological Evidence", Napoli 24-27 November 2022.

AAS Annual Conference, Washington 21-26 March 2021. Panel: “After the Heavenly Qaghans: Multi-ethnic Approaches to the Tang-Song Transition.” 

Early Medieval China Workshop, INALCO Paris 15-16 November 2019. 

Workshop: Shiji translation project (six sessions), chapters 49, 52, 54, 58, 59, 60 (The Grand Scribe’s Records, vol. XII, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming). Institute of Sinology, LMU Munich,14-28 June 2019.

Workshop: Shiji translation project, chapters 48, 49, 50 and 52 (The Grand Scribe’s Records, vol. XII, forthcoming). Eiling Eide Library, Sarasota (Florida), 1-4 November 2019. 

22nd Biennial Conference of the EACS, Glasgow, 29 August-1 September 2018. Panel: “Narrative of political legitimacy and illegitimacy in Medieval China (Traditional historiography).”

14th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Jerusalem, 23-24 May 2018. Presentation: “Some remarks on the 'Shatuo liezhuan' 沙陀列傳 and the Shatuo early genealogical history.”

Workshop: Shiji translation project, chapter 122 (The Grand Scribe´s Records, vol. XI). 2nd Scientific Forum, LMU China Academic Network, Hangzhou 20-22 November 2016.