Professor of History Thomas Wilson delivered a paper titled "Ritual Spaces and Reverent Bodies in the Cult of Confucius" at the panel Ritual and Politics in Late Imperial Shandong, West Coast Association for Asian Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle, in September.
He also organized and served as discussant on panel titled "Lineage Construction in Chinese Religions" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio in November.
Wilson also began serving as a member of the High School Curriculum Council at Clinton Central School, and gave a lecture on ancient China to all sections of the ninth grade Global Studies class at Clinton Central on Nov. 16.
