Five leading scholars working on Buddhist art and manuscripts from northwestern China gather at Princeton University to present recent research in a public forum and to honor more than 60 years of contributions to the field by James and Lucy Lo. The speakers are FAN Jinshi (China), Jean-Pierre Drège (France), Susan Whitfield (England), Jacob P. Dalton (U.S.), and CHEN Huaiyu (U.S.). Their papers address recent advances in the conservation and study of wall-paintings, the history of the Chinese book, advances in digital technology and web resources for the study of Silk Road materials, Tibetan manuscripts, and the Princeton collection of Dunhuang manuscripts.

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This conference presents research stemming from the Tibet Site Seminar, a one-month interdisciplinary seminar conducted in 2007 for students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in art history and Buddhist Studies. The conference begins with a keynote address by Deborah Klimburg-Salter (Professor of Himalayan Art, University of Vienna) and continues with presentations given by graduate-student participants in the 2007 Tibet Site Seminar and responses from senior scholars in the field. The conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

The panel discussion will feature four presentations related to the exhibition Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eyes, on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from September 23, 2006, to January 7, 2007. Each presentation will consider the different ways in which the sharp political and social transitions of the Meiji period (1868–1912) were expressed in the print medium, particularly approaches to depicting the foreign and the Japanese relationship to other cultures. The panel will also examine the legacy of the images of Meiji prints extending to the present day.

The P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, announces a two-day public symposium “Bridges to Heaven: A Symposium in East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong,” scheduled for April 1 and 2, 2006. This symposium will feature 15 paper presentations, and a related festschrift publication to follow will include about 40 papers by Professor Fong’s students and several of his colleagues. Both will honor Wen Fong’s 45 years of teaching at Princeton, his years of leadership at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his unsurpassed impact on the field of Asian art history. The main title of the symposium and the subsequent publication, “Bridges to Heaven,” pays homage to Wen Fong’s ground-breaking dissertation and his resultant early publication, entitled The Lohans and a Bridge to Heaven (1958) and brings together many of his students in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art history, who will present new research that has been deeply influenced intellectually and methodologically by Wen Fong’s teaching but has now ventured “across many bridges,” linking art history with a multitude of other disciplines, including literature, political and social history, religion, anthropology, and geography.