Calendar of Events

Tang Center events are free and open to the public, but advance registration is recommended for some events, where noted. Reservations will be accepted in the order they are received. Register for events here.

Still from the anime Heike Story (2021), episode 1, directed by Yamada Naoko

Lecture

October 1, 2026

Elizabeth Oyler

University of Pittsburgh

Furukawa Hideo’s post-3/11 Heike monogatari

5 30 pm

Art Museum Grand Hall

Left: Forbidden City, aerial view (Google Earth); right: Song dynasty Huizong 徽宗 emperor’s seal 內府圖書之印 in “nine-folds” 九疊 script (PUAM1998-40 detail)

Tang Center Lecture Series

October 27, 2026

Cary Liu

Princeton University Art Museum
(curator emeritus)

Measuring Time in the Practice of Chinese Architecture: Rulers and Calendars

5 00 pm

Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134

Tang Center Lecture Series

October 29, 2026

Cary Liu

Princeton University Art Museum
(curator emeritus)

Imprinting Time in the Practice of Chinese Architecture: Seals and Process

4 30 pm

Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134

Lecture

November 11, 2026

Catherine Stuer

Denison University

Cleansing Green Stream: City, Landscape, and Heritage in 13th Century Jiankang

4 30 pm

219 Burr Hall

Lecture

November 18, 2026

Uli Sigg

Independent entrepreneur, diplomat, collector

Chinese Contemporary Art as a Mirror of China’s Transformation: Through Images, 1970s–Present

4 30 pm

Art Museum Grand Hall

Lecture

April 12, 2027

Haicheng Wang

University of Washington, Seattle

TBA

Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134