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.
Streeet scene, Canton
WORKSHOP
22 August 2026
Contesting Categories

East Asian Art at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Organized by Yixu Eliza Chen and Shing-Kwan Chan with support from the Tang Center for East Asian Art

Artwork by: . Artwork title: Asian Art at Princeton
Symposium
April 9–11, 2026
Asian Art at Princeton

Celebrating Collecting and Scholarship

Detail from scroll 12 of the Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
Lecture
March 18, 2026
SEYA Ai
The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan
Of Gods, Courtiers, and Sacred Scrolls in Medieval Japan: The Illustrated Handscroll of Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
4 30 pm
Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and the East Asian Studies Program
Detail of a sake flask
Lecture
February 26, 2026
Melisssa McCormick
Harvard University
Rengetsu's Haptic Poetics: Toward a Kinesthetic Theory of Art 
4 30 pm
Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134
Organized by the Department of Art & Archaeology
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Photo of Feng Wenfeng and Zhou Xiangyun
WORKSHOP
4 April 2025
Writing & Women Calligraphers in East Asia

Convened by Hui-Wen Lu (National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Princeton University) and Cheng-hua Wang (Princeton University)

Fragment of plain cloth, ca. 700s
WORKSHOP
1–2 March 2025
Tangible Knowledge

Japan’s Shōsōin and the Making of Manuscripts, Treasures, and Archives

Convened by Bryan Lowe (Princeton University) and Akiko Walley (University of Oregon)

Organized by the Center for Culture Society and Religion

 

Photo from the documentary Of Color and Ink
Lecture
February 10, 2025
Weimin Zhang, Xiao Yu, and Guilherme Gorgulho
Film director, cinematographer, and professor at the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University; Producer;
and Associate producer, University of Campinas
Film Screening---Of Color and Ink: The Chang Dai-chien Story & Conversation with the Director and Associate Producer
4 30 pm
Computer Science Building Room 104
Organized by the Tang Center
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Department of Art and Archaeology
Detail of Xu Wei, Grapevines
Lecture
October 24, 2024
Jonathan Hay
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Sardonic Dissonance in Xu Wei's Parapaintings ca. 1573–1593
Friend Center 101
Organized by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artwork by: Unknown artist . Artwork title: Mural in Wang Chuzhi's Tomb, Hebei province
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 25, 2024
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
Rethinking Landscape Painting
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum
Wu Hung
Artwork by: Unknown . Artwork title: Yang Guifei Teaching a Parrot to Chant the Heart Sutra
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 23, 2024
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
Rethinking Figure Painting
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum
Wu Hung
Detail of Zhao Gan, Early Snow on the River
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 19, 2024
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
Rethinking Historical Evidence and Methodology
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum
Wu Hung
Detail of two girls in the painting Brawler
Lecture
February 22, 2024
Liu Xiaodong
Artist
Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence Talk: Liu Xiaodong  
5 30 pm
Robertson Hall 016
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artwork by: Sun Hu, Zhou Kun, and Ding Guanpeng . Artwork title: “Molding the [vessel] body and grinding the pigment,” the 10th album leaf, from Taoye tushuo 陶冶圖說 (Illustrated Manual of Ceramic Production),
Lecture
February 14, 2024
Kai Jun Chen
Brown University
Technocracy and Porcelain Manufacture at  the Early to Mid-Qing Court (1720s–1750s)
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Organized by the East Asian Studies Program
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Detail of MiKyoung Lee, Reflected Memory 2
Lecture
December 7, 2023
MiKyoung Lee
Artist
Artist Conversation: MiKyoung Lee
11 Hulfish Street
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artwork by: Peng Wei. Artwork title: Autumn of Tang Dynasty
Lecture
November 30, 2023
Peng Wei
Artist
Artist Conversation: Peng Wei
5 30 pm
11 Hulfish Street
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Detail of MiKyoung Lee, Dream 12
Lecture
November 9, 2023
Eleanor Hyun
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Threading Histories: Locating the Past in Contemporary Korean Art
5 30 pm
Louis A. Simpson International Building
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Dyeshop
Lecture
September 13, 2023
Rachel Silberstein
Independent scholar
Coming into Color: The Cloth Classic, Jiangnan Dyeworks, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyes in Qing China
4 30 pm
219 Burr Hall
Sponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Shōfukuji Monastery in Hakata (modern Fukuoka), Japan
Lecture
April 27, 2023
Hsueh-man Shen
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Maritime Buddhist Art of the East Asian “Mediterranean,” ca. 900–1200
4 30 pm
East Pyne Building 010
Sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Gu yan ta cun
Lecture
November 16, 2022
Thomas Kelly
Harvard University
The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Mogao Cave 217, north wall
Lecture
November 15, 2022
Anne N. Feng
Boston University
Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
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