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.
Celadon ewer, melon shape with lotus-flower design
Lecture
October 6, 2011
Robert D. Mowry
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University
First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392)
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Auspicious Images (ruixiang). Mogao Cave 237
Lecture
April 14, 2011
Roderick Whitfield
Professor Emeritus, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
Ruixiang: The Replication of Notable Buddhist Images From India and Central Asia in Chang’an and Dunhuang
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Mogao Cave 267, north wall and ceiling, seen from Cave 266
WORKSHOP
Spring 2011
Lo Archive Project and Dunhuang

Principal organizers: Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, Princeton University

Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, China
Lecture
April 13, 2011
Sonya Lee
University of Southern California
New Faces of Nature: Leshan and Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Yuanan Lying in Snow
Lecture
February 17, 2011
Ronald Egan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Banana Tree in the Snow: Exploring Key Concepts of Song Dynasty Aesthetic Thought
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies
Portrait of Wang Du with the clay model
Lecture
December 9, 2010
Jane DeBevoise
Independent Scholar and Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Film and Introductory Lecture on “Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art of the 1980s”
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Program in East Asian Studies
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Guanyin
WORKSHOP
Fall 2010
An Investigation of Late Imperial Liuli Glazed Ceramics

Principal organizers: Susan Naquin, Ben Elman, and Cary Y. Liu, Princeton University

Okinawa, Okinawa, Okinawa
Lecture
October 19, 2010
Jonathan M. Reynolds
Barnard College
Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained: Tōmatsu Shōmei’s Photographic Engagement with Okinawa
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department in Art and Archaeology
Statue of Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store
Lecture
October 12, 2010
Helmut Brinker
Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich
The Iconic Body as Insight into Japanese Buddhist Practice
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Round Fan of Birds and Flowers on Waves from Screens with Miscellaneous Fan Paintings
Lecture
April 13, 2010
Matthew McKelway
Columbia University
Invention and Inversion in Momoyama Painting: Fans from the Nanzenji Screens
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Nao
WORKSHOP
Spring 2010
Ancient China as a Culture of Bells

Organized by Robert Bagley, Princeton University

Artwork by: . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
Lecture
April 8, 2010
David Schaberg
University of California, Los Angeles
Purposes of The Discussions on Salt and Iron
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Record of the Miaoyan Monastery
Graduate Student Symposium
February 27, 2010
Hierarchies
Artwork by: Unknown . Artwork title: Portrait of Priest Daquan with Beads
Lecture
February 27, 2010
Marsha Haufler
University of Kansas
Views from the Back of the Book: Monks, Women, and Foreigners
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Tsongkhapa
Lecture
February 16, 2010
Patricia Berger
University of California, Berkeley
Precious One: Transformative Arts and Technologies in Eighteenth Century Asia
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Shadow Figure of White Snake, head and body
Lecture
November 12, 2009
Mary Hirsch
Independent Scholar
1,001 Heads: Animating the Universe and Mimicking the Neighbors
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Hei Ming. Artwork title: Iron Rice Bowls
Symposium
October 24, 2009
China Seen by the Chinese

Documentary Photography, 1951−2003

Mahamuni Buddha Temple
Lecture
April 27, 2009
Boreth Ly
University of California, Santa Cruz
Circles of Power: The Political Palladia of Southeast Asia
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
New Moon over a Brushwood Gate
Symposium
April 18–19, 2009
Friends at a Brushwood Gate

A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu

Artwork by: Zhang Hongtu. Artwork title: Fish
Symposium
March 7, 2009
ARTiculations
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