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.
Manuscript covers with three deities and three hierarchs
Symposium
March 7–9, 2008
Art History, Buddhist Studies, Tibet

New Perspectives from the Tibet Site Seminar

Arnold Chang Landscape after Dong Yuan
WORKSHOP
Spring 2008
Artist’s Workshop: Arnold Chang

The Essence of Chinese Landscape Painting: An Insider’s View

Workshop with Arnold Chang, Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art

Artwork by:   . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
Lecture
February 16, 2008
Richard Curt Kraus
University of Oregon
The Commodification of Chinese Dissent for the Global Marketplace
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Sheep and Goat handscroll by Zhao Mengfu
Graduate Student Symposium
February 16, 2008
The Art of Opposition
Calligraphy of the ancient sage king Cangjie
Lecture
December 6, 2007
Craig Clunas
Oxford University
Patterns Cut in Stone: The Kingly Replication of Culture in Ming China
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by:  Anonymous . Artwork title: Foguangsi wood hall, Wutaishan, Shanxi Province
Lecture
October 18, 2007
Cary Y. Liu
Princeton University Art Museum
Between the Titans: Constructions of Modernity and Tradition at the Dawn of Chinese Architectural History
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Still image (Wo) from Devils on the Doorstep
Tang Center Lecture Series
October 11, 2007
Jerome Silbergeld
Princeton University
Naming the Beast
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Still image from Jiang Wen's film In the Heat of the Sun
Tang Center Lecture Series
October 9, 2007
Jerome Silbergeld
Princeton University
Body Visible
4 30 pm
Artwork by:   . Artwork title: Manuscript fragment with stamped images of the Buddha. Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on the Names of the Buddhas, chapter 4
Symposium
September 28, 2007
Dunhuang Manuscripts and Painting

An International Symposium Honoring James and Lucy Lo

Bukan
Symposium
April 14–15, 2007
Re-presenting Emptiness

Zen and Art in Medieval Japan

Detail of Zhou Chen handscroll of The North Sea
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 5, 2007
Anne Clapp
Wellesley College
“What’s in a Name?”: The Biehao Painting in Chinese Landscape
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Detail of a handscroll by Dai Jin
Tang Center Lecture Series
April 2, 2007
Anne Clapp
Wellesley College
Conspicuous Seclusion: Commemorative Landscape Painting in China
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Vanessa Tran - Untitled
Lecture
February 20, 2007
Vannessa Tran
Artist, Seattle, Washington; Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
The Nature of Painting
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by The Council of the Humanities, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Princeton University Art Museum
Vanessa Tran - Untitled
WORKSHOP
Spring 2007
Artist’s Workshop: Vannessa Tran

The Nature of Painting

Workshop with Vannessa Tran, Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art

Mandala of Simhavaktrā, the ‘Lion Faced’ dakini
Lecture
December 4, 2006
Marsha Haufler
University of Kansas
Thangkas for the Ming Court
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Second courtyard of the Great Mosque in Xi’an
Lecture
November 28, 2006
Nancy Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania
The Mosque in China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
19th century woodblock print by Toyohara Chikanobu
Panel Discussion
September 27, 2006
Meiji Eyes

Japanese woodblock prints at the turn of the nineteenth century

White Mahakala
Lecture
April 19, 2006
Marylin Rhie
Smith College
Regional Schools in Later Tibetan Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Buddha in Seokguram Grotto
Lecture
April 18, 2006
Marylin Rhie
Smith College
Some Issues in Korean Buddhist Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Figure of a Deer
Lecture
April 14, 2006
Colin Mackenzie
Middlebury College
Strange Forms and Patterned Surfaces: Wood Carving and Lacquer Painting of the Chu State, 6th to 3rd century B.C.E.
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall