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.
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
Anne de Coursey Clapp
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
Xiongnu Archaeology of Mongolia and Transbaikalia
Lecture
April 12, 2006
Dashtzeveg Tumen
National University of Mongolia
Xiongnu Archaeology of Mongolia and Transbaikalia
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
The Rock Bridge at Mount Tiantai
Symposium
April 1–2, 2006
Bridges to Heaven

A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong

Hanoi avant-garde (tv)
Lecture
March 13, 2006
Nora Taylor
Arizona State University
Following the Trail of Hanoi’s Avant Garde Artists: Vietnamese Installation and Performance Art in the Age of Globalization
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Rider No. 2, Study for "Drawing and Quartering"
Lecture
February 22, 2006
Zhi Lin
University of Washington, Seattle; Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Self-Portraits: Investigations of Nature, the Past, and the Present
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, and the Department of Art and Archaeology
Zhi Lin - Drawing and Quartering, from the series Five Capital Punishments in China
Lecture
February 21, 2006
Zhi Lin
University of Washington, Seattle; Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Zhi Lin's Work: A Journey Across History and Culture
4 30 pm
Stewart Film Theater
Co-sponsored by The Council of the Humanities, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Princeton University Art Museum
Zhi Lin - Drawing and Quartering, from the series Five Capital Punishments in China
WORKSHOP
Spring 2006
Artist’s Workshop: Zhi Lin

The Artist as a Critical Observer and Investigator

Workshop with Zhi Lin, Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art:

embroidered panel with scholars' objects and vase of flowers
Graduate Student Symposium
February 18, 2006
Traversing Media and Remodeling Motifs in East Asian Art
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Lecture
February 18, 2006
Maggie Bickford
Brown University
Traversing Media
9 00 am
101 McCormick Hall
Photo of Shunling Mausoleum, tomb of Yang Shi
Lecture
February 9, 2006
Tonia Eckfeld
University of Melbourne
Architectonics of Tang Imperial Tombs, 618–907: Constructing a Dynasty
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Painting of a Lotus
Lecture
November 15, 2005
Aida Yuen Wong
Brandeis University
Affective Realism: Saimitsu Byosha and its Chinese Song-dynasty Sources in Taisho Japan
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Celadon ewer, melon shape with lotus-flower design
WORKSHOP
Spring 2005
Workshop on East Asian Ceramics

Robert D. Mowry, Sackler Museum, Harvard University

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