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.
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 Y. Liu
Princeton University Art Museum
Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, emeritus
Measuring Time in the Practice of Chinese Architecture: Rulers and Calendars
5 00 pm
Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134
Cary Y. Liu
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 29, 2026
Cary Y. Liu
Princeton University Art Museum
Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, emeritus
Imprinting Time in the Practice of Chinese Architecture: Seals and Process
4 30 pm
Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134
Cary Y. Liu
Map of Green Stream
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
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and the East Asian Studies Program
Chanel No. 5, Wang Guangyi
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
Organized by the Center on Contemporary China
Cosponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and the East Asian Studies Program
Lecture
April 12, 2027
Haicheng Wang
University of Washington, Seattle
TBA
Art Museum Tuttle Lecture Hall Room 134
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Cosponsored by the Program in Archaeology
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