Lectures

Lectures from distinguished guests and members of the Princeton University faculty take place throughout the academic year.

Past Lectures

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
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
Mogao Cave 17
Lecture
April 22, 2022
Valerie Hansen
Yale University
Cave 17 at Dunhuang, or Stein’s Library Cave: Reconstructing Silk Road Society
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Artwork by: Kitagawa Utamaro . Artwork title: Untitled (Kitchen Scene)
Lecture
October 28, 2021
Chelsea Foxwell
University of Chicago
Artful (Re)working: Pictures of Labor in Eighteenth-Century Japan
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Album leaf by Shen Zhou
Lecture
April 14, 2021
Lihong Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shen Zhou's (1427–1509) Paintings from Life
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Page from Xuande yiqi tupu
Lecture
March 31, 2021
Bruce Rusk
University of British Columbia
Art Work: Classifying Artifacts as Official Business in Late Imperial China
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Detail of Woodblock printed map
Lecture
November 11, 2020
Hui-shu Lee
University of California, Los Angeles
Picturing West Lake: The Poetics and Representation of an Iconic Place
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artwork by: Su Shi. Artwork title: Old Trees, Rock, and Bamboo
Lecture
September 23, 2020
Peter Sturman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Inscriptional Practices of the Northern Song Literati
4 30 pm
Virtual
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center for East Aisan Art
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Tray with Abundant Grain and Vegetable Design and Inscription reading “People's Communes are Good” (人民公社好 )
Lecture
February 6, 2020
Alfreda Murck
Columbia University
Turnips, Peppers, and Mangoes: Food Symbolism in the People's Republic of China
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Princeton University Art Museum. Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.
Portrait of Murasaki Shikibu
Lecture
April 16, 2019
Melissa McCormick
Harvard University
Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on The Tale of Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Male portraits from Baishou lianpu, Collection of Faces of One-Hundred Elderly
Lecture
March 27, 2019
Klaas Ruitenbeek
Berlin Museum of Asian Art
Albums of Ordinary Faces: Small-size Portraits from Painters' Studios in Late Imperial China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Panasonic Corporation National brand light bulb advertisement from the 1930s
Lecture
October 11, 2018
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Duke University
Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by: Yeesookyung . Artwork title: Translated Vase TVW1
Lecture
October 9, 2018
Soyoung Lee
Harvard Art Museums
Korean Ceramics: Not Your Usual Story
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Artwork title: Color woodblock print from the series One of the Eight Hundred Heroes of the Water Margin of Japan
Lecture
April 6, 2018
Sarah Thompson
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints
2 00 pm
010 East Pyne Hall
Cosponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
Painting by Huang Binhong
Lecture
February 15, 2018
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
A Short History of “Black Painting”: A Counter Tradition in Chinese Art
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Statue Buddha Head
Lecture
April 27, 2017
Gregory Levine
University of California, Berkeley
Nezu Ka’ichiro’s Buddha Heads, Yamanaka Sadajiro, and Tianlongshan’s Sculptural Diaspora
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Three-legged Ru ware incense burner
Lecture
March 7, 2017
Nigel Wood
Ashmolean Museum
“The Sky after Rain”: New Light on Song Imperial Celadons
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Ming dynasty pipa (lute)
Lecture
October 19, 2016
Judith Zeitlin
University of Chicago
A Ming pipa in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: In Pursuit of Historical, Visual, and Musical Connections
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Cosponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Zashikimochi “suite holders”. From Selections of Famous Splendid Blossoms. Vol. 2 Autumn section
Lecture
February 27, 2016
Julie Nelson Davis
University of Pennsylvania
Reading Bijinga: Pictures of Beauties in Context
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Mogao Cave 285, east wall, north side. Preaching scene.
Lecture
November 13, 2015
Mimi Gardner Gates
Dunhuang Foundation
What Is Dunhuang?
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Photo of the Mogao cliff, southern caves, 1963–66
Lecture
November 13, 2015
Fan Jinshi
Dunhuang Academy
My Experiences at Dunhuang
4 30 pm
McCosh 50
Mogao Cave 285, west wall. Niche lintel
Lecture
November 10, 2015
Roderick Whitfield
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Dunhuang: Global Gallery of Art and Faith
6 30 pm
Princeton Club of New York
Cosponsored by the Princeton Club of New York, the Dunhuang Foundation, and Princeton University's Office of Alumni Affairs
View of the Northern Caves at Dunhuang
Lecture
October 22, 2015
Hsueh-man Shen
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Creating and Re-creating the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang
5 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation
Portrait of Zeng Jing
Lecture
April 29, 2015
Sarah Kile
University of Michigan
Thinking with Lenses: Optical Technology in Literature and Visual Culture in Seventeenth-Century China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature
Artwork by: Unknown Artist . Artwork title: Jade object
Lecture
March 3, 2015
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Immortality in a Global Context: The Tomb of the King of Nanyue in Early China Revisited
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by: Mang Huli. Artwork title: Seated Lady Holding a Fan
Lecture
November 19, 2014
Hiromi Kinoshita
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Building and Display: The Chinese Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Tea leaf storage jar called "Chigusa" dressed with silk cord and mouth cover
Lecture
November 7, 2014
Takeuchi Jun’ichi
Eisei-Bunko Museum, Tokyo
The Art of Tea in Sixteenth-Century Japan
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Program in East Asian Studies
Tea bowl
Lecture
March 1, 2014
Christine Guth
Royal College of Art
Material Translations: Wit in Japanese Lacquer
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Mount Tai. One of the five Marchmounts Illustrations from Wuyue you cao
Lecture
February 17, 2014
J.P. Park
University of California, Riverside
Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Detail of Hon’ami Kōetsu handscroll
Lecture
February 11, 2014
John Carpenter
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Poetry in Ink: Form and Rhythm in Japanese Calligraphy
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Detail of handscroll by QIao Zhongchang
Lecture
October 7, 2013
Martin Powers
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pictorial Citation in Song China: Theory and Practice
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Film still from Writing in Water
Lecture
February 20, 2013
Angela Zito
New York University
Writing in Water: A Film Screening in Chinese with English Subtitles
7 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies, Film Studies, and the Department of Religion
Detail of Two Landscapes Inspired by the Poetry of Du Fu
Lecture
February 12, 2013
Peter Sturman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Family Matters: The Strange Case of the ‘Poetic Ideas’ Scroll Attributed to Mi Youren and Sima Huai
5 00 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Artwork by: Composite view . Artwork title: Gabriel Orozco, Black Kites, 1997 (left); Murakami Takashi, Time Bokan, 2001 (center); Subodh Gupta, Very Hungry God, 2006 (right)
Lecture
November 15, 2012
Bert Winther-Tamaki
University of California, Irvine
Global Convergences: Japanese, Indian, and Mexican Art Since 1876
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Still image from I Wish I Knew
Lecture
November 14, 2012
Yomi Braester
University of Washington
Digital Effects and Cinephiliac Ethics: Chinese Film under the Sign of Globalization
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies
Vying for the Prize-Marker at Jinming Lake
Lecture
October 4, 2012
Ari Levine
University of Georgia
Read-Write Memory: How to Translate Images of Early Modern Chinese Cityscapes into Texts (and Back Again)
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies
Gu Wenda Free Expression
Lecture
April 13, 2012
Wenda Gu
Artist
Global Art and Chinese Culture: A Conversation with Wenda Gu
7 00 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Program in East Asian Studies
Ikarugadera, Buddhist temple in Taishi, Hyōgo Precture, Japan, founded by Prince Shōtoku in 606
Lecture
March 3, 2012
Donald McCallum
University of California, Los Angeles
Asuka Myths and Orthodoxies: Ikarugadera – Umayado no ōji – Hōryūji
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum
Erlang and His Soldiers Driving Out Animal Spirits
Lecture
November 30, 2011
Carma Hinton
George Mason University
Tethered Tiger, Captured Dragon: Clearing Out Demons from Mountain Woods
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Princeton University Art Museum
Buddha in Karachi
Lecture
October 10, 2011
Rhi Juhyung
Seoul National University
Does Iconography Really Matter? Iconographic Specification of Buddha Images in Pre-Esoteric Buddhist Art
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
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
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
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: 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
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
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
Shitao handscroll entitled Searching for Plum Blossoms
Lecture
December 2, 2008
Wu Hung
University of Chicago
Shitao (1642−1707) and the Traditional Concept of Ruins
8 00 pm
McCosh 10
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Illustration of Meditation Sutra
Lecture
April 28, 2008
Youngsook Pak
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and Yale University
Patronage and Pure Land Paintings in Koryŏ, 13th and 14th Centuries
4 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword
Lecture
April 22, 2008
Joseph Earle
Japan Society
From Form to Picture: Japanese Sword Fittings in an Age of Peace
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Lecture
April 15, 2008
Bo Lawergren
Professor Emeritus, Hunter College
with Tomoko Sugawara, harpist and kugo player
The Ancient Asian Harp Reborn: An Illustrated Lecture and Musical Demonstration
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program and Department of Music
Bird-Man Creature Tending Sacred Fire
Lecture
April 10, 2008
Annette Juliano
Rutgers University
Intersections: Defining the Cultural Dynamic of North China in the Sixth Century
4 30 pm
101 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
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
Calligraphy
Lecture
April 13, 2005
Qianshen Bai
Boston University
The Cultural Climate of Late Ming–Early Qing China and Play with Strange Characters
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
diagram
Lecture
February 14, 2005
Stanley Abe
Duke University
Authenticity and Connoisseurship: Making Chinese Sculpture Art
3 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program Art
Royal tomb of Sinmun of Silla (r. 681–92). Gyeongju, South Korea
Lecture
December 2, 2004
Bong Won Kang
Visiting professor, Kyongju University, Korea
Mortuary Practices during the Three Kingdoms Period in Korea
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Belt clasp
Lecture
November 15, 2004
James Trilling
Independent Scholar
Cultural Boundaries and Artistic Fusion: Eurasian Art of the First Millennium, AD
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Detail of Landscape Map of Mongolia
Lecture
November 12, 2004
Lin Meicun
Peking University
Mongolian Landscape Map: A “World Map” of Middle Age Newly Discovered in Japan
3 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yiheming)
Lecture
November 1, 2004
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Columbia University
Big Writing: The Monumental Sutras of Shandong Province and the Question of Scale in the Visual Arts
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Artwork by: . Artwork title: The main chamber of Xi'an Jiaotong daxue tomb
Lecture
October 12, 2004
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng
Yale University
Art, Science and Religion: The Painted Han Tomb at Xi’an Jiaotong University
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: . Artwork title: Untitled (Blank)
Lecture
May 1, 2004
Richard M. Barnhart
Yale University, Emeritus
Region, Identity, Boundaries, and Influences: Personal Reflections on Art and Life
9 30 am
101 McCormick Hall
Yulin Cave 25, south wall (detail)
Lecture
April 12, 2004
Puay-peng Ho
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Constructing the Pure Land: Architecture in Dunhuang Wall Paintings
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Workshop
Mogao Cave 217, south wall
Lecture
March 30, 2004
Eugene Wang
Harvard University
Grotto, Mirror Hall, and Phantasm—A Dunhuang Cave and Medieval Chinese Visual Culture
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Artwork by: Guo Xi. Artwork title: Old Trees, Level Distance
Lecture
February 24, 2004
Heping Liu
Wellesley College
Old Trees and Wintry Forests: Searching for an Ecological Landscape in Eleventh-Century Song China
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Guqin (zither)
Lecture
November 13, 2003
Bell Yung
University of Pittsburgh
Hearing with the Mind and Touch: The Private Music of the Chinese Qin
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Meiji architectural model in the British Royal Collection
Lecture
October 14, 2003
William Coaldrake
University of Melbourne
Meiji Architectural Models and the Rebirth of the Taitokuin Mausoleum
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Detail of warrior on top of bronze drum, Dian Culture
Lecture
April 3, 2003
Robert Murowchick
Boston University
Bulls, Snakes, and Drums: Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Dian Culture in Yunnan, Southwest China
3 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Artwork by: Tsuchida Bakusen. Artwork title: Women of Ōhara
Lecture
March 26, 2003
Doris Ledderose-Croissant
University of Heidelberg
Icons of Femininity: Tsuchida Bakusen (1887–1938), Japanese National Painting and the Parodox of Modernity
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
Wu Liang Shrine rubbing
Lecture
March 4, 2003
Xin Lixiang
National Museum of Chinese History
The Relationship between the Images of Han Dynasty Offering Shrines and Tomb Imagery
3 30 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the East Asian Studies Program and underwritten in part by the Getty Grant Program
Wu Liang Shrine rubbing
Lecture
March 4, 2003
Jiang Yingju
Honorary Director of the Shandong Stone Carvings Museum
Han Dynasty Pictorial Stone Carving
5 00 pm
202 Jones Hall
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the East Asian Studies Program and underwritten in part by the Getty Grant Program
Beautiful Woman in Her Boudoir
Lecture
November 14, 2002
James Cahill
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Passages of Felt Life: Paintings for Women in Ming-Qing China?
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Finches and Bamboo
Lecture
October 23, 2002
Maggie Bickford
Brown University
Emperor Huizong’s Paintings: Works of Art as Works of State
4 30 pm
106 McCormick Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
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