Lectures

Lectures from distinguished guests and members of the Princeton University faculty take place throughout the academic year.
Still from the anime Heike Story (2021), episode 1, directed by Yamada Naoko
Lecture
October 1, 2026
Elizabeth Oyler
University of Pittsburgh
Furukawa Hideo’s post-3/11 Heike monogatari
5 30 pm
Art Museum Grand Hall
Sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
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
Zhang Xiaogang, Bloodline series, 1998
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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