Past Schedules

October 12
Jeehee Hong
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Staging Death and Life: Five Actor Figurines and a Miniature Theater from Houma Tomb No.1, Shanxi Province"

November 2
Li Ling
Professor, Peking University
"The Footsteps of Kongzi: The Statues and Cities where Kongzi Lived and Visited"

November 16
Julia Orell
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Depicting the Yangtze River: Particular Landscapes in Song China"

November 30
Hui-chun Yu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Intersection of Past and Present: The Qianlong Emperor and His Ancient Bronzes"

March 27
Midori Sato
Professor of Japanese Art History, Gakushuin University, Tokyo
"The Narration of Tales, The Narration of Paintings"

April 13
Yuhang Li
Ph.D. Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"Gendered Materialization: An Investigation of Late Imperial Women's Self-Fashioning through Artistic and Literary Reproductions of Guanyin"

April 27
Nancy Steinhardt
Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
"Yuan Period Tombs and Their Inscriptions"

May 4
Li Meitian
Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA
Associate Professor, Department of History, Beijing Normal University
"Bony and Fleshy: The Origin of Two Figural Representational Styles in Medieval China (3rd -8th century AD)"

May 7
Zhang Zong
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
"Artistic Evidence of the Worship of Names of the Buddha"

May 11
Yukio Lippit
Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University
"Inkwork: On the Origins of Tarashikomi in Japanese Ink Painting"

June 1
Wu Hung
Professor, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"A Woman's Tomb and Two Murals in It: Some Problems in Studying Chinese Tomb Art"

January 12
Tie Xiao
Ph.D. Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
“From 'His Sacrifice' to 'Her Awakening:' A Transnational /Translational Visual Encounter--Wen Tao’s Wood-Engraving Lianhuan Hua and Its Belgian Connection”

January 19
Kevin Huang
Ph.D. Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"Reading Filial Piety"

February 5
Liu Cong
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Burial Tool as Signifier of Cultural Identity: A Case Study of Sogdian Sabao Shi Jun’s tomb during the Northern Zhou dynasty"

February 12
Sun-Ah Choi
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Quest for the Real: A Case Study of Medieval Chinese Visuality of Religious Icons"

February 16
Jin-dal Bae
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Professor in Cultural Relics Conservation, Yong-In University, Korea
"Vajrasana Buddha at Mahabodhi Temple: From the Historical Buddha Sakyamuni to the Lord of Avatamsaka"

October 19
Nancy Lin
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Hwal-ot: The Bridal Coat as a Commodity and the Ritual Space of the Wedding Ceremony in Late Choson Korea (1392-1910)"

November 2
Qianshen Bai
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Boston University
"The Intellectual and Artistic Legacy of Huang Yi and His Friends: Reflections on Some Issues Raised by Recarving China’s Past"

November 16
Zhang Zong
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
"Real-sutra, Fake-sutra and Ritual-text: Three Kinds of Buddhist Inscription in the Engraving at Baodingshan of Dazu"

November 30
Jeehee Hong
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Theatricalizing Death: Mortuary Meanings and Functions of the Representations of Theatrical Performance during Mid-imperial China (11th-13th century)"

April 5
Christina Yu
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Painting as a Communication Site for the Literati: A Case Study of the Zhou Zhi-Shen Zhou Handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"

April 12
Li Fanyin, Director of the Art Museum of Dazu Stone Carvings
"Issues Related to the Baoding Grottoes in Dazu, Sichuan"
Lei Yuhua, Associate Researcher, Chengdu Institute of Archaeology
"Wenchuan and Longqingsi: Excavating Buddhist Sculpture in the Chengdu Area"

April 14
Youen-hee Kho
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
"Ideas about Natural Scenery in the Late Choson Period through Travellers' Records in Writing and Painting"

April 21
Adam Kern
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
"Manga Culture and the Kibyoshi: Toward a Pre-History of the Modern Japanese Comicbook"

April 28
Heping Liu
Associate Professor of Asian Art, Department of Art History, Wellesley College
"What Else Did Northern Song Landscape Painting Do?: The Li-Guo Tradition in Light of Rural Market, Deforestation, Floods, Famines and Cannibalism"

May 12
Wang Cheng-hua
Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
"Printing, Heritage Preservation, and Exhibitionary Culture: Collotype Reproduction of Antiquities in Early Twentieth-Century China"

May 26
Yuhang Li
Ph.D. Student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"Fragrant Orchid as Feminine Body: An Analysis of Ma Xiangling's Painting and Poetry"

March 18
Melissa McCormick
Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
"Women's Pictures in Late Medieval Japan"

March 3
Kris Imants Ercums
PhD Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"At the Crux of Chinese Modernism: The First National Exhibition of Art, 1927"

Februrary 17
Tonia Eckfeld
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Posthumous Rehabilitation, Political Legitimacy and the Tang Dynasty Tomb of Crown Prince Zhuanghuai"

February 3
Joy Beckman
PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"The Meaning of Material and the Mingqi Question: A Look at Fourth Century Grave Goods"

January 20
Eleanor Hyun
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Education and Ritual: Chaekkori Screens from the late Choson Dynasty"

January 13
Zhang Yingjin
Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Comparative Literature, and Cultural Studies in the Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
"Thinking Outside the Box: Mediation of Imaging and Information in Contemporary Chinese Independent Documentary"

December 9
Delin Lai
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Making the Dead Speak: Audio Aspects of the Transfiguration of Sun Yat-sen"

November 18
Yudong Wang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Half-length Figures and Visual Experience in Ancient China"

October 28
Peggy Wang
Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Exhibiting the Nation: Negotiating Cultural Authority in International Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Art during the 1990s"

October 14
Wei-cheng Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
"Locating Manjusri: Spatializing the Sacred Presence at early Tang Mt. Wutai"