Arts of Asia Lecture Series

 


Fall 2008
Passport to Asia:
An Odyssey Through Asian Art and History
Instructor of Record: Mary-Ann Milford

When:   Fridays, August 29 - December 12
Time:     10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Place:    Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall
Fee:      $125 members, $190 non-members (includes AAM 

             membership), registration required

             15 per-lecture drop in fee (no registration needed)

The Arts of Asia lecture series begins Friday, August 29 in Samsung Hall. The instructor of record will be Mary-Ann Milford, provost and dean of the faculty as well as professor of art history and Carver Professor of Far Eastern Studies at Mills College.

Many of the Arts of Asia lecture series favorite speakers from the Bay Area and across the country will transport you to tombs and temples, forbidden cities and sometimes forgotten centers of power, religion and art.

Jay Xu, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's new Director will kick off the fall series August 29 with a lecture on "China’s Lost Civilization at Sanxingdui," a Bronze Age civilization lost for more than 3,000 years that was rediscovered in China's southwestern Sichuan province in the mid-1980s.

During the fall and spring Arts of Asia lectures, we also will visit other fabled sites throughout China, Korea, Japan, the Near East and Central Asia, the Himalayas, India and Southeast Asia. We will view world wonders not simply as tourists do today but as monks and monarchs, artisans and aristocrats, traders and explorers experienced them over the centuries.

 

August 29          

Mysterious Creatures, Towering Trees and Lofty Figures in

Sacrifice: The Lost Civilization at Sanxingdui, China

Jay Xu, Asian Art Museum          

September 5     

Rethinking Chinese Han Dynasty Tombs

Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley     

September 12   

Exemplary Lives in the Buddhist Caves of Northern China

Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley

September 19   

Jingdezhen: Porcelain Capital of China and the World

Robert Mowry, Harvard University         

September 26

The Forbidden City in Chinese Myth and History

Richard Vinograd, Stanford University

October 3

Persia: Isfahan nisf-I jahan (Isfahan, Half the World)

Sheila Blair, Boston College

October 10       

Horyuji and Nara: Preserving China's Buddhist Past in Japan

Joan O'Mara, Washington & Lee University

October 17       

Beyond Words at the Haein Monastery in Korea:

An Event of Art as Writing

Lewis Lancaster, UC Berkeley     

         

October 24       

Japan’s Sacred Shinto Shrines:  Ise and Izumo

Laura Allen, Independent Scholar

October 31       

Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Palaces in Seoul, Korea     

Kumja Paik Kim, Asian Art Museum

November 7      

Where’s the Zen: Art at the Daitokuji Monastery, Japan

Gregory Levine, UC Berkeley

November 14                                                            

No lecture; please attend Afghan Symposium at UC Berkeley

November 21    

The Best of the West in Central Asian Art:

Or Blame it on the Sasanians!

Guitty Azarpay, UC Berkeley

November 28

No Class

December 5       

Samarkand and Bukhara between the Turks and the Mongols 

Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania

             

December 12     

Women’s Space and Place in Begram, Afghanistan

Sanjyot Mehendale, UC Berkeley

 
 

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