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SUMMARY:Unsubscribe All!
DESCRIPTION:2026 Para Site International Conference\nDate: 23 August 2026\nTime: 10:30 am – 6:00 pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, The University of Hong Kong\nMedium: English\nRegistration: click here and read more \nSchedule\n10:30 – Introduction\n10:50 – Bahar Noorizadeh: Technofictions\, or Future as Mode Collapse\n11:20 – Günseli Yalcinkaya: Myth as Medium \n*** 11:50-12:00 Break *** \n12:00 – Ziyang Wu: From Systemic Contingencies to New Silk Frequencies:\nPre-enactment and Planetary Computation\n12:30 – Stanley Qiufan Chen: The Making of Myths Yet Unborn\n13:00 – Liam Young: New Planetary Imaginaries\n13:30 – Charis Poon: Respondent \n*** 13:45-15:00 Midday Intermission ** \n15:00 – Introduction\n15:15 – Iris Long: Speaking Nearby Infrastructures: Curatorial Methods for\nTechnoscientific Research\n15:40 – Winnie Soon: ^(Coding|Publishing)( Otherwise)$\n16:05 – Sophie Penkethman-Young: A personal take on a digital praxis\n16:30 – Sunday Chatroom: Iris Long\, Winnie Soon and Sophie Penkethman-Young\n(moderated by Clara Che Wei Peh)\n17:30 – Audience Q&A and Concluding Remarks
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LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Relief and the Sacred Monument: Entering the Space
DESCRIPTION:Relief and the Sacred Monument: Entering the Space\nDate: 3 September 2026 (Thu)\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome\, no registration needed\, free seating \nAbstract: This paper compares two very different monuments\, which were completed some two centuries apart\, from distant cultures with no direct connection of influence: the great Buddhist stupa at Amaravati in Southern India (completed at the end of the third century CE) and the Orthodox Baptistery at Ravenna (mid fifth century CE). Yet they show surprising similarities in the use of relief to articulate the penetration of supra-human forces into the human realm within sacred space. Both operate on the round\, using the cardinal points and intermediate directions as key devices of orientation; both conduct their ritual process at least in part through forms of ceremonial and processional circumambulation; both are concerned with surface on the voluminous round (whether concave or convex) and the penetration of that surface by relief sculpture in animate forms resembling the human body but representing super-human beings. The theoretical challenge is thus to find ways of explaining the parallels\, that are not dependent on models of contiguity or appropriation or influence. \nSpeaker: Jaś Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at Oxford and Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago.  He has taught and researched the religious arts of Eurasia since the 1990s and has published on early Buddhist art in India as well as the Pagan Polytheist and Christian arts of the Mediterranean\, with a special focus on pilgrimage\, description and the receptions of ancient visual culture in later periods. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Accademia die Lincei in Rome.
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CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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