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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 (directions) \nAll are welcome\, no prior 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.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/relief-and-the-sacred-monument-entering-the-space/
LOCATION:CPD-2.58
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2026
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk 2026\nDate: 4 September 2026 (Friday)\nTime: 4pm-5pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nThis meeting will give an introduction and more information to ARTH4005 Art History Internship and ARTH2123/ARTH2124 Professional Experience I/II. Representatives from some institutions will also attend the meeting to have a conversation about their internship programmes. \nArt History students from all year groups are welcome. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260917T163000
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SUMMARY:Art History Tea Gathering 2026
DESCRIPTION:Art History Tea Gathering 2026\nDate: 17 September 2026 (Thu)\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nThis gathering is scheduled at the beginning of an academic year\, aiming to let new art history students\, new majors and minors\, to meet other members of the art history community. Refreshment will be provided. Come and meet your art history peers! \nAll are welcome\, no prior registration needed.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-tea-gathering-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260929T170000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Talk 2026
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Talk 2026\nDate: 29 September 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5-6pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\nSpeaker: Prof. Susanna McFadden \nThis talk provides current students with information and advice on graduate school applications\, local and abroad. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA\, as well as MA students who intend to continue on the academic journey. We will discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We will also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/graduate-talk-2026/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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