The Aesthetics of Design: Between Style and Function Date: 24 April 2013 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In this paper, I address the [...]

The Urban Landscape: Impressionism and the Modern City Date: 31 October 2013 (Thursday) Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus This lecture explores one of the [...]

The Baroque Sublime: Spectacle & Meraviglia Date: 20 November 2013 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Speaker: Helen Langdon Helen Langdon is a distinguished [...]

From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics Date: 22 November 2013 (Friday) Time: 3:30-4:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus The looting and destruction of parts [...]

Victory Pictures in a Time of Defeat: Depicting War in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901 Date: 5 March 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, [...]

Converging Lines in Parallel Worlds: The Kangxi emperor’s Imperially Commissioned Pictures of Tilling and Weaving as a production of the Investigation of Things and Scientia Date: 9 April 2014 (Wednesday) [...]

Culture, Style and Globalism: The Reception of Western Ornament in Asia Date: 17 April 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:30-6:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Ornament has always [...]

Ghosts, Water and the Marvelous in Pier Windows Date: 22 October 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus This talk outlines the basic tenets [...]

Beauty in Search of Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Fashion and the Uses of Print Date: 21 November 2014 (Friday) Time: 4:30-6:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Little integrated [...]

Women Artists in Twentieth Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary Date: 18 March 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 5:30-7:00pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Spanning the emergence [...]