Saturday, April 12th

9:00 Welcoming remarks, Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Tribute to Prof. Harrie Vanderstappen
9:30 am -12:00 pm
Panel 1—Locating Art in Spatial and Cultural Arenas
Chair, Katherine R. Tsiang
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, University of Oregon, “Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Form and Spatial Order”
Robert Linrothe, Skidmore College, “Polishing the Past: The Style of a Seventeenth Century Tibetan Mural”
Robin Stern, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “An Analysis of the Garden at Ryoanji: Art History in Fiction”

1:00-5:30 pm
Panel 2—Perspectives on Visual Evidence
Chair, Jerome Silbergeld
Robert Poor, University of Minnesota, “Seeing and Knowing: Prehistoric Ceramics in East Asia”
Katherine Tsiang, University of Chicago, “Re-framing the Evidence around an Extraordinary Sixth Century Chinese Bodhisattva”

Sandy Kita, Chatham College, “An Alternative View: Ukiyo-e at the University of Chicago”
Amy McNair, University of Kansas, “Looking at Chinese Calligraphy”

6 pm Reception, Smart Museum of Art
Remarks and Reminiscences by Richard Born and others

Sunday, April 13th

9:00 am-12:30 pm
Panel 3— Meaning in Ornament, Gesture, and Style
Chair, Wu Hung
Martin Powers, University of Michigan, “Looking at Ornament: A Red Lacquered Casket from Han China”
Stanley Murashige, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Re-performing the Work of Art (Xie He’s Liufa!?): An Homage to Harrie Vanderstappen”
Ikumi Kaminishi, Tufts University, “Animated Rhythm and Blues of the Ban Dainagon ekotoba”

Closing Remarks

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