Spring 2009 — Society for Asian Art - Arts of Asia Lecture Series
GODS AND GOODS:  GLOBAL ART AND TRADE; Trade Roads~Sea Routes

Intructor of Record: Mary-Ann Milford, Mills College
November 30, 2009

August 28 The Search for Art: Foreign Devils on the Trade Roads…[Study Guide and Suggested Reading 7/27]
Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker, Mills College

September 4 Trading Patterns as Seen Through Words for Tea and a Ninth Century Shipwreck [8/25] (includes possible slides and readings)
Victor H. Mair, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania

September 11 From Court to Caravan: Chinese Funerary Sculptures, Qin to Tang Periods [8/27]
Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art, and Head of the Department of Asian Art,, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, and Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

September 18 Numismatics: Coins of the Silk Road [Study Guide Available 9/14/09]
Michael Alram, Kunst Historisches Museum, Vienna

September 25 Sri Lanka’s Role in Ancient Maritime Trade [Study Guide Available 9/14/09]
Sanjyot, Mehendale, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA

October 2 Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena; 1860-1920 (previously scheduled for 10/16)
Thomas Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of History & Sarah Kailath Professor of Indian Studies Emeritus UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

October 9  Walls Too Can Talk: The Art of Calligraphy in India
Qamar Adamjee, AAM

October 16 Why were Yuan and Ming Ceramics Deposited in Thai Stupas? [Suggested Reading 7/15] (previously scheduled for 10/2)
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Assistant Professor Art History & Southeast Asian Studies, CSU Sacramento

October 23 Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea [10/23/09]
Nancy Tingley, Independent Scholar

October 30  Symposium:  Emerald Cities
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley: more information at: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2009.10.30w.html

November 6 Buddhism "On The Road": How Religions Learn [new 10/30/09]
Lewis Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

November 13 The Lotus and the Cross: Merchants and Missionaries on the Maritime Silk Road from India to China before 1300 [new 10/30/09]
Lauren Arnold, Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco

November 20 Keeping Up with Empress Wu: The Todai-ji Daibutsu and Colossal Image Making in Asia [new 11/10/09]
Gregory Levine, Associate Professor, Japanese Art, Department of the History of Art University of California Berkeley, CA 94720

November 27 THANKSGIVING

December 4 Namban Art and the Jesuit Missions in Japan [new 11/30/09]
Laura Allen, Independent Scholar

December 11 The Influence Of The Korean Peninsula On The  Development Of Art During The Asuka And Hakuhō Periods In Japan [new 11/23/09]
Donald F. McCallum , Professor of Art History, UCLA