Spring 2010 — 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
updated Mar 10, 2010

January 15 Southern Influence in the Northern Zone: Evidence from Bronze Vessels of the Anyang Period [Feb 4, 2010]
Jay Xu, Director, Asian Art Museum

January 22 Shanghai and Globalization:  A Case Study - New slide list and some lecture notes added [Jan 24, 2010]
Michael Knight, Asian Art Museum

January 29 Marco Polo and Khubilai Khan: A Vibrant New Era in East West Exchange Study Guide [Jan 29, 2010]
Lauren Arnold, Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco

February 5 Concepts of ideal Form in Istanbul and Rome: The Sacred architecture of Sinan and his Italian contemporaries Study Guide [Jan 29, 2010]
Henry C. Matthews, University of Washington

February 12 Indian Textiles in the Courts of Southeast Asia: Dialogue and Reciprocity in Indian Ocean Textile Design [Feb 8, 2010]
John Guy, Metropolitan Museum, NYC

February 19 Merchants, Mystics and Money:  Eurasian Trade in Mongol Persia [Feb 8, 2010]
Sheila Blair, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Fine Arts Department, Boston College

February 26 Weather Substitute - Thank you! - Shanghai: A Case Study, Michael Knight

Early Glass in Asia: Glass and Long Distance Trade 1-1000 AD [Feb 20, 2010] - Study Guide left up for useful information and the hope that David
Whitehouse will be able to come another time.
David Whitehouse, Corning Museum of Glass

March 5 For the Tsar: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries [Mar 2, 2010]
Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

March 12 European Influences on Mughal Painting [Mar 6, 2010]
John Seyller, Professor, Asian Art, University of Vermont, Department of Art and Art History, Burlington

March 19 Travancore and Kocchi, Kerala: Portuguese, Dutch and British Colonial Architecture [Mar 17, 2010]
Mary Beth Heston, Associate Professor, Art History, Director of Asian Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston SC

March 26 Globalization of Relics in Southeast Asia [Mar 10, 2010]
Donald M. Stadtner, Independent Scholar

April 2 Born Again: Globalization's Sixteenth-Century Birth and Museum Artifacts
Dennis O. Flynn, Economics Professor, University of the Pacific

April 9 Yokohama as a Site for Global Trade
Laura Allen, Independent Scholar

April 16 China Trade:  French Connections
Charissa Bremer-David, Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum, LA

April 23 Yankee India: Commercial and Cultural Encounters
Susan S. Bean, Curator of South Asian and Korean Art, Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem MA