The Academic Legacy of Berthold Laufer: A Commemorative Symposium

Keynote

Nick Pearce

Richmond Chair of Fine Art, University of Glasgow, UK
“Disciplines in the Making: A Reassessment of Berthold Laufer’s Contribution to Sinology, Anthropology, and Art History”

Presentations

Milad Abedi
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Innsbruck, Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Kristina L. Anderson
Buddhism Public Scholar, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago
Mariana Castro
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University
Fletcher Coleman
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Arlington
Soren Edgren
Former Editorial Director of the Chinese Rare Books Project, Princeton University
FANG Hui
Dean of the School of History and Culture, and Professor of the Institute of Cultural Heritage
Dean of the Cultural Heritage Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Zaixin HONG
Professor, Art and Art History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
HUANG Shuhui
Editor/publisher, Zhongxi Press, Shanghai
Annette L. Juliano
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, NJ
Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Laurel M. Kendall
Curator, Asian Ethnology, Curator-in-Charge of African and Pacific Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, NY
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, NY
LAI Guolong
Professor of Humanities, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China
Yuhang LI
Professor of Chinese Art, Dept. of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
LIN Hang
Professor of History, Hangzhou Normal University
Katherine Anne
Paul Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jonathan Schlesinger
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington
Catherine Stuer
Associate Professor and Chair of Art History and Visual Culture, Denison University, Granville, OH
Eugene WANG
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Yuchao ZHAO
Assistant Curator of Asian Anthropology, Field Museum

Schedule

All presentations will take place in the Montgomery Ward Theater on the lower level of the Field Museum.

• June 18, Opening presentation at 4pm
• June 19, Talks begin at 9am
• June 20, Talks begin at 9am

The full agenda and additional details will be available soon.