China’s Periphery and Beyond: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology
Program
Friday, May 6, 2011
8:30 – 9:00 AM: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:30 AM: CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION
Dr Francis Allard (Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Dr Kirk Savage (Chair, Dept of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh)
Dr Richard Scaglion (Director, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh)
Dr John Cooper (Dean, School of Arts and Science, University of Pittsburgh)
Dr Katheryn Linduff (Dept. of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh)
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM: SESSION 1
Sun Yan introduces moderator Emmy Bunker
1. Gideon Shelach: The Origins of Chinese Agriculture: A View from the Northern
Periphery
2. Jean-Luc Houle: Continuity and Change in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age
Domestic Landscape
3. TENG Mingyu: Discussing the “Bow-shaped Objects” and Related Questions
COFFEE BREAK
4. HUANG Tsuimei: Eagle Worship in Neolithic Northeastern China, as Revealed
by Eagle-shaped Jades of the Hongshan Culture
5. Mrea Csorba: The Stag from Zoldhalompuszta, Hungary: Book-ending Steppe- land Animal-Style Art
DISCUSSION PERIOD
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: BREAK FOR LUNCH
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM: SESSION 2
Gideon Shelach introduces moderator Karen Gerhart
1. WU Xiaolong: Cultural Hybridity and Social Status on China’s Northern
Frontier: Recently-discovered Late Warring States Period Elite Tombs at the Site
of Majiayuan, Gansu Province
2. Leslie Wallace: Hu or Han: The Patrons of Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs from
Shaanxi and Shanxi
COFFEE BREAK
4. Shalmit Bejarano: Yearning for Things Chinese: Appropriating a Chinese scroll as a Case-Study of Sino-Japanese Cultural Transmission
5. Yuki Morishima: Capturing Essence: Shared “Likeness” in Pre-Modern Chinese
and Japanese Portraiture
DISCUSSION PERIOD
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: DINNER (by invitation only)
Saturday, May 7, 2011
8:30 – 9:00 AM: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 AM – NOON: SESSION 3
Francis Allard introduces moderator Karen Rubinson
1. WANG Ying: Royal Hunting on the Shang Border: The Shang and its Northwest
Relatives
2. JIANG Yu: Ritual Art and Agency: The Bronze Ding and Minority Groups
during the Western Zhou
3. SUN Yan: Material Culture, Mortuary Practice and Identities in the Northern
Frontier of the Western Zhou: A Case-Study of the Yu and Peng Lineages
COFFEE BREAK
4. HAN Jiayao: Debatable Paradise: The Adoption of Enemy Customs and
Trappings in Tombs of the Zhao State during the Eastern Zhou Period (771-221
BCE)
5. Mandy Jui-man WU: Constructing Identity and Legitimating Authority:
Mortuary Art in the Imperial Tombs of Northern Zhou
DISCUSSION PERIOD
NOON – 1:30 PM: BREAK FOR LUNCH
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM: SESSION 4
Huang Tsuimei introduces moderator Sarah Nelson
1. Francis Allard: The Han Empire’s Southern Borderlands: Perspectives from
History and Anthropology
2. TzeHuey CHIOU-PENG: Metals of Ancient Yunnan: An Archeometallurgical
View
COFFEE BREAK
3. Penny Rode: Grave Nineteen at Yangfutou: Another “Dian” King?
4. Sheri Lullo: Toiletry Sets in Burials of China and Her Northern Neighbors: 3rd c.
BCE - 3rd c. CE
DISCUSSION PERIOD
CLOSING REMARKS: Gideon Shelach
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, School of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Confucius Institute, Department of Anthropology, China Council, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Korean Endowment, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments at the University of Pittsburgh.
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