Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions
Senior Workshop Instructor
- Mellon Foundation Chinese Object Study Workshop
· 2024
- 2024
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Harvard Art Museum,
Cambridge, MA
Mobilities and Networks of Buddhist Art in India and China
- Annual Conference
· 2023
- 2023
International Meeting or Conference
College Art Association,
New York, NY
Discussant
Moving Things
- Freud's Chinese Things: Contexts and Interpretations, International Symposium
· 2022
Lecture
Freud Museum,
London
The Beginnings of Chinese Sculpture
- Exhibiting East Asian Art in the West
· 2021
- 2021
Lecture
The Center for the Art of East Asia, Department of Art History,
University of Chicago
https://caea.lib.uchicago.edu/eeaaw/
Imagining Sculpture
- Bettman Lecture
· 2020
- 2020
Keynote/Named Lecture
Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University,
New York, NY
Before Sculpture
- Toward the Future: Museums and Art History in East Asia
· 2019
- 2019
Lecture
Comite International d'Histoire de l'Art Colloquium,
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
What is Chinese Sculpture?
- Historical Chinese Sculptures and the Ann Paludan Archive
· 2019
- 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
National Museum of Scotland,
Edinburgh
Imagining Sculpture
- VMPEA Workshop, Department of Art History
· 2019
- 2019
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of Chicago,
Chicago
Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part II
- Annual Conference
· 2018
- 2018
International Meeting or Conference
College Art Association,
Los Angeles
Discussant
Xu Bing in North Carolina
- Xu Bing Thought and Method Symposium
· 2018
- 2018
Lecture
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art,
Beijing, China
Imagining Sculpture in China
- Center for Chinese Studies Colloquium
· 2018
- 2018
Lecture
University of California, Berkeley
New Approaches to Contemporary Asian Art
- Annual Conference
· 2018
- 2018
International Meeting or Conference
College Art Association,
Los Angeles
Duplication in Chinese Sculpture
- Burke Lectures
· 2017
- 2017
Invited Talk
Department of Art History,
Indiana University, Bloomington
Duplicates and Copies in Chinese Sculpture
- Percival David Foundation Annual Lecture
· 2017
- 2017
Invited Talk
British Museum,
London
Duplication in Chinese Sculpture
- Goldberg Lecture
· 2017
- 2017
Invited Talk
Department of Art History,
Vanderbilt University
Towards a Theory of the Substitute in Chinese Sculpture
- East Asia Art & Archaeology Research Seminar
· 2017
- 2017
Invited Talk
Department of Art & Archaeology,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Locating World Art, Again
- World Studies: Approaches, Paradigms, and Debates
· 2016
- 2016
Invited Talk
University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Sculpture: A Comparative History
· 2016
Invited Talk
Asia Art Archive,
Hong Kong
Discussant
- "Dredging the Deep End: Expanding the Parameters of Chinese Art History"
· 2016
Other
Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies,
Seattle
Imagining Sculpture in China
· 2016
Invited Talk
University of Texas, Austin
Copies in Chinese Sculpture
· 2016
Invited Talk
Christie's Education, London
Moderator and Respondent
- "Modernities in Korean Art" workshop
· 2016
Other
Nam Center for Korean Studies and History of Art Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Copies and Duplication in Chinese Sculpture
· 2016
Invited Talk
Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Copies and Duplication in Chinese Sculpture
- New Perspectives on Buddhist Visual and Manuscript Cultures of the Silk Road
· 2016
Invited Talk
Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.
Sculpture: A Comparative History
· 2016
Invited Talk
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Convernor, "Dislocations: Remapping Art Histories"
- Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific
· December 2015
Other
Tate Modern,
London
Bringing Asian Art to Berlin
· August 19, 2015
Lecture
Museum of Asian Art,
Berlin, Germany
Eduard von der Heydt and the Museum Rietberg
· August 16, 2015
Lecture
Museum Rietberg,
Zürich, Switzerland
Necessary Fictions: Imagining Sculpture in China
· August 14, 2015
Lecture
Museum of East Asian Art,
Cologne, Germany
Osvald Sirén and Stockholm
· August 11, 2015
Lecture
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Stockholm, Sweden
Problems of Small Northern Wei Stele from Shaanxi in Foreign Collections
- Art, Archaeology and History: New Horizons in Researching and Rethinking Images
· November 2014
Invited Talk
National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University (Shanghai),
Xi’an, China
The Copy in Chinese Buddhist Images
· February 12, 2014
Lecture
Leiden University
Innumerable Contexts
· December 30, 2013
Lecture
Buddhist Gallery Initiative Workshop, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Necessary Fictions: Imagining Sculpture in China
· November 10, 2013
Lecture
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Moving Buddha: Imagining Sculpture in China
· November 10, 2013
Lecture
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Imagining Chinese Sculpture
· June 5, 2013
Lecture
Department of Art Research, Archives and Information Systems, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan
Moving Buddha: Chinese Sculpture and Global Modernity
· May 14, 2013
Lecture
Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Moving Buddha: The Discovery of Chinese Sculpture
· April 18, 2013
Lecture
Ellen Bayard Weedon Lecture, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
Earliest forms of Buddhist Imagery in China
· October 19, 2012
Lecture
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture
· October 17, 2012
Lecture
Seattle Art Museum
The Early Silk Road and Beyond
· October 12, 2012
Lecture
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Discussant for “The Reception of Antiquity” Conference
· September 28, 2012
Lecture
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Sculpture in the Golden Age of East Asian Art Collecting
· March 16, 2012
Lecture
“The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America” Symposium, The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, New York
Discussant for "500 Luohan" Workshop
· February 18, 2012
Lecture
Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Discussant for Symposium on the Conservation and Display of Buddhist Art
· February 1, 2012
Lecture
Pulitzer Foundation, St. Louis
The Modern Moments of Chinese Sculpture
- Silberger Lecture
· 2012
Invited Talk
Institute of Fine Arts,
New York
Moderator and Discussant for “Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts”
· November 10, 2011
Lecture
Pulitzer Foundation of the Arts, St. Louis
The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture
· November 6, 2011
Lecture
National Museum of Korea, Seoul
Rockefeller Collecting: China and Beyond
· October 17, 2011
Lecture
Oberlin College
Discussant, "Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period" symposium
· June 4, 2011
Lecture
Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Washington, D.C.
Discussant for panel “Revisiting Alexander Soper,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu
· April 3, 2011
Lecture
Order and Things: The Transformation of Chinese Objects into Sculpture
· March 16, 2011
Lecture
Cleveland Museum of Art
Order and Things: The Transformation of Chinese Objects into Sculpture
· March 10, 2011
Lecture
Ackland Art Museum
Duplicating and Reproducing Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
· 2010
Lecture
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Seoul National University
Invited Lectures
Duplicates in Chinese Stone Sculpture
- New Research on Buddhist Sculpture
· 2010
Lecture
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Invited Lectures ; International symposium
A Modern Taste for Chinese and Japanese Art
- Forgotten Japonisme: The Taste for Japanese Art in Britain and the USA, 1920s–1950s
· 2010
Lecture
Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Invited Lectures
Déjà Vu Once Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi Province
· 2010
Lecture
Institute of East Asian Art History, Universität Heidelberg
Invited Lectures
Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture
· 2010
Lecture
Institute of Art History, University of Glasgow
Invited Lectures
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi
· 2010
Lecture
University of Chicago
Invited Lectures
Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture
· 2010
Lecture
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Invited Lectures ; Keynote lecture for the Training Workshop in Chinese Art and Archaeology
Locating World Art
- Asia and Europe in a Global Context
· 2010
Lecture
Universität Heidelberg
Invited Lectures
The Fuxian Style Once More
· 2010
Lecture
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Invited Lectures ; Lecture and seminar
Moving Buddha, Making Sculpture
· 2010
Lecture
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Seoul National University
Invited Lectures
Figures of China—Transnational Perspectives
- Global History and East Asia conference
· 2009
Invited Talk
Duke University
Circa 1909: Moving Japanese and Chinese Sculpture to the United States
- Circa 1909 Symposium, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln
· 2009
Invited Talk
Invited Lectures
China and Japan in Early Rockefeller Collecting
· 2009
Lecture
Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, University of the Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Invited Lectures
Introduction and discussant at the preview for the exhibition "Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University"
· 2008
Invited Talk
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Locating World Art
- (World) Art? Art History and Global Practice
· 2008
Lecture
Northwestern University
Invited Lectures
Discussant for panel “Bringing Chinese Art to the West: Duanfang and an Early 20th-Century Network of Dealers, Collectors, and Scholars”
- Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta
· 2008
Invited Talk
Buddhist Sculpture In a New Light
· 2002
- September 7, 2003
Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Service to the Profession
Member, Advisory Board, Sculpture Journal
·
2022
- 2026
Editorial Activities
Liverpool University Press
Member, Peer Review Panel, NEH Fellowships
·
2017
- 2017
Committee Service
National Endowment for the Humanities
Member, External Review Committee, Art History Program
·
2017
- 2017
Committee Service
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
Member, Academic Advisory Committee
·
2016
- 2019
Committee Service
Tate Modern Research Centre: Asia
Member, Academic Advisory Committee
·
2013
- 2016
Other
Tate Modern Research Centre: Asia Pacific
Professional Activities
Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
·
2013
- 2015
Consulting
American Council of Learned Societies
Professional Activities
Editor in Chief and Chair of the Editorial Board
·
2011
- 2018
Other
Archives of Asian Art
Professional Activities ; Archives of Asian Art, founded in 1945 and published by the Asia Society, is one of three major scholarly journals of Asian art in English. As Editor as well as Chair of the Editorial Board. I am responsible for the contents and organization of two issues per year as well as the overall operation of the journal and its publication by the University of Hawai'i Press.
Member : Editorial Board, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
·
2011
- 2016
Other
Service to Duke
Director of Graduate Studies (Program)
·
2023
- 2024
Committee Service
Director
·
July 2020
- December 2020
Other
MFA in Experiemtal and Documentary Arts
Director of Graduate Studies
·
2020
- 2021
Other
Department of Art Art History and Visual Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
·
2016
- 2019
Other
Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty (School)
·
2014
- 2016
Committee Service
Graduate School
Director, MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts
·
2010
- 2011
Other
University Priorities Committee (University)
·
2010
- 2012
Committee Service
Office of the President
Director, Arts of the Moving Image
·
2008
- 2012
Other
Executive Committee (School)
·
2008
- 2010
Committee Service
Arts & Sciences Council
Arts & Sciences Council (School)
·
2007
- 2011
Committee Service
Editorial Advisory Board (University)
·
2002
- 2008
Committee Service
Duke University Press
Director of Graduate Studies
·
2002
- 2003
Other
Department of Art and Art History