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Home / Brown Bag Lectures / Museums and Material Culture: East Asia

Museums and Material Culture: East Asia

MUSEUMSFAll2014LECTURE SERIES
September 2014 – April 2015

A year-long series that engages New York-based museums, galleries, and art institutions and their key players, experts, and artists in conversation about a variety of issues and topics, from museum anthropology to collecting and selling art.

September 25
(Thursday)

“Reimagining Asia: A Possible New Asia Wing at the American Museum of Natural History”
David Harvey, American Museum of Natural History
Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History
Ross MacPhee, American Museum of Natural History
Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Columbia University
5:00 PM- 6:30 PM
International Affairs Building 918

No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

October 1
(Wednesday)

“Inside the Contemporary Chinese Art Market”
Ethan Cohen, President and CEO, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
Moderated by Dorothy Ko, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Barnard College
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required.
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
February 26
(Thursday)
“Makers and Markets: Drivers of Fashion in Chinese History”
BuYun Chen, Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Rachel Silberstein, Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design
Moderated by Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
February 26
(Thursday)
“Museums, Exhibitions and Digital Media”
John T. Carpenter, Curator of Japanese Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderated by Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403

No registration required.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
April 30
(Thursday)
“Collecting and Presenting Tibetan Material Culture in the West”
Melissa Kerin, Washington and Lee University; Dominique Townsend, Rubin Museum of Art
Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University
4:30 PM – 6:30PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required.
Co-Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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