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, Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies,  University of Innsbruck, Austria
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
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
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. All times are CDT. 

• June 18, Sign-in begins at 3:00pm. Opening and Keynote presentation begin at 4:00pm
• June 19, Presentations begin at 9:30am and continue throughout the day.
• June 20, Presentations begin at 9:30am and continue throughout the day.

The full agenda and additional details will be available soon.