Detail: 11 March 5:30 pm

Keynote Lecture: `Crossing a Boundary: Where, When, How’ - Lewis Lancaster, UC Berkeley, Emeritus; Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative


12 March

Opening remarks 8:30 am

Session I: `Silk Road Studies’ 8:45–10:45 am

Chair: Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

`The Sogdian Experience in China: Assimilation or Hybridization?’ - Albert Dien, Stanford University, Emeritus

`Islamic Silver for Carolingian Reforms and the Buddha of Helgö: Rethinking Carolingian Connections with the East, 790–820’ - Eric Ramirez-Weaver, University of Virginia

`Images of Sun and Moon Gods at Dunhuang between the Sixth and Tenth Centuries’ - Zhang Yuanlin, Dunhuang Academy, China

`From Hellenistic Scientific Device to Islamic Astrolabe: An Episode of Transmission of a Non-Chinese Scientific Instrument in Late Medieval China’ - Kam Wing Fung, University of Hong Kong

`Chinese Filial Cannibalism: A Silk Road Import?’ - Keith Knapp, The Citadel

Discussant: David Summers, University of Virginia


Session II: `Gender and Medieval China’ 11:00 am–12:45 pm

Chair: Joan Piggot, University of Southern California

`Our Woman in Central Asia: Women Diplomats of the Han Court’ - Anne Kinney, University of Virginia

`Ominous Dress: Hufu (Barbarian Clothing) during the Tang Dynasty (619–907)’- Suzanne Cahill, UC San Diego

`Wu Zhao and the Mother of Laozi Norman’ - Harry Rothschild, University of North Florida

`Punishing the Unfilial: A Study of Tang and Song Legal Codes and Anecdotal Writing’ - Ellen Zhang, University of Virginia

Discussant: Albert Dien, Stanford University


Session III: `Exchanges with Japan and Korea’ 2:00–4:00 pm

Chair: Paul Groner, University of Virginia

`Models for the Heian Capital: Links between Japanese and Chinese Courtly Cultures’ - Joan Piggot, University of Southern California

`What Five Chinese Portraits Do for Early Heian Japan’ - Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University

`The Silla Envoy Poems in the Kaifûsô’ - Mack Horton, UC Berkeley

`What Is in a Place Name? Chinese Poetic Places on the Map of Early Japanese Literature’ - Wiebke Denecke, Barnard College

`Abe no Nakamaro at the End of the Silk Road’ - Gustav Heldt, University of Virginia

Discussant: Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University



Session IV: `New Buddhist Communities in Asia’, 4:15–6:30 pm

Chair: Karen Lang, University of Virginia

`How Buddhism Came to China’ - Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania

`Buddhism and the Maritime Silk Road’ - Tansen Sen, Baruch College

`A Preliminary Study of Exchange in Buddhist Art between Medieval China and Southern India and `Southeast Asia’ - Yumin Lee, National Palace Museum, Taipei

`Giving Movement: Devotional Networks at Bao Shan’ - Wendi Adamek, Barnard College

`The Exchange of Letters between Zhili and Genshin’ - Paul Groner, University of Virginia

Discussant: Susan Whitfield, British Library


13 March

Session V: `Image, Ritual, and Text in Esoteric Buddhism’ 8:30–10:15 am

Chair: Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia

`Dhâranî Pillars in China: Function and Symbol’ - Liying Kuo, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris

`“Whosoever Writes This Dhâranî…”: The Ritual Use of Dhâranî Lecterns in Medieval East Asia’ - Neil Schmid, North Carolina State University

`Development and Transformation in Chinese Buddhist Iconography: The Case of the Demon-General Shensha’ - Henrik Sørensen, independent scholar, Denmark

`Daoist Elements in Esoteric Buddhist Texts of the Tang Dynasty’ - Clarke Hudson, University of Virginia

Discussant: Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania



Session VI: `The Cult of Avalokiteúvara’ 10:30–12:15

Chair: Suzanne Cahill, UC San Diego

`Interstices of Compassion: Bodhisattva Avalokiteúvara in China, Central Asia, and India from the Fifth to the Sixth Century’- Denise Leidy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

`Avalokiteshvara Images at Candi Borobudur’ - Takashi Koezuka, Osaka University

`Pilgrimage and the Expanding Territory of Kannon’ - Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas

`Continued Engagements: Further Thoughts on the Significance of Compassion’ - Janice Leoshko, University of Texas, Austin

Discussant: Henrik Sørensen, independent scholar, Denmark



Concluding Remarks and Discussion 12:15–1 pm

Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton


13 March

Digital Workshop on Asian Art and Humanities (hosted by the Institute of Advanced Technology in Humanities), 2:00–5:00 pm

Chair and moderators: Daniel Pitti and Worthy Martin, Co-Directors, IATH

Presentations:

`Mapping the Silk Road’ - Susan Whitfield, International Dunhuang Project, British Library

`Silk Road: The Path of Transmission of Avalokiteúvara’ - Dorothy Wong, University of Virginia

`Digital Archive of Buddhist Rubbings’ - Grace Yen, Academia Sinica, Taipei

`Visualizing and Querying the Biographies of Eminent Monks’ - Marcus Bingenheimer, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taipei

`Mapping the Dalai Lamas’ - Kurtis Schaeffer, University of Virginia

`Creating a Digital Edition’ - Christian Wittern, Kyoto University

Roundtable Discussion

Chair: David Germano, University of Virginia