Event Details

Event Description

Dr. Kim and Dr. Yiengpruksawan will discuss recent discoveries from their trip in Northern China along the Silk Road, an ancient web of trade routes that connected eastern and western societies. Their work concerns the intersections between Buddhism and cultures across Asia, as well as how the study of these intersections allows for greater understanding of trade in the modern era. This most recent trip, into Tangut and Kitan territories, is part of a larger initiative called the Yale Silk Road, which was started by Yiengpruksawan in 2006 and is now directed by Kim. The project has assembled over 11,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region.

Language

The language of the event will be English.

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Agenda

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Registration
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Remarks and Q&A

Speakers

  • Youn-mi Kim (Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale University)

    Youn-mi Kim

    Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale University

    Professor Kim is a specialist in Chinese Buddhist art, but her broader interest in cross-cultural relationships between art and ritual also extends to Korean and Japanese materials. She is particularly interested in symbolic rituals, the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art, and the sacred spaces and religious macrocosms created by religious architecture for imaginary pilgrimages. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Art, Space, and Ritual in Medieval Buddhism: From a Liao Pagoda to Heian Japanese Esoteric Ritual.

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  • Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Professor of Art History at Yale University)

    Mimi Yiengpruksawan

    Professor of Art History at Yale University

    Mimi Yiengpruksawan received a Ph.D. in Japanese art studies from UCLA in 1988. In her research and writing Yiengpruksawan focuses on Buddhist art and iconography with emphasis on political and social perspectives in the analysis of devotional imagery and ritual. Her methodological approach has always been cross-regional and interdisciplinary in nature, with a strong interest in the impact of the nonlocal and the catastrophic (ecological, environmental) on cultural production.

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