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Old Age and Aging in Early Medieval and Medieval Chinese Poetry

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CHINA HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Kerstin Storm, University of Münster Perceptions of old age and aging in so-called traditional China are often reduced to two extremes: on the one hand, respect for the elderly, commonly associated with the Confucian cardinal...

Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKER: Kristel Smentek, MIT Department of Architecture To frame a picture is to distinguish it, to mark it as demanding a form of visual attention that is different from every day seeing. This paper probes...

The Buddhist Visual Culture of Tibetan Medicine

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BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Briana Brightly, Harvard University When imagining the creation of Buddhist art, few picture the artist observing dissections, studying materia medica, or diagramming disease. Yet this is precisely what happened in...