Tag: asian studies
Event Date: 09/06/2019 Location: Fondren Science 155 Time: 4:00pm Dr. Quintman will talk about his on-going Life of the Buddha project, which explores the connections between textual sources and the visual representation of the Buddha’s biography in a seventeenth-century mural in Central Tibet. Free and open to public. Contact: Steven Lindquist
Event Date: 11/08/2018 Location: Fondren Science 152 Time: 5pm This presentation explores the impact of the partition of India in 1947 on the development of museological institutions in India and Pakistan. Central to this presentation are not only the physical ramifications of this process of division, which saw priceless artworks disassembled and destroyed, but also the […]
Event Date: 10/04/2018 Location: FOSC 152 Time: 5pm Contact: slindqui@smu.edu If “the Anthropocene” suggests a rupture of the Earth System, producing a future which looks nothing like our past, what is the role of historians in this predicament? Thomas addresses this question in three ways. Further, using the example of early modern Japan, she proposes a […]