[Buddha-l] FW: Princeton Conference on Tibetan Art and Religion,
March 7-9
jkirk
jkirk at spro.net
Mon Feb 18 09:57:13 MST 2008
X-posted.
Any members of this list in NJ? Might find this conference of interest. JK
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Subject: Princeton Conference on Tibetan Art and Religion, March 7-9
Conference on Tibetan Art and Religion, Princeton University, March 7-9.
An interdisciplinary conference, “Art History, Buddhist Studies, Tibet: New
Perspectives from the Tibet Site Seminar,” will be convened at Princeton
March 7-9, 2008, in McCormick Hall, Room 101. The conference opens on
Friday, March 7, at 4:30 pm, with a keynote lecture by Deborah
Klimburg-Salter (University Professor of Art History, University of Vienna),
entitled “A Translational Methodology: Towards a Study of Tibetan Art
History.” Papers by the twelve participants in the Tibet Site Seminar,
sponsored by Princeton University, are the focus of the conference on
Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 9:00 a.m. each day. Respondents to papers
are senior scholars from the U.S.: Janet Gyatso (Hershey Professor of
Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School), Marylin Rhie (Jesse Wells Post
Professor of Art History, Smith College), and E. Gene Smith (Director,
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center).
The conference is co-sponsored by Princeton’s Center for the Study of
Religion, the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Council of the Humanities,
and the Department of Religion. Support is also provided by the Henry Luce
Foundation, which sponsored the Tibet Site Seminar in 2007.
The conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration is
required. Further information is available at the conference website,
HYPERLINK
"http://www.princeton.edu/TibetSem/program-conference.htm"http://www.princet
on.edu/TibetSem/program-conference.htm.
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