Each Spring semester, the Visiting Scholar Program of the Department of Art
& Art History invites outstanding scholars to the University of Colorado,
Boulder, for an extended stay to present public lectures and to conduct
intensive seminars for academic credit with graduate students. This year,
each of our four distinguished historians of visual and material culture
will respond to or reinterpret the theme of:

ACROSS CULTURES: THE SILK ROAD, PAST TO PRESENT

The Lecture Schedule:

Feb. 24
"Cultural Gifts of the Northern Nomads Beyond the Great Wall to Ancient China."
Emma C. Bunker, Research Consultant to the Asian Art Department of the
Denver Art Museum

March 2
"Contemporaneity in Contemporary Chinese Art"
Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese
Art History, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and Consulting
Curator of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

March 16
"Sacred Treasures: Relics in Early Buddhist Art"
Robert L. Brown, Professor of Art History, UCLA and Curator in the
Department of South and Southeast Asian Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

April 13
"New Perspectives on Achaemenid Persian Art"
Mark B. Garrison, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art
History, Trinity University

We welcome your participation in these lectures which are free and open to
the public and will begin at 7:30 pm in Fine Arts Building N-141.

For further information contact the Visiting Scholar Program by email
to elizabeth.m.owencolorado.edu.

Elizabeth M. Owen
East Asian Art History
University of Colorado, Boulder
318 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0318
(303) 735-5314
elizabeth.m.owencolorado.edu