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Subject: CONF: Re-presenting Emptiness (Princeton, 14-15 Apr 07)

Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen and Art in Medieval Japan

International Symposium
14-15 April 2007
Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50
Princeton University

Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen and Art in Medieval Japan is organized by the
P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, co-sponsored with the
Department of Art and Archaeology, the Buddhist Studies Workshop, and the
East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, and the Princeton
University Art Museum.

„Re-presenting Emptiness“ attempts to articulate new frames of reference
for the artifacts associated with Japanese Zen monastic communities in the
medieval period. Presented in conjunction with the Japan Society's
exhibition, Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, this
symposium brings together leading scholars in the disciplines of history,
literature, religious studies, and art history from Japan, Europe, and the
United States and provides diverse and interregional perspectives on the
little-understood objects that mediated relations between Chan/Zen monks
and their dharma brethren. Robes, calligraphies, portraits, landscape
paintings, and poem-picture scrolls are examined in terms of their
rhetorical and institutional functions. By offering new possibilities for
understanding the formal and representational uses of these objects, the
„Zen“ of „Zen art“ can be removed from the realm of the inscrutable and
understood in the context of multiple social realities and historical
conditions.

Schedule

Saturday, 14 April 2007
Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50 - Princeton University

Registration and coffee, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Morning Session 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Welcome
Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University

Introduction
Yukio Lippit, Harvard University

Mediating Transmission: Images, Robes, and Narratives

James Robson, University of Michigan (chair and discussant)

Martin Collcutt, Princeton University
From „Chan“ to „Zen“: The Attainment of Authentic Japanese Zen Practice

Yamakawa Aki, Kyoto National Museum
Reconceptualizing Denpoe, Robe of Transmission

Ide Seinosuke, Kyushu University
Jianxin Laifu and Iko Tokken: The Transmission of Literati Culture through
the Mediation of Chan-Zen Buddhism

Afternoon Session 2:00-5:30 p.m.

Introduction
Dora C. Y. Ching, Princeton University

Inscribing Zen Rhetoric: Painting Inscriptions and the Yulu/Goroku Literatures
Thomas Hare, Princeton University (chair and discussant)

Lara Ingeman, Indiana University
Image and Text in the Linji and Caodong Traditions: Painting Inscriptions
in the Recorded Sayings of Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163) and Hongzhi Zhengjue
(1091-1157)

Stephen Allee, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Shrimp Can’t Jump from the Scoop: Allusion and Modular Language in Chan
Encomia (zan) of the Late Song and Early Yuan

Shimao Arata, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Painting as Document: A Study of Wang Xizhi Writing on a Fan

Itakura Masa’aki, University of Tokyo
Ma Yuan’s Chan Patriarchs and the Representation of the Chan Patriarchy in
the Southern Song Imperial Court

Reception 5:30-7:00 p.m. - Princeton University Art Museum

Sunday, 15 April 2007
Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50 - Princeton University

Registration and coffee, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Morning Session 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Introduction
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University

Communitas and Landscape: The Poem-Picture Scroll Tradition
Helmut Brinker, emeritus, University of Zürich (chair and discussant)

Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University
Painting Outside Painting (gagai no ga/hua wai hua): Thoughts on
Shigajiku/Poetry-Picture Scrolls by Zen Monks

David Sensabaugh, Yale University Art Gallery
The Man Makes the Place: Poem-Picture Scrolls in Fourteenth-Century China

Nishiyama Mika, Independent Scholar
A Folding Screen in Ashikaga-Shogun’s Residence

Afternoon Session 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Introduction
Sinead R. C. Kehoe, Princeton University Art Museum

„Zen Art“ and Its Recent Modernities
Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley (chair and discussant)

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, New York University
Zen and Japanese Cinema

Yamada Shoji, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
Does a Zen Rock Garden Re-present Emptiness?

Joseph Parker, Pitzer College, the Claremont Colleges
Postcolonial Feminist Methods for the Study of Zen Buddhist History

Conclusion
Gregory P. Levine, University of California, Berkeley

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Information
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/TangCenter/zenandart/index.html

Registration
There is no registration fee, but advance registration for the symposium
is required. Space is limited. Reservations will be accepted in the order
they are received. To receive symposium materials at the symposium, please
register by 2 April 2007.

Late registration and walk-ins will be accepted, space permitting, and
symposium materials will be distributed as available.

Registrations can be made by mail, fax, telephone, or on line.
Please register only once.

To register by mail or fax:
print the registration form (pdf) and mail or fax to Andrea Stearly
Conference & Events Services, 71 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08544
Fax (609) 258-4656