Specialists in Greco-Roman and Asian studies will explore the significance of recent archaeological finds from China’s First Emperor’s mausoleum in “The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity,” a three-day symposium to be held April 6, 7 & 9 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Specialists in Greco-Roman and Asian studies will explore the significance of recent archaeological finds from China’s First Emperor’s mausoleum in “The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity,” a three-day symposium to be held April 6, 7 & 9 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The event is co-organized by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies and the university’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and by The Met. The symposium will examine issues raised by the exhibition Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220), on view April 3–July 16, 2017.
Established and emerging young scholars will discuss the expansion and outreach of the Han Empire reflected in art and material culture from a global perspective, investigating the royal tombs in China’s heartland, nomadic burials in the steppes of northern Asia, and Han lacquerware found in the Crimean Peninsula.
Individual sessions are as follows:
• Thurs., April 6, 6-8 p.m.: “The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity,” Keynote Program
• Fri., April 7, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.: “Part 1: The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity"
• Sun., April 9, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., “Part 2: The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity"
The symposium will take place at The Met’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (1000 Fifth Avenue, via the ground-level entrance at East 83rd Street) and is free with Museum admission; registration is required for each day’s session. Schedule subject to change. Subways: 6 (77th St.); 4, 5, 6 (86th St.).
This event is made possible by the Joseph Hotung Fund at The Met with additional support from the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference Fund at NYU, the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Studies, the NYU Center for the Humanities, and NYU Shanghai.
This program is offered in association with the exhibition, Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220), at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (April 3–July 16, 2017). The exhibition is made possible by China Merchants Bank. Additional support is provided by the Joseph Hotung Fund, the Ing Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar L. Tang in honor of Zhixin Jason Sun, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Estate of Brooke Astor, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Education programs are made possible by The Freeman Foundation.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies was created by the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1996 to promote interdisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the past. Directed by Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Matthew S. Santirocco, and supported largely through endowment, the Center funds travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students, annual research conferences and lectures, and summer outreach seminars for faculty from across the United States (in collaboration with the Faculty Resource Network). Scholarly organizations that are based at the Center include the American section of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic Studies and its journal, Etruscan News, and the Aquila Theatre Company.
NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political and cultural connections between ancient civilizations. ISAW focuses on the shared and overlapping periods in the development of cultures and civilizations around the Mediterranean basin, and across central Asia to the Pacific Ocean. The approaches of anthropology, archaeology, geography, geology, history, economics, sociology, art history, digital humanities, and the history of science and technology are as integral to the enterprise as the study of texts, philosophy, and the analysis of artifacts. ISAW is a discrete entity within NYU, with its own endowment and its own board of trustees. Visit isaw.nyu.edu for additional information.
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