RECENT ACTIVITIES: 2017 – 2018

ARTICLES:

  1. The Discovery of Buddhist Sculptures from Yecheng City in Linzhang County Hebei, China,” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (JIABS) forthcoming
  2.  “It’s only a paper moon: traditional and contemporary Chinese papercutting.”  Yishu, forthcoming,  
  3. “Deep waters: the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China and its Art”, in Ron Bernier and Rachel Smith, editors, A Strange Place Still? Religion and Contemporary Art
  4. “Mara and the Faces of Fear Along the Silk Road,” Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies, (forthcoming)
  5. “Foreign Influences in The Creation of Hāritī, The Buddhist Protector of Children,” National Museum, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India, Women and Buddhism: Perspectives on Gender, Culture and Empowerment (forthcoming)

CURATORIAL:

  1. I Have No Enemies and No Hatred Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art, Bard College, Oct 1-18, 2018
  2. I Have No Enemies and No Hatred Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art, John Jay College, Sept 2017-Nov 2017
  3. Infinite Compassion: Avalokiteshvara, Staten Island Museum at Sung Harbor, Oct 2016- Nov 2017

TALKS:

  1. “The Discovery of Buddhist Sculptures from Yecheng City in Linzhang County Hebei, China,” UKABS June 2018 Annual Conference  Buddhism and Material Culture, University of Bristol, UK, 2018
  2. “Emily Cheng, Recent work and Alchemical Designs Authority versus Authenticity,” 12th International Conference on Daoist Studies, June, 2018 Beijing Normal University, China, 2018
  3. “The Bronze Buddhist Sculptures of Nagapattinam,” XVIIIth Congress of International Association of Buddhist Studies, Toronto, 2017
  4. Foreign Influences in The Creation of Hāritī, The Buddhist Protector of Children National Museum, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, India, March  2017 (in absentia)