Overview
In addition to department and student-organized workshops, the Center for the Art of East Asia invites scholars and artists who may be visiting Chicago to lecture in the Art History department. These introduce the work of specialists and provide opportunities for students to meet and discuss with them. Members of the Steering Committee are also invited to speak for special events on campus and beyond, in the form of conferences, online or in-person lectures and symposia.
Upcoming Lectures
Fragmented Yet Connected: Experiencing Zhihua Temple through Digital Technologies
College of Art Association (CAA), Chicago
Mengge Cao
Feb 18, 2026
Spatial Illusion/Reality in Late Imperial Chinese Architecture
Bettman Lecture, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Wei-Cheng Lin
May 4, 2026
Playful Tensions: Navigating Object-Centric Curation and Digital Fluidity in Museums through Game Design
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference, Shanghai, China
Mengge Cao
Nov 20-21, 2026
Past Lectures
Turning Back to Look: On My Academic Writing
Wu Hung
Nov 2, 2025
What Made Buddhist Images Move in Medieval China: Animating Body or Art Creation?
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wei-Cheng Lin
Oct 22, 2025
‘Sculptural Painting’ in Medieval China
Off Screen Symposium, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Mengge Cao
Oct 10, 2025
Scalar Imagination: China’s "Small" Architecture
Keynote speech for the conference, “Miniature” Material Cultures to the Anthropic Principle, at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Wei-Cheng Lin
June 16-17, 2025
Reimagining the Past: Digital Chinese Heritage Initiatives at UChicago
China On the Move - Reimagining the Past: Digital Chinese Heritage Initiatives at UChicago
Wei-Cheng Lin
May 8, 2025
Ten Thousand Buddhas Pavilion in Beijing Zhihua Temple
In the Case of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pavilion in Beijing Zhihua Temple
Wei-Cheng Lin
Jan 13, 2022
In the Name of Art - Destruction and Reconstruction
Keynote for the University of Chicago’s Annual Humanities Day
In the Name of Art - Destruction and Reconstruction
Wu Hung
Oct 16, 2021
Digitizing East Asian Art: International Mediations and Collaborations
Wu Hung, Wei-Cheng Lin, and Katherine Tsiang
Mar 17, 2021