Art Field: Asian Art

CfA: Chevening Fellowship “Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian Collections” at the British Library

Application deadline: 2 November 2021 This fellowship will be hosted by the Asian and African Collections department. The British Library holds about 3000 manuscripts from Southeast Asia, forming the largest…

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CfA: The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Grant Programs 2022/2023

Application deadline: 31 December 2021 (by by 11:59 pm) Founded under the auspices of the Harry G. C. Packard Collection Charitable Trust, the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies…

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Conference: Discovering Chinese Cultural Heritage in Europeana (23-24 September 2021)

Title: Discovering Chinese Cultural Heritage in Europeana Format: Online event Duration: 23-24 September 2021 DAY ONE: 23 September 2021 9:30   CEST – Registration 9:40   Welcome messages: Hilde De Clercq, Director…

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Asian Studies Special Issue: East Asia in Slovenia – Collecting Practices, Categorization and Representation

Title: East Asia in Slovenia: Collecting Practices, Categorization and Representation Special Issue Editor: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik Published by: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Asian Studies Volume…

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Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context (by Julie Nelson Davis)

Title: Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context Author: Julie Nelson Davis Published by: University of Hawaii Press, 2021 Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces…

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Event: Legend of the Luohans – where the brethren really came from (Meet the Author Series)

Time and Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2021 (6:30 - 7:30 p.m.) Format: available through Facebook and Youtube Location: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Admiralty, Hong Kong Rundown: 18:15 Registration; 18:30…

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Exhibition: Ships and Passages – Alfred Steinmann’s research on the ship motif in Indonesia

Title: Ships and Passages: Alfred Steinmann's research on the ship motif in Indonesia Duration: 11 April to 31 October 2021 Location: Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland…

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Reading Objects in the Contact Zone (Edited by Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner)

Title: Reading Objects in the Contact Zone (Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality) Edited by: Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler and Anna Sophia Messner Published by: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021 The cultural effects…

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CfA: Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants, Max Weber Stiftung

Application deadline: 8 October 2021 Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland Once a year, supported by the Peters Beer Foundation as well as the Marga und Kurt…

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Collecting China: Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies (by Jan van Campen)

Title: Collecting China: Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807), collections and Chinese studies Author: Jan van Campen Published by: Uitgeverij Verloren, 2021 During a relatively short period, from around 1765 to 1780,…

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Exhibition: Wu Guanzhong (Ashmolean Museum)

Title: Wu Guanzhong Duration: Open until 30 Aug 2021 Location: Gallery 11, the Sullivan Gallery for Chinese Paintings, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK Admission is FREE, but a free Museum ticket…

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Lecture: Looking West and Dreaming East – Collecting Asian Art in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Title: Looking West and Dreaming East – Collecting Asian Art in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Series: Orientations Art Circle / Asia Society Lecture Series Date: 30 June 2021…

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