Invited Talks
International
“Buddhist Woodcuts and the Cultural Transformation in the Song, Xi Xia, and Yuan Periods,” invited talk at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo 東京大學東洋文化研究所, June 19, 2016.
“Interaction of Woodcuts and Painting: Elements of Song Paintings in Song Buddhist Woodcuts,” invited talk at the National Taiwan University 國立臺灣大學藝術史研究所, December 8, 2015
“Zhonggu fojiao muke yu wenhua liubian” 中古佛教木刻與文化流變 (Chinese Religious Woodcuts and Cultural Transformation), invited talk at the Academia Sinica 中央研究院歷史語言研究所, Taipei, December 7, 2015
“Tuxiang yu yishi: cong Daozang de tu tan songdai daojiao yishi de kongjian xing yu wuzhi xing” 圖像與儀式：從《道藏》的圖談宋代道教儀式的空間性與物質性 (Image and Ritual: Spatiality and Materiality in Song Daoist Ritual), invited talk at the Academia Sinica中央研究院歷史語言研究所, Taipei, December 8, 2011
“Daojiao shijue wenhua shitan: yi ‘Renniao shan zhenxing tu’ ji ‘Wuyue zhenxing tu’ weili” (Preliminary investigation of Daoist visuality: Case studies of the True Form Charts of the Man-Bird Mountain and the Five Sacred Peaks), invited talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 中文大學, the Department of Art, September 21, 2011
“Daojiao shijue wenhua shitan: yi ‘Renniao shan zhenxingtu’ ji ‘Wuyue zhenxing tu’ weili” (A preliminary study of Daoist visual culture: the case studies of the True Form Charts of the Man-bird Mountain and the Five Sacred Peaks), invited talk at the Academia Sinica中央研究院歷史語言研究所, Taipei, Taiwan, November 26, 2010
“Cong daojiao shijue cailiao tan meishushi yanjiu de xintujing” (New Directions of Art History Studies: On New Daoist Visual Materials), invited talk at the Capital Normal University 首都師範大學, Beijing, China, June 26, 2009
National
“Daoist Uses of Images in Private and Public Contexts,” keynote speech delivered at the Religious Studies Graduate Students Colloquium of “Materializing Sanctity, Enacting Authority: Text, Image, and Performance in China & India,” Brown University, Rhode Island, March 16, 2016
“Daoist ‘Imagetext’,” Yale University, New Haven, November 7, 2013
“Daoist ‘Imagetext’ in Context,” Bard Graduate Center, NYC, November 1, 2013
“The Inner and Outer Aspects of Daoist Visual Culture,” East Asian Studies Program, UCLA, LA, October 17, 2013
“True Form Charts and the Daoist Visuality,” invited talk at the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, May 5, 2011
“Rethinking Daoist Visual Culture,” invited talk at the University of Washington, China Studies Program, Seattle, February 19, 2010
“Art History in a Global Age,” invited talk at the History of Art Alumni Conference, “Art’s Histories at Yale,” Yale University, April 5, 2009
“Divination Prints in Chinese Temples: Praying for Success in the Year of 1200,” invited talk at the University of Chicago, March 13, 2006; Rice University, March 20, 2006; University of Illinois at Chicago, March 27, 2006 “Style and Context of the Daoist Triptych of the Three Officials of Heaven, Earth, and Water,” invited talk at the New England East Asian Art History Seminar, Sackler Museum, Harvard University, November 23, 2002