Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller gave a virtual invited presentation on “Purple in Early China” to a Chinese art history class at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on September 23.

Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller gave the presentation, “The Form-Matter Nexus in the Early Chinese Intellectual Tradition and its Implication for the Genealogy of Chinese Art” on the panel, “Rethinking the Form-Matter Nexus after the Material Turn” on June 25 at the CIHA (Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art) conference in Lyon, France.

Two East Asian Studies faculty members, Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller and Visiting Professor of Economics Maorui Yang, and two students attended the ASIANetwork conference in Atlanta, Georgia from April 12-14. Natalie Davis ’27 presented her poster titled, “Dueling Depictions: Zhang Zhixin and the Politics of Femininity in Chinese Scar Art.” Kate Medlock ’26 presented her poster titled, “Reviving the Past: A Mid-Western Zhou Jade Pendant and its Neolithic References.” Maorui presented on the panel, “Teaching and Research in the Liberal Arts: ASIANetwork-Luce Postdoctoral Fellows.”

Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller gave an invited presentation on February 26 in a webinar organized by the Association for Chinese Art History titled “Chinese Art History in the Undergraduate Curriculum.”

Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller gave an invited talk in Chinese on June 11 titled “秦汉彩绘青铜器:材质、装饰工艺与价值” (“Painted Bronzes of the Qin and Han: Materials, Decorative Techniques, and Value”) at the virtual conference 制器尚象 (Making Artifacts by Modeling Images), hosted by the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院) in Beijing, China. The conference title derives from a phrase in the Book of Changes, which discusses emblematic figures as archetypes for artifacts. Miller presented on a panel titled “Craft and Form.”