Professor of Art History Allison Miller virtually presented the paper, “古代中国 “紫色”的再考：染料，颜料，与色彩等级 [Reconsidering Ancient Chinese Purple: Dyes, Pigments, and Color Hierarchies]” at 制器尚象,第三届 [The Third Conference of “Making Artifacts by Modeling Images”], held at Northwest Normal University 西北师范大学 in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.

Art history major Emma Hargrove ’27 presented her poster titled “Ox-Demons and Snake-Spirits: Supernatural Iconography in a Maoist Era Cartoon” at the ASIANetwork conference, hosted by North Central College in Naperville, IL on March 27 and 28. The poster was based on a paper written in Professor of Art History Allison Miller’s course.

Professor of Art History Allison Miller published a review of the book Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China: Artistry and Technique by Kin Sum Li in caa.reviews, an online, open-access journal published by the College Art Association. You can read the review here.

Professor of Art History Allison Miller presented the paper “Origin Stories: A Bronze ‘Cymbal’ from Hepu as a Case Study” on August 19 at the 10th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, held at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The paper was given in a session titled “New Approaches to Gifting, Tribute, and Trade across Asia (11th c. BCE-10th c. CE).”

Associate Professor of Art History Allison Miller gave a presentation, titled “The Gaze of Animals in Western Han Bronze Sculpture,” on May 9 at the “Same and/or Other? Animals in East Asian History” workshop, organized by the Chinese Animal Studies Network. The workshop was held at the Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies at the University of Münster, Germany from May 8-10.