Visual

& Material Culture

of the

ilk Road(s)

Symposium

Sept. 11-12, 2020Friday & Saturday9am- 12:15pm via Zoom

Friday, September 11, 2020

Visual & Material Culture of the Silk Road(s)

Symposium Schedule (Central Standard Time Zone)

Chair: Maki Kaneko (History of Art, KU)

“Traversing Myths and Regions: The Collaborative Tapestries of Jolanta Owidzka and Georgette Saliba” Jessica Gerschultz (African and African-American Studies, KU)

“In-between First World and Third World: Korean-American Art in the 1980s and the 1990s” Eunyoung Park (Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University)

“Temporal Imagination across 21st-Century Asia” Kris Imants Ercums (Spencer Museum of Art, KU)

9:00-9:10Welcome and Introductions

9:10-10:40 Session I: Reconceptualizing “Asia” in the Age

of Globalism

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John Kennedy, Director, (Center for East Asian Studies, KU)Sherry Fowler, Organizer, (History of Art, KU)

Friday, September 11, 2020

Chair: Arienne Dwyer (Linguistic Anthropology, KU)

“Healing along the Silk Road: From Élite Formulae to Trance Mediums” Arienne Dwyer (Linguistic Anthropology, KU)

“The Healing Touch and Medicine by the Book: Patterns in the Circulation of Healers and Healing Texts in Islamic Inner Asia” Devin DeWeese (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University)

“Using Network Analysis to Understand the Transmission of Medicines and Cures Across Central Asia” Jeff Rydberg-Cox (English and Classics, University of Missouri, Kansas City)

10:40-10:45Break

10:45-12:15Session II: Medicine along the Silk

Routes: The Transmission of Healing across Central Eurasia

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Friday Continued

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Chair: Sherry Fowler (History of Art, KU)

Interaction of Cultures: Textile Finds Along the Silk Road from the 6th to the 12th Centuries” Mary Dusenbury (Spencer Museum of Art, KU)

“The Mandala of Bhaktapur, Nepal” Kapila Silva (School of Architecture & Design, KU)

“Smoothing Out the Difference: Soft Stone (Kasseki) as Buddhist Reliquaries across Asia” Akiko Walley (History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon)

9:00-9:05Welcome Back

9:05-10:35Session III: Meritorious Materialities on the

Silk Road

David Cateforis (History of Art, KU)

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Chair: Amy McNair (History of Art, KU)

“The Low Road Back to Sogdiana: The Tomb of An Pusa and Lady He” Amy McNair (History of Art, KU)

“New Roads Across the Mongolian Plains: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Axial Development” Alexander Diener (Geography and Atmospheric Science, KU)

“Figured in Silk: Cosmopolitanism and the Tang Empire” BuYun Chen (Department of History, Swarthmore College)

10:40-10:45Break

10:45-12:10Session IV: Value and Exchange along

the Roads of Eurasia

12:10-12:15Concluding Remarks

Sherry Fowler (History of Art, KU)

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Saturday Continued

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S p eake rs

Dr. BuYun Chen Assistant Professor, Department of History Swarthmore College

Dr. Devin DeWeese Professor, Central Eurasian Studies Indiana University, Bloomington

Dr. Alexander DienerAssociate Professor, Geography & Atmospheric ScienceUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Mary Dusenbury Affiliate Research CuratorSpencer Museum of Art University of Kansas

Dr. Arienne Dwyer Professor, Linguistic Anthropology University of Kansas

Dr. Kris Imants ErcumsCurator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art Spencer Museum of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Jessica GerschultzAssociate Professor, African and African-American StudiesUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Amy McNairProfessor, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Eunyoung Park Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Art Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Jeff Rydberg-Cox Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Department of English Director, Classical and Ancient Studies ProgramUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City

Dr. Kapila SilvaProfessor, Architecture & DesignUniversity of Kansas Dr. Akiko WalleyMaude I. Kerns Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art and ArchitectureUniversity of Oregon

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O rga n i z e r In tro d u c tion s

P a nel C ha i rs

H i s to r y of A r t G rad u a te A s s i s t a n t sC e n te r fo r E a s t A s i a n S tu d ie s S t a f f

Dr. Sherry FowlerProfessor, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. David CateforisProfessor and Chair, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Arienne Dwyer Professor, Linguistic Anthropology University of Kansas

Dr. Sherry FowlerProfessor, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Maki KanekoAssociate Professor, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Amy McNairProfessor, History of ArtUniversity of Kansas

Rachel QuistVidhita RainaMichael Vanhartingsveldt Pinyan Zhu

Ayako MizumuraYusra NabiAmanda Snider

CEAS Student Assistant:Michaela Harding

Dr. John KennedyDirector, Center for East Asian StudiesProfessor, Political ScienceUniversity of Kansas

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Inspired by the Eurasian trade routes

that flourished from the 2nd century BCE

to the mid-15th century, this symposium

highlights how artworks, design, trade

goods, medicine, religion, and people

traveled both overland and by sea and

stimulated new cultural forms and ideas.

While the term “Silk Road,” which was

invented in the 19th century, may conjure

an image of camels plodding across the

desert on one contiguous road, speakers

in this symposium challenge us to instead

envision a dynamic pattern of cross-

cultural exchanges that occurred between

Asia, Africa, and beyond that continues

today.

Please visit the online exhibition

Interweaving Cultures along the Silk Road(s)

on the Spencer Museum of Art website. Click here to see the exhibition, Sept. 4-Dec. 13, 2020.

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SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES & THE KRESS FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

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Registration link for day 1 of the Silk Road(s) Symposium:https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t1lZOnmEQGKdvaPi5r4oyQ

Registration link for day 2 of the Silk Road(s) Symposium:https://kansas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pYiMKf6NRQ 2VbvgIPCwc_A

Once registered, participants will be approved and then receive their meeting ID and password.Advance registration for each day recommended.