Saturday, October 3 11:00 AM
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms this symposium features new scholarship that reassesses our understanding of Asian peoples in the context of gold trade and movement. Noted historians, art historians, and archaeologists present papers and discuss findings that impact our understanding of cultural interaction in Asia between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, before the period of sustained contact with western colonial powers. Confirmed speakers and discussants at this one-day symposium include exhibition cocurators Florina H. Capistrano-Baker and Adriana Proser; MJ Louise A. Bolunia, chief archaeologist at the National Museum, Philippines; John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francois Louis, Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York; Amy G. Poster, Curator Emerita, Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum and Interim Consulting Gallery Director, Japan Society and Cherubim Quizon, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Seton Hall University, among others.
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