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September 29-30, 2006 University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
	Friday September 29, 2006 Trabant Theater, University of Delaware Afternoon Session
12:00-12:15 pm	Welcome and Opening Remarks
	President and Provost of the University of Delaware Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Chair of the Department of Art History Chair of the East Asian Studies Program

12:15-1:30 pm	Cultural Codes and Objects' Materiality: Theories, Methodology, and Collecting Practices
	A round-table discussion with H. Perry Chapman, Bernard Herman, Kasey Grier, and Lawrence Nees
	Moderator: David Stone
1:30-1:45 pm	Break

1:45-4:00 pm	Session I - China and the Discourse of Things
	"What is Chinese about Ancient Artifacts?: Collecting Oracle Bones"
	Shana Brown, History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
	"Monumental Miniature: An Oxymoron?: A Han-dynasty Bronze Mat Weight and Its Cosmos"
	Eugene Wang, Art History , Harvard University
	"Bug Collecting: Imagining the Exotic in Late Ming China"
	Yuming He, East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
	"From Tian Yi Ge to Zhongshan Gongyuan: Subjects, Objects, and Things in Republican China"
	Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Art History, University of Delaware

4:00-4:15 pm	Break

4:15-5:00 pm	Keynote Lecture - Things, Collecting, and Questions of "Chineseness"
	A Lecture by Wen-Hsin Yeh, Morrison Professor of 20th Century Chinese History, University of California Berkeley.
	Lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, the College of Arts and Sciences, the East Asian Studies Program, and the Office of Woman Scholar's Affairs

5:00-5:30 pm	That "Thing" We See: Cultural Representation or Cultural Implementation?
	Conversations with conference speakers and the audience.
	Moderator: Vimalin Rujivacharakul

5:30 pm	Opening Reception
	Paul R. Jones Gallery, University of Delaware Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences

Saturday, September 30, 2006
Copeland Lecture Hall, Winterthur Museum

9:15-9:30 am	Welcome, J. Thomas Savage, Director of Museum Affairs, Winterthur, and Ritchie Garrison, Director Winterthur-U. Delaware Studies Program

9:30-12:00 am	Session II - The World and Its Collections of "China"
	Pluralist Aesthetics: Cross-Cultural Collecting in Late Imperial China, Patricia Berger, History of Art, University of California at Berkeley
	"China in Japan: Notions of Artistic Classicism in the Writing of Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913)"
	Elizabeth Lillehoj, Art History, DePaul University
	"Goncourt's China Cabinet"
	Ting Chang, Art History, Carnegine Mellon University
	"Emperors and Scholars: Antiquarian and Collecting Practices in the Qing period"
	Paola DeMatte, Art and Archaeology, Rhode Island School of Design
	"Collecting China in Britain: Sir Percival David and the Institutionalisation of Chinese Art"
	Stacey Pierson, Head and Curator, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, England

12:00-1:30 pm	Lunch Break (on your own)

1:30-3:30 pm	Session III - On Different Grounds: Collecting Practices and Private Collectors
	"Early Rockefeller Collecting and China", Stanley Abe, Duke University
	"Exporting China: The Collecting Taste of William and Henry Walters" , C. Griffith Mann, Curator and Co-Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Walters Art Museum.
	"Selective Visions: Collecting Sino-Western Works on Paper at the Getty Research Institute"
	Marcia Reed, Head of Collection Development, Getty Research Institute
	"A Passion for Porcelain: Henry Francis du Pont's Collection of Porcelains"
	Ronald W. Fuchs II, Associate Curator of Ceramics for the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection, Winterthur Museum

3:30-4:15 pm	Roundtable Discussion

4:00-4:30 pm	Break

4:30-5:30 pm	Workshop/Tour Session
	Books on China in the Winterthur Library, Catherine Cooney, Senior Librarian, Winterthur
	Overview of Chinese and Indian Textiles in the Winterthur Collection, Linda Eaton, Curator of Textiles, Winterthur
	Chinese Export Porcelain for the American & European Markets, Ronald W. Fuchs II, Associate Curator of Ceramics
	Chinese Influences on Western Ceramics, Leslie Grigsby, Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Winterthur
	Tour - Chinese Export Porcelain in the Winterthur Period Rooms, Winterthur guide specialist
	Tour - Journeys to Cathay: Asian Influences in the American Decorative Arts, Winterthur guide specialist

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

	Roundtable-Discussion Brunch
	(By invitation only)

11:30-12:30 pm	Optional Tour Session
	Tour - Chinese Export Porcelain in the Winterthur Period Rooms, Winterthur guide specialist
	Tour - Journeys to Cathay: Asian Influences in the American Decorative Arts, Winterthur guide specialist
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