PRESENTATIONS

Conference papers (selected 30-45 mins)

“Dialogues through Mountain-and-Water” at Writing Social Space roundtable annual conference of Modern Languages Association (Philadelphia USA, 2024)

“Carved in Stone, Imprinted on Land: The Landscape of Three Mounts of Jingkou” at Stuck in the Middle? The Third Middle Period China Humanities Conference (220-1600), Council on East Asia Studies, Yale University (June 22–25, 2023).

“Seeing Mount Lu: On an Ontological Shift in the Chinese Gaze” at the conference Classical Antiquity in Byzantium and Middle Period China: Revivals and Reinventions in Visual and Intellectual Culture (ERC Project, “Classicising Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue” [PAIXUE]), School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh (May 9–11, 2022).

“Serial Landscapes: visuality and physicality in place-making” at Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia. University of Chicago (Chicago, USA; 2015)

“Cultural Construction of Space in Southern Song” at Environmental Aesthetics. Wuhan University (Wuhan, China; 2015)

“From Garden History to Global Art History” at Cultivating Nature as Art: dialogues on the rustic garden in the long eighteenth-century and the contemporary practice of organic art in the landscape post-1960, College Art Association annual conference (New York, USA; 2013)

“Space and Sociality in Chinese Garden” at Room for Another View, Department History of Art & Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA; 2012)

“Confucian Academy and Education in Traditional China”, W&M-BNU Faculty Conference on Confucian Classics, College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, USA; 2012)

“Gardens in History” at New Themes and Directions in Chinese Art History, Association for Asian Studies annual conference (Honolulu, USA; 2011)

“Chinese Literati’s Subtle Art of Dissent” at Artful Retreat: Garden Culture of the Qing Dynasty, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA; 2010)

“Global Modernity and the Contemporary Construction of a Visual Chinese Culture Tradition” at Art History Open Session in 20th-century Art, College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, USA; 2010)

“Discontinuities and Backtracking in 20th-century Chinese Art” at Stephen Bann Effect, The History of Art, University of Bristol (Bristol, UK; 2009)

“The Eight Scenes of the Yuelu Academy: Gardens as Living Memory” at Activity and Response: Place, Memory and Sociality in East Asian Gardens, The Getty Institute (Las Angels, USA; 2004)

“The Reciprocity between Philosophy and Landscape” at East Asian Intellectual History Workshop, Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA; 2003) 

Public lectures (selected 45-60 mins)

“The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History”. East Asian Center, University of Virginia (Charlottesville VA, USA; 2021)

“The Alternative Mountain-and-Water”. Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin (Austin TX, USA; 2021)

“The Reminiscence of ‘Home Mountain’: Place-making as an Art”. Institute for Chinese Studies and the East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University (Columbus OH, USA; 2019)

Kluge Scholarly Lecture series – “Mapping the Landscape: Vision, Memory and Place-making”. John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (Washington DC, USA; 2017)

“A Grand Image with No Form”. Asian Division, Library of Congress (Washington DC, USA; 2016)

The Huntington Annual Lecture series – “Eight Views: from landscape to garden”. Center for East Asian Garden Studies, The Huntington (Los Angeles CA, USA; 2016)

“Globalization and Cultural Identity in Landscape Art”. Wuhan University (Wuhan, China; 2015)

Distinguished Lecture - “The Xiao-Xiang Landscape and the Literati Art of Obliquity”. University of Texas at Austin (Austin TX, USA; 2013)

“Cultural Representation of Nature: Environmental Art in the Age of Globalization”, T’singhua University (Beijing, China; 2010)

Lorado Taft Lecture – “Translating Contemporary Visual Arts into Landscape Architecture”, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign IL, USA; 2009)

British Inter-university China Centre Annual Lecture – “Gardens as A Living History”, Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (Bath, UK; 2007)

“Boundary-crossing: Garden and Landscape Studies”, University of Hanover (Germany; 2007)

“Beyond the Picturesque: Nature for Contemporary Cities”, Wuhan University (Wuhan, China; 2006)

“Cultural Identity in American Urban Parks”, Wageningen University (The Netherlands; 2006)

“Looking at Flowers through Chinese Eyes”, United States Botanic Garden (Washington DC; 2005)

“The Continuation of History in Landscape Art”, Bard Graduate Center (New York, USA; 2004)