Date: 23 November 2016 (Wednesday)

Time: 12:00nn – 1:30pm

Venue: G24, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK

Speakers: Prof. Lai Yuen Yan Celine (CUHK) and Prof. Xu Xiaodong (CUHK)

Chair: Dr. Ting Wing Yan Vivian (HKBU)

Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/QPjIKzMtaMQHUEKJ2

About speakers

Prof. Celine Lai obtained her first degree from University of Toronto, specializing in Archaeology and Chinese Studies. She studied under Near Eastern archaeological experts, and excavated at the Bronze Age site at Tell Es-safi (The Gath Project) in Israel. She pursued graduate degrees in Archaeology from University of Oxford. Her doctoral research is on early China, studying the bronze-casting societies developed in the Yangtze River valleys, dated to the Shang and the early Zhou periods. She is interested in the increasingly popular discourse regarding material culture and its impacts on societies. Before joining the CUHK, Lai was Post-doctoral Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and subsequently Senior Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong. She has been the Voluntary Editor of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society since 2011.She is now teaching the first-year courses in Cultural Management, and developing a research area in museum studies and art management in the context of Hong Kong, as well as that in Mainland China.

Dr. Xu Xiaodong worked as keeper and researcher at the Palace Museum, Beijing from 2007 to 2013. Her research interests include history of Chinese jade, gold and silver, amber, imperial arts of the Ming and Qing dynasties and artistic interactions between ancient China and the West. She is currently Associate Director of the Art Museum, Associate Professor (by courtesy) of the Fine Arts Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, council member of the Chinese Cultural Society of Relics (jade).

Conducted in Cantonese and Putonghua. Light lunch will be served.

All are welcome. First-come, first served.

Registration is required by 21 November 2016.