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| Yuyuan garden, Shanghai. Credits: Gu Liyuan |
The provisional programme of our 26-7th October 2017 Chinese garden history conference in Sheffield is now available!
This event is organised jointly by the Gardens Trust and the Landscape Department in the University of Sheffield. Sponsors to be announced shortly.
Tickets are on sale from March 1st, follow the link here.
PROGRAMME
New Research on the History of Chinese Gardens and
Landscapes
DAY
ONE: Thursday 26 October 2017
10.00-10.25 Registration
Chair: Dr Jan Woudstra, University of Sheffield
10.25 Welcome
10.30 Dr
Alison Hardie, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK
Chinese Garden and Landscape Studies in the
21st Century
11.00 Dr
Lei Gao, Norwegian
University of Life Sciences, As, Norway
The concept of Paradise in
Chinese Buddhism and its interpretation in designed landscape in Qianglong era
(1736-1795)
11.30 TEA/COFFEE
12.00 Xiaoyan
Hu, PhD candidate, Liverpool University, UK
The dialectic aesthetics of Xu (emptiness) and Shi
(fullness) in Chinese landscape art (landscape painting, landscape poetry,
gardening) from the Six Dynasties
12.30 Questions and
discussion
13.00 LUNCH
Chair: Josepha Richard, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield
14.00 Dr Antonio José Mezcua López, Granada University, Spain
Hangzhou’s West Lake
Research Proposal: The Song Dynasty (960-1279)
14.30 Professor
Carol Brash, St John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Canonizing
the Garden of Solitary Delight (Dule Yuan)
15.00 TEA/COFFEE
15.30 Dr
Kate Bailey and Charlotte Brooks, Royal Horticultural Society, London, UK
The RHS Reeves collection of Chinese botanical
watercolours: a story of people and plants in China and Britain in the early
nineteenth century
16.00 Dr
Lianming Wang, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg.
Fountains
and Jesuit Water Landscapes in eighteenth-century Beijing
16.30 Questions and
discussion
17.00 CLOSE
Evening: Conference
Chinese dinner
DAY
TWO: Friday 27 October 2017
Chair: Dr Alison Hardie Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leeds
09.55 Welcome
10.00 Dr Stephen
Whiteman, University of Sydney, Australia.
Post-histories and past formations in a Qing garden
10.30 Josepha
Richard, PhD candidate, University of Sheffield, UK
East-West encounters in the Cantonese garden
11.00 COFFEE
11.30 Youcao
Ren, PhD candidate, University of Sheffield, UK
FengShui Landscapes in the late Qing Royal Garden
Design
12.00 Questions and
discussion
12.30 LUNCH
Chair: Dr Sally Jeffery, The Gardens Trust
13.30 Zhang
Yichi, PhD candidate, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
From Decoration to Necessity: the functions of
Public Parks in the British Concessions of China, 1842-1937
14.00 Yuanyuan
Liu, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh, UK
The Modernisation of the Traditional Space during
the Chinese Park Movement: Case Study of Xuanwu Lake in Najing, 1928-1949
14.30 TEA/COFFEE
15.00 Professor
William Callahan, London School of Economics, London, UK.
Cultivating Power: Chinese gardens as sites of
diplomacy, war and peace
15.30 Questions and
discussion
16.00 CLOSE
