Activity and Repose

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Schedule


Chen/Water Cascade Huntington Garden
 

Water cascade in canyon linking Chinese Garden to Japanese Garden.
Phase One detail drawing by Jin Chen.
© The Huntington
Friday, December 3, 2004
9:15 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, The Getty Center

Saturday, December 4, 2004
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Friends' Hall, The Huntington

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DAY ONE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3

8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee

9:15 a.m.

Welcome by Gail Feigenbaum, Associate Director, Getty Research Institute

Remarks by Stephen H. West, Arizona State University

9:30 a.m. Session 1: Movement and Memory in Traditional Gardens

Moderator: Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks

Movement and Perception in Ming Gardens
Stanislaus Fung, University of New South Wales

The Changing Self in the Shifting Landscape
Peter Bol, Harvard University

Discussion

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30 p.m. Session 2: Cultural Memory in the Modern Garden

Moderator: Erik de Jong, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

The Eight Scenes of the Yuelu Academy: The Living Embodiment of a Collective Memory in Gardens and Landscapes
Xin Wu, Dumbarton Oaks

The Ryoaniji Stone Garden: Constructing an Icon
Kendall Brown, California State University, Long Beach

Discussion

3:30 p.m. Session 3: Enduring Memory and Sociality: Public Gardens

Moderator: Stephen H. West

Public and Private: Chinese Temples as Gardens
Susan Naquin, Princeton University

The "Public" Garden in Early Modern Japan: The Sources and Costs of "Enduring Meanings"
Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley

Discussion

DAY TWO: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4

8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee

9:30 a.m.

Welcome by Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington

Remarks by Stephen H. West

9:45 a.m. Session 4: Productive Space: Gardens and the Arts

Moderator: Erik de Jong

Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion: From Poetry and Calligraphy to a Landscape of Cultural Memory
Philip Hu, Macalester College

Tonna's Trees: The Poetics of Garden Space in Medieval Japan
Steven Carter, Stanford University

Discussion

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. Session 5: Social Activity and the Construction of Memory

Moderator: Michel Conan

Japan Contemplates the Dry Landscape, Socializes While Having Tea
Christian Tschumi, Dumbarton Oaks

The Suburban Retreat and the Globalization of the Chinese Garden
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University

Discussion

3:00 p.m. Session 6: Ephemeral and Enduring: The Paradox of Collecting

Moderator: Richard Strassberg, University of California, Los Angeles

Louis XIV and the Kangsi Emperor: Collecting and Gardening
Haun Saussy, Stanford University

Remembering Li Deyu Remembering His Pingquan Garden
Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame

Discussion

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Symposium Organizers

The Getty Research Institute
Thomas Crow
Gail Feigenbaum
Charles Salas
Karen Stokes
Donna Beckage

The Huntington
Robert Ritchie
Stephen West
Carolyn Powell
Susi Krasnoo

Stephen West, consultant