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New Research on Chinese Gardens - two-day international conference.
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Location
University of Sheffield
Arts Tower Western Bank Sheffield S102TN United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
New insights into the history of Chinese gardens and landscapes presented by both professionals and post-graduate students from China and a number of other countries. This two-day conference is organised jointly by The Gardens Trust and the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. Tickets are for the full two-day conference but not the conference dinner on 26 October, which should be booked separately. Talks will cover a wide range of dates and will include east-west encounters in Cantonese gardens, Jesuit water landscapes, gardens as museums, the Chinese concept of paradise, Feng Shui symbolism, public parks and the Chinese park movement, and botanical watercolours. See below for information on overnight accommodation and the full programme.
Overnight accommodation can be booked at hotels nearby, including:
*The Harley
334 Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2HW, United Kingdom
http://www.theharley.co.uk/hotel/
Tel: 0114 275 4749
Hotel@theharley.co.uk
*Jury’s Inn Sheffield
119 Eyre Street, Sheffield, S1 4QW, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 114 291 2222
jurysinnsheffield@jurysinns.com
* Ibis Sheffield Centre
Shude Hill, Sheffield, S1 2AR, United Kingdom
http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-2891-ibis-sheffield-city/index.shtml
Tel :(+44)114/2419600 H2891@accor.com
*Novotel Sheffield Centre
50 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PR, United Kingdom
http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-1348-novotel-sheffield-centre/index.shtml
Tel (+44)113/3969005 H1348@accor.com
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
PROGRAMME
New Research on the History of Chinese Gardens and Landscapes
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
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