Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture

Events

The Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture hosts research seminars, international conferences and workshops.  Events feature opportunities for discussion, collaboration and knowledge-exchange between scholars and students from Oxford and from institutions across Asia.

Seminar Series

Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room, 5pm

13 Feb 2013

Changing Clay: Hunter-gatherers, Pottery and the Significance of Choice at the Eastern Edge of Siberia

Dr Peter Hommel (Oxford)

20 Feb 2013

Ainu Ethnohistory from the archaeological perspectives

Prof. Hirofumi Kato (Hokkaido University)

27 Feb 2013

The Painted Bronze Waterfowls from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin: Manufacturing Technologies and Their Implications

Prof. Jianjun Mei (University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Forthcoming Conference

Previous Events

Conferences

Seminars & Lectures

Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room, 5pm

2012

15 Feb 2012

Mongolia's Archaeological Heritage: Old and New Approaches to Understanding "Nomadic" Empires

Prof. Daniel Waugh (University of Washington)

29 Feb 2012

The Evolution of the technology of jade carving in China

Dr Margaret Sax (British Museum)

  7 Mar 2012

William Gowland and the art of the great mounded tombs in Japan

Dr Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute)

  2 May 2012

The Sintashta-culture and the metallurgy of Eurasian steppe

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause (Goethe-University)

23 May 2012

Chinese Export Ceramics in Southeast Asia and the Philippines: How it looked fifty years ago

Prof. Michael Sullivan (Oxford) 

30 May 2012

Burial Mounds and sense of place in contemporary Japan

Dr Akira ]Matsuda (Lecturer, University of East Anglia,School of World Art Studies and Museology)

  6 Nov 2012

In Search of Ancient Cultivated Soils in North and South China: A Geoarchaeological Approach

Dr Yijie.Zhuang (Oxford)

13 Nov 2012

The Karlbeck Syndicate 1930-1934 and covers an interesting collector's consortium of Chinese archaeological objects dating from China's Bronze Age period

Dr Valerie Jurgens (SOAS)

20 Nov 2012

Why did pottery use begin in Pleistocene Far East?

Prof. Yasuhiro Taniguchi (Kokugakuin University, Japan)

2011

28 Nov 2011

Special Lecture: New excavations on Rebun Island as part of the new Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeological Project

Professor Hirofumi Kato (Hokkaido University)

23 Nov 2011

China for Japan, Chinese ceramics in medieval Japan and the foundation of the Japanese porcelain industry

Dr Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (Sainsburys Institute)

16 Nov 2011

Xia Nai and his London Years: New evidence from his diary

Dr Wang Tao (SOAS)

  2 Nov 2011

Locating Tibetan Art': The ethics and aesthetics of the Young husband Mission to Tibet 1903-4

Dr Clare Harris (Oxford)

 8 June 2011

The 'Chinese Bronze Age' and the Historical Turn in Archaeology

Dr Rod Campbell (Oriental Institute)

 1 June 2011

Between Text and the Object: Coins in the Periplus - Detail, Context and Historical Utility

Dr Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum)

25 May 2011

New Engagements with Heritage - the results of a recent Oxford workshop

Dr Ian Lilley (University of Queensland)

18 May 2011

Towards Archaeology Buddhism

Dr Robin Coningham (Durham University)

10 May 2011

A General View of Bronze Age Steppe Pastoralism

Dr Natasha Shishlina (State History Museum, Moscow) 

23 Feb 2011

Sticky rice and chapatis? An archaeological exploration of the selective movement of crops along the culinary frontiers of Asia

Dr Dorian Fuller (UCL)

 9 Feb 2011

Castration and Power Systems: An approach to understanding the persistence and prevalence of castration

Kathryn Reusch (Oxford)

26 Jan 2011

Characteristics and Identity of Jomon

Prof. Tatsuo Kobayashi (Kokugakuin University, Tokyo)

2010

24 Nov 2010

Dogu and the international significance of Japanese Archaeology

Dr Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute in Norwich) 

10 Nov 2010

The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project: Towards geochemical proxies for social interaction and the recontruction of the regional economy, 1500 BCE to 500 CE

Dr Oli Pryce (Oxford) 

 1 Nov 2010

The Northeast Indo-China Corridor is the Cradle for Asian Human Origins

Prof. M. Palanichamy (Yunnan University, China) 

27 Oct 2010

Gender and hybridity in the Kingly Ming Tomb

Prof. Craig Clunas (Oxford) 

 1 Oct 2010

From Steppe Road to Silk Road: Inner Asia’s Interaction with and Impact on China, 2000 BC-AD 1000.

Professor Jessica Rawson (Oxford)