Presentation 1:

“The Origins of Chinese Writing: Some Considerations on Form and Color”

Paola Demattè, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, Department of Theory + History of Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design

Presentation 2:

“Seeing Red in the Shang-Zhou Times”

Tao Wang, Pritzker Chair of Arts of Asia, Executive Director of Initiatives in Asia, and Curator of Chinese Art, The Art Institute of Chicago

Presentation 3:

“Red Color from Shang to Qin: Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleography”

Kuang Yu Chen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University

Student Presentation:

“Color and Ascension to Heaven: Revisiting the Mawangdui Diagram of the Mourning System”

April Peng, PhD Student, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

This event is sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund, Harvard FAS CAMLab, and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.

Image: Tripod vessel (ding) with cloud pattern, 2nd century BCE. Excavated from the Mawangdui Tombs, collection of the Hunan Provincial Museum.