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Ideas of Asia in the MuseumAn International SymposiumUniversity of Southern California and Los Angeles County Museum of ArtJanuary 23–24, 2015 &#160;Since its inception in eighteenth-century Europe, the museum has provided modern societies with a powerful tool to display and define cultures of their own and those from around the world. This international symposium will bring together a group of distinguished scholars and museum curators to examine the collecting and display of Asian art in relation to conceptualizations of Asia that gained currency in the cultural and geopolitical milieu of modernity. The dual focus allows for in-depth inquiries into interregional and intraregional connections that manifested in the workings of the art market, museological practices, and art-historical discourses across Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It will also facilitate discussions of how ideas of Asia have contributed to the development of specific museum collections, and conversely, how museums have helped generate new ideas about the region in the public domain through exhibition, education, and research.Through six panels and one roundtable, the speakers at this symposium will take up topics that remain little explored in the literature or reconsidering current debates with new approaches, all with the aim to explore the mechanisms and meanings in representing Asia through assemblages of objects inside the museum. As the organizers and many of the participants are based at universities, museums, and research centers in Southern California, another goal of this event is to highlight the important role of the U.S. West Coast in shaping the history of Asian art collections.&#160;The symposium is jointly organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It is generously supported by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, with additional support from Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The event celebrates the new partnership of the Pacific Asia Museum with the University of Southern California.For further information, please contact Sonya S. Lee at sonyasle@usc.edu.&#160;Symposium Program and Schedule&#160;Day OneFriday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., January 23, 2015University of Southern California&#160;Panel One: Redefining the Boundaries of Asia Sonya S. Lee, University of Southern CaliforniaCentral Asia Coming to the Museum: The Display of Kucha Mural Fragments in Interwar Germany&#160;Alexander Nagel, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionCurating Monuments, Museums and Cultural Heritage in Iran: Archives, Displays, and Identities&#160;Ja Won Lee, University of California, Los AngelesVisualizing the Past: O Sech’ang’s Art Collection and the Antiquarian Movement in Early Twentieth-Century Korea&#160;Discussant: Julia Orell, Getty Research Institute&#160;Panel Two: Nationalism in the MuseumVirginia Moon, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtThe Curation of Korea’s National Treasures&#160;Ya-hwei Hsu, National Taiwan UniversityReceptions of the Ding-Tripod during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)&#160;Patricia J. Graham, Independent ScholarLangdon Warner's Vision for the Japanese Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1930-1935Discussant: Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California&#160;Panel Three: Colonialism and CollectingAlexandra Green, The British MuseumFrom India to Independence: The Formation of the Burma Collection at the British Museum&#160;Tushara Bindu Gude, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtCollecting Tibet: Art, Buddhism, and Politics&#160;Adele Di Ruocco, Independent ScholarArchaeological Discoveries and Collecting Practices in Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century&#160;Discussant: Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles&#160;Reception at USC Pacific Asia Museum&#160;&#160;Day TwoSaturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., January 24, 2015Los Angeles County Museum of Art&#160;Panel Four: The U.S.-China ExchangeDaisy Yiyou Wang, Peabody Essex MuseumA Thousand Graces: Charles L. Freer and Collecting Chinese Buddhist Art in Early Twentieth-Century America&#160;Dominic Cheung, University of Southern CaliforniaFrom Spice to Flora and Fauna––Botanical Science Illustrations and Chinese Pith Paper Paintings&#160;Noelle Giuffrida, Case Western Reserve UniversityLandscapes of Opportunity in Postwar America: Sherman E. Lee’s 1954 Chinese Landscape Painting in Cleveland&#160;Discussant: Peter Sturman, University of California, Santa Barbara&#160;Panel Five: Framing the Pacific and Indian OceansFlorina Capistrano-Baker, Ayala MuseumTrophies of Trade: Collecting 19th-century Sino-Filipino Export Paintings&#160;Melody Rod-ari, Norton Simon MuseumThe Pacific Rim, Connecting Peoples, Collecting Histories: The Formation of South and Southeast Asian art collections in Los Angeles&#160;Julie Romain, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtArt of the Jeweled Isle: Collecting and Exhibiting Sri Lanka in the Encyclopedic Museum&#160;Discussant: Alka Patel, University of California, Irvine&#160;Panel Six: Asia and the AmericasSofía Sanabrais, Independent ScholarCollecting “Asia” in Latin America&#160;Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, IrvineAmerican Patronage and the Woody Japanese Aesthetic of “Creative Prints” (Sôsaku Hanga) of Postwar Japan&#160;Stephen Little, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtReception of Japanese Meiji and Taishō Paintings in the United States&#160;Discussant: Hollis Goodall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art&#160;Final RoundtablePanelists:Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtHyung Il Pai, University of California, Santa BarbaraChristina Yu, University of Southern California&#160;Moderator: Robert Brown, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of California, Los Angeles