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Not-so-Famous Plants

Garden Culture, Botanical Knowledge and Regional Painting Traditions in Ming China
Katie Ryor
- | Williams Hall 623
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Scholarship on the bird-and-flower genre of Chinese painting has almost exclusively focused on their function as visual rebuses that convey auspicious messages or has explored the ways that the scholar-elite used…



EALC Speakers' Colloquium

Vyjayanthi Selinger
- | Williams Hall 623
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

This EALC Speakers' Colloquium lecture is co-sponsored with Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

 



The Outbreak of the Jōkyū War (1221)

Triangulating Myth and History in Medieval Japan
Michael McCarty
- | Williams Hall 623
255 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

In the Jōkyū War of 1221, retired emperor Go-Toba declared war on the Hōjō warrior family in attempt to destroy Japan’s first warrior government, the Kamakura bakufu, which had shared power with the imperial…