BuYun Chen, Associate Professor of History at Swarthmore College, will be delivering the Ellen Bayard Weedon Lecture on the Arts of Asia "The Tactile and Playful World of Tang Fashion," Thursday, April 14, from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. EST.

Professor Chen is the author of Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China (University of Washington Press, 2019). Her current research explores the relationship between craft production and statecraft practices in the independent Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan) from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. She is an external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center this academic year.

To register for the online talk, please visit https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R_ojT3YZQECncUHnayXHdQ