Keynote Presentations—The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity

This program is presented as part of the symposium The Age of Empires: Comparisons and Interactions between East and West in Antiquity.  Part 1: The First Emperor of China and the Wider World: Asia and the Greco-Roman World takes place Friday, April 7 from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. Part 2: Art, Archaeology, and the Han Empire takes place Sunday, April 9 from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. 

 

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO, The Met

Matthew Santirocco, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, New York University

 

Jason Sun, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art, Department of Asian Art, The Met

Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Associate Professor of East Asian Art and Archaeology, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

 

Iran, Eurasia, and the Achievements of the First Emperor

Dame Jessica Rawson, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford 

Situating an Emperor: Tombs and Authority in Ancient China and Rome

Matthew McCarty, Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, The University of British Columbia

 

Michael Seymour, Assistant Curator, Department of Ancient Near East, The Met

Kiki Karoglou, Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

Free with Museum admission; advance registration is required.

 

 

The symposium is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies. It is made possible by the Joseph Hotung Fund at The Met with additional support from the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference Fund at NYU, the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Studies, the NYU Center for the Humanities, and NYU Shanghai.