Conference on Tibetan Art and Religion, Princeton University, March 7-9.

An interdisciplinary conference, "Art History, Buddhist Studies, Tibet: New Perspectives from the Tibet Site Seminar," will be convened at Princeton March 7-9, 2008, in McCormick Hall, Room 101.

The conference opens on Friday, March 7, at 4:30 pm, with a keynote lecture by Deborah Klimburg-Salter (University Professor of Art History, University of Vienna), entitled "A Translational Methodology: Towards a Study of Tibetan Art History."

Papers by the twelve participants in the Tibet Site Seminar, sponsored by Princeton University, are the focus of the conference on Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 9:00 a.m. each day. Respondents to papers are senior scholars from the U.S.: Janet Gyatso (Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School), Marylin Rhie (Jesse Wells Post Professor of Art History, Smith College), and E. Gene Smith (Director, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center).

The conference is co-sponsored by Princeton's Center for the Study of Religion, the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Council of the Humanities, and the Department of Religion. Support is also provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, which sponsored the Tibet Site Seminar in 2007.

The conference is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Further information is available at the conference website, http://www.princeton.edu/TibetSem/program-conference.htm.