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From ArtHist.net:

James Cahill’s Legacy and Global Art History

China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 17–18 October 2026

James Cahill (1926–2014) was born on 13 August 1926, in Fort Bragg, California. Now, at the centennial of his birth, tensions between globalization and anti-globalization, as well as the shifting landscape of cross-cultural studies and writings in art history, provide a very different academic context from that which Cahill experienced. And yet, telling the story of Chinese visual art to the world, promoting the studies of Chinese art in a globalizing age, just as Cahill had done with deep belief in the universal value of traditional Chinese culture, even in his sufferings from severe illness in his later years, would be meaningful both intellectually and practically, that is why his memory still deserves our remembrance on this occasion at China Academy of Art Hangzhou where he regarded as his hometown in China.

The full event announcement can be found here»

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8.30  Opening Ceremony
Moderated by Dong Jie (China Academy of Art)

9.15  Panel 1
Moderated by Fan Baiding (China Academy of Art)
• Hong Zaixin (University of Puget Sound) — James Cahill at One Hundred
• Richard Vinograd (Stanford University) — James Cahill and the Landmarks of Chinese Painting History
• Ding Ning (Peking University) — The Depth of Gaze: James Cahill’s Legacy in Art History and Visual Rectification in the Social Media Era
• Julia White (University of California, Berkeley) — The James Cahill Legacy: Paintings from the Ching Yuan Chai Collection

10.35  Coffee Break

10.55  Panel 2
Moderated by Sheng Tianye
• Yin Jinan (Central Academy of Fine Arts) — The International Context, Linguistic Medium, and Visual Medium of Writing the History of Twentieth-Century Chinese Art
• Zhang Jie (China Academy of Art) — Stones from Other Hills: James Cahill and the Cross-Cultural Dialogue of Chinese Painting Studies
• Zhang Jian (China Academy of Art) — Cross-Fertilization and Confluence: James Cahill’s Vision of Global History of Visual Art
• Julia Andrews (Ohio State University) — James Cahill’s Pedagogical Strategies of the Mid-Late 1970s: Art History or Sinology?

12.15  Lunch Break

13.30  Panel 3
Moderated by Kong Lingwei (China Academy of Art)
• Sarah Fraser (Heidelberg University) — Beyond Forgery: Copying, Archaeology, and Canon Formation in Zhang Daqian’s Dunhuang Project
• Yu Hui (the Palace Museum) — James Cahill and An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang Sung Yuan
• Pang Huiping (Hangzhou Normal University) — In Cahill’s Eye: The Hu Gui Hunting Albums Reattributed
• Jane DeBevoise (Asia Art Archive in America) — Making History: From Shadows of Mt. Huang to China 5000 Years and Beyond

14.50  Coffee Break

15.15  Panel 4
Moderated by Lan Youli (China Academy of China)
• Chen Fong Fong (Hong Kong Baptist University) — The Luofu Dream Reimagined: Pictorial Interpretations by Gao Jianfu and His Sino-Japanese Contemporaries
• Mei Yutian (China Academy of Art) — ‘Bi-Mo’ (Brush-and-Ink) as a Cognitive Structure: A Reconsideration of James Cahill’s ‘Style as Idea’
• Huang Xiao (Beijing Forestry University), Shanshan Liu (Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture) — From Garden Paintings to Garden Heritage: The Heritage Value of James Cahill’s Studies of Chinese Garden Painting
• Zhang Fanying (China Academy of Art) — After ‘Ice-Breaking Trip’: American Art and Archaeology Delegation Visiting China in 1973 and the Turning-point of the Scholarship of Chinese Art History Overseas

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9.00  Opening of James Cahill and China Academy of Art: An Exhibition of Donated Books and Documents
Moderated by Lan Youli (China Academy of Art)

9.20  Guided Tour and Exhibition Viewing

9.50  Book Launch of the Second Volume of James Cahill’s Lecture Series Gazing into the Past: Scenes from Later Chinese and Japanese Painting
Moderated by Zhao Wei (Peking University)

10.30  Premiere of the Documentary Gazing into the Past: The Unbounded Vision of James Cahill
Moderated by Kong Xiangwen (China Academy of Art)

10.50  Documentary Screening

11.40  Lunch