Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please see below and attached for information on a Zoom lecture series co-organized by TSS board member, Michelle C. Wang, on silk road objects in North American collections. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T’ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ************************************************************************************* The Georgetown-IDP Lecture Series: Following the Silk Roads to North America was organised to celebrate the upcoming completion of the Georgetown-IDP Project<http://idp.bl.uk/archives/news_current/news_current.a4d#section2>, which has worked to incorporate images of Silk Road items in North American collections into the International Dunhuang Project’s public database<http://idp.bl.uk/>, based at the British Library, and to expand the IDP's partnership with North American institutions. Generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Dunhuang Foundation, the project began in 2016, and since then has brought together more than 30 North American institutions and over 1,300 objects. The lecture series is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. Co-organized by Georgetown Art and Art History faculty member Michelle C. Wang, five lectures are scheduled on consecutive Wednesdays beginning July 28 (most starting at 1:00pm EST, the first one starting at 2:00pm EST) and will be held over Zoom. Please see the attached flyer for more details and the registration links. Each lecture's event page on the British Library website has more information regarding the lecture and speaker. Hope to see you there! ************************************************************************************* All the best, Michelle Michelle C. Wang Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History Georgetown University 1221 36th Street NW, Walsh 102 Washington, DC 20057-1210 email: mcw57@georgetown.edu<mailto:mcw57@georgetown.edu> cell: (202) 813-0848 (text/call)