In conjunction with the exhibition Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature, John Sallis with the McMullen Museum has organized a symposium of five eminent speakers to give papers on the artist Cao Jun and his works.

Free; open to the public; please RSVP at https://goo.gl/W83UgR

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

10:00 am–12:00 noon: Visit to the exhibition

12:00 noon–1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00–1:15pm: Welcome by Dermot Moran (Boston College)

Session 1. Moderator: Drew Hyland (Trinity College)

1:15–2:30 pm: “Sympathy of All Things: Cao Jun’s Re-presentation of the Spirit of Chinese Painting,” Wang Huaiyu (Georgia College & State University)

2:45–4:00 pm: “Silent Music,” John Sallis (Boston College)

4:15–5:30 pm: Artistic Demonstration by Cao Jun

5:30–6:30 pm: Reception

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Session 2. Moderator: Christine Rojcewicz (Boston College)

10:00–11:15 am: “The Painting of Cao Jun: Metamorphosis of Nature,” Xia Kejun (Renmin University, Beijing)

11:30–12:45 pm: “A Painter’s Thinking Eye: Cao Jun’s Abstract Works (A Philosophical Interpellation),” Alejandro A. Vallega (University of Oregon)

12:45–2:45 pm: Lunch and visit to the exhibition

Session 3. Moderator: Nancy Netzer (Boston College)

2:45–4:00 pm: “Force of Nature and Spatiality in Cao Jun’s Art,” Yang Guang (Tongji University, Shanghai)

4:15–5:30 pm: “Rediscovering (Ourselves in) Nature with Cao Jun,” Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland)