#  Site and Sight: Chinese Pagoda 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 15 - November 16, 2019** 

 09:45AM - 05:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Organized by Harvard CAMLab, “Site and Sight: Chinese Pagoda” brings together an international community of professors, researchers, and graduate students to investigate discrete instantiations of the Chinese stupa-pagoda, or ta 塔, across a diversity of geographies and media. A monument that marks the absence of the Buddha Sakyamuni in our world, the pagoda became a pervasive fixture throughout China’s architectural and artistic landscapes, its ubiquity belying the site-specific programming of the architectural work in context. “Site and Sight” seeks to address this tension between the universal and the local, exploring the monument type and its siting through a series of case studies. Understanding the pagoda as a dynamic ground for the construction of meaning, conference presentations will examine questions related to place making and historic memory, multiculturalism in urban centers, and transmateriality. Please visit [the CAMLab website](https://camlab.fas.harvard.edu/event/site-and-sight-chinese-pagoda) for more information.

 The conference is generously supported by Tianzhu Buddhist Network and Glorisun.

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