HAA Graduate Student Icey Lin Received Outstanding Academic Award at Peking University International Forum
Congratulations to HAA Ph.D. student Icey Lin for earning first place in the Art History panel at the 2025 International Doctoral Student Forum for Art Studies, hosted by Peking University. Her paper, “Life after Life: Re-interpreting Yingxian Timber Pagoda (c. 1056) as Embodied Architecture,” was selected from 116 submissions and 21 presentations by doctoral students worldwide and received the forum’s Outstanding Academic Award.
Icey Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Buddhist art and architecture in medieval Asia. In this paper, she argues that the Chinese pagoda is not merely architecture, but an embodied medium—one that mediates forms of life otherwise inaccessible, bridging times and spaces otherwise beyond reach.