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THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
School for Historical Studies, 1999-2000: Seminars and Colloquia on Late Imperial Chi-
nese Culture and Science," with a "Chinese Studies" website located under the School's
website. In addition to leading one seminar on his own current research project on Octo-
ber 4, 1999, Elman also organized three winter-spring colloquia: 1) "Jesuits, Textualism,
and Science in China and Europe in the 17 th
and 18 th Centuries: A Roundtable Discus-
sion" (January 24, 2000); 2) "Colloquium on Culture and Science in Late Traditional
China" (March 17-18, 2000); and 3) "Colloquium Comparing Chinese and Greek
Natural Philosophy and Science, 400 B.C.
- A.D. 200" (April 21, 2000), which included
presentations by Geoffrey Lloyd, Cambridge University, and Nathan Sivin, University of
Pennsylvania. Elman also presented a talk entitled "Cultutal Prisons or Impartial Testing
Sites? Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China," for the Friends of the Institute for
Advanced Study (March 8, 2000) and as part of the East Asian Studies Colloquium at
the University of Pennsylvania (October 11, 1999).
In his final year next year, Elman will organize a series of events entitled "East Asian
Studies at the School of Historical Studies, 2000-2001: Seminars and Colloquia on
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Traditional History and Civilization." His
own research will focus on the influence of late imperial Chinese classical scholarship in
Tokugawa, Japan (1600-1867) before the Meiji Restoration.
PROFESSOR IRVING LAVIN continued to serve as a member of the National Committee
for the History of Art, and as advisor to the city of Modena for a structural fantasy designed
by the architect Frank Gehry, to the architect Michael Graves for the decorative program of
a new Federal Court House in Washington, and to the Storm King Art Center, Moun-
tainville, NY, for the future planning and development of that institution. Professor Lavin
gave courses of lectures at the Collegio San Carlo in Modena and at the Istituto Italiano per
gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, and gave a number of lectutes and papers presented at symposia,
including: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Yale University; Accade-
mia dei Lincei, Rome. Professor Lavin serves on the editotial boards of a number of scholar-
ly journals, including Quademi d'italianistica, History of European Ideas, Art e Dossier,
PaUadio, and Rivista di storia dell' architettura e restauro. His publications include books and
papers in Italian and English: Santa Maria del Fiore. II duomo di Firenze e la Vergine incinta,
Rome, 1999; [With Matilyn Atonberg Lavin] Liturgia d'amore. Immagini dal Canto dei Canti-
ci nell'arte di Cimabue, Michalangelo , e Rembrandt, Modena, 1999; "Bernini's Bumbling Bar-
berini Bees," in J. Imorde, et al., eds., Barocke Inszenierung, Zurich, 1999, 50-71; "Bernini's
Bust of the Savior and the Problem of the Homeless in Seventeenth-century Rome," Italian
Quarterly, XXXVII, 2000.
PROFESSOR JACK E MATLOCK, Jr. delivered a Faculty lecture at the Institute for
Advanced Study on "Preparing for the 21 st
Century? World Politics Today." He also
lectured at the University of Edinburgh; for World Affairs Councils in Greensboro, NC, Seat-
tle, Washington, and Washington, DC; for the Santa Fe Council on International Relations;
the University of Wisconsin-Eau-Claire; the National Bureau of Asian Research; the U.S.
Institute of Peace; the Princeton Committee on Foreign Relations; the Miller Center at the
University of Virginia; and at a workshop sponsored by Sit Investments in Palm Springs. Pro-
fessor Matlock was the keynote speaker for a presentation to the MIT Center for Interna-
tional Studies held at the National Ptess Club in Washington, DC where he spoke on foreign
policy, international relations, and national interest. He delivered the Second Annual
Robert Strausz-Hupe Lecture at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He
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