Xin Conan-Wu gave a richly illustrated lecture exploring the story of mapping the landscape in 12th-century China, when the center of politics and economy was shifting from the north to the south and military defeats spurred a new search for identity. Wu examined visual, physical and textual materials in poetry, paintings, prints, architecture, gardens, landscape and philosophy and explored the impact of pedagogy and ritual upon vision and place-making, as well as the relationship between education and natural environment. Speaker Biography: Xin Conan-Wu specializes in the history of the representation of nature in East Asia art and global contemporary environmental art and landscape architecture. As a Kluge Fellow at the Library, Wu has leveraged the Library's collections to help develop a book manuscript, "Vision and Place-Making in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Song China." He is an associate professor of art and art history at the College of William and Mary. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8256

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