The East Asian Studies Program also sponsors several special lectures during the course of the academic year, among them the Annual Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture and the Annual Stanley Spector Lecture on East Asian History and Civilization . Co-sponsored by the University and the Saint Louis Art Museum, the annual Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture will offer a talk each fall by an internationally renowned specialist in the field, as well as related events and activities at both the museum and the University.
All events are free and open to the public.
Wu, a specialist in Chinese painting, is an internationally known scholar of Asian art and architecture who taught for nearly 20 years at the University, a tenure in which he was pivotal in the promotion of Asian art in the St. Louis community, including the founding of the Asian Art Society. He is known in Chinese communities throughout the world by his pen name, Lu Chiao, and is revered for his magical short stories and fiction. A reception will follow. Dr. Rousamaniere is the Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Great Britain. In later periods the term was more typically employed to describe a wide variety of ornamentation from design to performance.