[Theme]Environmental Design or Crafting an Environment: Recovering the Alchemical Praxis ofRitual Architecture in Early Medieval China

[Date & Time]Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 19:00–21:00

[Location]Room 300, Humanities Building, Zhongguancun Campus

[Speaker]

Mei Chenxi (Tracy Miller), Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University, USA.

Research interests: East Asian architecture and art history. Author of The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci, among other monographs.

Moderator: Wang Ziqi ，Associate Professor, School of History, Renmin University of China

Discussant: Yu Lina ，Tenured Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University