An Invi­ta­tion to Cel­e­brate and Learn with a World­wide Community

Join Louise Cort, Cura­tor of Ceramics

Freer and Sack­ler Gal­leries, Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion for a Webi­nar

Tues­day, June 23, 2009, 8:00 pm (East­ern Day­light Time)

Webi­nar address (http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/AsiaCeramicsForum)

Ceram­ics in Main­land South­east Asia (http://www.asia.si.edu/CeramicsForum/) launched in Decem­ber 2008, is already a val­ued online resource in a field where pub­lished schol­ar­ship is scarce. It allows spe­cial­ists in ceram­ics, archae­ol­ogy, anthro­pol­ogy and other fields free and on-demand access to the Sack­ler Gallery’s Hauge Col­lec­tion of South­east Asian Ceram­ics, unpar­al­leled in the world for its size and diver­sity. An inno­v­a­tive fea­ture, Field Notes, invites schol­ars and oth­ers to post attrib­uted ques­tions, com­ments and cor­rec­tions, cre­at­ing a world­wide com­mu­nity of schol­ar­ship on South­east Asian ceramics.

On June 23, you, too, can be part of that com­mu­nity.

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity Museum Stud­ies pro­gram, please join us at 8:00 pm (EDT) at (http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/AsiaCeramicsForum) for a Webi­nar con­nect­ing inter­ested par­tic­i­pants around the world.

Cura­tor Louise Cort will host the inter­ac­tive Webi­nar explain­ing the catalogue’s goals for serv­ing an inter­na­tional vir­tual com­mu­nity and demon­strat­ing its fea­tures, includ­ing many lay­ers of schol­ar­ship. This webi­nar will be per­ti­nent to any­one inter­ested in South­east Asia; ceram­ics; and the use of tech­nol­ogy to deliver con­tent, fos­ter dia­logue and cre­ate vir­tual com­mu­ni­ties. Guests are invited to par­tic­i­pate by sub­mit­ting their ques­tions online.

How to participate

On-Line Webi­nar Discussion

Tues­day, June 23, 2009 at 8:00 pm (EDT)

1. • Hawaii (Tues­day, June 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm)
   • Cal­i­for­nia (Tues­day, June 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm)
   • Eng­land (Wednes­day, June 24, 2009 at 1:00 am)
   • Con­ti­nen­tal Europe (Wednes­day, June 24, 2009 at 2:00 am)
   • Viet­nam, Cam­bo­dia, Laos, Thai­land (Wednes­day, June 24, 2009 at 7:00 am)
   • Yun­nan, China (Wednes­day, June 24, 2009 at 8:00 am)
   • Japan (Wednes­day, June 24, 2009  at 9:00 am)

By 8:00 pm (EDT) on June 23, 2009 please login to the on-line Webi­nar at http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/AsiaCeramicsForum to par­tic­i­pate

NOTE: Adobe Flash Player is required.  Please install prior to the ses­sion by going to: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

NOTE: All par­tic­i­pants are urged to test their sys­tem in advance by going to: http://connect.johnshopkins.edu/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Ques­tions can be sub­mit­ted live dur­ing the Webi­nar. Ques­tions can be sub­mit­ted in advance via the “Field Notes” sec­tion of the on-line Cat­a­logue by:

• Reg­is­ter­ing on the cat­a­logue web­site through this link www.seasianceramics.asia.si.edu/home/login.asp#submitComment
• Sub­mit­ting ques­tions directly to “Field Notes” sec­tion of the catalogue
• A por­tion of these ques­tions will be read and answered live dur­ing the Q & A por­tion of the forum

The on-line cat­a­logue can be accessed by going to
http://seasianceramics.asia.si.edu/ We encour­age all par­tic­i­pants to become famil­iar with the on-line cat­a­logue in advance. For more infor­ma­tion, please feel free to con­tact Louise Cort at cortlo@si.edu or 202.633.0396.

RSVP to Lyz Bridg­forth (email: bridgforthe@si.edu, phone: 202.633.0521 by June 20, 2009) if you will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the webinar.

Cam­bo­dia Past, Present, Future
Tues­day, June 16, 2 PM, Meyer Auditorium

Pro­duc­ing Angkor: The Mate­r­ial, Spa­tial, and Cul­tural Generation of the Khmer Empire
Mitch Hen­drick­son, Uni­ver­sity of Sydney

Keep­ing Watch: The Role of Her­itage Watch in Pro­tect­ing Cambodia’s Cul­tural Legacy
Dougald O’Reilly, Yale University

Archae­ol­o­gists Mitch Hen­drick­son and Dougald O’Reilly share new research on Cambodia’s past and the lat­est efforts to pro­tect and pre­serve the record of the past. Pro­duc­tion of objects (ceram­ics, iron), land­scapes (roads and set­tle­ments), and iden­tity (both cul­tural and archae­o­log­i­cal) offer crit­i­cal new insight into how and why the Khmer Empire devel­oped, expanded, and ulti­mately col­lapsed. In response to a cri­sis of loot­ing at his­toric and pre­his­toric sites, the inter­na­tional non­profit Her­itage Watch was founded to slow the destruc­tion in Cambodia.

Baluster-form jar with spout,11th-12th cen­tury, Angkor period, Stoneware with iron glaze, Cam­bo­dia or North­east Thai­land, S1996.118.