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Feb 19, 2004

THE TAI STONEWARE TRADITION: FROMPRESENT TO THE PAST, Louise Allison Cort & Leedom Lefferts

Jeudi 19 février 2004 / February, Thursday 19th, 2004 You are cordially invited to attend the following informal presentation: THE TAI STONEWARE TRADITION: FROM PRESENT TO THE PAST Louise Allison Cort Curator for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. & Leedom Lefferts Professor Emeritus of Anthropology from Drew University, New Jersey (USA) Louise Allison Cort is Curator for Ceramics at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Her work has focused on historical and contemporary ceramics of Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia; Japanese textiles; Japanese baskets; other craft traditions of Japan, Southeast Asia and South Asia. She has developed catalogues of Kyoto- centered and southern Japanese ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art collection, and ceramics from Southeast Asia in the Sackler Gallery collection. She has published widely on the subject of ceramics. Professor Leedom Lefferts is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology from Drew University, New Jersey (USA), where he taught from 1976 until December 2003 in the College of Liberal Arts and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. He has held several administrative posts at his university, including Director of Asian Studies, Director of Linguistics Studies, and Director of the Archaeology Program. He is also currently a Research Associate for the Anthropology Department at the Smithsonian Institution. His work has focused on gender, technology, material culture, and religion in mainland Southeast Asian cultures. Together, Louise Allison Cort and Leedom Lefferts are completing a decade of research on the indigenous technologies of earthenware and stoneware ceramic production practiced across Mainland Southeast Asia. Besides their numerous respective publications, recent publications include an article about ?Khmer earthenware in Mainland Southeast Asia? in UDAYA n°1 and a chapter "A Preliminary Cultural Geography of Contemporary Village-based Earthenware Production in Mainland Southeast Asia", in Earthenware in Southeast Asia, (ed. by John Miksic, Singapore University Press, 2003). The talk will deal with the history of stoneware production in Northeast Thailand and Laos, working back from present-day circumstances to documentation in 19th c French and 17th c Dutch sources. La présentation se tiendra à 18 h 30, Jeudi 19 février 2004 au centre de l'EFEO. The presentation will take place on February, Thursday 19th, at 6:30 pm at the EFEO center. Presentation will be in English Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Siem Reap Phum Beng Don Pa, Khum Slâ Kram, Siem Reap, Cambodge Tel: (885) (16) 635 037 / (63) 964 630 / 760 525 Tel/Fax: (855) (63) 964 226 Email: efeo.angkor@camintel.com / efeo.rep.bib@camintel.com / www.efeo.fr __________________________________________________ save up to 70% on calls, get voicemail & send SMS ekno - more than a phonecard http://www.ekno.lonelyplanet.com

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