ACAH Grants and Prizes:
2026 :: Vancouver, BC
Technologies of Transformation: Crafting Stones and Knowledge in Chinese Material Culture
Organizer and Chair: Kuldip Kaur Singh
Presenters: Yixu Eliza Chen, Kuldip Kaur Singh, Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang
Discussant: Michael J. Hatch
Buddhist Sacred Space: Material, Visual, and Ritual Constructions
Organizers: Yuchen Liou, Jiayi Zhu
Chair: Paul Copp
Presenters: Yuchen Liou, Zixuan Wang, Jinchao Zhao, Jiayi Zhu
Discussants: Paul Copp, Jeehee Hong
2025 :: Columbus, OH
Redrawing the Border: New Approaches to Exhibition Culture in Twentieth-Century Asia
Chair: Christine Ho
Presenters: Pedith Pui Chan, Feng Guo, Ping Fen Li, Anran Tu
Constructing the Sacred in Daoist Visual Art
Chair: Tianjie Yin
Presenters: Mengyuan Chai, Yue Dai, Tianjie Yin
Discussants: Shih-shan Susan Huang, Maggie Wan
2024 :: Seattle, WA
Instability and Geopolitical Dynamics in Postwar “Sinophone Art”
Organizer: Kathy Yim King Mak
Chair: Kuiyi Shen
Presenters: Kuo-Sheng Lai, Kathy Yim King Mak, Doris Sung, Aida Yuen Wong
Discussant: Chia-Ling Yang
Roundtable: Perspectives on Curating Chinese Art Today
Chair and Organizer: Zoe Kwok
Panelists: Birgitta Augustin, Vivian Li, Stephen Little, Seung Hee Oh, Jan Stuart
2023 :: Boston, MA
Beyond Nomadism, through Buddhism: Tibeto-Mongol Visual and Material Culture in China (in-person)
Chair: Shih-shan Susan Huang
Presenters: Wen-shing Chou, Chiara Gasparini, Eiren Shea, Xiaotian Yin
Discussant: Anne Feng
Art, Geopolitics, Cold War: Drawing China’s Cultural Belt in the 1950s (virtual)
Organizer and Chair: Yiqing Li
Presenters: Christian Langer, Yiqing Li, Kuiyi Shen, Yang Wang
Discussant: Julia F. Andrews
