The Art Institute of Nanjing University and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence, Italy) are pleased to announce a conference on "The Italian Renaissance and Chinese Receptions," to be held at Nanjing University on October 16-17, 2015. This conference aims to explore how the Italian Renaissance has been understood and interpreted in China —especially in the fields of art and architecture, art history, and aesthetics— and the impact of this period on the artistic, intellectual, and philosophical cultures of China. Keynote lecture by Eugene Wang 汪悅進 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University "How did the Italian Renaissance Inspire a Vision of New China?" We seek proposals from Chinese scholars for 20-minute papers, to be delivered in English. We welcome proposals that address a wide range of fields but two of particular interest are a) how Chinese scholars define the Renaissance (which works, artists, and themes are studied, what are the chronological and geographical limits); and b) the impact of major modern authors (which texts are read in China, and what is distinctive about the impact or interpretation of these authors in China). Within these or other topics, scholars might want to consider differences in Chinese perspectives over time (e.g. the late Imperial, Republican, Modern, and Contemporary periods) or place (e.g. research carried out in different parts of Greater China, or by Chinese scholars in the West.) By way of example, papers might address how Michelangelo (or another topic, such as one-point perspective, or Aby Warburg) has been studied in China, and how does that differ from how this topic is studied in the West.