Monday Feb 25, 2008 (7:30pm)
Justin Guariglia is a contributing editor with National Geographic and one of the most prominent young photojournalists in the business. His ongoing exhibition at Otis, Shaolin: Temple of Zen is an unprecedented documentation of the hermetic, mysterious Buddhist monk-warriors of Henan, China. In keeping with the context of this exhibition, Otis Director of Art History, Parme Giuntini, Ph.D., moderates a panel discussion with Professors Felix Gutierrez, Lena Chao-Young, and Clint C. Wilson II that focuses on the role of the media in constructing Asian cultural identity through the prism of historical diversity.
– Shana Nys Dambrot