Professor Delin Lai presents at the University of Virginia

Presentation cover for Professor Delin Lai's presentation for Asian cultural architecture

Professor Delin Lai participated in the conference “Gendering the Garden, from Antiquity to the Present: Cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” on March 15, 2018, at the University of Virginia. This one-day symposium aims to create new cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural dialogues about how gardens often become the locus for gender definitions and transgressions in literature and culture.

An invited speaker, Professor Lai’s talk is entitled “With Whom Do I Sit?: The Chinese Private Garden as a Place for Being With Ideal Companions.”