The first conference of European association for Asian art and archaeology (September 25-27, 2014)

The information is dedicated to the First Conference of the European Association for the Study of the Art and Archeology of Asia (EAAA), held from 25 to 27 September 2014 at the University. Palacky (Olomouc, Czech Republic). About 100 people took part in the conference, 60 reports were made within 10 sections, among which three reports were made by employees of the Department of Oriental Studies of the Humanities Faculty of Novosibirsk State University. The opening of the conference was marked by a speech by Roderick Whitfield, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS). Of particular interest to the staff of the department were the Sinological, Japanese and Korean Studies sections, in the course of which a wide range of issues was considered, starting with the burials of the Neolithic era and ending with new approaches to the classification of objects of Asian lacquer art. During the conference, the third meeting of the EAAA Board was held, which was founded in November 2012 at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). The next meeting is scheduled for spring 2016 and, according to preliminary data, will be held in Zurich (Switzerland).