Dear list members, Our next seminar will be at 6:00-7:30pm on Wednesday April 15 in Room S325 of the John Woolley Building, University of Sydney. We hope you can attend. Kind regards, AABS Executive Buddhist art and Sri Ksetra, Myanmar: Fragments of a complex Buddhist world Charlotte’s research focus is on the early Buddhist art of Myanmar. During her sabbatical in 2014, she catalogued the museum collection at Sri Ksetra, nearly all of the material dating to the Pyu period of the first millennia, much of it not recorded and most of it never published. The material is mostly archaeological, and many objects are tantalising fragments of curious images that hint at a complex Buddhist society during this significant historical period. Today she is sharing some of her findings and her preliminary observations regarding the early Pyu Buddhist art of Myanmar from Sri Ksetra. Charlotte suggests that the diversity of imagery indicates that Buddhism at Sri Ksetra demonstrates engagement with the broad Buddhist world of the age, and embraced a variety of imagery and ideas. Charlotte Galloway completed her undergraduate degree in Art History and Curatorship at ANU. She worked as a curator and registrar at the National Gallery of Australia for a decade, and completed a PhD at ANU on the Burmese Buddhist Imagery of the Early Bagan Period, 1044-1113. Following this, Charlotte took up a lecturer position in Art History and Curatorial Studies. She has convened the Curatorial Studies programs and is the convenor for the Asian art history programs. In 2012, Charlotte established an undergraduate major and minor in Asian art history, and is keen to see this develop further. Charlotte has a strong interest in heritage and museums in Southeast Asia, is a member of the TAASA Publication committee, and lectures on Buddhist art and contemporary culture at the Nan Tien Buddhist Institute.