The Art of Tea in Culture and Science, Society and Health 

 11^th Annual Colloquium • Thursday, January 29, 2026 

UC Davis Conference Center 

Live and in person • Free and open to the public 

The arts and artful ways in which tea is understood across the disciplines and in the tea industry 

Culture Katharine Burnett, The Marvelously Extraordinary, Inventively Original Late Ming Teapot, Professor, Art History and Founding Director, Global Tea Institute, UC Davis 

Science Jean-Xavier Guinard, The Global Tea Institute’s Tea Flavor Wheel, Professor of Sensory Science and Co-Director, UC Davis Coffee Center, UC Davis 

Society  
Thiago Braga, How China-Taiwan Tensions Re-Made Traditional Chinese Tea Culture, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Davis 

Health  
Jackie Gervay Hague, Innovation Takes Root: Establishing Tea Production in California, Co-Founder and Principal, SIP-T, Inc., Emerita Professor, Chemistry, UC Davis 

Industry Panel:   Where Tea Artistry Meets Commerce  
Chair: Dan Bolton, Founder and Publisher, Tea Journey Magazine, Host, Tea Biz Blog | Podcast