The Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop (APEA) is pleased to announce the Fall 2019 schedule. Unless otherwise noted, the workshop meets alternate Fridays from 3:00-5:00pm in Room 319 at the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) in the Harris School building (1155 E 60th St).
10/10/19 (Thursday) – Chen Chun-bin, Assistant Professor, Taipei National University of the Arts
Co-hosted with EthNoise!
“Highway Nine Musical Stories: Musicking of Taiwanese Aborigines at Home and in the National Concert Hall”
*Please note the special date and location*
Location and time: Rosenwald 301 – 5:00-6:20pm
10/24/19 (Thursday) – Yuqian Yan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
Mock Job Talk: “A Two-Way Mirror: Set Design and Social Reflection in Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1941“
*Please note the special date and location*
Location and time: Wieboldt 301N (EALC Seminar Room) – 12:30-2:00pm
10/25/19 (Friday) – Peter Chen, Masters Program in the Humanities
Co-hosted with Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA)
“Feng Zikai artwork in the PRC and Taiwan”
Discussant: Minori Egashira, PhD Student, Art History
*Please note the special date and location*
Location and time: Cochrane-Woods Arts Center (CWAC) 156 – 4:30-6:30pm
11/1/19 (Friday) – Jue Hou, PhD Student, Committee on Social Thought
“The Cybernetic Writing Pad: Computer Science and Chinese Script Reforms”
Discussant: Yueling Ji, PhD Student, EALC
Location and time: Center for East Asian Studies 319 (Harris) – 3:00-5:00pm
11/8/19 (Friday) – Yueling Ji, PhD Student, EALC
“The Piano in a Factory and Socialist Theories of Form”
Discussant: Anthony Stott, PhD Student, Comparative Literature
Special time for lunch and screening:
With a screening of The Piano in a Factory (钢的琴) and catered lunch at Center for East Asian Studies 319 (Harris), starting at 1 PM and a discussion after the screening
11/22/19 (Friday) – CANCELLED
Jae-Yon Lee, Assistant Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
“A Series of Repetitions: The 1920s Magazines and the Formation of Collective Authorship in Korea”
Location and time: Center for East Asian Studies 319 (Harris) – 3:00-5:00pm
For further information, please consult the APEA website. Please contact both Jiayi Chen (jiayic@uchicago.edu) and Sabine Schulz (sabines@uchicago.edu) via email should you have any questions or need any assistance.
We are excited for our events this quarter and we hope you can attend!
Jiayi Chen and Sabine Schulz
APEA Graduate Student Coordinators, 2019-2020
