Dear colleagues, faculty members, and friends,
The Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop (APEA) is pleased to announce our schedule for the Fall 2023 Quarter. All the in-person events will meet from 3:00 to 5:00pm, unless otherwise noticed. As usual, we will send reminder emails with information for the exact time and location prior to every workshop session, along with the link to the pre-circulation materials. For meetings via Zoom, we will send the registration link prior to the workshop session.
Fall 2023 Schedule
October 6th (in-person)
Devin Fitzgerald, Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University
“Looking with Intention: The Role of Materiality in East Asian Studies Research”
Location: Joseph Regenstein Library (1100 E. 57th St.)
★Co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School, and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education★
October 13th (in-person)
Elvin Meng, Ph. D. Student, EALC & Comparative Literature
“The Paleography of Babble”
Discussant: Yiwen Wu, Ph. D. Student, EALC & TAPS
Location: Center for East Asian Studies 319 (1155 E. 60th St.)
★Co-sponsored by the East Asia: Transregional Histories (EATRH) Workshop★
October 20th (in-person)
Thomas Looser, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
“Landscapes After Modernity: The Place of the Universal Human in the (Digital) Art of Xu Bing & Japan”
Please note the unusual time and location
Time: 11am-12:30pm
Location: Cobb 310
★Co-sponsored by the Digital Media Workshop★
November 17th (Zoom)
Anthony Stott, Ph. D. Candidate, EALC & Comparative Literature
“The Asada Touch: A Partial Media History of the Japanese Little Magazine and the Periodical as Method”
Discussant: Paola Iovene, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, EALC
Coordinators: Danlin Zhang and Hang Wu, EALC
Faculty Sponsors: Professor Paola Iovene and Professor Melissa Van Wyk
Please do not hesitate to contact Danlin (danlinz@uchicago.edu) or Hang (hangwu@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you at APEA in the new quarter!
