Dear friends and colleagues,
Welcome back, everyone! All sessions unless otherwise noted will take place in the Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC) Room 152 on Fridays, 4:30-6:30 pm.
Winter 2020
January 17 Event Co-sponsored with Mass Culture Workshop
Panpan Yang, PhD candidate, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Ink on Screen, or What Animation Calls Thinking”
Respondent: W. J. T. Mitchell, PhD, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History
January 26 Cultural Event
Time: TBD; Venue: Professor Wei-Cheng Lin’s Place
Spring Festival Dumpling Party
“‘That artwork doesn’t exist’: Productive misreadings of performance documentation and what happens when you find out the ‘truth.’”
February 28
Delin Lai, PhD, Professor and Head of Art History Program, Department of Fine Art, the University of Louisville
“Regionality: A Resistant Issue and Keyword in Modern Chinese Architecture”
Respondent: Zhiyan Yang, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History
March 6
Luo Rufei, PhD candidate, Zhejiang University; exchange student, University of Chicago
“A Preliminary Research on Images of Thousand Buddhas in Tibet: Taking the Murals of Pegdongpo Cave in Zanda County in Ngari Prefecture of Western Tibet as an Example”
Respondent: Dongshan Zhang, PhD candidate, Department of Art History.
March 7 Special Event
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: CWAC lounge
A conversation and lunch with Christina Yu, PhD, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
RSVP is required.
We look forward to your attendance and hope you will share this with all who might also be interested in joining our community. Please direct questions and inquiries to Zhenru Zhou (zhenru@zhenruzhou.com) and Yin Wu (yinwu@uchicago.edu).
Kenro Izu, KAILASH #75, 2000. Platinum palladium print, 13 x 19 in. Rubin Museum of Art.
