Dear friends and colleagues,
We are excited to share our Winter quarter calendar! In keeping with the university’s mandate to contain the spread of COVID-19, we will continue to conduct the workshop remotely for the entirety of the Winter quarter. Unless otherwise noted, all VMPEA meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 4:45 pm to 6:45 pm (CST) via Zoom. The individual meeting link will be sent out along with detailed talk abstract via VMPEA and related listservs approximately one week prior to the talk for registration. Below is our schedule for the quarter:
Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056), Summer Mountains, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, 1050, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Winter Quarter (2020 – 2021)
(4:45 pm – 6:45 pm every Wednesday or Friday)
Jan 13
Speaker: Maya Stiller (Associate Professor of Korean Art and Visual Culture, The University of Kansas)
Discussant: Zhenru Zhou (PhD candidate, Department of Art History)
Title: Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea
Jan 27
Speaker: Cybele Tom (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Alice Casalini (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Tentative Title: Seeking Balance: Material and Meaning in a Polychrome Guanyin
Feb 10
Speaker: Meng Zhao (PhD candidate, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Tingting Xu (Lecturer in Art History, Columbia University)
Tentative Title: Crafting Sensuality: Tactual Erotics In Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers
Feb 24
Speaker: Sophia Walker (PhD student, Joint program: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of Cinema and Media Studies)
Discussant: Ethan Waddell (PhD student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Tentative Title: Hunnu Rock: Mongolian Metal and a Global Folk Metal Subculture
Mar 12 (Friday)
Speaker: Melissa McCormick (Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University)
Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell (Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Department of Art History)
Title: Calligraphy and Haptic
We are looking forward to seeing you via Zoom! Please direct questions and inquiries to Minori Egashira (egashiram@uchicago.edu) and Yifan Zou (yifanzou@uchicago.edu).
Minori and Yifan
VMPEA Graduate Student Coordinators 2020-21
