Dear VMPEA community,
The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Autumn 2021 schedule. All the in-person events will meet on selected Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm in CWAC 152 unless noted. For the online events or those who would like to join us remotely, we will send out the registration links prior to the events.
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October 13
Sylvia Wu, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, UChicago
“Inscribing Piety: Monumental Inscriptions from Quanzhou”
Discussant: Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UChicago
October 27
Lucien Sun, PhD Student, Department of Art History
“Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Reading an Accordion-Fold Painting”
Discussant: Shiqiu Liu, PhD candidate, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
[This is an online event]
November 10
Stephanie Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
“The Social Lives of Colonial Picture Postcards (1906-1933)”
Discussant: Kaeun Park, PhD student, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
[This is an online event]
December 1
Zhengqian Li, MAPH Student, UChicago
“Whiskey and Tobacco: The Imperialist Symbols in Mu Shiying’s “Shanghai Fox-trot” and Shi Zhecun’s “Si Xizi’s Business””
Discussant: TBA
December 3
Toby Wu, MAPH Student, UChicago
“Reconstituting the Japanese Housewife: Idemitsu Mako’s Televisual Charged Field in Kiyoko’s Situation (1989)”
Discussant: TBA
[This is an online event co-hosted with the APEA workshop, and will meet from 3:00 to 5:00 pm]
*Disclaimer on in-person events:
These convenings are open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.
