The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Winter 2023 schedule. All the in-person events will meet on selected Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm CT at Cochrane-Woods Art Center 152 unless otherwise noted. For the online events or those who would like to join us remotely for the in-person events, we will send out the registration link prior to these events. You are welcome to consult the VMPEA website for further information about these events, and please subscribe to our listserv here to receive event notifications.
Winter 2023 Schedule
January 12
Sylvia Wu, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
“Inventing Lingshan’s Ritual Environments: Muslim Devotional Practices in Little Ice Age Quanzhou”
[This is an online event, and we will meet from 4:45–6:45pm]
January 25
Martin Bai, MAPH Student, UChicago
“Song literati mural paintings: a ‘mirror-medium’ and new research on Su Shi”
February 8
Ricarda Brosch, PhD Candidate, History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art & Assistant Curator, V&A
“The Pictures of Ancient Playthings 古玩圖 Revisited: imperial art for the afterlife?”
[This is an online event, and we will meet from 11:30am–1:30pm]
March 1
Zhiyan Yang, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
“Exhibiting Contemporary Architecture of China: Experiments and Cross-Cultural Dialogues, 1995–2005”
Please feel free to contact Lucien (lesun@uchicago.edu) and Li (jiangli@uchicago.edu) with any questions you might have, and we look forward to seeing many of you at the workshops!
