The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) is pleased to share with you the Winter 2024 schedule. The workshop times for this quarter are slightly more irregular compared to the past, please refer to the information below for specific time and location of each event.
All events will be taking place in-person this quarter. Some events will have the option to join remotely, and we will send out the registration link in an announcement email prior to the event. For further information, please consult the VMPEA website, and please subscribe to our listserv here to receive event notifications and registration link for zoom access.
Winter 2024 Updated Schedule
January 25, Thursday
Rachel Silberstein, Lecturer, Berkeley Extension School, University of California, Berkeley
“‘The Seventy-Two Kinds’: The Cloth Classic and the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector”
Discussant: Yin Cai, PhD Candidate, History, UChicago
Tea Room (201) in SSRB (1126 E 59th St), 4-5:40pm
*This event is co-sponsored with East Asia Trans-regional History workshop (EATRH).
*This event is also sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the United States Department of Education.
February 5, Monday
Ouyang Zhenyu, Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
“On Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP)”
CWAC 157 (Cochrane-Woods Art Center), 4:45-6:45pm
*This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of East Asia
February 7, Wednesday
Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor, Art History, UChicago
“Photography/Realism/War: The Case of the First Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95”
Discussant: TBD
CWAC 152, 4:45-6:45pm
February 13, Tuesday
Mirae kh RHEE, Artist-in-Residence, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin
“Collecting Crave: Curiosity Cabinets from Saxony to Joseon”
CWAC 152, 5-7pm
February 27, Tuesday
Namiko Kunimoto, Associate Professor, Art History, The Ohio State University
“Feminism, Bourgeois Liberalism and Shimada Yoshiko’s Becoming a Statue of a Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’”
Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor, Art History, UChicago
CWAC 152, 4:45-6:45pm
Please contact Yan (yanj@uchicago.edu) and Alan (longino@uchicago.edu) with any questions or concerns you may have. Looking forward to seeing you there!
