The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 schedule. This quarter we are back on our regular meeting time, which will be selected Wednesdays from 4:45-6:45pm CT at CWAC (Cochrane-Woods Art Center) 152, unless specified otherwise.
Most events will be taking place in-person this quarter. For those who would like to join us remotely for the in-person events, 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 links for zoom access.
Spring 2024 Schedule
April 3
Minori Egashira, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
“Meiji-Period Okimono and the World’s Fairs”
April 17
Elvin Meng, PhD Student, Comparative Literature & EALC, UChicago
Discussant: Peter Kornicki, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
“Fragments into Voice into Fragments:
Manuscript Culture and the Nineteenth-Century Manchu Curriculum”
[Co-sponsored with RAVE] April 24, *5:30pm-7:30pm*
Jenny Harris, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
Discussant: Le Lucien Sun, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
“Taoist Collages: On Ray Johnson and Dance”
*With reception to follow in the lounge*
May 1
Sizhao Yi, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago
Discussant: Yun-chen Lu, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University
“Objects of Interiority in Chen Hongshou’s Figurative Works”
[Virtual Only] May 6, *Monday*
Feng Schöneweiß, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut
“Provenance, Memory, and Transculturation: Chinese Monumental Vase as ‘national wertvolles Kulturgut’ in German Cultural History, 1717–2019”
May 15
Reiko Tomii, Independent Art Historian and Curator
“Thinking Operationally”
Please contact Yan (yanj@uchicago.edu) and Alan (longino@uchicago.edu) with any questions or concerns you may have. Looking forward to seeing many of you in person!
