The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Fall 2024 schedule. All the in-person events will meet on selected Fridays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm CT at CWAC (Cochrane-Woods Art Center) 152 unless otherwise noted. If a presenter opts for a hybrid format with online audience, we will send out a registration link prior to these events. You are welcome to subscribe to our listserv to receive event notifications.
Fall 2024 Schedule
October 25
Peter Deng, MAPH 2nd Year, UChicago
“The Borderless Circle: Yoshihara Jirō’s Enso”
November 8
Yuzhe Cao, MAPH 2nd Year, UChicago
“Transcendent Landscape: Fisherman and the Scholar-official Viewers in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty”
November 15*
Seonghee Ha, PhD Student, Art History, UChicago
“The Brush and the Blade: Yi Jaegwan’s Figures and the Rise of Chivalrous Courtesans in Nineteenth-Century Joseon”
*Please note the new date
December 3*
Meng-Hsuan Lee, PhD Candidate, Columbia University (Art History) | Lecturer in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Japanese Aryanism for the Tropics: Ide Kaoru’s Round-Arch Style in Colonial Taiwan”
*Please note the new date
December 13
You Wang, Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows | Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, UChicago
“Dike Dynamics: Farmers, Scholars, and Polder Design in Jiangnan, 1400–1810”
Please feel free to contact Taylor (chisato@uchicago.edu) and Lucien (lesun@uchicago.edu) with any questions you might have, and we look forward to seeing you soon!
All the best,
Taylor Stewart & Lucien Sun
VMPEA Coordinators, 2024–25
