The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Spring 2025 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.
Spring 2025 Schedule
April 2
Chen Danqing’s conversation with Wu Hung
*This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
April 11
1:30–3:30 Logan 201
Tianjiao Wang
Visual Arts Teaching Fellow
“The Imagery of Foliage, Light, Breeze, and More in the Black Box”
Respondent: Marc Downie, Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Media Arts and Design, and the College
*This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
April 18
Stephanie S.E. Lee
Curatorial Fellow, Block Museum of Art | PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
“Making Yellow: Color Charts, Shiseido, and Asiatic Femininity in East Asian Works-on-Paper”
Respondent: Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
April 25
Peiyuan Shu
Visiting PhD Student, Art History, UChicago | PhD Candidate, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Dynamic steles: Landscape, objects and materiality of southern China, the 3rd century CE”
May 9
Yue You
Visiting PhD Student, Art History, UChicago | PhD Candidate, Sun Yat-sen University
“Monk Imagery in Southern Dynasties Tombs: Spatial Layout and Functions with a Focus on the Miaoshan Tomb in Yuhang”
May 16
Amy McNair
Professor of Art History, the University of Kansas
Title TBD
*This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
May 23
Mycah Brazleton-Braxton
Assistant Professor of Art History, Indiana University Bloomington
Title TBD
*This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
May 28
Lucien Sun
PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago | COSI Rhoades Curatorial Fellow, Art Institute of Chicago
“A Rejected Gift for the Emperor: Depicting a Famous Mountain in Cai Jiating’s Yandang Mountains”
*This workshop is cosponsored by RAVE
