Schedule

Autumn 2025 Schedule

October 16 (Thursday)

CWAC 157

Zhao Feng

Dean and Professor, School of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University

“How the Evolution of the Loom Shaped Early Silk Design: A Case Study in Technical Art History”

*This workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago

November 7

Guanhong Liu

MAPH 2nd Year, UChicago

“Hanging Stones, Hidden Implications: Travel, Natural History, and Stalactites in Ming Painting”

November 14

Ruoxuan Yuan

MAPH 2nd Year, UChicago

“Mono-ha’s Reception in Chinese Contemporary Art”

*This workshop is co-sponsored by RAVE

November 21

Zhiyan Yang

Collegiate Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, UChicago

“Only One in U.S.: Ling Long Art Museum and the Architecture of Displaying Chineseness in Chicago’s Chinatown”

*This workshop is co-sponsored by RAVE

December 5

Yisi Liu

PhD Student, Department of Art History, UChicago

“Time and Space: Rethinking Dunhuang Mogao Cave 254”

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

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Winter 2025 schedule. All 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 an 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.

Winter 2025 Schedule

January 10

Yuanxie Shi

PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations | CSGS Residential Fellow, UChicago

“Beyond Rural and Urban Material Cultures: Tributes and Gifts in Socialist China”

January 31

Yifan Zou

PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

“In the Folds of Dynastic Models: Building and Re-Building of Iconic Towers”

February 14

Xuemiao Wang

Visiting PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago | PhD Candidate, Zhejiang University

“Fans in the Tombs: Echoes of Elegance and Ritual from Ming Dynasty Folding Fans”

February 21

Mengge Cao

Postdoctoral Scholar, Art History, UChicago

“The Expanded Surface of Painting in Middle Period China”

March 7

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”

March 14

Ziyan Guo

Visting PhD Student, Art History, UChicago | PhD Candidate, Zhejiang University

“The Overlap of Time and History: A Study on the Mixed Use of the Motifs in the ‘Four Elders of Shangshan’ and the ‘Nine Elders of Huichang’ Paintings”

Please feel free to contact Taylor (chisato@uchicago.edu) and Lucien (lesun@uchicago.edu) with any questions. We look forward to seeing everybody this quarter!

Sincerely,

Taylor and Lucien

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

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!

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!

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 schedule. All the in-person events will meet on selected Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm CT at CWAC (Cochrane-Woods Art Center) 152 unless otherwise noted. For 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 to receive event notifications.

Fall 2023 Schedule

October 11

Taylor Chisato Stewart, PhD Student, Art History, UChicago

“Shibata Zeshin and the Construction of Kōgei”

October 25

Alan Longino, PhD Student, Art History, UChicago

“Return to Character: Morita Shiryu and Work of the 1960s”

November 8

Paul Copp, Associate Professor in Chinese Religion and Thought, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, UChicago

“Deity Seals in the Securing of the Dead (First Centuries CE)”

Discussant: Zhenru Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

November 17

Lisha He, Visiting PhD Candidate, UChicago

“An Exploration of Emperor Qianlong’s Practice with Glass Mirrors”

[*Please note the special date of the event. We will follow up with more updates on the exact location for this event.]

November 29

Sijia Huo, Visiting PhD Candidate, UChicago

“The Materiality and Spatial Context of the Tiantang Colossal Buddha Statue in Luoyang in the Late 7th Century”

Discussant: TBD

Please feel free to contact Yan (yanj@uchicago.edu) and Alan (longino@uchicago.edu) with any questions you might have, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

All Best,

Yan & Alan

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Spring 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.

Spring 2023 Schedule

March 23

Juliane Noth, Professor of East Asian Art History, Freie Universität Berlin

“Debating the Past and the Future of Chinese Art at the Hangzhou National Art School, 1928–1937”

[This event is on Thursday at 4:45–6:45pm]

 *This event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant.

April 7 

Wang Zonghui, Visiting PhD Candidate, UChicago

“An Exploration on the spatial composition of the mKhar rdzong Cave in mKhar rtse Valley, mNga’ ris, Tibet”

(西藏阿里卡孜河谷帕尔宗坛城窟图像程序研究)

*This event will be conducted in English.

[This event is on Friday at 4:45–6:45pm]

April 19

Zhiyan Yang, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

“Exhibiting Contemporary Architecture of China: Experiments and Cross-Cultural Dialogues, 1995–2005”

April 26

Alice Casalini, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

“Things that Look Back: the Malleable Space of Gandharan Art”

*This event is co-sponsored by RAVE workshop.

April 28

Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College, UChicago

“Outdoor Exhibitions in Beijing, 1979”

 [This event is on Friday at 4–6pm]

*This event is co-sponsored by APEA workshop.

If you are interested in attending the reception after the workshop, please RSVP.

May 3

Lu Yun-chen, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University

“A Left-Turn to Artistic Eccentricity: Gao Fenghan (1683–1749) and Disability Art in Eighteenth-century Yangzhou”

May 8

Eugene Wang, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University

“What is psychocosmic painting and how it came into being?”

May 17

Sizhao Yi, PhD Candidate, Art History, UChicago

“Material Encounters: Chen Hongshou’s Early Paintings of Objects”

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!

All the best,

Lucien Sun and Li Jiang

VMPEA Coordinators, 2022–2023

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!