Schedule

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

Title TBD

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!

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Spring 2022 schedule. Events will be held on Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm CT at CWAC 152 unless noted otherwise (there will be two Friday sessions this quarter). For the online event or those who would like to join us remotely, we will send out the registration links prior to the events.

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April 15 (Friday)

 Wu Hang, PhD Student, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

“Information Processing: On Asian Cyberscapes in the Cyberpunk New Wave”

*Co-Sponsored with the Digital Media Workshop*

April 20 

Yan Yang, Assistant Professor of Art History, Music and Art, Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY

“Tracing the Formation of a National Style: Yamato-e from World Fairs to Wartimes”

Discussant: Minori Egashira, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History

[This event is online]

May 6 (Friday) 

Xu Jin, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies, Vassar College

“Comparing Acts, Matching Images: Filial Sons and Reclusive Sages on the Funerary Couch of a Sogdian Immigrant in 6th-Century China”

Discussant: TBA

May 18 

Jin Yan, PhD Student, Department of Art History

“From Paper to Pottery: Imperial Yang for the Production of Dayazhai Ceramic Wares in Nineteenth-century China” 

June 1

Ranxu Yin, Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Art History; Ph.D Candidate, Central Academy of Fine Arts

“Exhibitions as Forms of Human Interaction: From a Perspective of the ‘Structures’ of Spaces”

Discussant: TBA

Dear VMPEA community,

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce its Winter 2022 schedule. Currently, we are planning to have two online events, and two in-person hybrid events for this quarter. All the sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm CT unless noted. The in-person events will meet in CWAC 152; For the online events or those who would like to join us remotely, we will send out the registration links prior to the events. Meanwhile, the format is subjected to changes depending on the COVID situation and the regulations of the university.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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January 12 

Stephanie Lee, Ph.D student, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

“The Social Lives of Picture Postcards”

Discussant: Kaeun Park, Ph.D student, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

(online)

February 23

Meng Zhao, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Art History, UChicago

“Theatrical Beholding: Visualizing Gaze in the Southern Song Court Milieu (1127-1279)”

Discussant: TBA

(in-person hybrid)

March 2 

Valentina Boretti, Research Associate, Department of History, SOAS

“New Wine in Old Bottles? The Re-tagging of Playthings in Twentieth-Century China”

Discussant: Zhang Xi, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Art History, UChicago

(online)

March 16 

Ma Boyao, Visiting Graduate Student, UChicago/ Ph.D student, Archeology Department, Sichuan University

“The Architectural Space and Architectural Image of a 5th-century Tomb in Xi’an”

 Discussant: Li Jiang, Ph.D Student, Department of Art History, UChicago

(in-person hybrid)

*The VMPEA’s in-person events are open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.

Dear VMPEA community,

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia (VMPEA) workshop is pleased to announce the Autumn 2021 schedule. All the in-person events will meet on selected Wednesdays from 4:45 to 6:45 pm in CWAC 152 unless noted. For the online events or those who would like to join us remotely, we will send out the registration links prior to the events.

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October 13

Sylvia Wu, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, UChicago

“Inscribing Piety: Monumental Inscriptions from Quanzhou”

Discussant: Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UChicago

October 27

Lucien Sun, PhD Student, Department of Art History

“Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Reading an Accordion-Fold Painting”

Discussant: Shiqiu Liu, PhD candidate, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

[This is an online event]

November 10

Stephanie Lee, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

“The Social Lives of Colonial Picture Postcards (1906-1933)”

Discussant: Kaeun Park, PhD student, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

[This is an online event]

December 1

Zhengqian Li, MAPH Student, UChicago

“Whiskey and Tobacco: The Imperialist Symbols in Mu Shiying’s “Shanghai Fox-trot” and Shi Zhecun’s “Si Xizi’s Business””

Discussant: TBA

December 3

Toby Wu, MAPH Student, UChicago

“Reconstituting the Japanese Housewife: Idemitsu Mako’s Televisual Charged Field in Kiyoko’s Situation (1989)”

Discussant: TBA

[This is an online event co-hosted with the APEA workshop, and will meet from 3:00 to 5:00 pm]

*Disclaimer on in-person events:

These convenings are open to all invitees who are compliant with UChicago vaccination requirements and, because of ongoing health risks, particularly to the unvaccinated, participants are expected to adopt the risk mitigation measures (masking and social distancing, etc.) appropriate to their vaccination status as advised by public health officials or to their individual vulnerabilities as advised by a medical professional. Public convening may not be safe for all and carries a risk for contracting COVID-19, particularly for those unvaccinated. Participants will not know the vaccination status of others and should follow appropriate risk mitigation measures.

We are excited to share our spring quarter calendar. Like in the autumn and winter, we will have to conduct all sessions virtually via Zoom. Unless otherwise marked out, all VMPEA meetings will take place on Wednesdays from 4:45 pm to 6:45 pm (CDT). The individual meeting link will be sent out along with detailed talk abstract via VMPEA lists and website one week before the talk for registration.

We look forward to seeing you via Zoom and hope you will share this with all who might also be interested in joining our community. Please direct questions and inquiries to Yifan Zou (yifanzou@uchicago.edu) and Minori Egashira (egashiram@uchicago.edu).

Hope you are staying safe and healthy!

Yifan + Minori
VMPEA Graduate Student Coordinators 2020-21

Zheng Shuang, Both are Good Cats 都是好貓, woodcut, 1996, 23*28cm

*Apr 9 (Friday), 4:45 pm – 6:45 pm CDT
Speaker: Boyoung Chang (Postdoctoral Fellow East Asian Art, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Saena Ryu Dozier
Title: Faraway, so close: North Korea in Contemporary Visual Culture

Apr 21
Speaker: Zhenru Zhou (PhD candidate, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Katherine Tsiang (Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia Chinese Art)
Title: Anarchitectonic Pagoda Images from Late-medieval Dunhuang

*May 7, 12pm CDT* (note Friday and noon time)
Speaker: Wang Lianming (Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History, Heidelberg University)
Discussant: Yin Wu (PhD candidate, Department of Art History)
Title: Revisiting the Jesuit Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Beijing

May 12 & 19 (Qualifying Papers)
*Collaboration with the RAVE Workshop (https://voices.uchicago.edu/researchartvisualevidence/)

Session One (May 12)
Jenny Harris (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: Worlds of Wire: Ruth Asawa’s Sculpture

Li Jiang (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: Replicating Death: The Gold Funerary Mask of Princess of the State of Chen (1018)

Stephanie Strother (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: “Fashionable Things”: The Designs and Designers of the Atelier Martine

Session Two (May 19)
Lex Ladge (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: Hieronian Impositions: Space and Policy in 3rd Century BCE Syracuse

Adriana Obiols Roca (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: Mesótica II: Central American Art After “Latin America”

Lucien Sun (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: A Print in Flux: Rethinking the Print of Guan Yu from Khara-Khoto

June 2
Speaker: Sooa Im McCormick (Curator of Korean Art, Cleveland Museum of Art)
Discussant: Yoon-Jee Choi (PhD student, Department of Art History)
Title: Korean Paper, a Trendy Item in Late Ming Literati Circle