Schedule

Dear all,

Starting from this year, we are glad to share information with the Institute of Fine Arts’ China Project Workshop. For further inquiry, please contact chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com.

IFA CHINA PROJECT WORKSHOP SCHEDULE FOR 2013-2014 

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia is proud present our schedule for Autumn 2013:
All sessions run from 4 to 6pm, on Fridays, in the Room 156, Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC), unless otherwise stated.

October 25: Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor (Yale University, History of Art)
“Miniaturizing Rituals and Creating Sacred Cosmos: Power of Miniatures in the Liao Pagoda”

November 8: Lu Ling-en, Associate Curator of Early Chinese Art, (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas)
“Female Deities in Later Imperial and Modern China: with Marici as an Example”

November 22: Shao Yunfei, PhD Student
TBA

December 6: Akiko Walley, Assistant Professor (University of Oregon, History of Art and Architecture)
“Everyday Magic: Objects of Daily Use in East Asian Buddhist Reliquaries”

December 13: Micah Auerback, Asst. Professor (UMich Ann Arbor, Asian Languages and Cultures),
TBA Venue: CWAC 153. (Joint-session with Trans-regional Histories Workshop)

Greetings! The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop is pleased to announce the Spring schedule of 2011.

April 8, Li Qingquan, professor, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Talk: The Image of Tomb Masters and the Transformation of Funerary Culture from Tang to Song Dynasty: an Art Historical Perspective

April 15:  Xu Xiwen, associate professor, Southeast University, China
Talk:  Beyond Borders: On the Hanging Scroll Lady Wen-Chi Returning to China at the National Palace Museum of Taipei

April 22: Xu Jin, Ph.D. student, art history department.
Talk: Displaying Filial Piety: Spatial Design of a Sodgian Immigrant Tomb in Sixth-century China

May 5: Susan Huang, assistant professor at Rice University
Talk: True Form Charts and the Daoist Visuality

May 20: Fu Yanghua, associate professor, Remin University
Talk: Trapped Hope: Yang Bu’s Ten-Leaf Album of Yearning Ancient Sages and His Ambivalence

May 27: Irene Backus, Ph.D. candidate, art history department
Talk: Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence

June 3: Quincy Ngan, Ph.D. student, art history department
Talk: The Blue-and-Green Style: a Daoist Iconography?
(canceled)

The Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop is pleased to announce the winter schedule of 2011.

Jan 14: Ms. Kao Chien-hui, independent curator and art critic
Talk: The Transformation of Line and Form: The Linking Context of the Chinese Figure/ Narrative Painting and the Comic World at Shenzhen International Ink Art Biennale 2010

Jan 21: Prof. Pai Shiming, National Taiwan Normal University
Talk: Urbanization, Modern Life and the Contemporary Writing of Taiwanese Art During the Japanese Colonial Period

Feb 11: Prof. Ankeney Weitz, Colby College
Talk: A Social History of Painted Fans in the Song Dynasty

Feb 25: Prof. Jamese Elkins, Art Institute of Chicago
Talk: Five Forms of Misunderstanding Regarding Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory

Mar 11: Shi Jie, Ph. D. candidate, Art History Department, University of Chicago
Talk: The Body Beyond Flesh and Bone: Unpacking the Body Construction in Western Han Princely Tombs

Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia workshop is pleased to announce its autumn schedule 2010. In general, the workshop is scheduled for every other Friday from 4 to 6 pm at CWAC 156. Please note that the schedule is subject to change.

Oct. 15
Xiao Tie, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Talk: Picturing Crowds in 1930s China

Oct. 22
Prof. Dorothy Wong (University of Virginia)
Talk: Divergent Paths: Early Representations of Amoghapasa in East, South and Southeast Asia.

Nov. 12
Sun-ah Choi, Ph.D. candidate, Art History
Talk: From the True Visage to a Miraculous Image: Medieval Chinese Reception of the Vajrasana Buddha of the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, India

Nov. 19
Prof. Maki Fukuoka (University of Michigan)
Talk: Site of Transformation: Asakusa, Photographic Studios, and Media in Modern Japan

Dec. 3
Seunghye Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Art History