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The VMPEA workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies. Topics may include not only art history, but also archaeology and the various fields of visual studies (e.g., film, museum studies), as well as subjects from other disciplines which engage visual culture.