VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA NOV 29 (Thursday), 4:30-6:30, CWAC 152 Nancy Lin Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago “The Colonial Korean Landscape and the Sketch Tour” This paper will focus on the landscapes of colonial Korea by Japanese artists who participated in the “sketch tour” during the first decade of [...]
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VMPEA: Seunghye Lee, NOV 16, 4-6pm
VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA NOV 16 (Friday), 4:00-6:00, CWAC 156 Seunghye Lee Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago “The Pure Land in an Underground Space: The Digong Hall from the Southern Song Pagoda Crypt in Ningbo” This presentation is derived from the third chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Art of the [...]
Professor Zeitlin, Nov 9, 4-6pm
VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA Nov 9 (Friday), 4:00-6:00, CWAC 156 Professor Judith T. Zeitlin East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago “A Ming pipa in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Toward a reconstruction of its literary, historical, and cultural context” One of the treasures of the musical instrument collection at [...]
XU PENG, Oct 26th, 4-6pm
VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA and MUSIC HISTORY/THEORY Oct 26th (Friday), 4:00-6:00, CWAC 156 Xu Peng Ph.D. Candidate (the University of Chicago) “The Courtesan Singer: Problems of Acoustics and Aesthetic Bifurcation” This paper (in the abridged form of my dissertation chapter) addresses the courtesan’s vocal art in late Ming China (1547-1644). I contextualize [...]
Professor Robert M Oppenheim, Oct 18th (Thursday), 4:00-6:00, CWAC 156
VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST AISA Oct 18th (Thursday), 4:00-6:00, CWAC 156 Professor Robert M Oppenheim (Associate Professor, Director of Center for East Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin) “Sokkuram’s Interior Landscapes: Visualizing Korea from Chicago, Circa 1911” The focus of this paper is on some hidden histories of a single and quite famous [...]
Kris Imants Ercums, Oct 5th, 3:30-4:30, CWAC 156
VISUAL AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EAST AISA OCT 5th, 3:30-5:30pm, CWAC 156 Kris Imants Ercums Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Ph.D. candidate Department of Art History University of Chicago “The Battle for Art: Modeling the National Exhibition in Republican-era China, 1910-1937” Efforts to strengthen and promote [...]
VMPEA: May 11, Satoko Shimazaki
Shades of Jealousy: Gendered Ghosts and Gendered Actors in Early Modern Kabuki Satoko Shimazaki Assistant Professor University of Colorado, Boulder The female ghost of Oiwa in Tsuruya Nanboku’s canonical kabuki play Ghost Stories at Yotsuya (Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan, 1825) was constructed as a sort of visual montage of images deeply rooted in gendered religious [...]
Satoko Shimazaki’s Article
Shimazaki, The End of the World (Monumenta)
Spring Quarter Schedule
April 20 Fri. Dai Xiaoyun (Associate Research Fellow, China Central Academy of Fine Arts) : “Shui lu Paintings of Buddhism” May 11 Fri. Satoko Shimazaki (Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder) : TBD May 25 Fri. Lillian Tseng (Associate Professor, New York University) : TBD June 1 Fri. Mia Liu (Ph.D. candidate, The University [...]
March 9, Catherine Stuer
The Rhetoric of the Trace: Photography, Place, and History in Republican Nanjing Catherine Stuer PhD candidate, University of Chicago Friday, March 9, 4-6 pm This paper discusses an expansive photographic project undertaken by Zhu Xie (1907-1968) to record and publish Nanjing’s material remains at a time when the city was redesigned as the [...]