9:00am Welcome
9:10am-10:30am Panel 1: Vision and Shadow
Chaired by David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University)
Roberta Wue (University of California, Irvine)
China in the World: On Photography, Montage, and the Magic Lantern
Weihong Bao (University of California, Berkeley)
Shadow, Picture, Play: Intermediating the Scene of Early Cinema in China
10:40am to 12pm Panel 2: Mediating the Real/Unreal
Chaired by Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College)
Shengqing Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Mediating “Interior Landscapes”: The Shadow of Poetry
Guangchen Chen (Harvard University)
The Un/Mediality of the Ideal Object: Wang Guowei versus Shen Congwen
1:00pm to 2:20pm Panel 3: Visual Aesthetics and Politics
Chaired by Alexander Des Forges (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
John Crespi (Colgate University)
Mixed Messages: The Structural Aesthetics of the Wartime Arts Pictorial Resistance Sketch (Kangzhan manhua)
H. Tiffany Lee (Stanford University)
Curating National Identity Politics: The Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition, 1934-1937
2:40pm to 4pm Panel 4: Photographic Effect and Affect
Chaired by Eugene Wang (Harvard University)
Yanfei Zhu (University of North Georgia)
War of Representation: Photographing, Printing, Painting, and Rubbing Epigraphic Antiques in Modern China
Yi Gu (University of Toronto)
Uncles Would Fight For You: Socialist China, Korean War, and Photographic Affect
4:10pm to 5:30pm Roundtable Discussion
David Wang, Eugene Wang, Ellen Widmer, Alexander Des Forges, and all participants
Upcoming Events
Visiting Scholar Talks
Echoes Of Thomas Aquinas In Alessandro Valignano’s Japanese Catechism: Reason, Faith, and The Art Of ContextualizationMonday, January 13, 2025
Visiting Scholar Talks
From Jesuit Baroque and French Gothic to Japanese Temple Style: The History of Catholic Church Architecture in Japan, 19th to Early 20th CenturyTuesday, February 18, 2025