VMPEA: Yueling Ji

VMPEA: Yueling Ji

Workshop
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CWAC 156
Add to Calendar 2019-02-08 16:30:00 2019-02-08 18:00:00 VMPEA: Yueling Ji Guest: Yueling Ji, PhD Student Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), University of Chicago "Queering the Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters" Yueling's research focuses on contemporary Chinese literature and popular culture. Working from a comparative perspective, she is interested in Cold War cultures in East Asia, Soviet Union, and the United States. Her theoretical interests include gender and sexuality studies, affect theory and feminist science studies. About VMPEA: The VMPEA workshop is oriented toward the study of material or visual objects from East Asia. It explores the possible use of recent theories of art, history, and material and visual culture in the study of East Asia. Presentations of studies of objects, sites, visual materials, and built environments cover a variety of historical periods and geographic locations within East Asia. Flexible in how the methodologies are defined, this workshop does not limit itself to art history, but also includes archeology, anthropology, and a wide range of fields of visual studies, such as film, museum studies, and visual culture etc. The workshop is about half student and faculty presentations and about half outside speakers. CWAC 156 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

Guest: Yueling Ji, PhD Student

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC), University of Chicago

"Queering the Sino-Soviet Propaganda Posters"

Yueling's research focuses on contemporary Chinese literature and popular culture. Working from a comparative perspective, she is interested in Cold War cultures in East Asia, Soviet Union, and the United States. Her theoretical interests include gender and sexuality studies, affect theory and feminist science studies.

About VMPEA:

The VMPEA workshop is oriented toward the study of material or visual objects from East Asia. It explores the possible use of recent theories of art, history, and material and visual culture in the study of East Asia. Presentations of studies of objects, sites, visual materials, and built environments cover a variety of historical periods and geographic locations within East Asia. Flexible in how the methodologies are defined, this workshop does not limit itself to art history, but also includes archeology, anthropology, and a wide range of fields of visual studies, such as film, museum studies, and visual culture etc. The workshop is about half student and faculty presentations and about half outside speakers.