Department of Art History

"Reconstituting the Japanese Housewife: Idemitsu Mako’s Charged Televisual Fields in Kiyoko’s Situation (1989)"

Speaker: Toby Wu, MAPH Student, UChicago

"Objects as Political Symbols: Imperialist Merchandise in Mu Shiying and Shi Zhecun’s Modernist Fiction"

Speaker: Zhengqian Li (MAPH Student)

Discussant: Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)

"Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Reading an Accordion-Fold Painting"

 Speaker: Lucien Sun (Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History)

Discussant: Shiqiu Liu (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Melbourne)

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"Inscribing Piety: Monumental Inscriptions from Quanzhou"

Speaker: Sylvia Fan Wu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History 

Discussant: Wei-cheng Lin, Associate Professor of Art History and the College

Chinese Art and Architecture, University of Chicago

Seth Estrin (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will present a paper entitled "The Figure of the Slave on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments."

Roko Rumora (PhD Candidate, Art History) will offer a response.

Zhenru Zhou (PhD Candidate, Art History) will present a paper entitled “Animated Architecture: Picturing Pagodas through the Cave-Temples of Dunhuang, China, 850-1000 CE”. Tamara Golan (Assistant Professor of Art History and the College) will offer a response.

Toby Wu (MAPH Student, Art History)

“Aesthetic Tensions in Water Mediations of the Cold War—Seascapes, Performance & Gameplay in Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s Memorial Project Series (2001-2014)”

May Peterson (Art History PhD Student) will present a paper entitled “A Matter of Life and Death: Early Medieval Experiments in Incarnation, Inhumation, and Representation.” Alice Casalini (Art History PhD Candidate) will offer a response.