VMPEA: Alice Casalini
"A Preliminary Survey of the Swat Valley and the Taxila Region"
Alice Casalini, PhD student, Department of Art History
Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Art: Contextualizing Japan's Aichi Triennale
Schedule:
14:00 Welcoming Remarks
14:15 Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), "Japanese Censorship in Theory & Practice"
15:00 Namiko Kunimoto (Ohio State) "Art and Activism in Japan"
15:45 Shimada Yoshiko, " 'Being a Statue of Non Freedom of Expression' : Gender is the Core Issue of the Censorship"
16:45 Roundtable Discussion: Kyeong-hee Choi (UChicago), Laura Hein (Northwestern), Matthew Jesse Jackson (UChicago), W.J.T. Mitchell (UChicago)
18:00 Reception
Free and Open to the Public
Art and Materiality Symposium
Art and Materiality Symposium
February 6–8, 2020 | The University of Chicago
Presented in conjunction with the opening weekend of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, this symposium uses the lens of materiality to investigate topics central to the development and study of art around the world.
Workshop on Embodiment: Texts and Objects
Featured presentations:
Morning session: CWAC 157
11-11:15: Introductory remarks (Seth Estrin and Sarah Nooter)
11:15-1:15: Images in practice
11:15 Angharad Darden “Euripides' Ion and the Acropolis”
11:55 Karin Krause “Incarnation Symbolism: the Mandylion and Its Multiples”
12:35 May Peterson “Amuletic or Cosmetic? A Late-Antique Alabaster Mirror-Plaque at the Art Institute of Chicago”
Afternoon session: Classics 21
1:30-2:30: lunch
2:30-4:30: Concepts and Bodies
2019 Nuveen Lecture: Aden Kumler
Aden Kumler, Associate Professor of Art History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, will deliver the 2019 Nuveen Lecture at The Divinity School: "Unmade by design: The Eucharist and other medieval works of art."
Lia Markey: The Nova Reperta and the Renaissance Representation of Invention and Globalization
Johannes Stradanus’s Nova Reperta (c.
VMPEA: Jennifer D. Lee
“Image and Thought: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979-1983”
Jennifer D. Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
VMPEA: Mew Lingjun Jiang
“The Fluidity of Image and Symbol in Karuta Japanese Playing Cards, 1573-Today”
Mew Lingjun Jiang, MAPH-TLO'20 Art History
Respondent: Robert Burgos, PhD student, Department of History
VMPEA: Michael J. Hatch
"Epigraphy, Ruan Yuan, and the Haptic Imagination in Early Nineteenth-Century Chinese Painting"
Michael J. Hatch, PhD, Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History, Department of Art, Miami University
VMPEA: Peter Chen
"What does Chinese look like? Secularization as/and Nationalism in the case of Feng Zikai"
Peter Chen, MA student, Divinity School