The Getty Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago to nurture a new generation of historians of Chinese art through dissertation workshops and a traveling seminar which cross continental, cultural, and academic boundaries.
A panel discussion with Samia Henni (Princeton University), Ana Maria Leon (University of Michigan), Paola Nicolin (domus), Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Technion/University of Chicago), and Mechtild Widrich (School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
URBAN ART AND THE NETWORK: FESTIVALS SYMPOSIUM
9:30am-12pm; lunch to follow, 12-1pm, at the Logan Center Seminar Terrace Room 801
URBAN ART AND THE NETWORK: INFRASTRUCTURE
A SYMPOSIUM with RAHUL MEHROTRA and CAMP
1:00 - 4:00pm Panel (with lunch)
4:00 - 5:00pm Rahul Mehrotra
5:15 - 6:15pm CAMP
6:15 - 7:00pm Reception
Orianna Cacchione, Curator of Global Contemporary Art, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
“Zhang Peili: A Case Study of Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Art World”
Yunfei Shao, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Art History, University of Chicago
“Picturing the Westlake in late Imperial China”
Jue Hou, Ph.D. Student
John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
“Skin Deep: Corporeography from Kafka to Qiu Zhijie”
Yin Wu, Ph.D. Student
Department of Art History, University of Chicago
“Materiality, Text, and Image in the Chinese version of The Rules for Reciting the Rosary [誦念珠規程]“
Jianpeng Wei, Visiting Student, Ph.D candidate,
Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University
“敦煌维摩诘经变的结构性演变 [Structural Evolution of Vimalakirti Sutra Illustration in Dunhuang]”
*Please note: This talk will be conducted in Chinese
Corey Byrnes, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University
“Defining the Chinese Landscape of Desolation in Teaching and Research”
Co-sponsored with Art & Politics of East Asia Workshop