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An international conference on a range of visual forms and experiences in the modern and contemporary periods, "Scenes and Visions" brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to examine how the notion of a dynamic and interrelated "visual culture" will introduce new insights and perspectives in our study of Chinese societies and cultures throughout the twentieth century. The event is free and open to the public.
Conference Schedule
Pre-conference preview of Uncle
On Thursday, April 5, there will be a sneak preview of the latest work by contemporary Chinese documentary filmmaker Zhou Hao. Shot over the last three years, Uncle follows the relationship between the filmmaker and two “friends” who were drug users in the city of Guangzhou. The preview is made possible by Professor Xinyu Lü of Fudan University, whose presentation at the conference is about the New Documentary Movement in China.
The screening is at 7:00 PM at the Leavey Library Auditorium on campus. For further information, please contact eascrsvp@usc.edu
April 6, Friday Morning
| Panel I Visual Culture of the Republican Era |
9:10-9:20 |
Introduction by Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan) |
9:20-9:55 |
Julia F. Andrews (Ohio State University)
Shanghai Art Academy and the Construction of Modern Visual Culture in the 1920s |
9:55-10:30 |
Francesca Dal Lago (Research School of African, Asian, and American Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
A Naked Modernity: Nudes and Nakedness in the Visuality of the Republican Period |
10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
10:45-11:20 |
Yaohua Shi (Wake Forest University)
Concretizing Nationalism: Republican Architecture in Nanjing and Shanghai, 1911-1949 |
11:20-12:15 |
General discussion |
Friday Afternoon
Panel II The Socialist Visual Experience and Its Afterlife |
2:00-2:10 |
Introduction by Vanessa Schwartz (University of Southern California) |
2:10-2:45 |
Kuiyi Shen (University of California, San Diego)
Oil Painting and the Remaking of Twentieth-Century Visual Culture |
2:45-3:20 |
Jenny Purtle (University of Toronto, Canada)
On Post-Socialist Visual Culture: The Cultural Revolution and Installation Art after Mao |
3:20-3:35 |
Coffee break |
3:35-4:10 |
Xiaobing Tang (University of Southern California)
Revelations in Afterimages: On the Concept of a “Socialist Visual Experience” |
4:10-5:00 |
General discussion |
April 7, Saturday Morning
Panel III The Documentary as Visual History |
9:10-9:20 |
Introduction by Yingjin Zhang (University of California, San Diego) |
9:20-9:55 |
Matthew Johnson (University of California, San Diego)
Wartime Newsreel and Documentary Filmmaking, 1937-1949 |
9:55-10:30 |
Esther M. K. Cheung (University of Hong Kong)
The Quasi-Documentary and Imaginary Landscapes: On Jia Zhangke and Fruit Chan |
10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
10:45-11:20 |
Xinyu Lü (Fudan University, China)
Power and Pain in the New Documentary Movement |
11:20-12:15 |
General discussion |
Saturday Afternoon
Panel IV Photography and Changing Visions |
2:00-2:10 |
Introduction by Akira Lippit (University of Southern California) |
2:10-2:45 |
Frank Dikötter (University of Hong Kong / University of London)
Studio Photography in Modern China: Popular Uses and Meanings |
2:45-3:20 |
Joyce C.H. Liu (National Chiao T’ung University, Taiwan)
Ethos vs. the Unheimlich: Visual Politics by Contemporary Taiwanese Artists in the Post-Martial Law Era |
3:20:-3:35 |
Coffee break |
3:35-4:10 |
Haiping Yan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Tropes of "Home": The Shanghai Imaginary and Its Doubles |
4:10-5:00 |
General discussion |
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