Schedule

Oct. 24

9:30-10:00 am:
Welcome: Thomas Cummins, Chair of Department of History of Art and Architecture
Opening Address: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art

10:00-12:30 am:
The Enlivenment of Religious Images [Panel One]

Chair: Ryuichi Abe (Harvard University)

Paul Copp (University of Chicago). “The Rise of the Block Print as Decline in Enlivenment? Changes in Dhāranī Amulet Culture, 740-980.”

James Robson (Harvard University). “The Inner Workings of Chinese Images: Chinese Statues Inside-Out.”

10:50-11:00 Coffee break

Raoul Birnbaum (University of California, Santa Cruz). “Alive in What Way?  On the Vitality of Images in Buddhist China.”

Poul Andersen (University of Hawaii). “The Life of Images in Daoist Ritual.”

Discussant: James Benn (McMaster University)

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-3:30 pm:
Painting as a Medium of Enlivenment [Panel Two]

Chair: Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University)

Yukio Lippit (Harvard University). “The Verso of Representation.”

Jennifer Purtle (University of Toronto). “Shadowy Characters, Wooden Maidens, and Live Wires: Painting and Animate Images in Ming dynasty Fujian.”

Richard Vinograd (Stanford University). “The Touch of Time: Painting as Medium in Late Ming China.”

Discussant: Peter Sturman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

3:30-4:00 pm. Coffee break

4:00-5:45 pm:
Enlivenment Within and Without [Panel Three]

**ROOM CHANGE: This panel will take place in CGIS South Belfer Case Study Room (S-020). (This room is next door to the Tsai Auditorium.)

Chair: Stephen Owen (Harvard University)

Lothar Ledderose (University of Heidelberg). “Kept Alive in Stone: The Diamond Sutra on Mount Tai.”

Katie Ryor (Carleton College). “Vital Qi of the Fingertips: The ‘Splashed Ink’ Style and the Animation of the Image.”

Richard E. Strassberg (UCLA). “Animating Images of Chinese Gardens: The Kangxi Emperor’s Poems and Illustrations of the Thirty-six Views of the Mountain Hamlet to Escape the Summer Heat.”

Discussant: Robert Harrist (Columbia University)

Oct. 25

9:15-11:15 am:
The Enlivenment of Body and Self [Panel Four]

Chair: Melissa McCormick (Harvard University)

Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University). “Enlivening Chinese Medicine.”

Eugene Wang (Harvard University). “Spirit Painting, Medium, and Message: The Demon-Queller Zhong Kui in Eighteenth-Century Beijing.”

Sarah E. Fraser (Northwestern University). “Racial Photography: the Legacy of Recycled 19th c. Colonial Photographs in China's 20th c. Ethnographic Self.”

Discussant: Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University)

11:15-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30-1:30 am:
The Enlivenment of Public Images [Panel Five]

Chair: Peter K. Bol (Harvard University)

Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington). “Maintaining the Vitality of the Dragon as an Imperial Image in the Song Period.”

Rudolf G. Wagner (University of Heidelberg). “The Public Picture of the Public Personality in the Making of the Chinese ‘Father of the Nation’”

Xiaobing Tang (University of Michigan). “The Afterlives of Mao in Chinese Contemporary Art.”

Discussant: Martin Powers (University of Michigan)

1:30-2:30 pm Lunch

2:30-5:30:
Enlivenment and Modernity [Panel Six]

Chair: David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University)

Cheng-hua Wang (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica). “A Vision of Grandeur and Specificity: Western Perspective in 18th Century Chinese Urban Images.”

Weihong Bao (Columbia University). “The Theatre of Panorama: Visuality, Affect, and Modern Chinese Popular Theatre at the Turn of the Century.”

3:20-3:30 Coffee break

William Schaefer (UC, Berkeley). “Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures: The Domain of Images in Republican Shanghai.”

Catherine Yeh (Boston University). “The Impact of Photography on the Transformation and Feminization of Peking Opera (1910-1930).”

Discussant: Eileen Chow (Harvard University)

5:30-5:50: Closing Remarks: Yukio Lippit (Harvard University)

For all conference inquiries, please contact Allison Miller