Subject: Photography in China, April 24-25, 2009: Northwestern UniversityFRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009
McCormick Auditorium, Tribune Building, 1870 Campus Drive
Northwestern University
http://groups.arthistory.northwestern.edu/chinaphotography/8:45 a.m., WelcomeS. Hollis Clayson, Professor of Art History; Director of Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
8:55 a.m.-10:35 a.m.,Session I: The Violent Turn
Chair: Brook Ziporyn, Department of Religion, Northwestern University
9:00 a.m.Conference Introduction
Sarah E. Fraser, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University,
“Violence and the Photographic Encounter”
9:25 a.m.Leo Ou-fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
“Invitation to a Beheading: Chinese Identity under Colonial Gaze”
9:50 a.m.James Hevia, Professor of History and Director, International Studies, University of Chicago, “Photographs of Public Executions in China”
10:15 a.m.Discussants: Peter Carroll, Department of History, Northwestern University;
Robert Hariman, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
10:40 a.m., Coffee10:50 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Session II: Technique and Industry
Chair: Christina H. Kiaer, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
10:50 a.m.Christopher Pinney, Professor of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University College London, “Camerawork as Technical Practice in Colonial India”
11:15 p.m.William Schaefer, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley,
“Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures: The Domain of Images in Republican Shanghai”
11:40 p.m.Chris Reed, Associate Professor,
The Ohio State University; Chief Editor, Twentieth Century China,
“Hybrid China: Early Chinese Industrial Photography”
12:05 p.m.Discussant: Christopher Bush, Department of French and Italian,Northwestern University
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Lunch2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.,Session III: Peripheral Nationals
Chair: Victor Shih, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
2:30 p.m.Wang Ming-ke, Professor and Director of Chinese Ethnographic Project,
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
“Photographing Peripheral Nationals in China (1928-1936): The Case of Ethnographic Photographs Taken by Institute of History and Philology Scholars”
2:55 p.m.Wang Peng-hui, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, “Ethnic Encounter in the Tribal Marketplace: Rui Yifu's Ethnographic Photography in Southwest China”
3:20 p.m.Paul D. Barclay, Associate Professor, Lafayette College,
“Redefining China's Outer Limits: Colonial Photography on Taiwan's Sino-Japanese Frontier, 1895-1940”
3:45 p.m.Discussant: Dilip Gaonkar, Department of Communications Studies and Director, Center for Global Culture and Communication, Northwestern University
Followed by General Discussion of Panels I-III
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., ReceptionSATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009Kresge Centennial Hall, Room 3-430, 1880 Campus Drive
9:00 a.m., Coffee9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.,Session IV: The City and Frontier
Chair: Amy Stanley, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Northwestern University
9:30 a.m.Yeh Wen-hsin, Professor of History and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, “The Camera and the City: Perspectives from Shanghai and Chongqing”
9:55 a.m.Frances Terpak, Senior Collections Curator (Photography), The Getty Research Institute, “Transferring the Image: The Acceptance of Photography in China”
10:20 a.m.Eliza Ho, Ph.D. Candidate, The Ohio State University, “Sha Fei's Revisions of the Great Wall in Chinese Wartime Photography”
10:45 a.m.Discussant: Christopher Pinney, Professor of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University College London
11:15 a.m., Coffee11:25 a.m.-12:20 p.m.,Session V: The Photographic Medium
Chair: Chris Reed, The Ohio State University
11:25 a.m.Shaoqian Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University, “The Supremacy of Modern Time: How Shanghai Calendars Re-shaped the Image of China (1860-1920)”
11:45 a.m.Austin Parks, Graduate Student, History, Northwestern University,
“Imaging Ideology in Meiji Japan: The Graphic and Photographic Representations of Nation and Empire”
12:05 p.m.Discussant: Kerry Ross, Assistant Professor of History, DePaul University
12:20 p.m.-1:30 p.m., Lunch12:20 p.m.-1:30 p.m.,Special Session: Working Lunch for Graduate Students Frances Terpak, Curator of Photography, Getty Research Institute,
“Conducting Research in Photographic Archives” (location: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, 2-370 Kresge Hall)
1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Session VI: Concluding Workshop Discussion Sponsored by Northwestern University's Department of Art History-The Meyers Fund, The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, The Graduate School-Asian Cluster,
The Buffet Center for International Studies,Center for Global Culture and Communication, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and The Department of History.
