Visualizing Asia in the Modern World: A Conference on Image-Driven Scholarship--All conference sessions are free and open to public
Friday, May 20
8:30 Coffee/Tea
9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:45 Panel: Photographing Asia
Chair: MARK C. ELLIOTT, Harvard University
Claire Roberts (Australian National University/Harvard Yenching Institute)
“China exposed: Hedda Hammer Morrison at Harvard”
Sakura Christmas (Harvard University)
“Cameras on Camel: Owen Lattimore’s Photography and the Inner Asian Frontier”
Aurélie Champ (Bibliothèque nationale)
“Discover Indochina with a Civil Servant: the photographs of Firmin-André Salles”
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Panel: Bodies/Oppression/Protest
Chair: THEODORE C. BESTOR, Harvard University
R. Kenji Tierney (Skidmore College)
“Sumo Bodies in the Modern World”
Kristin E. Stapleton (University of Buffalo)
“Mingfeng’s Tale: Slavery and Servitude in Revolutionary China”
Ann Sherif and Wendy Kozol (Oberlin College)
“Visualizing Paradise and the Sea of Sorrow”
12:45-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Panel: Visualizing Seoul and Colonial Korea (Part I)
Chair: CARTER ECKERT, Harvard University
Jina Kim (Smith College)
“Consuming Colonial Seoul: Department Stores and Competing Modernities”
Se-Mi Oh (New York University)
“Honmachi and Chongno: Architecture, Sign, Language”
Hyung Gu Lynn (University of British Columbia)
“Moving Pictures: Postcards of Colonial Korea”
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:15 Panel: Visualizing Seoul and Colonial Korea (Part II)
Chair: DAVID MCCANN, Harvard University
Ellie Choi (Smith College)
“Colonial Seoul: Space, Alterity and Empire from 1910-45”
Baek Yung Kim (Kwangwoon University)
“Changes of Urban Structures and Architecture of Seoul Since 1876”
Saturday, May 21
8:30 Coffee/Tea
9:00-11:00 Panel: Visualizing Japan’s Empire
Chair: YOSHIHISA TAK MATSUSAKA, Harvard University
Helen Hardacre (Harvard University)
“State Shinto in Manchukuo”
Jie Li (Harvard University)
“Phantasmagoric Manchukuo: Documentaries Produced by the South Manchurian Railway Company, 1932-1940”
Paul D. Barclay (Lafayette College)
“The Empires of Japan: Colonial Postcards as Sources of History”
Chinghsin Wu (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
“Embedded Messages: Wartime Images in Colonial Taiwan”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Panel: Visualizing and Marketing China
Chair: PETER PERDUE, Yale University
Li Chen (University of Toronto)
“Visual Representation, Imperial Subjectivity, and Intercultural Politics in the Nineteenth Century”
Lenore S. Metrick-Chen (Drake University)
“Advertisement as Transcultural Negotiation: China in the 19th Century American Trade Card”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Panel: Japanese Visions of Self and Other (Part I)
Chair: ANNE NISHIMURA MORSE, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
James T. Ulak (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)
François Lachaud (École française d’Extrême Orient)
Xiaojin Wu (Princeton University Art Museum)
Lee Glazer (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery)
“Kobayashi Kiyochika: Master of the Night”
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Panel: Japanese Visions of Self and Other (Part II)
Chair: ANDREW GORDON, Harvard University
Fabian Drixler (Yale University)
“Infanticide Images and the New Boundaries of Humanity in Nineteenth-Century Japan”
Robert Goree (Harvard University)
“Imagining China for the Popular Reader in Early Nineteenth-century Japan: the Case of Morokoshi Meishō Zue”
4:15-5:00 Wrap-up Discussion