Jonathan Hay, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Fred Wakeman, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
William Schaefer, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
| DATE: | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies |
This position paper discusses the limitations and potential of using a macrohistorical and cross-cultural theory of modernity in the Chinese context, with particular attention to art and, more broadly, visual and material culture. Drawing together the threads of more specific arguments that I have advanced in publications over the last several years, the paper sketches out the framework of a systematic relational theory. Formulated in terms of axioms and problematics, the discussion is highly abstract, and in disciplinary terms probably speaks more directly to sinology than art history. Not a slide show.
Free and open to the public.
