IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

"Returning to the Shore: A Scholarly Symposium in Honor of James Cahill's 81st Year"

DATE:Friday, April 27, 2007 to Saturday, April 28, 2007
PLACE:Click for location
FORMAT:Symposium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Art History Department, Williams College Asian Studies Department, Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center

Returning to the Shore:
A Scholarly Symposium in Honor of James Cahill's 81st Year
April 27-28, 2007
University of California, Berkeley
 
 
Friday, April 27                     Gund Theater, Berkeley Art Museum

5:30 p.m.                    Introductions
    Welcome: Kevin Consey, Director, Berkeley Art Museum
    Introduction:  Patricia Berger, University of California, Berkeley
    Keynote Lecture: James Cahill

    Reception and Exhibition Viewing:
    Honoring a Tradition, Honoring a Teacher: A Tribute to James
    Cahill
, Asian Galleries C and D, Berkeley Art Museum

 


Saturday April 28                 Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

9:00--9:10 a.m.                Introductions
    Julia White
, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Berkeley Art Museum

9:10--10:30 a.m.               Panel 1
   
Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Sophia University, Tokyo
       “Unfolding the Pages of the Yuzhi Bizangquan--Filling the Gaps
        in the Development of Late 10th Century Song Court Academy
        Landscape painting”

   Scarlett Jang, Williams College
       “Imperial Publishing in Ming China”
    Marsha Smith Weidner
, University of Kansas
        “A Monk at The Party”
       Moderator: Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Michigan

10:30--10:50 a.m.             Coffee break

10:50 a.m.--12:10 p.m.      Panel 2
    Mae Anna Pang, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Australia
        “Collecting Chinese Paintings at the National Gallery of
        Victoria, Melbourne, Australia--1976 to the Present”

    Sheila Keppel, Independent Scholar
        “Exporting a Culture: The Earliest Chinese Porcelains to Reach
        the Beaches of the New World” 
    Jane Debevoise, Hong Kong University
         "Time Out: Asia Art Archive and the Global Cultural Industry
          for Contemporary Chinese Art"

   Moderator: Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley  

12:10--1:40 p.m.                Lunch break

1:40--3:00 p.m.                  Panel 3
     Patricia Berger, UC Berkeley        
        “Ultimate Layman: Qianlong's Responses to Buddhist Art”
    Ginger Cheng-chi Hsu, UC Riverside
        “Travel in the New Qing Empire”
     Richard Vinograd, Stanford University
        "Imitation, Reproduction, and Authority in early Modern China"
    Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, UC Berkeley

3:00--3:20 p.m.                 Coffee break

3:20--4:40 p.m.                 Panel 4
    Sarah E. Fraser, Northwestern University
        “The Lure of the Western Frontier: Zhang Daqian’s Quest for
        China's Pictorial Past”

    Julia F. Andrews, Ohio State University
        “The Female Nude and Liu Haisu’s Battle for Artistic
        Modernity”

    Felicity Luftkin, Harvard University
        “Who is Niren Zhang? Folk Figures and the Representation of
         Culture”

    Moderator: Wen C. Fong, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

4:40--4:50 p.m.                 Introduction
    Wen C. Fong, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

4:50--6:00 p.m.                 Closing Remarks
     James Cahill, Closing Remarks

 

Sponsored by:

Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and Art History Department at the University of California, Berkeley, with additional support from the Williams College Asian Studies Department and the Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies and East Asian Studies Center

 

For further information please contact Julia White, Senior Curator of Asian Art, Berkeley Art Museum, <juliamwhite@berkeley.edu>, or 510 642-7542

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