My goal for 2011 was to get my research ‘out there’; to publish and present a few papers at conferences. Towards these ends, tomorrow I’ll be taking part in the Oriental Ceramic Society‘s Study Day for Early Career Scholars in Chinese Art. I’ll be talking about visual culture, revolutionary romanticism and the novel, Red Crag. A timetable follows.
I’m really looking to hearing about the other speakers’ research and getting the opportunity to visit the Ashmolean Museum again. Not least because of their latest exhibition of Cultural Revolution-era Chinese graphic art.
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STUDY DAY FOR EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS IN CHINESE ART
11 May 2011
1.30 – 6.00pm
Taylor Institute Lecture Theatre
Beaumont Street, Oxford. (Enter via Ashmolean forecourt)
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION by Shelagh Vainker
13.30
Reconsidering the Qianlong Imperial Collection
Nicole Chiang
PhD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
13.50
Memories in jade: Neolithic interactions and their impact on later periods
Sascha Priewe
DPhil candidate in Archaeology, Merton College, University of Oxford. Curator of Chinese and Korean collections, Department of Asia, The British Museum
14.10
The Newly Discovered Hongshan 鴻山 Yue 越 Tombs: A Review of Funeral Ceramics in Mounded Burials in Southern China
Chen Yi
DPhil candidate in Archaeology, Merton College, University of Oxford
14.30
Splendour in Miniature: Architectural models in the Northern Song (960-1127) period
Xin Chen
Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, Dept. of Eastern Art, Ashmolean Museum
14.50
The Influence of Fluctuating Body Paste Composition in 17th Century Chinese Ceramics on the perceptions of European Arcanists
Morgan Wesley
D.Phil. candidate in History of Art, Linacre College, University of Oxford. Lecturer in Fine and Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
15.10 – 15.30
DISCUSSION
15.30 – 15.50
BREAK
15.50
The Karlbeck Syndicate 1930-1934: Collecting and Scholarship on Chinese Art in Sweden and Britain
Valerie Jurgens
PhD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
16.10
Desiring Peking in the Republican Era (1911-49): The Old and the Modern in Jin Cheng’s (1878-1926) album “The Large Emerging from the Small” (Xiao zhong xian da)
Shu-Chi Shen
PhD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
16.30
Pen and Brush: Chiang Yee in Britain, 1933-1955
Anna Wu
Assistant Curator, Asia Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
16.50
‘Do the Chinese Always Smile?’: Material culture and the construction of Cultural Revolution narratives
Dr Amy Jane Barnes
Independent Researcher
17.10
John Sparks, the Chinese art dealer, and his people
Ching-Yi Huang
PhD candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
17.30 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
To book a place at the Study Day, please email Shelagh Vainker on shelagh.vainker@ashmus.ox.ac.uk or telephone her on UK (0) 1865 278070.