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Reinventing the Past:
Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture—Part 2




 
A symposium organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago
November 3-5, 2006


Friday, November 3
Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago


9:00am
- Registration
9:30am - Opening Remarks
James Cuno, Director, Art Institute of Chicago
Wu Hung, Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
Katherine Tsiang Mino, Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago


9:45am - 12:00pm: Panel 1— Antiquarianism in Antiquity
Chair, Jay Xu, Art Institute of Chicago


Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California Los Angeles
   "Antiquarianism in Eastern Zhou Bronzes and Its Significance"
Read Abstract


Katherine Tsiang Mino, University of Chicago
   "Antiquarianism and Re-envisioning the Empire in the Late Northern Wei"
Read Abstract


Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington
   "'Replicating Zhou Bells at the Court of Song Huizong"
Read Abstract



12:00 - 1:00pm : Lunch
1:00 - 1:30pm : Yang Wei, Pipa recital




1:30 - 4:30pm : Panel 2Representing Antiquity
Chair, Edward Shaughnessy, University of Chicago


Eugene Wang, Harvard University
   "What Ruins? The Aesthetics of Desolation and the Contingency of Its Pictorial Practice in Northern Song"
Read Abstract


Soyoung Lee, Metropolitan Museum of Art
   "Descended from Choson Pots: Korean Traditions Re-imagined in Edo Japan and Re-claimed in Modern Korea"
Read Abstract


Hans Thomsen, University of Chicago
   "Reinventing Antiquity: Taiga's Famous Sites of Japan"
Read Abstract


Qianshen Bai, Boston University
   "Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and Composite Rubbings "
Read Abstract





  Saturday, November 4
Harper Memorial, Room 130
University of Chicago



9:30am - 12:30pm: Panel 3 — The Politics of Antiquarianism
Chair, Theodore N. Foss, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago


Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College
   "Myth, Memory and The Mongol Invasions of Japan"
Read Abstract


Akira Takagishi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
   "The Collection and Production of Picture Scrolls (Emaki) by the Ashikaga Shogunal Family"
Read Abstract


Elizabeth Lillehoj, DePaul University
   "'Court Ceremonies, Imperial Power and Gomizunoo as Cakravartin"
Read Abstract


Craig Clunas, SOAS, University of London
   "Antiquarian Politics and the Politics of Antiquarianism in Ming Regional Courts"
Read Abstract



12:30 - 2:00pm : Lunch



2:00 - 5:00pm : Panel 4 Scholars, Collectors, and Collections of Antiquities
Chair, Judith Zeitlin , University of Chicago


Peter Sturman, University of California Santa Barbara
   "Material History: Valuing Painting in the Northern Song"
Read Abstract


Ping Foong, University of Chicago
   "Li Cheng and a Landscape Past for the Northern Song Court"
Read Abstract


Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tokyo Gakugei University
   "Ninagawa Noritane and Antiquarians in the Early Meiji Period"
Read Abstract


Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng, Yale University
   "Representation and Replication: Chun Jun's Illustrated Catalogues of Ancient Monuments in Eighteenth-Century China"
Read Abstract




  Sunday, November 5
Harper Memorial, Room 130
University of Chicago



9:30am - 12:30pm: Panel 5 — Rethinking Antiquarianism
Chair, Elinor Pearlstein, Art Institute of Chicago


Jessica Rawson, Merton College, Oxford University
   "Ancient Ornaments: The Presence of the Past"
Read Abstract


Sarah E. Fraser, Northwestern University
   "Antiquarianism or Primitivism? The Edge of History in the Modern Chinese Imagination"
Read Abstract


Martin Powers, University of Michigan
   "Imitation and Reference in China's Pictorial Tradition"
Read Abstract


Wu Hung, University of Chicago
   "Patterns of Fu Gu ('Returning to the Ancient') in Chinese Art"
Read Abstract


12:30pm: Closing remarks



This symposium is made possible with support from the Japan Committee and the China Committee at the Center for East Asian Studies, the Acorn Foundation, and a gift from George and Roberta Mann