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Oct.
6, Opening Event: Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural
Revolution 5:00--7:30 pm (Hopkins
Hall Gallery, 128 N. Oval Mall)
- Reception
Welcoming Remarks: Prudence Y. Gill (Hopkins Hall Gallery, Curator)
Walkabout and Discussion:
Julia F. Andrews (The Ohio State University, History of Art)
Xiaomei Chen (The Ohio State University, DEALL and Comparative
Studies)
Kirk A. Denton (The Ohio State University, DEALL)
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Symposium
One (Oct. 15-16)
- Oct.
15, Friday Keynote Lecture 7:00--9:00
pm
(University Hall 14, 230 North Oval Mall)
Welcoming Remarks, Christian Zacher (The Ohio State University,
Interim Associate Dean, College of Humanities; Director, ICRPH).
Posters of Protest: Symbolism on the Streets from 1919 to
1999,"
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Indiana University, History)
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Symposium
Two (Oct. 22-23)
- Oct.
22, Friday Keynote Lecture: 7:30--9:00 pm
(University Hall 14, 230 North
Oval Mall)
Welcoming remarks, Judith Koroscik (The Ohio State University.
Dean, College of the Arts)
"Art During the Cultural Revolution," Ellen
Johnston Laing (University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies)
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- Oct.
16, Saturday
Morning Session: Printing
and Pictorial Art in Modern China
9:30--12:00 pm (Fawcett Center, Room 4, 2400 Olentangy River
Road)
Welcoming remarks, Ned Lebow (The Ohio State University, Director,
Mershon Center)
Introductions, David Horn (The Ohio State University, Interim
Chair, Division of Comparative Studies)
"The Woodcut as Political Art in Twentieth Century China,"
Julia F. Andrews (The Ohio State University, History of Art)
"Upstream Sources: China's Early Mass-Market Printer-Publishers,"
Christopher Reed (The Ohio State University, History)
"Playing With/in the Margin: Woodcut and Print Culture in
Late Imperial China," Patricia Sieber (The Ohio State University,
DEALL)
Discussant, Yeh Wen-hsin (University of California at Berkeley,
History, and Chair, Center for Chinese Studies)
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- Oct.
23, Saturday Morning Session: Cultural Revolutionary Posters:
Meaning and Memories 9:30 am--12:00pm
(Mershon
Center, 1501 Neil Ave.)
Welcoming remarks, Susan L. Huntington (The Ohio State University,
Vice-Provost; Dean of the Graduate School; Distinguished University
Professor in History of Art)
Introductions, Michael Hogan (The Ohio State University, Interim
Dean, College of Humanities)
"Publishing Posters Before the Cultural Revolution,"
Kuiyi Shen (Ohio University, History of Art)
"Children as Political Messengers--Art and Childhood in
PRC Posters," Stephanie Donald (Murdoch University, Australia,
Media Studies)
"Growing up with Posters in the Maoist Era," Xiaomei
Chen (The Ohio State University, DEALL and Comparative Studies)
Discussant: Patricia Sieber (The Ohio State University, DEALL)
and Julia Watson (The Ohio State University, Comparative Studies)
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- Saturday
Afternoon Session: Imagining History in China and the Diaspora
1:30--5:00 pm
Introductions, James Unger (The
Ohio State University, DEALL, Chair)
"The Lyric vs. the Dramatic: The Leifeng Pagoda at Sunset
and the Making of a View," Eugene Yuejin Wang (Harvard University,
Fine Arts)
"On the Revolutionary Past in Cultural Revolution Posters,"
Kirk A. Denton (The Ohio State University, DEALL)
"'The Sounds Amidst the Fury"--Music of the Cultural
Revolution from Xian Xinghai (1905-45) to Tan Dun (1957-),"
Barbara Mittler (Institute of Chinese Studies, University of
Heidelberg)
"Maoist Memory in the Diaspora: Hung Liu and the Art of
Multiple Antagonisms," Shih Shu-mei (University of California
at Los Angeles, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages
and Cultures, and Asian-American Studies)
Discussant: Kevin O'Brien (The Ohio State University, Political
Science)
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- Saturday
Afternoon Session: China Nostalgia as Collective Memories:
from Rural China to the Diaspora 1:30--5:00pm
Introductions, Barry Keenan (Denison
University, History, and Chair, East Asian Studies)
"Maoist Nostalgia in Rural China," Kevin J. O'Brien
(The Ohio State University, Political Science)
"Images of Cultural Revolution Posters in Latin America:
The Chinese Utopia," Megan Ferry (Union College, Modern
Languages)
"Filling the Rice Bowls of China: Humanitarian Tourism and
Visual Images in Chinese American Nationalism," Judy Tzu-Chun
Wu (The Ohio State University, History)
Discussants: C. M. Chen (The Ohio State University, Anthropology),
and Rick Livingston (The Ohio State University, Comparative Studies
and ICRPH)
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Other
Events at Hopkins Hall Gallery:
- Oct. 7, 7:00 pm: A Fireside
Talk for Honors Students, "What Can We Learn From Chinese
Cultural Revolutionary Posters?" Xiaomei Chen
- Oct. 13, 12:00 pm: An Informal Gallery
Talk, "Performing Arts during Cultural Revolution,"
East Asian Languages and Literatures Graduate Students
- Oct. 20, 12:00 pm: An Informal Gallery
Talk, "Cultural Revolution Propaganda Through Chinese
Eyes," by History of Art Graduate Students
from the PRC, Taiwan, and Singapore
OSU Exhibition and related
programming organized by Prudence Y. Gill, Julia F. Andrews,
and Xiao-mei Chen. Contextual graphics for the OSU exhibition
by Leah L. Wang.
All events are free and
open to the public.
The exhibition Picturing Power
was organized by the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery
and East Asian Studies Center in collaboration with the Centre
for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (London,
England) and sponsored by the Luce Foundation. The Ohio State
University's Hopkins Hall Gallery hours are M. W. F 9:00 am--5:00
pm, T, Th. 9:00 am--7 pm, and Sat. 10 am-2 pm (Notes: Exhibition
closes at 3:00 pm on the last day of show). For further information
please call: DEALL: (614) 292-5816; Hopkins Hall Gallery: (614)
292-5072; Department of History of Art: (614) 292-7481, or e-mail:
Chen.38@osu.edu or Andrews.2@osu.edu.
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