Conference programme
Wadham College, Oxford, December 17-18, 2012
Monday December 17thOkinaga Room, Wadham College
9.00am Introductory remarks Margaret Hillenbrand
9.15am-11.00am Panel 1: Photography, Technology, and Terminology,
Chair: Rana Mitter
9.15am-11.00 am
James Hevia, University of Chicago: “Stereoscopic Tours, Reconnaissance, and Photography”
Oliver Moore, Leiden University: “Photography’s Metaphors in China”
11.30am-1.15pm Panel 2: Photography and Subjectivity
Chair: Margaret Hillenbrand
Nicole Huang, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “The Trained Eye: Theorizing Studio Photography in Late Mao China”
Barbara Mittler, Heidelberg University: “Taking Pictures, Reading Minds: A View from China’s Vernacular Media, 1909-1939”
2.30pm-4.15pm Panel 3: Photography and Contemporary Chinese Art
Chair: Professor Craig Clunas
Ding Ning, Peking University: “Historical Photographs and Contemporary Chinese Art”
Ros Holmes, University of Oxford: “‘Paper Dreams’ and the Search for a ‘Better Life’: Visualizing wenming in Contemporary China”
4.45pm-5.45pm Robert Bickers, University of Bristol:
Special Presentation: “An Archive for China: the Historical Photographs Project at Bristol University”
Tuesday, December 18th
9.00am-10.45am Panel 4: Photography, Documentary, and Art
Chair: Craig Clunas
Claire Roberts, Australian National University: “Double Take: Some Thoughts on Artistic and Documentary Uses of Historic Photographs in China”
Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University: “Documentation and Art in the Chinese Photograph”
11.20am-1.05pm Panel 5: Photography and Historical Consciousness
Chair: Henrietta Harrison
Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford: “The Moving Medium: Historical Photographs and the Aesthetic Representation of China’s Twentieth-Century Past”
Yi Gu, University of Toronto: “Truth through Lens: Photography and the 1911 Revolution”
2.20am-4.05pm Panel 6: Photography and Colonial Space
Chair: Dirk Meyer
Régine Thiriez, Independent Scholar: “Early Photographs of the Pearl River Delta: Topographical Views of Canton, Macao and Hong Kong, 1842-1870”
Ju-Ling Lee, University of Lyon: “Photography in Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945)”
4.05pm Concluding remarks
This conference has been generously supported by the following sponsors:
British Inter-University China Centre
“An Archive for China: Photographs from British Collections”, a British Academy “Academy Research Project”
“The Persistence of Conflict: China’s War with Japan and its Impact, Memory and Legacy, 1931 to the Present”, a Leverhulme Trust Research Programme