Friday, Feb. 10th
8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Welcome: Derek Collins, Associate Dean for Humanities; Opening Remarks: Matt Biro, chair of Department of History of Art; Opening Address: Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures
9:00-10:45 am:
Production [Panel One]
Chair: David Doris (U-M)
Respondents: John Onians (University of East Anglia), Erik Meuggler (U-M)
Speakers:
Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington) “Art Academies”
Cary Liu (Princeton University) “Architectural Space”
J. P. Park (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Printing”
Martin Powers (U-M) “Art Production and Social Agency”
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:45
Reality [Panel Two]
Chair: Alex Potts (U-M)
Respondents: David Summers (University of Virginia), Kevin Carr (U-M)
Speakers:
Dora Ching (Princeton University) “Portraiture”
Shane McCausland (SOAS) “Figure Painting”
Katherine Tsiang (University of Chicago) “Religious Art”
Peter Sturman (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Landscape”
12:45-2:30 Lunch Break
2:30-4:15
Persons [Panel Three]
Chair: David Porter (U-M)
Respondents: W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), Diane Owen Hughs (U-M)
Speakers:
Jessica Rawson (Oxford University) “Ornament”
Wu Hung (University of Chicago) “Ritual Objects.”
Xin Wu (College of William and Mary) “Gardens”
Tani Barlow (Rice University) “Fashion”
4:15-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:00 General Discussion: Chair, Michèle Hannoosh
5:30-7:30 Dinner (by invitation)
Saturday, February 11th
8:30-9:0: Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45
Reflexivity [Panel Four]
Chair: Celeste Brusati (U-M)
Respondents: James Cogswell (U-M), Christian de Pee (U-M)
Speakers:
Eugene Wang (Harvard University) “Space”
Alfreda Murck (Palace Museum, Beijing) “Word and Image”
Chen Jianhua (HKUST) “Visuality.”
Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University) “Literati Painting”
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:15 Showing of selected paintings from the collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Natsu Oyobe, Curator, Asian Art, UMMA
12:15-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:45
Language [Panel Five]
Chair: Xiaobing Tang (U-M)
Respondents: James Elkins (Art Institute of Chicago), Basil Dufallo (U-M)
Speakers:
Ronald Egan (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective”
Susan Bush (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard) “Expressive Content in Early Chinese Painting”
Richard Vinograd (Stanford University) “Classification”
Cao Yiqiang (China Academy of Arts) “English Terms and Chinese Art”
3: 45-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 General Discussion: Chair, Martin Powers, UM
5:00-5:30 Closing Remarks: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago)
5:30-6:00 Reception
6:30-8:30 Dinner (by invitation)
