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Schedule

All sessions will take place in the Pane Room of the Alexander Library. Guests must register in advance.

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

 

Welcome Remarks (12 pm -12:15 pm) 

  • Introduction by Jae Won Edward Chung (Rutgers University)
  • Paul Schalow (Rutgers University), Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures 

 

Session I. Imperial Archive Against the Grain (12:30 pm – 3:15 pm)

Moderator: Vero Chai (Rutgers University); Discussant: Andrés Zervigon (Rutgers University)

  • Harry Gu (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “Imperial Empiricism and Its Blind Spots: A Specular Approach to Time”
  • Nadine Attewell (Simon Fraser University), “Hong Kong in Transition: Caring for Others in Empire’s Wake”
  • Jie Guo (University of South Carolina), “Thibaw’s Throne: Optical Aphasia and Colonial/Decolonial Imagination in Burma”
  • Zeynep Gursel (Rutgers University), “Photographing Never: Photography, the Ottoman State and the Making of Armenian Emigrants”

 

Session II. Intermediation, Redirection, Dissemination (3:30 pm – 5:45 pm)

Moderator: Minna Lee (Princeton University); Discussant: Siona Wilson (College of Staten Island)

  • Jae Won Edward Chung (Rutgers University), “Anti-Exhibition Intermedia: Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man and the Rethinking of Kinship, Violence, and Sovereignty in 1950s South Korea”
  • Jessica Bachman (University of Washington), “Picturing a Taste for the Soviet: Bookselling and Consumer Culture in late Twentieth Century India”
  • Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University), “Uneven Disseminations and Reactivated Events: the Photographs of Gwangju in 1980, Short-circuiting Seoul, Reaching Afar to Germany, Japan, and the US. 

 

Dinner (6:15 pm)


FRIDAY, APRIL 7

 

Keynote Speech (9 am – 10:15 am)

  • Introduction by Jung Joon Lee (Rhode Island School of Design)
  • Thy Phu (University of Toronto), “Vietnam, Socialist Futurities and Counterfactualities”

 

Session III. Photographic Practice as Epistemic Intervention (10:30 am – 12:45 pm)

Moderator: Amy Kahng (Stony Brook University); Discussant: Hosu Kim (College of Staten Island)

  • Franz Prichard (Princeton University), “Critical Confluences: Anticolonial and Ecological “Vocabularies” in the Photography and Writings of Takuma Nakahira”
  • Jung Joon Lee (Rhode Island School of Design), “Countervisualizing Korean Camptowns: On Kang Yong Suk’s From Dongducheon (1982) and Black Temporality”
  • Nancy P. Lin (Cornell University), “Performative Futility: Photographic Documentation and the Expanded Temporality of Performance in Chinese Contemporary Art”

 

Lunch Talk (1 pm – 1:30 pm) 

 

Session IV. Roundtable: Photographic Futurities (2:30 pm – 4 pm) 

Moderator: Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University)

 

 

Sponsors 

Department of Asian Language and Cultures
Korean Studies Gift Fund
Center for Cultural Analysis
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Department of African, Middle Eastern, And South Asian Languages and Literature
Rhode Island School of Design Humanities Fund
Northeast Asia Council Conference Grant
Rutgers SAS Global Asias