Friday, October 14 - 5:00pm
Keynote Lecture
" After-Shock and After-Image: A Chinese "Neorealist" Painter's Engagement with the Real in the Postmedium and Post-Earthquake Situation "
Professor Eugene Wang, Harvard University
Saturday, October 15
9:00am to 5:30pm
Symposium
9:30am - Opening Remarks
Anna Brzyski, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Kentucky
10:00am- 12:00pm
"798 Art Factory: Unstable Diversity of Chinese Art"
Chunchen Wang, CAFA
"Theory and Practice: The Modern Chinese Art Museums"
Gan Zhang, Tsinghua University
"Walls, Public Sphere, and Chinese Architecture: the Dafen Art Museum in Shenzen"
Delin Lai, University of Louisville
12:00 noon - 1:30pm Lunch Break
1:30pm- 3:30pm
"Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China "
Xuefei Ren, Michigan State Univ./ Woodrow Wilson Institute, DC
"Painting the Still Life of Socialist Ruins: The Film Art of Jia Zhangke"
Sheldon H. Lu, UC Davis
"Subject to Movement: Wu Wenguang and the Ethics of Self-Othering"
Yingjin Zhang, UC San Diego
3:30pm- 4:00pm- Coffee break
4:00pm- 5:30pm - Round table discussion: The contested ground of contemporary Chinese visual cultures