Welcome remarks from workshop organisers
Yanling Li, Shixin Liang, Giulia Pra Floriani, and Fengyu Wang
Keynote lecture: Anti-Photography and Opaque Images
Towards an Alternative Narrative on the Genealogy of East-Asian Photography, from Meiji to Contemporary Practices
Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv University)
Moderation: Sarah E. Fraser (Heidelberg University)
Coffee break
Memory/everyday life (a)
Chair: Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University)
Colour Dictionary: Revolutionary China’s Souvenir Photographs
Shaowen Zhang, Harvard University
The Lens of Everyday Life: Amateur Photography and Modern Life in 1930s China
Mi Zhou, University of St Andrews
Fractured Memories, Divided Frames: Revisiting Park Chan-kyong’s Black Box (1997)
Minna Lee, Princeton University
Coffee break
Discursive spaces/situated knowledge
Chair: Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
Margaret’s Letter: A Digital Media Shared Experience
Celio H. Barreto Ramos, Seneca College
Night Excursions to West Lake: Photography and Expositions in Modern China, 1911-1929
Xinyue Yuan, UC Irvine
“A Vast Territory with Rich Resources” (dida wubo): Reframing Nature Through Photographic Objects in the 1950s
Yi Liu, UC San Diego
Coffee break
Book launch: Photography’s appearances in China: over- and underestimated
Photography in China: Science, Commerce and Communication (Routledge, 2021)
Oliver Moore (University of Groningen)
Moderation: Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University)
Memory/everyday life (b)
Chair: Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv University)
Portraying the Self or Performing the Other? Costume Photo, Transformed Body, and Gender Performance in The Goddess Scatters Flowers (Tiannü sanhua, 1917)
Jiaqi Wang, CU Boulder
From Aerial Photography to New Documentary: Representation of Disasters between 1923 and 1945 in Japanese Photography
Shih-cheng Huang, SOAS
Visualising the Postwar Shadow: Ishiuchi Miyako, Tōmatsu Shōmei, and Yokosuka
Ji Hye Alice Han, Sophia University
Coffee break
Ecology/built environment
Chair: Oliver Moore (University of Groningen)
Representation and Excavation in Engineering Landscapes
Shirley Ye, University of Birmingham
Construction Photography in Post-independence Pune (India): An Emerging Tool of Building Practice?
Sarah Melsens, University of Antwerp
Lunch break
Special lecture: For a Photographic Pedagogy of Unlearning
Franz Prichard (Princeton University)
Moderation: Yanling Li (Heidelberg University)
Eye-witnessing/social reality
Chair: Thy Phu (University of Toronto)
The New Photography Movement: From “Scientific” Knowledge to Social Realism
Mycah Braxton, Harvard University
Bringing the Human World Home: Renjian (Human World) Magazine and Third World Photojournalism
Po-hsi Chen, University of Cambridge
Eva Sandberg Siao: Photographs of the Reconstruction of Tiananmen Square in 1959
Lin Du, UCLA
Coffee break
Book launch: Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2022)
Thy Phu (University of Toronto)
Moderation: Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg University)
Coffee break
Film screening: Memories of China
Based on Thomas Sauvin’s collection and Shixin Liang’s research on the Beijing Silvermine. Director: Emiland Guillerme. Film with English subtitles.
Followed by a discussion among Emiland Guillerme, Thomas Sauvin, Barbara Mittler, Shixin Liang and students from the seminar Intimate Histories at Heidelberg University
Photographic art reproduction
Chair: Fengyu Wang and Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg University)
Unboxing ‘Exotica’: Perspectives on Non-European Art in the Bruckmann Archive
Franziska Lampe, ZI Munich
Reading a Photograph: Auguste Rodin, Victor Goloubew and the Possibilities of the Art Book in Ars Asiatica (Éditions G. Van Oest, 1914–1935)
Elise Dupré, Ghent University
Coffee break
Travel/expeditions
Chair: Sarah E. Fraser (Heidelberg University)
The Photo Series of the “Archaeological-historical Expeditions” from the Archives of the Japanese Colonial Government of Korea
Jeehye Kim, University of Salzburg
Rediscovering the Frontier: the Northwest Photography in Republican Chinese Media (1931-1945)
Feng Guo, University of Edinburgh
Combining the History of Photography and Anthropology in Postwar Taiwan: Chang Tsai and His Photographs Revisited
Peng-hui Wang, CTGU
Lunch break
Materials/materiality
Chair: Franz Prichard (Princeton University)
Printed Windows, Traveling Frames: Transnational Photograph Albums and Missionary Visualities in Modern China and Taiwan
Joseph W. Ho, Albion College
Disobedient Photobook: Photobooks and Protest Image in Contemporary Hong Kong
Wing Ki Lee, HKBU
Busshitsu in Photography: The Materiality of Photographed Objects in Conceptual Photography in Japan and California in the 1960s–1970s
Asako Katsura, UC Irvine
Coffee break
Keynote lecture: Seeing, Showing, and Returning: Tsuchida Hiromi's Fukushima
Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
Moderation: Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University)
Roundtable
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