12200922261?profile=originalTo coincide with the Freer and Sackler exhibition POWER | PLAY China’s Empress Dowager (photographs of the Empress Dowager Cixi, dating from c.1903), the Japan Art History Forum will be holding a special conference focusing on the subject of imperial portraiture across Asia and the Middle East during the advent of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

While the exhibition itself addresses the unique circumstances and intention of the Cixi photographs, the conference will provide an opportunity for a broader comparative analysis of the engagement with photography in the context of portraiture in ruling courts across Asia.

Invited speakers include:
Ali Behdad, John Clark, Deepali Dewan, Holly Edwards, Maki Fukoka, Luke Gartlan, Yi Gu, Yuhang Li, Hyung Il Pai, Maurizio Peleggi, Claire Roberts, Mary Roberts, Roberta Wue and Peng Yingchen.

Details of the conference can be found here. A full conference program and other information will be available in late summer. 

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  • Conference programme including list of Speakers, registration etc can now be found here.

    PROGRAM

    MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011


    8:30–9 am
    Coffee
    9–9:15 am
    Opening Remarks
    Session I:
    Personal Agency and Self-representation
    9:15–11 am
    Moderator: David Hogge, Freer and Sackler Galleries

    Yi Gu, University of Toronto
    Prince Chun through the Lens: Negotiating Photographic Medium in Royal Image

    Ying-chen Peng, University of California, Los Angeles
    Lingering between Tradition and Innovation: Photographic Portraits of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908)

    Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles 
    Portrait Photographs: Constructions of Masculinity; Representations of Power

    11–11:30 am
    Break
    Session II:
    Personal Manifestations of Nationhood
    11:30 am–1:15 pm
    Moderator: James Ulak, Freer and Sackler Galleries

    Luke Gartlan, University of St. Andrews
    The Reverent and the Everyday: Presenting Imperial Photographic Portraits in Meiji Japan

    Hyung Il Pai, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Romancing the Ruins of Imperial Antiquity: Travel Myths, Memories, and the Marketing of Heritage Destinations in Korea

    Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine
    The Mandarin at Home and Abroad: Picturing Li Hongzhang (1823–1901)

    1:15–3 pm
    Lunch on your own
    Session III:
    Photographs and other media
    3–4:45 pm
    Moderator: Debra Diamond, Freer and Sackler Galleries

    John Clark, University of Sydney
    Presenting the Self: Pictorial and Photographic Discourses in Nineteenth-century Dutch Indies, Siam, and Japan

    Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto 
    Embellished Reality: Paint and Photography in Studio Portraiture from India

    Mary Roberts, University of Sydney
    Ottoman Statecraft and the “Pencil of Nature”: Portrait Photography and Drawing at the Court of Sultan Abdülaziz

    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011


    8:30–9 am
    Coffee
    Session IV:
    Court and Religion
    9–10:45 am
    Moderator: Nancy Micklewright, Freer and Sackler Galleries

    Maki Fukuoka, University of Michigan
    Pictorializing the Emperor

    Yuhang Li, Yale University
    Mimicking Guanyin through the Lens: Cixi/Guanyin Photographs

    Claire Roberts, Australian National University
    Chinese Imperial Portrait Photography: Reconciling Heaven and Earth

    Session V:
    Then and Now
    11 am–12:45 pm
    Moderator: Carol Huh, Freer and Sackler Galleries

    Holly Edwards, Williams College
    Timely Portraits: Afghan Women Then and Now

    Christine Kim, Georgetown University
    Portraying Korea’s Colonial Monarchy: Images of Assimilation and Modernity

    Maurizio Peleggi, National University of Singapore
    From Image to Icon: The Aesthetics and Politics of Thai Royal Portraiture

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