To 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
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
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)
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
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
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