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SUMMARY:Girl Statue of One’s Own
DESCRIPTION:Art History Public Seminar \nGirl Statue of One’s Own: On Customizing a Public Memorial for “Comfort Women”\nDate: 10 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6pm-7pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nFormat: in-person only\, first come first served\, walk-ins welcome \nSpeaker: SaeHim Park (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies\, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies\, CUHK) \nThe Statue of Peace (2011)\, commonly known as the Girl Statue\, is a public memorial dedicated to “comfort women\,” an infamous euphemism referring to gender-based violence under the Japanese Empire from c.1931 to 1945. Drawing from an ongoing book manuscript\, Girl Statue Rush: On Imaging Comfort Women\, this talk examines how the statue’s circulation across scale\, form\, and media reshapes practices of remembrance in the historical present. \nSaeHim Park is an art historian and Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She works on contemporary feminist art and visual culture; memory and trauma; and the environmental humanities across the Asia-Pacific. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Mortality\, Art Inquiries\, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities\, Capacious\, and Feminist Formations. She received her PhD in Art\, Art History and Visual Studies from Duke University\, and previously taught as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana. \nImage: 작은 소녀상/Peace Statue/平和少女像\, War & Women’s Human Rights Museum\, Seoul.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/girl-statue-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T062814Z
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SUMMARY:Serial Visions of Socialist Construction
DESCRIPTION:Art History Pubic Seminar\nSerial Visions of Socialist Construction: Li Fenglan\, Lianhuanhua\, and the Metatexts of Mass Art\nDate: 15 January 2026 (Thursday)\nTime: 1pm-2pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nFormat: in-person only\, first come first served\, walk-ins welcome \nGuest speaker: Dr. Angie C. Baecker (Research Assistant Professor\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\n \n \nThis talk will examine serial comics\, or lianhuanhua\, inked by amateur artist-laborers during the socialist period in the People’s Republic of China. Although the majority of published serial comics were drawn by artists employed by state-run publishing houses\, some were drawn collectively by mass artists as a direct corollary of their productive labor\, with local art centers often organizing agricultural workers to draw cartoon panels depicting the very infrastructure drives that they had been mobilized to work on. Serial comics drawn by amateur artists thus provide occasion to consider the entanglement of artistic and productive labor within the mass art movement in socialist China. Through close readings of lianhuanhua drawn by non-professional artists\, this presentation argues that the seriality of imagery in mass produced serial comics reflected changed concepts of narrative and temporality under the conditions of socialist construction.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/serial-visions-of-socialist-construction/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251126T161500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251126T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20251103T041026Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Egyptian Temples: Three Thousand Years of Development
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-organized by Humanities and Digital Technologies program and the Department of Art History\, Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nDate: 26 November 2025 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:15-5:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click for directions)\n \nGuest speaker: Prof. John Baines (Professor Emeritus\, Egyptology\, University of Oxford)\n \nTemples were a central institution of ancient Egyptian society. From modest local shrines\, through intricate structures forming part of pyramid complexes\, to vast enclosures containing several temples in the second and first millennia BCE\, they incorporated core values and were ever more vital to the entire society. Their forms incorporated and spoke to the rural and urban landscape\, they influenced other civilizations\, and today they continue to be salient symbols of Egyptian visual culture. This lecture will explore their development while concentrating on the intricate structures of later periods. \nRegistration: required\, first come first served \nCome early on the day to secure your seat!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ancient-egyptian-temples-three-thousand-years-of-development/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20251016T085939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093654Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:We are excited about this annual public information day and here are what our department has prepared for you. Come and meet our teachers and students. Fine out what Art History is and why we are all in love with it! \n\nAll day (CPD-LG.07)\, Information booth\n10am (CPD-LG.59)\, Art History Mock Lecture: “What defines Baroque Art?” by Dr. Elisabeth Drago\n2pm (CPD-LG.60)\, Information Session: “Art History @HKU” by Dr. Vivian Sheng\n10am-4pm (CPD-LG.41)\, Art History x VR: Experiencing Art in the Digital World\n\nRegister now!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/information-day-2025/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Information,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20251014T064741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093527Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Pi Li & Pauline Yao
DESCRIPTION:Career Workshop Series\nDate: 24 October 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 4-5pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\n \nGuest speakers: Pi Li and Pauline J. Yao\nPi Li is the Head of Art at Tai Kwun\, co-curator of the current exhibition “Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008.”\nPauline J. Yao\, an independent curator\, is the co-curator of “Sigg Prize 2025” exhibition now on view at M+.\nModerator: Prof. Yeewan Koon\n \nAll students are welcome. No registration required. Free seating.\nThe session will be conducted in English.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-with-pi-li-and-pauline-yao/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conversation,Information,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20251020T033424Z
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SUMMARY:New Forms of Calligraphy in China: Graffiti Art
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-organized by the CILS of HKU Faculty of Law\, Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) of HKU\, and the School of Humanities of HKU Faculty of Arts.\nDate: 23 October 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 4pm-5pm\nVenue: Room 723\, 7/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, The University of Hong Kong\nSpeaker: Dr. Marta Rosa Bisceglia (Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow\, University of Bologna) \nThe seminar will begin with a presentation of the European research project WRITE – New Forms of Calligraphy in China: A Contemporary Culture Mirror (国书法新形式：当代文化之镜\, PI Prof A Iezzi). The project investigates how emerging forms of calligraphy in contemporary China are reshaping Chinese cultural identity. At its core\, WRITE undertakes the first systematic analysis of these innovative artistic practices. By creating a comprehensive dataset of artworks and adopting a media-based categorization\, the project explores the development of new forms of calligraphy across multiple creative domains\, including fine and contemporary art\, decorative and applied arts\, architecture\, performing arts\, and graffiti art. \nWithin this broader framework\, the seminar will focus on graffiti as one of the most dynamic and experimental areas where calligraphy is being redefined. Graffiti\, a global art movement in constant evolution\, emerged in China only in the mid-1990s. Despite being relatively underexplored\, it has developed into a remarkably vibrant phenomenon\, giving voice and vitality to the anonymous neighborhoods of the country’s vast metropolises. Chinese graffiti occupies a liminal space between legality and illegality\, free street expression and commercial production\, state endorsement and social critique\, revealing both its unique local character and the complex cultural landscape of contemporary China. \nIn this context\, Dr Bisceglia\, a specialist in Chinese graffiti\, a member of the WRITE project\, and co-author of the book Graffiti in China\, will advance the discussion by presenting her most recent research on the intersections between calligraphy and graffiti in China\, and the emerging new era of Chinese graffiti. \nDiscussant: Koon Yeewan\, Associate Professor\, Chair of Department of Art History\, and Associate Dean (Global)\, Faculty of Arts\, The University of Hong Kong\nChair: Shane Chalmers\, Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law\nTo register\, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=103400. \nFor inquiries\, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.\nTo learn more about The Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (CILS)\, please go to https://cils.law.hku.hk/. 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/new-forms-of-calligraphy-in-china-graffiti-art/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conversation,Seminar
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20250512T090125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095449Z
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SUMMARY:MA Colloquium 2025
DESCRIPTION:The annual MA Colloquium is an open platform for our MAAH students to present their dissertation research to other students\, members of our Faculty and their advisors. \nDate: 12th – 14th May 2025 (Monday to Wednesday)\nTime: 9:30am-1pm\, 2:30pm-5:15pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nNo registration required\, open to all\, free seating. \nA hardcopy of the presentation schedule (with individual abstract) is available in our Art History Resource Centre.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ma-colloquium-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250429T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20250416T030434Z
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SUMMARY:Boating through the Sacred Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Boating through the Sacred Landscape: Fang Congyi and the Spiritual Ecology of Yuan China\nAround the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries\, Daoist monks found the many secluded pockets of space\, eroded caves\, and zoomorphic peaks of the Wuyi Mountains in southeastern China conducive to their spiritual practices. They meditated\, harvested medicinal herbs\, and boated along Wuyi’s Nine Bend Stream to engage with its exceptional terrain. Notably\, the topographic painting Drifting in the Wuyi Mountains (1359) by Fang Congyi (c. 1302–1393) captures a virtual threshold\, where a scholar sails in a small boat toward a towering peak shaped like a sacred lingzhi mushroom. In contrast to previous scholarship that foregrounds the painting’s scholarly and Daoist associations\, my research applies an ecocritical perspective to examine how the work mediates embodied encounters with the physical environment. What does it mean for a painting to not only represent the natural world\, but to participate in shaping how it is experienced\, remembered\, and spiritually activated? Fang’s scroll serves as a point of departure for exploring the spiritual ecology of Wuyi—an inspirited realm where specific plants\, terrain\, and rituals supported a Daoist quest for spiritual transcendence. Ultimately\, this project advocates for close engagement with local environments and attention to nonhuman agents in order to understand how art mediates ecological relationships and contributes to a more inclusive\, materially grounded history of Chinese art and visual culture. \nDate: 29th April 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Yu-chuan Chen \nYu-chuan Chen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Oakland University and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research and curatorial practice center on eco-art history in East Asia\, focusing on 10th to 14th century Chinese art and visual culture. His work examines how the visual and material entanglements of humans\, natural organisms\, and sacred environments shape cultural and artistic imaginaries. His exhibitions—including A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography and Earthly Hollows: Caves and Kiln Transformations—explore how spiritual agents and topographies animate spiritual and artistic expressions. His current book project\, Activating the Sacred Landscape: The Visual Culture of the Wuyi Mountains\, utilizes boat journeys as a critical lens to explore artistic visions of this sacred Daoist mountain since the twelfth century. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, among other institutions.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/boating-through-the-sacred-landscape/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250425T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20250415T022856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T030020Z
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SUMMARY:The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers
DESCRIPTION:The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers: A View of Transcultural Entanglements in Inner Asia from the Iron Age to the Mongol Era\nNumerous nomadic and semi-nomadic confederations flourished along the Chinese northern periphery from the middle of the first millennium BCE well into the 15th century. Amid their intensive interactions with sedentary neighbors – namely China – steppe societies invented and circulated a unique approach to image-making. Loosely known in art-historical discourse as “animal style”\, this zoomorphic visual language was inspired by the nomad’s psychology of mobility and their constantly shifting place in an increasingly interconnected cultural and political milieu. Steppe visuality was rooted in a metonymic mode of expression\, creating an alternative ecological reality where animal bodies existed in a constant state of flux\, metamorphosis\, and “in-betweenness”. This study makes two primary observations. Firstly\, it contends that this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became a shared political strategy and a coping mechanism for the elite nucleus of reluctant and culturally diverse nomadic alliances in the face of their geopolitical rival. The analysis will show that animal-style design was at the heart of a self-fashioning dilemma\, as all Inner Asian societies\, from the Xiongnu to the Mongols\, wished to reconcile two distinct identities – that of a worldly politician in a global Eurasian milieu\, and that of a fearsome warrior with a sacral connection to the steppe environment. Secondly\, the lecture will demonstrate how steppe-inspired zoomorphic idioms permeated Chinese material and visual culture and became a new mode of framing the “nomadic Other” far beyond the northern zone – as far as China’s southern borders and distant outposts on the Korean Peninsula. \nDate: 25th April 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Petya Andreeva \nPetya Andreeva is an Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at Vassar College. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Andreeva is the author of the monograph “Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies” (Edinburgh\, 2024)\, and the editor of the volume “The Zoomorphic Arts of Ancient Central Eurasia” (MDPI\, 2023). Her work on cross-cultural exchange in ancient and medieval Chinese and Central Asian art has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society\, Early China\, Fashion Theory\, Archaeological Research in Asia\, to name a few\, and her most recent work will be published in the Art Bulletin later this year. Her scholarship has also been featured on popular news outlets such as the History Channel and Voices on Central Asia. She is the recipient of several international awards\, including UNESCO’s Silk Road Research Grant and the Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art. Dr. Andreeva has given talks at institutions worldwide\, including Cambridge\, Yale\, Harvard\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, Heidelberg\, the American Center for Mongolian Studies\, and the China Institute of America.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-zoomorphic-visual-language-of-chinas-frontiers/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250422T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
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SUMMARY:Decontextualization\, Reconfiguration and Symbolization
DESCRIPTION:Decontextualization\, Reconfiguration and Symbolization: Reinventing Pensive Bodhisattvas in Early Medieval China (3rd to 6th c.)\nImages of pensive bodhisattva were produced in various Silk Routes regions from Gandhāra to Central Asia\, China\, Korea and Japan. His identity in each area is highly controversial. I argue that the key threshold of pensive image existed in fifth- and sixth century China\, where he was placed in some new pictorial contexts. These contexts suggest contradicting identities of him including Siddhartha (悉達多\, pre-enlightened Sākyamuni)\, Maitreya [彌勒] and several types of devotees/practitioners related to them. \nThis paper examines the shifting meanings of pensive bodhisattva. I propose that unlike its counterparts in Gandhāra and Central Asia\, pensive bodhisattva in China never exist within a full representation of Siddhartha watching the ploughing event and experiencing his first meditation\, whose repertoire typically includes farmers\, bulls and kneeling Śuddhodana [淨飯王]. I argue that pensive bodhisattva no longer embodies Siddhartha in the moment of evoking bodhicitta\, the compassionate mind to rescue all beings from suffering. Instead\, it had been decontextualized from the original narrative and constructed as a visual sign pointing at the Bodhisattva path\, a trajectory starting at the bodhicitta moment and culminating at the attainment of Buddhahood. \nIn 470s\, pensive bodhisattvas were incorporated into the iconography of Tuśita Heaven [兜率天] as attending figures flanking Maitreya to elevate Tuśita’s status to a quasi-Pure Land\, by visually connecting a rebirth in Tuśita with attaining Buddhahood. In sixth century\, pensive bodhisattvas were depicted as focal images within donor portraits/processions and later created as independent icons. I consider they embody the guaranteed\, future Buddhahood of the principal donors. In other words\, pensive bodhisattva is an “iconic narrative”: an anthropomorphic embodiment of the key morality behind the narrative of the historical Buddha’s life that we all Mahāyana [大乘] believers pursue our liberation by following and reenacting the trajectory of Sākyamuni Buddha. \nDate: 22nd April 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Zhao Yi (Joey) \nZhao Yi (Joey) is a historian of medieval Chinese art and material culture. His research focuses on Chinese Buddhist art and its “horizontal” interactions with the wider Silk Routes regions as well as its “vertical” negotiations with the indigenous Chinese culture. His first book (GRF project) will examine the shifting Chinese conceptions on “afterworld paradise” along with the introduction and development of Buddhism in China between the 2nd- and 6th century. His new projects address Chan art in East Asia and Tibetan Buddhist art in late imperial China. \nHe obtained his PhD in Art History from the University of Kansas in 2023. He has taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Colorado College as an assistant professor and visiting assistant professor respectively. He is the recipient of Annual Graduate Research Award of 2022 from the Early Medieval China Group. His articles appear on major journals such as Archives of Asian Art\, Artibus Asiae\, Religions and etc. He is also an archaeologist who participated in the excavation of the Dayunshan Mausoleum of Prince Jiangdu (d. 128 BCE) in 2012.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/decontextualization-reconfiguration-and-symbolization/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250324T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250324T143000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20250307T035244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095612Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nLee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation\nLee Mingwei’s (b.1964\, Taiwan) artistic practice incorporates aspects of installation\, performance\, and participation. Inspired by multiple sources\, his works follow no set medium or material and are often repeated in different locations. Through his iterative projects he builds connectedness and helps us see art as a space for transformation and change. This talk will cover key works in Lee’s career\, giving special attention to the large-scale sand painting installation Guernica in Sand currently on view at M+. \nDate: 24th March 2025 (Monday)\nTime: 1-2:30pm\nVenue: Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit) (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE – Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Pauline J. Yao \nPauline J. Yao is an independent curator and writer based in Hong Kong. From 2017 to 2024 she was Lead Curator\, Visual Art\, at M+. Since joining the M+ curatorial team in 2012\, Yao played an integral role in building the museum’s collection and acquiring works of art from East Asia\, Southeast Asia and internationally. She curated the first display of the visual art collection exhibition Individuals\, Networks\, Expressions and organized Antony Gormley: Asian Field\, both in 2021. Other M+ exhibitions include In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (with Shirley Surya\, 2018) and Five Artists: Sites Encountered (2019)\, both presented at the M+ Pavilion. Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum International and her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues\, online publications\, and edited volumes.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/lee-mingwei-and-the-art-of-transformation/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250323T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250323T153000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20250217T085419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095545Z
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SUMMARY:The Art World 2025
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nThe Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities\nHow social media\, geopolitics\, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world’s markets and modus operandi. \nDate: 23rd March 2025 (Sunday)\nTime: 2pm-3:30pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE– Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating\, with doors open at 1:30pm \nSpeaker: Marc Spiegler (Cultural Strategist) \nSpiegler was the Global Director of Art Basel from 2012 to 2022\, and helped bring Art Basel to Hong Kong in 2011. He now works independently with cultural organizations such as the LUMA Foundation and for companies such as Prada Group\, KEF and Sanlorenzo. In the immersive space\, he is President of Board of Superblue and chairman of the UBS Digital Art Museum’s advisory board. Spiegler has been a Visiting Professor in cultural management at Milan’s Universita Bocconi for a decade and recently cofounded the Art Market Minds Academy\, a virtual education startup.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-art-world-2025-blurred-lines-and-new-realities/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241030T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241030T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20241009T034210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T015555Z
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SUMMARY:Where Does A Painting End?
DESCRIPTION:Research Seminar Series 2024/25\nWhere Does A Painting End?\nDate: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD 2.58\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (free seating)\nDirections: from MTR (click here); from car park (click here)\nSpeaker: Prof. Yeewan Koon \nAbstract\nThis presentation is of an ongoing project examining the conceit of a copy and pictorial wit in the Ming dynasty\, a time when a sophisticated art market for forgeries and originals was forming. By interrogating traditional paradigms of understanding copies\, this paper considers how artists employed emulative strategies to reflect on how paintings – as artifact and as image – inhabit their own social and cultural worlds. It asks what is the implication of a “double-looking” that demands acknowledging the presence of original artworks (and not of a former artist) within the replicant? Challenging the biases of historical lineages in our current art canon\, the speaker proposes that copies were instrumental in the making of visual knowledge and\, more importantly\, reveal what happens when copies escape time. \nSpeaker\nProf. Yeewan Koon is the Chair of the Department of Art History and Associate Dean (Global) at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research focuses on Ming and Qing art history\, with projects that re-evaluate established canonical narratives for diverse perspectives and alternative methodologies. Additionally\, she is active in contemporary art\, contributing to publications and curatorial projects at institutions such as Asia Society and Gwangju Biennale. Her current research project is a thematic study of Chinese export paintings.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/where-does-a-painting-end/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Lecture Series,Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240929T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20240920T043512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095707Z
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SUMMARY:Small Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Para Site. \nSmall Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering\nDate: 29th September 2024 (Sunday)\nTime: 1pm-6pm\nVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit)\nRegistration: Required. Click here\nEvent details: Click here  \nLanguage: English to Cantonese simultaneous interpretation will be available through the day\, with Putonghua/Cantonese to English available for round table 1.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/small-acts-new-flows-a-public-gathering/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Conversation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240625T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240628T113000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20240613T014605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T094312Z
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SUMMARY:Art History & Curatorship Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The University of Melbourne X The University of Hong Kong \nArt History & Curatorship Seminars 2024\nDate: 25-28 June 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)\nTime: 9:30-11:30am\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU*\nRegistration: Required. Email art.history@hku.hk and indicate the session(s) you plan to attend and your year group. First come\, first served.  \n\nHong Kong art instutitions: a personal perspective (25 June)\n\nSpeaker: David Clarke (Honorary Professor (modern and contemporary art history)\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\n\n\nHong Kong arts development and funding (26 June)\n\nSpeaker: Johnson Chang Tsong-zung (Independent curator; Director\, Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong))\n\n\nResearching\, curating and practicing art in Hong Kong now (27 June)\n\nSpeaker: Michelle Wun Ting Wong (Independent curator; PhD candidate (Art History)\, HKU; Co-foundaer\, New Park)\nSpeaker: Eunice Tsang (Founder and Curator\, Current Plans; Associate Curator\, M+ Moving Image)\n\n\nArt publishing: ArtAsiaPacific (28 June)\n\nSpeaker: Elaine W. Ng (Editor\, ArtAsiaPacific; Assistant Professor\, Academy of Visual Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University)\n\n\n\n*All sessions will begin with the guest speaker’s presentation in CPD-2.58. Registered students are welcome to join the subsequent discussion in CPD-LG.61. \nJoin us to explore aspects of the art eco-system in Hong Kong.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-curatorship-seminars-2024/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20240508T040219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T043743Z
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SUMMARY:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors
DESCRIPTION:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors: Durable Ephemera and Networks of Stone in Quanzhou’s Zhenguo Pagoda\nDate: 20 May 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Jennifer Purtle\, University of Toronto \nAbstract\nTo build a pagoda is to mobilize durable materials into architectonic form\, timber and stone\, allowing it to stand and indeed rise stories above ground level\, perhaps for several centuries. But pagodas can also be crafted using images and objects wrought in ephemeral materials: fragile printed texts and paintings on silk\, indestructible objects fashioned from valuable metals ultimately recycled\, and evanescent forms no longer produced. Once these ephemera disappear\, they exist only as embodied in the fabric of the pagoda. The pagoda thus becomes a nexus of textual\, pictorial\, and formal transfer\, a site at which imperishable media preserve others easily destroyed through artistic and intermedial processes\, to create abiding texts and images able to outlive their models. \nThis talk examines how\, in the Zhenguo pagoda 鎮國塔 (lit. “Stabilizing the State Pagoda”) at the Kaiyuan temple 開元寺 in Quanzhou 泉州\, Fujian 福建\, rock—covered with the imagery of paper (and silk\, and other fugitive media) by means of scissors (or\, more precisely\, the carver’s knife)—preserved traces of evanescent forms\, sustained their lost networks\, and served as a lexicon for decoding the forgotten iconographies of other monuments. This talk articulates the relationship of paper-based editions of the Buddhist canon\, especially printed ones\, to the stone-carved narrative program and demonstrates how single reliefs combine content from multiple sutras; it also asserts that artisans employed the logographic schema of printed-paper primers as well as pictorial styles drawn from court painting on silk\, known locally\, to maximize the intelligibility of the reliefs. Furthermore\, this essay contends that\, by representing small\, free-standing bronze (and stone) pagodas—their corpus\, like those of their paper- and silk-based counterparts\, now largely lost—the reliefs establish links to overlapping local (Quanzhou)\, regional (Min-Yue/Fujian)\, imperial\, and maritime (Indian Ocean) object networks. Finally\, by using the durable images of the Zhenguo pagoda as indices of long-lost monuments\, this essay recovers the identity of an unusual local type of monument\, thereby validating the hypothesis that this pagoda serves as a repository of\, and lexicon for\, now-lost ephemera. \nSpeaker\nProfessor Jennifer Purtle (Chinese name: 裴珍妮) teaches at the University of Toronto. She researches the artistic landscape of China\, especially that of Fujian province\, engaging questions of local and regional production of painting in relation to Chinese empires. These aspects are central to her forthcoming monograph\, The Problem of Place: Artistic Geography and Cultural Transactions in Min [Fujian] Painting\, 909–1646. She is also interested in the circulation of art objects in the medieval world system\, especially in the Great Mongol Empire and is currently working on a book-length project that traces the intersection of local and global art history in Fujian during the Song and Yuan dynasties. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/rock-paper-scissors/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T081803Z
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SUMMARY:David Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nDavid Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture\nDate: 10 April 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD 2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Alex Jen\, MPhil candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nDavid Diao\, perhaps by his own creation\, has long been an artist difficult to classify. Emerging in the storied New York art world of the 1960s\, which gave rise to such movements as Pop\, Minimalism and Conceptualism among others\, Diao took a studiously uncommitted position and developed a citational painting that continues to this day. His lasting concern has been the history of abstraction as he was\, or failed to be\, a part of it; in turn\, by banalizing the life and practice of the artist in his paintings — detailing legendary exhibitions\, sales records and stereotypes — Diao has laid bare the myths and structures that organize art history and the art world itself. This presentation provides an overview of my research with a focus on Diao’s early career from 1966 to 1973\, wherein he actively (and humorously) refused conventions of persona and process in the pursuit of a “de-aestheticized” painting. \nSpeaker\nAlex Jen is an MPhil candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong. His criticism on art\, architecture and poetry has appeared in Frieze\, The Financial Times\, Gulf Coast and other venues\, and he has curated projects at galleries and artist-run spaces in Chicago and Taipei. A graduate of Williams College\, Jen was previously the Special Assistant to the President and Director at The Art Institute of Chicago. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/david-diao-to-paint-a-de-aestheticized-picture/
LOCATION:CPD-2.45\, CPD-2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240205T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20240122T035730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T035730Z
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SUMMARY:To be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nTo be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures \nDate: 5 February 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Michelle Wong\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis presentation examines a selection of sculptures by the late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925-2009) and argues that artistic modernism in Hong Kong was a self-aware response to the diverse current of ideas and information on art circulating in the city. Ha’s sculptures encompassed self-conscious references to artistic modernism from Europe and America\, inherited elements of Chinese aesthetics\, and his lived experiences in Hong Kong. These lived experiences included urban life\, the changing values of labour within a developing consumer economy\, and the cosmopolitan aspiration that accompanied Hong Kong’s rapid modernization. For Ha\, sculpture was also a creative and social domain where he established himself as a modern artist in Hong Kong by producing works with a highly individualized visual language. This study thus takes into consideration the social and cultural aspects of the mid-twentieth century Hong Kong art world\, and how they\, alongside the city’s rapid modernization\, found ways into Ha’s sculptures as material\, imagery\, and process. \nSpeaker\nMichelle Wun Ting Wong is a PhD candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong\, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art\, 1945–1990 (2018) and the journal Southeast of Now (2019). She was previously Researcher at Asia Art Archive\, focusing on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Curatorial projects include Portals\, Stories\, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021)\, Afterglow\, Yokohama Triennale 2020\, and 11th Edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/to-be-hong-kong-and-modern-ha-bik-chuens-sculptures/
LOCATION:CPD-G.02\, CPD-G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240124T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20231219T084754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T085708Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nara Yoshitomo with Dr. Yeewan Koon
DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by The University of Hong Kong Museum Society\nIn Conversation: Nara Yoshitomo with Dr. Yeewan Koon\nDate: 24th January 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-8pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click here for directions)\nLanguage: Conversation in English and Japanese with translation in English \nRegistration: CLICK HERE  full\nFree seating \nSign-in begins at 5:45pm and doors open from 6pm\nBy 6:45pm\, we start offering no-show seats to stand-by guests\nBy 7pm\, all doors are closed
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/in-conversation-nara-yoshitomo-with-dr-yeewan-koon/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Conversation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240105T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20231218T043225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231218T074011Z
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SUMMARY:Does Picasso Still Matter?
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nDoes Picasso Still Matter?\nDate: 5th January 2024 (Friday)\nTime: 5-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Pepe Karmel (Professor\, New York University)\nRegistration: RSVP at https://bit.ly/hkupicassotalk \nAbstract\nIn his new book\, Looking at Picasso\, Pepe Karmel approaches the artist’s work through the lens of art rather than biography\, showing how he invented multiple new visual languages and transformed the traditional themes of Western art. In this special lecture for the University of Hong Kong\, Prof. Karmel will give an overview of his book and will also address the question of whether Picasso’s work still matters today\, when contemporary art seems to have evolved so far beyond historic styles like Cubism and Neo-Classicism. Is Picasso’s work a relic of expired revolutions\, or does it still speak to art today? \nSpeaker\nPepe Karmel is a Professor in the Department of Art History\, New York University. He has written widely on modern and contemporary art and is the author of Looking at Picasso\, published in autumn 2023\, Abstract Art: A Global History (2020) and Picasso and the Invention of Cubism (2003). \nThis event is made possible through the generous support of The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/does-picasso-still-matter/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231206T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231206T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20231116T024228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T024228Z
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SUMMARY:Aphrodite in Miniature and the Embodied Figurine
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nAphrodite in Miniature and the Embodied Figurine \n\n\nDate: 6 December 2023 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:00-5:30pm \nVenue: CPD 3.16\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Ryan Ho\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis project introduces a selection of miniature Graeco-Roman figurines of Aphrodite/Venus\, from the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods and combines both formal and contextual approaches to studying these objects with more recent theories of embodiment in classical art history. As “embodied objects” of handling\, these figurines intimately engage with and invite a direct process of sensory engagement with the viewer/handler in their use. They encourage and respond to fantasies of sculpted objects transformed into living\, conscious subjects capable of possessing an animated agency in relation to those who use them. By examining these cult figurines in their original contexts and in these “embodied” terms\, this project aims to reconsider and interrogate ancient and modern engagements with this material genre and explore the ways in which their appeal to tactility serves as evidence for the importance of haptic modes of image-making and viewing in Graeco-Roman visual culture.  \nSpeaker\nRyan Ho is a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. He has a background in Art History and Visual Arts\, receiving his MA from The University of Hong Kong and BA from The University of Chicago\, respectively. As an independent researcher\, digital developer\, and multidisciplinary creative\, Ryan has executed projects for a wide range of academic and cultural institutions\, startups\, and global brands alike.  
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/aphrodite-in-miniature-and-the-embodied-figurine/
LOCATION:Classroom 316\, Room 3.16\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20231108T093319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T070037Z
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SUMMARY:The Empire of Paper
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nThe Empire of Paper: Pictures of Chinese Papermaking Made in Late Imperial China and Their Social Lives in Early Modern World\n\n\nDate: 16 November 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:00-6:20pm \nVenue: CPD 1.44  Room 10.28\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Summer Xiaomin Wen\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nMy research investigates a series of Chinese papermaking album produced in Qing China and traveled to France throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. These albums entail a consecutive program of step-by-step scenes\, each of which dedicates to a specific procedure of producing bamboo paper. Despite their shared thematic focus on bamboo papermaking\, many identical technical procedures demonstrated in the scenes\, these albums take on distinct artistic languages. The variety of these albums nicely exemplify the visual diversity of pictures of papermaking produced in later imperial China while each of the albums captures its dynamic relationship with respective historical context. The intersection of art\, culture\, and technology embodied in these papermaking picture albums offers a fascinating lens through which to examine the history of technology\, labour production in both Qing China and France\, and Sino-European interaction in the early modern world.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-empire-of-paper/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230921T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230921T150000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20230913T033427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T042433Z
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SUMMARY:Innovations in studying the past with technology
DESCRIPTION:Talk from the School of Humanities on Technological Innovations in Archaeology\nDate: 21 September 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 2-3pm\, 6-7pm (both sessions are the same\, so you only need to attend one)\nVenue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One\, LED Wall and Brainstorming Area (LG/F)\nSpeakers: Dr. Peter Cobb and RPG students\, School of Humanities\, Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nRegistration: Required. (CLICK HERE)\n \nTechnology is increasingly important in studying humanities topics such as archaeology. HKU helps lead a collaborative fieldwork project in Armenia every summer where we are excavating a fortress from 3\,000 years ago. This field project is a laboratory for experimenting with various technologies including 3D modeling\, databases\, augmented reality\, virtual reality\, machine learning and many other technologies. \nIn this talk\, we will introduce some of our past engineering experiments and our ongoing projects. All participants can join us in developing new technological solutions that can facilitate our fieldwork in the future. Participating students may also get a chance to join us in Armenia next summer! \nThese talks are open to all!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/innovations-in-studying-the-past-with-technology/
LOCATION:Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One\, LED Wall and Brainstorming Area (LG/F)\, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing\, Hui Oi Chow Science Building
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230916T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230916T153000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20230913T041108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022410Z
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SUMMARY:Desperately Seeking Lauren
DESCRIPTION:This talk is co-organised by M+ and Hong Kong Arts Development Council.\n\nDesperately Seeking Lauren: Yeewan Koon in Conversation with Angela Su\n\n\nDate: 16 September 2023 (Saturday)\nTime: 2-3:30pm\nVenue: The Forum\, M+\nRegistration: Required. (CLICK HERE)\nSpeakers: Dr. Yeewan Koon and Ms. Angela Su \nIn response to her 2022 Venice Biennale presentation\, Angela Su produced an installation of more than 400 items on loan from the archives of Lauren O at the Esalen Institute in California. However\, very little is known about this enigmatic figure who was arguably involved in a 1967 plan to levitate the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War. Who is Lauren O? How is this obscure levitator from 1960s America relevant to the world that we live in today? \nSu\, together with Dr Yeewan Koon\, who has conducted extensive research on Lauren O\, will take a deep dive into the counterculture of the 1960s in the US. Their conversation will cover the confluence of social movements\, psychedelics\, supernatural and popularisation of technology that gave rise to a fascinating era of change and infinite possibilities. Through Lauren O’s cosmological views and her vision of the future\, one could also make sense of Su’s own practice\, in particular\, her fascination with worldbuilding.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/desperately-seeking-lauren/
LOCATION:The Forum\, The Forum\, M+
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230504T173000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20230425T040429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T040429Z
UID:10856-1683216000-1683221400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Between Toil and Toile
DESCRIPTION:Between Toil and Toile: Socialist Ornament in Printed Cotton Design from the Cultural Revolution\nDate: 4 May 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 4-5:30pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Dr. Angie C. Baecker \nAbstract\nThis paper takes up the question of socialist ornament\, looking specifically at the design of printed cotton textiles produced from the late 1950s into the early 1980s in the People’s Republic of China. Through close examination of a collection of printed cotton quilt covers in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum and the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, the authors seek to understand how industrial designers interpreted new state policies and industrial development projects as decorative motifs on printed fabric. If\, as Oleg Grabar argues\, the defining function of the ornament is to improve upon the object it adorns\, how do the patterns and design programs of Maoist era printed cottons participate in the construction of the cloth’s visual interest and material value? Through close examination of the cotton boll as a design motif\, the authors argue that the ornamentation of consumer goods such as printed cotton implies an economy of labor\, cost\, and use value that is itself signaled by the presence of the ornament. By putting the decorative function of these textiles into conversation with their material and historical context\, we seek to bring an art historical theorization of the sensory appeal of the ornament into conversation with a growing body of scholarship examining the materiality of everyday culture in the P.R.C. The resulting pastiche of decorative motifs and political iconography combined to create a highly inventive sort of high socialist toile\, testifying to the experimental and distinctive nature of applied art and industrial design in Maoist China.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/between-toil-and-toile/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230328T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20230301T013238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T014715Z
UID:10771-1680022800-1680026400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Unhappy History Painters: Academic Artists and the Impossible Genre
DESCRIPTION:Unhappy History Painters: Academic Artists and the Impossible Genre\nDate: 28 March 2023 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5-5:45pm\nVenue: CPD-LG.34\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Mark Ledbury (Power Professor of Art History and Visual Culture | Director of the Power Institute\, Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture\, The University of Sydney) \nAbstract\nWhy did History painting make painters miserable? We know that the theory and the system of old regime painting privileged History painters and made it part of the aspiration of generations of young artists. But many of these artists\, some of enormous talent and application\, lived constantly in fear and misery\, failed to produce paintings on time\, or otherwise just dropped out of the race. As part of my (rather overdue) study of History painting as lived experience for ancien-regime artists\, critics and publics\, this paper will explore the multiple anxieties that afflicted artists as they tried with varying success to come to terms with the genre of history painting and the pressures it exerted.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/unhappy-history-painters-academic-artists-and-the-impossible-genre/
LOCATION:LG 34\, LG.34\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20221230T024228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221230T024807Z
UID:10604-1673548200-1673553600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Archaeology HK: the Development of Hong Kong through the Dynastic Periods
DESCRIPTION:This online talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association\n\nArchaeology HK: the Development of Hong Kong through the Dynastic Periods\n\n\nDate: 12 January 2023 (Thursday)\nTime: 6:30-8:00pm (HK time)\nVenue: CPD2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (directions) \nSpeaker: Mr. Chau Hing Wah\, Curator (Special Duty) Archaeology\, Hong Kong Museum of History\nMedium: Cantonese \nEvent Registration: required\, click here
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/archaeology-hk-the-development-of-hong-kong-through-the-dynastic-periods/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221219T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20221122T035330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221219T023815Z
UID:10548-1671472800-1671478200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Tracing Water: Contemporary Art and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture\nTracing Water: Contemporary Art and Climate Change\nDate: 19 December 2022 (Monday)\nTime: 6-7:30pm\nVenue: Asia Art Archive (11/F Hollywood Centre\, 233 Hollywood Road\, Sheung Wan) ONLINE\nZOOM meeting URL: CLICK HERE\nMeeting ID: 999 8229 1929 | Password: 974576\nSpeaker: Prof. Joshua Shannon (Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory\, The University of Maryland\, USA) \nAbstract\nBeginning by observing that climate change demands not only technical and political solutions but a remaking of some of our most basic beliefs\, this talk turns to recent climate art for the ways in which it can guide and ignite this process. Looking at examples in forms ranging from science-fiction film to contemporary-art installations\, the talk considers the difficulty\, given its geographic and temporal dispersal\, of visually representing climate. \nSpeaker\nJoshua Shannon is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Maryland\, USA. His research and teaching investigate modern and contemporary art in relationship to social and cultural history\, with special interests in architecture\, cities\, landscape\, and ecology. His publications include The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City (Yale University Press\, 2009)\, The Recording Machine: Art and Fact During the Cold War (Yale University Press\, 2017) and\, co-edited with Jason Weems and Laura Bieger\, Humans (Terra/Chicago\, 2021). \nThis event is made possible through the generous support of The University of Hong Kong Museum Society.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/public-lecture-tracing-water-contemporary-art-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive\, 11/F Hollywood Centre\, 233 Hollywood Road\, Sheung Wan\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221214T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20221122T033612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T022436Z
UID:10543-1671031800-1671210000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Masterclass in Modern/ Contemporary Art with Prof. Joshua Shannon
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nMasterclass in Modern/ Contemporary Art with Prof. Joshua Shannon\nDate: 12\, 14\, 16 December 2022 (Monday\, Wednesday\, Friday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus (Direction to CPD-2.42 from MTR HKU station) ONLINE \n\nThe Modernist Landscape (12 Dec 2022)\nAbstract Expressionism: Action and the Sublime After World War II (14 Dec 2022)\nPhotography and the Human Being Since 1980 (16 Dec 2022) ONLINE \n\nZOOM meeting URL: CLICK HERE\nMeeting ID: 994 5014 4903 | Password: 853749\n \nSpeaker: Prof. Joshua Shannon (Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory\, The University of Maryland\, USA) \nJoshua Shannon is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Maryland\, USA. His research and teaching investigate modern and contemporary art in relationship to social and cultural history\, with special interests in architecture\, cities\, landscape\, and ecology. His publications include The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City (Yale University Press\, 2009)\, The Recording Machine: Art and Fact During the Cold War (Yale University Press\, 2017) and\, co-edited with Jason Weems and Laura Bieger\, Humans (Terra/Chicago\, 2021). \n* These classes are opened to students\, alumni and friends of HKU Department of Art History.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/masterclass-in-modern-contemporary-art-with-prof-joshua-shannon/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2022-2023,Academic Talk,Lecture Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221126T170000
DTSTAMP:20260521T151353
CREATED:20221122T094141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241014T022515Z
UID:10573-1669478400-1669482000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Yin Xiuzhen: Materiality & Spirituality in Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Pace Gallery\n\nYin Xiuzhen: Materiality & Spirituality in Everywhere\n\n\nDate: 26 November 2022 (Saturday)\nTime: 4pm (HK time)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yin-xiuzhen-materiality-spirituality-in-everywhere/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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