8 June 2009

 

9:00-9:15am

Opening Remarks

Daniel K. L. Chua, Head of the School of Humanities

 

9:15-10:15am

Keynote Address

Julia Murray, University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

10:15-10:45am

Break

 

10:45am-12:30pm

Narrating between Cultures

Moderator: Greg Thomas, University of Hong Kong

 

Tales of Courtship: Encountering the Mongols

Roslyn Hammers, University of Hong Kong

 

Visual Narratology in China and Japan around 1600 – A Comparative Study

Shane McCausland, Chester Beatty Library

 

Polymorphic Narratives of Asia and Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Ting Chang, Carnegie Mellon University

 

12:30-1:45pm

Lunch

 

1:45-3:30pm

Coding Narratives

Moderator: Carolyn Muir, University of Hong Kong

 

Narrating Historical Women and Fictional Characters in Ming and Qing China: A Matter of Encoding Remembrances and Contemporaneity

Marion Lee, Ohio University

 

Telling Tales: Facts and Fictions in the Paintings by Su Renshan

Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong

 

Poetry, Incense, Card Games, and Pictorial Narrative Coding in Early Modern Genji Pictures

Sarah E. Thompson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

3:30-4:00pm

Break

 

4:00-5:45pm

Text – Image

Moderator: Alexandra Green, University of Hong Kong

 

Text and Image during the 11th Century at Bagan, Burma – Reviewing Origins and Purpose

Charlotte Galloway, Australian National University

 

Translating Text into Image: Beyan-i Menazil, An Illustrated Ottoman Manuscript

Yonca Kösebay Erkan, Kadir Has University

 

Modern Articulations: Visual Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Ritu G. Khanduri, University of Texas at Arlington

 

6:00-7:30pm

Outside In: Alternative Narratives in Contemporary Art

Exhibition opening and reception at the University Museum and Art Gallery

 

 

9 June 2009

 

9:30-11:45am

Narrative as Performance

Moderator: Yeewan Koon, University of Hong Kong

 

The Performance of Visual Narratives in Imperial Art: Two Case Studies from Assyria and the Khmer Empire

Dominik Bonatz, Free University Berlin

 

Visual Narrative as Performative: The Ramayana Murals of Mattanceri Palace, Kerala, India

Mary Beth Heston, College of Charleston

 

Avadanas in the Newar Buddhist Tradition of the Kathmandu Valley: Ritual Performances of Mahayana Narratives

Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross

 

Becoming Active in a Central Theravada Buddhist Narrative: The Vessantara Painted Scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Lowland Laos

Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate, Drew University (Emeritus) and San Jose State University

 

11:45pm-1:15pm

Lunch

 

1:15-3:00pm

Constructing Visual Narratives

Moderator: David Clarke, University of Hong Kong

 

Finding a Place for the Jain Site at Udayagiri/Khandagiri in Orissa

Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin

 

Vignettism in the Poetics of Chinese Narrative Painting

Dore J. Levy, Brown University

 

Reading the World’s Landscape in Zhang Bao’s Images of the Floating Raft

Catherine Stuer, University of Chicago

 

3:00-3:30pm

Break

 

3:30-5:15pm

Narrative Spaces

Moderator: Roslyn Hammers, University of Hong Kong

 

Storytelling in Real Space: Viewership and Nirvana Narratives in Cave Temples of China

Sonya Lee, University of Southern California

 

Narrative Place and Network Thinking: The Ramayana and Krishnayana in Early Java

Mary-Louise Totton, Western Michigan University

 

Prioritizing Enlightenment: Organizing Burmese and Thai Murals of the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

Alexandra Green, University of Hong Kong

 

5:15-5:30pm

Closing Remarks

Greg Thomas, Head of the Department of Fine Arts