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Conference on ’Collecting ’China’’ set Sept. 29-30
10:52 a.m., July 24, 2006--Archaeologists, art historians, historians and museum curators will present an interdisciplinary conference focusing on three centuries of collecting “Chinese” objects and how perceptions of China and its culture have been influenced by this at a two-day conference-workshop, from Friday-Saturday, Sept. 29-30, on the University of Delaware's Newark campus and at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. “Collecting 'China': Objects, Materiality, and Multicultural Collectors,” will be hosted by UD's Department of Art History and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. Through lectures, roundtable discussions and workshops, conference participants will examine how objects--such as Shang-Dynasty oracle bones, Neolithic jades, prehistoric potteries and exported ceramics, paintings and wallpapers--have played roles in establishing what the word “Chinese” connotes in modern perceptions, and how these interpretations vary in different social and cultural contexts. The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation of Taipei, the capital of the Republic of China on Taiwan, has provided a major grant to help make the conference possible. The conference will consist of three main sessions: “China and the Discourse of Things,” “The World and its Collection of China,” and “On Different Grounds: Collecting Practices and Private Collectors.” The preliminary list of speakers includes: Wen-Hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley; Eugene Wang, Harvard University; Vimalin Rujivacharakul, UD; Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute; Stacey Pierson, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art; C. Griffith Mann, Walters Art Museum; Elisabeth Lillehoj, DePaul University; Yuming He, University of Chicago; Ronald W. Fuchs II, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate; Paola DeMatte, Rhode Island School of Design; Ting Chang, Carnegie Mellon University; Shana Brown, University of Hawaii; and Stanley Abe, Duke University. The conference also will feature a roundtable discussion on methods and collecting practices, featuring H. Perry Chapman, Bernard Herman, and Lawrence Nees, all from the UD's Department of Art History, and Kasey Grier, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, Winterthur. The first session will be held from noon-5:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29, in the Trabant University Center Theatre at UD. The session will be followed by an opening reception. On Saturday, Sept. 30, the program moves to the Copeland Lecture Hall at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate from 9:15 a.m.-5:30 p.m. An optional session of preconference workshops and tours will be held from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, and from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, at Winterthur. Optional postconference tours of the Winterthur collection will be available on Sunday, Oct. 1. The conference is free, but registration is required. Optional workshops and tours require a fee. To register call (800) 448-3883, (302) 888-4600 or TTY: (302) 888-4907. For a full schedule of the conference, visit [www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/symposium]. Since 1952, Winterthur and the University of Delaware have jointly sponsored the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, which provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of American material life with special emphasis on decorative arts and household furnishings. Graduates receive a master of arts degree and many of them pursue careers in museums and academia. |
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