Day One - 24th Sep (Wed)10:00 - 10:15 Opening Remarks
10:15 - 11:45 Panel One: Hybrid Gaze
Gwen Haller, University of Edinburgh
“Hybrid Narratives, Hybrid Creators: Leonora Carrington’s Tapestries”
Lyudmila Georgieva, Tokyo University of the Arts
“The Art of Kudo Tetsumi as a Challenge to Postwar Modernity: Abjection of Humanity and Intercultural Displacement”
Teresa Heinzelmann, Goethe University
“Before Pissarro Was Pissarro: Jewish-Caribbean Entanglements and the Making of a French Impressionist”
11:45 - 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45 Panel Two: The Self in Motion
Dr. Andrés Calderón Ramos, Università degli Studi di Perugia
“Rethinking Composite Modernities through the Epistemic Challenges of the Haitian Revolution”
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo
“Transfer and Translation: The Deaf-mute Primer (《启哑初阶》) and the Introduction of Deaf Education into Late Qing China”
Diletta Haberl
“Alternative Modernities along the "Via degli Abruzzi": Travel, Temporal Disjunction, and Cultural Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Central Italy”
15:00-16:30 Roundtable Session
Spirituality and Materiality: A Postcolonial View through Yanagi Sōetsu
Dr. Kazuki Inoue, Saitama University
“Adapting the Western Spirit Materialisation: Sōetsu Yanagi and Global Spiritualism”
Dr. Louise Yu-jui Yang, Taipei National University of the Arts
“Tangible or Intangible? The ‘Thing’ in Terms of Arts and Crafts and Ethnographic Objects”
Ariana Torres, Mingei International Museum, San Diego
“Expanding Mingei: Generational & Contemporary Global Craft at Mingei International Museum”
Day Two - 25th Sep (Thur)10:00 - 11:20 Keynote Speech
11:20 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 13:10 Panel Three: The Crystalised Visuality
Dr. Nicola Baird, Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University
“Composite modernity: the case of David Bomberg, the Ben Uri Gallery and the Sarah Rose collections”
Dr. Kateřina Štroblová, University of Ostrava; University of Finance and Administration
“Central-Eastern Modernities: Socialist Architecture Between Utopia, Memory, and the Aesthetics of Ruin”
Chu Ting-Li, Taipei National University of the Arts
“Collecting Contemporary Art In Taiwan: A Study of the Collecting Practice at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts”
13:10 Closing Remarks
