Migration Symposium Program

Art Music, and Language through the Lens of Global Asia

April 5 - 6, 2024

REGISTER HERE

DAY 2: Saturday, April 6, 2024 (Location: Parlors, Kansas Union)

Graduate Symposium, organized by KU Graduate Scholars of East Asian Studies (GSEAS)

9:00 a.m. Registration & Refreshments

9:30 a.m. Welcome

Jiawei Peng, GSEAS Vice President (Department of Educational Psychology)

9:35 a.m. Panel 1, Visual Culture in Motion

Chair: Morgan Williamson, GSEAS Event Coordinator (Kress Foundation Department of Art History)

Panelists

• Michael VanHartingsvelt (Kress Foundation Department of Art History), "Immovable Object of Worship: Chūzenji's Standing Tree Buddha and the Mobilization of Religious Communities in Japan"
• Kyungmin Jung (Department of Film and Media Studies), "Reading Women's Resistance against Normalcy through the Works of Asian Independent Women Filmmakers–House of Hummingbird (2018) and Shirkers (2018)"

10:55 a.m. Panel 2, Culture in Exchange

Chair: Haoran Ni, GSEAS Treasurer (Department of History)

Panelists

• Yuxin Wang (Department of History), "Selling Catholicism in a Confuscian Land: Matteo Ricci's Creative Interpretation of Classics in The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven"
• Shang Lyu (Kress Foundation Department of Art History), "Chinatown Pretty: Chinese American Stories Told by Clothes"

12:05 p.m. Closing Remarks

Logan Ward, GSEAS President (Kress Foundation Department of Art History)

12:15 p.m. Lunch

For DAY 1: Friday, April 5 2024, see Symposium Program

Sponsored by the KU Center for East Asian Studies and the Graduate Scholars of East Asian Studies