Summaries of Scholarly Symposia 2.1

Abstract

The Trans-Asia Photography Review is pleased to publish summaries and reviews of symposia, conferences, panels and workshops on topics related to photography in Asia. In addition to the symposia summarized here, summaries of the symposia on 19th Century photography in India held at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts can be found via their website at www.acparchives.com and abstracts from the Facing Asia conference (National Gallery of Australia, August 2010) can be downloaded at http://hrc.anu.edu.au/events/facing-asia. In addition, information about the Symposium "Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits Across Asia" can be found at http://www.asia.si.edu/events/IESymposium/. Please send information on other meetings that could be summarized to the Editor at asianphotography@hampshire.edu. Panel organizer and Chair: Dr. Ayelet Zohar, University of Haifa Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Things Seen by the Camera Alone Exhibiting Family, Displaying Death: Funerary Images in Contemporary Japanese Photography Re-Staging the War: Morimura Yasumasa and the icons of WWII Photographing the Cold War in the Twenty-First Century Jointly sponsored by MIT Visualizing Cultures and Harvard University’s Asia Center, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Lee and Juliet Folger Fund. May 20-21, 2011 CLAIRE ROBERTST SAKURA CHRISTMAS AURÉLIE CHAMP R. KENJI TIERNEY KRISTIN STAPLETON ANN SHERIF AND WENDY KOZOL JINA KIM SE-MI OH HYUNG-GU LYNN ELLIE CHOI BAEK YUNG KIM HELEN HARDACRE JIE LI PAUL BARCLAY CHINGHSIN WU LI CHENU LENORE METRICK-CHEN JAMES T. ULAK FRANCOIS LACHAUD XIAOJIN WU LEE GLAZER FABIAN DRIXLER ROBERT GOREE