The Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum is pleased to announce the forthcoming symposium on Women in Chinese Art linked to the ongoing display A Century of Women in Chinese Art in Gallery 11.

Symposium Programme

10.30 - 10.45
Registration

10.45 - 11.00
Welcome and introduction
Shelagh Vainker, Ashmolean Museum

Morning panel
Chair: Shelagh Vainker

11.00 -11.30
An Empire of Her Own: Women, Art and Power at the End of the Qing (1644-1911)
Nixi Cura, SOAS, London

11.30 -12.00
Women Warriors in Republican China
Mary Ginsberg, British Museum

12.30 - 13.00
‘Line’ in the Nudes of Sanyu
Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum

Lunch break

Afternoon panel
Chair: Paul Bevan

13.45 - 14.15
A Handful of World: The Aesthetics of Hand in Modern Chinese Art and Visual Culture, 1919-49
Di Wang, University of Oxford

14.15 - 14.45
‘From slender maids to stevedores- and back’
Frances Wood, British Library (retired)

Coffee break

15.15 - 15.45
Body, Space and Gender: Chinese Women Artists from 1980s until today
Monica Merlin, Birmingham City University

15.45 - 16.00
Closing discussion with all panellists

Saturday, 16th June 2018,
10.30 - 16.00
Lecture Theatre,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Booking is essential:
Ashmolean Box office
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+44 (0) 1865 278112
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