Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:15 p.m. Public Evening Lecture by Dr. Luke Gartlan, University of St Andrews: “Photography’s History in Meiji Japan: New Approaches and Challenges”
Friday, October 13, 2017
9:30 a.m. Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel, University of Zurich
Introduction by Sophie Junge and Stella Jungmann, University of Zurich
10:00 a.m. Xenia Piëch, University of Zurich: “Photography and China’s Early Emancipation Movement”
10:45 a.m. Jung Joon Lee, Rhodes Island School of Design: “From Traveling Images to Traveling Bodies: Korean War Orphans in Hollywood and the Rhetoric of Interracial Adoption”
12:00 p.m. Stella Jungmann, University of Zurich: “Developing Photographs and Networks: Images of the Japanese Embassy in the United States, 1860”
2:15 p.m. Ping-Heng Chen, University of Heidelberg: “Picturing the Sacred: Yasu Kohei and his Photographic Reproductions of Religious Images in Guatemala”
3:00 p.m. Yuka Kadoi, University of Edinburgh: “From Snapshot to Cultural Propaganda: The Formation of Persian Architectural Photographs, 1925–1935”
4:15 p.m. Sophie Junge, University of Zurich: “Old Surabaya – New Surabaya: Photography and the Making of the Colonial City”
Saturday, October 14, 2017
9:30 a.m. Christina Thurman-Wild, University of Zurich: “Ethnography to Art: ‘Japanische Ringer, Nach der Natur’”
10:15 a.m. Eliane Kurmann, University of Zurich: “Circulation, Appropriation, Redefinition – The History of Songea Mbano’s Portrait”
11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion with all Participants