Ireland and China: networks of information and ideas, 1735-1949 Wed 11 April 2018, 12pm-6.30pm Members Room, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Keynote speaker: Prof. Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/irelandchina2018
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New Lenses on China Colloquium
New Lenses on China Colloquium: A gathering of leading scholars in the field of the history of photography in China Dr Marine Cabos Cross-posted from Photography of China Between 23 and 24 June 2017, Queen’s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) planned an academic conference gathering international scholars from various disciplines ranging from history, art history, history of photography, to sinology. Entitled New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography, this conference’s successive papers reflected on the impact of photographic sources on our understanding of Chinese history, while assessing the state of the field and considering its future…
New Lenses on China, 23-24 June 2017
New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography Wiles Colloquium 2017 Queen’s University Belfast, 23-24 June 2017 Chinese history is experiencing a ‘photographic turn’. Research about and making use of historical Chinese photography are fast-moving and rapidly expanding areas of interest for academics. At the same time, historical photography is increasingly being made available to a wide general audience in China and beyond, opening up new possibilities. New Lenses on China will consider the impact of photographic sources on our understanding of Chinese history. This colloquium brings together leading scholars of Chinese history and of photography to reflect…