{"id":165,"date":"2017-03-31T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/sirroberthart\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T23:45:12","slug":"new-lenses-on-china-23-24-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/sirroberthart\/2017\/03\/31\/new-lenses-on-china-23-24-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lenses on China, 23-24 June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography<\/a>
\nWiles Colloquium 2017
\nQueen’s University Belfast, 23-24 June 2017<\/strong>
\n\"Wall\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese history is experiencing a \u2018photographic turn\u2019. 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.<\/p>\n

New Lenses on China<\/strong> 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\u00a0reflect on the impact of photography on Chinese history and historiography, to assess the state of the field, and to consider its future trajectories.<\/p>\n

Registration: Free (charge for refreshments)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Web: http:\/\/go.qub.ac.uk\/newlensesonchina
\nEmail: newlensesonchina@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Keynote lectures and panels (provisional)<\/strong>
\nRobert Bickers<\/strong> (Bristol): \u2018Plenty and want\u2019
\nElizabeth Edwards<\/strong>\u00a0(De Montfort): \u2018Photographs and the Business of ‘Doing History’: some thoughts\u00a0on method and historiography\u2019
\nChristian Henriot<\/strong> (Aix-Marseille): \u2018Seeing through death in modern Shanghai: A visual encounter\u2019
\nNick Pearce<\/strong> (Glasgow): \u2018New viewpoints, new knowledge: John Dudgeon, John Thomson
\nand photographic practice in nineteenth-century China\u2019
\n– The imperial eye<\/em><\/strong>
\n – Memory, society and forgotten visualities<\/em><\/strong>
\n – Photography, the state and the nation: beyond the textual archive<\/em><\/strong>
\n – Photography, knowledge and dissemination<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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