Conference
In association with the Exhibition an academic conference will take place on 27 and 28 June 2014 at Edinburgh College of Art’s Evolution House at 78 West Port, Edinburgh, EH1 2LE. A limited number of observer seats are available. The public conference programme is outlined on this page and the full conference programme with abstracts and biogs can be downloaded as a PDF – PAOMC-PublicConfProg
Should you wish to reserve a seat for one or more of the sessions please click here to book.
FRIDAY 27 JUNE SESSIONS
Session 1 ( 09.30-11.15 )
Chen Ruilin: 百年变迁：从商业月份牌画到政治传画 (in Chinese)
Yang Peiming: Ha Qiongwen, the Master Chinese Propaganda Poster Artist
Session 2 ( 11.30-13.00 )
Joachim Gentz: Ambiguity of Religious Signs and Claim to Power in Chinese Propaganda Posters
Christoph Harbsmeier: The Cartoonist Feng Zikai (1898 – 1975)
Session 3 ( 15.00-16.30 )
Huang Xuelei: Politics of the Leg: Visual Representations of Female Legs and Propaganda Culture in China, 1930s—1970s
Zheng Ji: Model Citizens of Modern China: Visual Representations of Film Stars in the 1930s
Session 4 ( 16.45-17.30 )
Yang Chia-ling: Historicising Visions in Shanghai Posters
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SATURDAY 28 JUNE SESSIONS
Session 5 ( 10.00-11.30 )
Julia Andrews: Reconstructing Lu Xun: The Cultural Revolution Poster as Woodcut
Katharine Burnett: “Sweet Dreams are Made of This. Who Am I to Disagree?”: Pictorial Textiles of the Cultural Revolution
Session 6 ( 11.45-13.15 )
Paul Pickowicz: Cultural Revolution Posters: Intended and Unintended Messages
Natascha Gentz: Representing, Constructing or Reinventing Jiang Qing
Session 7 ( 14.00-15.15 )
Richard King: The Microphone and the Pen: Delivering the Message in the 1976 Yangquan Counter-Attack Poster
Plenary Discussion: Posters of Republican China and the PRC – Ruptures and Continuities
Session 8 ( 15.30-17.00 )
Denise Ho: Posters, Exhibitions, and Museums as Pedagogy
Kevin McLoughlin: A Newly Acquired Collection of Chinese Propaganda Posters at the National Museum of Scotland
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