SCHEDULE

Moderated by Peng Feng
08:30 AM　Welcoming reception
09:15 AM　Plenary lecture 1: Gongkai Pan: title TBA
10:05 AM　Plenary lecture 2: Puptle Jennifer Gillian: Objects without Borders: Cultural Economy and the World of Artefacts
10:55 AM　Plenary lecture 3: Gao Minglu: Yi Pai: An Alternative Perspective in Reflection of Art Theory
11:45 AM　Plenary lecture 4: Si Han: In the Corridor Between – ‘Chinese Antiquities’ and ‘Modern/Contemporary Art’
12:35 NOON　Lunch.
01:45 – 8:00PM　Beijing Contemporary Art Tour

08:30 AM　First session of papers: Twenty-minute talks, each followed by twenty minutes of discussion
Group A, Historical Issues: theories and texts on Chinese art
Moderated by Qigu Jiang
1 Minna Torma: Changing Perceptions of Chinese Art: The Choices of Western Academics and Collectors in the Early 20th Century
2 Zhuo Yan: Writing an English-version History of Chinese Contemporary Art from a Contemporary Chinese Perspective
3 Andrea Buddensieg: title TBA
4 Shuangxi Yin: Sociological Avant-garde and Aesthetic Avant-garde - A Double Variation on the Development of 20th Century Chinese Art”
Group B, Current problems: The contemporary art scene and art market
Moderated by Minglu Gao
1 Wang Lin: Post Avant-Garde - An Issue about the Stance of Chinese Contemporary Art
2 Britta Lee Erickson: title TBA
3 Youzhuang Geng: In-Between the Real and the Imagined - The Phenomenon of Contemporary Chinese Art
4 Huang Zhuan: What’s Our ‘State Legacy’?
11:30 AM　Lunch
Moderated by Qigu Jiang
01:30 PM　Plenary lecture 5: Hans Belting: Contemporary Art as Global Art - A Critical Estimate”
02:20 PM　Plenary lecture 6: Peng Feng: Paths to the Middle - A Tentative Theory for Chinese Contemporary Art
03:10 PM　Plenary lecture 7: John Clark: The Elephant and the Ant - Chinese and Thai Art in the 1980’s and 90’s
04:00 PM　Plenary lecture 8: Lao Zhu: The Origins of Chinese Contemporary Art
04:50 PM　Plenary lecture 9: James Preston Elkins: Writing about art Outside of Western Europe and North America
05:40 PM　Plenary Lecture 10: Terence Edwin Smith: title TBA
06:30 PM　Free time for scholars

09:00 AM　Second session of papers: Twenty-minute talks each followed by twenty minutes of discussion
Group A, Critical theory, critical writing 1
Moderated by Peng Feng
1 Heqing Huang: China’s ‘Contemporary Art’
2 Hal Foster: The Contemporary Art
3 Ningsheng Chang: Problems of Contemporary Art in China
4 Jiehong Jiang: The Revolution Continues
Group B, Critical theory, critical writing 2
Moderated by Qigu Jiang
1 Xiaoyan Yang: The Power of Memory: Chinese Documentary Photography as a Cultural Movement in the 90s”
2 David Carrier: The Coming Signification of Western Art History
3 Nanming Wang: The Process of ‘Post-Abstract’ and the Critical Art
4 Yubing Shen: Several Remarks on the Definition of Chinese Contemporary Art
12:00 NOON　Lunch
01:00 PM　Third session of papers: Twenty-minute talks each followed by twenty minutes of discussion
Group A, Critical theory, critical writing 3
Moderated by Qigu Jiang
1 Xu Bing: title TBA
2 Angelo Capasso: Abnormal Wave: Artists from China
3 Chunchen Wang: Realism and Contemporary Chinese Art
Group B, Critical theory, critical writing 4
Moderated by Peng Feng
1 Feng Yuan: Mirror from the Other Shore and Its Disenchantment - Imagination of the West and Dualistic Structure during the Processes of Chinese Art
2 Laurent Padel: 1989, The Magicians of Earth, a French Contribution to the International Recognition of Chinese Contemporary Art
3 Pulin Wen: title TBA
4 Zhu Qi: title TBA
04:00 PM　Free time for scholars

09:00 AM　Round table: first session Overseas scholars: Hans Belting、Puptle Jennifer Gillian、Harold Foss Foster、 Terence Edwin Smith、John Clark Chinese scholars: Shuangxi Yin、Zhou Yan、Heqing Huang、Lao Zhu、Chunchen Wang Moderated by James Preston Elkins and Minglu Gao
12:00 NOON　Lunch 01:00 PM　Round table: second session All Overseas and Chinese scholars, and other invited scholars Moderated by Qigu Jiang and Peng Feng
04:00 PM　The end of the Conference 05:30 PM　Farewell ceremony