Thursday, April 18, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., USF Main Campus, McLaren 252: Opening and Panel Sessions
Thursday, April 18, 5:15 p.m., USF Main Campus, Berman Room, Fromm Hall: Keynote Address
Friday, April 19, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., USF Main Campus, McLaren 252: Panel Sessions and Closing
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The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to announce its Spring 2013 symposium, "The Imperial Court in China, Japan, and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor's Household (1600 early 1900s)."
The symposium will provide a forum for the examination and comparison of
the imperial courts and court life in China, Japan, and Korea through
the lens of women, servants, and those who managed the households of the
Emperor and Empress from the 1600s through early 1900s. Themes to
be discussed include but are not limited to: women, servants, and
household managers with a particular focus on aspects of court life,
relations of power, issues of gender, cultural identity, art, medicine,
and theatre.
REGISTRATION
Advanced registration and a $10 registration fee are required.
Registration Deadline: April 12, 2013.
You may register by
credit card OR with a
check by filling out the
Registration Form and returning it to the Center with your payment.
Schedule subject to change. Space is limited. No refunds will be given. Registration does
not include parking or lunch.
For more information, call (415) 422-6357.
Free and open to USF faculty, staff, and students. ID required.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013
McLaren 252, University of San Francisco Main Campus
12:15 p.m. :: Registration Desk Opens
1:00 p.m. :: Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. :: PANEL 1: COURT WOMEN IN LATE MING AND EARLY QING CHINA
Discussant: Yiqun Zhou, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Women in the Imperial Household at the Close of China's Ming Dynasty
Ellen Soulliere, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
A Muslim Consort in the Emperor's Household: Her Position within the Rigidly Regulated Court Hierarchy
Emily Byrne Curtis, Independent Scholar
2:40 - 3:00 p.m. :: Break
3:00 - 4:25 :: PANEL 2: ART AND THE ART OF COLLECTING AT THE IMPERIAL COURT
Discussant: Karen Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Santa Clara University
Creating the Collection of the Qianlong Imperial Household as an Institutional Activity
Nicole Chiang, Curator, Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, U.K.
Empress Meishô明正天皇 (1623-96) and Art at the Japanese Palace
Elizabeth
Lillehoj, Professor; Director, Global Asian Studies Program, Department
of History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University
5:15 p.m. :: KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Berman Room, Fromm Hall, University of San Francisco
Domestic Diplomacy: the Empress Dowager Cixi, Sarah Pike Conger, and the Chinese Butler Who Brought Them Together
Grant Hayter-Menzies, Biographer
7:15 p.m. :: Dinner for speakers and discussants
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013
McLaren 252, University of San Francisco Main Campus
9:00 - 10:25 am. :: PANEL 3: IMPERIAL WOMEN IN THE QING AND MANCHUKUO COURTS
Discussant:
Sophie Volpp, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative
Literature; Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, UC Berkeley
Qing Palace Women and Manchu Ethnicity
Shuo Wang, Professor, Department of History, California State University, Stanislaus
Puyi and the (Japanese) Empress Dowager: Imperial Reflections, Tokyo 1935
David Tucker, Visiting Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College
10:25 - 10:40 a.m. :: Break
10:40 - 12:40 p.m. :: PANEL 4: MEDICINE AT THE IMPERIAL COURT
Discussant: Charlotte Furth, Professor Emerita of History, University of Southern California (tentative)
Medicine in the Chinese Court: Newly Emerging Formations in the Imperial Household Department
Sare Aricanli, doctoral candidate, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University
Cixi and Myeongseong, Two Maligned Consorts at the Twilight of Monarchy
James Flowers, doctoral candidate, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Childbirth and Nursing of the Royal Women in 19th Century Korea
Jiyoung Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Cross Cultural Studies (ICCS), Seoul National University
12:45 - 2:00 p.m. :: Lunch for speakers and discussants
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. :: PANEL 5: EUNUCHS AND IMPERIAL THEATRE
Discussant: Yulian Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese History, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Opera on the Road: The Imperial Theatre Troup and the Court Administration of the Qianlong Emperor's Trips to Chengde, 1741-1798
Liana Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
Running Away from the Palace: Qing Dynasty Eunuchs
Melissa Dale, Executive Director and Assistant Professor, Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco
Kabuki's Courtly Wonder Women: Female Court "Kata" and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Ethics
Katherine Mezur, Independent Scholar/Artist
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. :: Discussion and Closing Remarks
5:00 p.m. :: Reception
