Grants for Conferences/Workshops in China Studies
The symposium “Ideas of Asia in the Museum” took place on January 23-24, 2015 at the Doheny Memorial Library at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Brown Auditorium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Scholars of Asian art and Asian studies from around the world, as well as colleagues from local and national museums, held multi-disciplinary discussions on a wide array of topics related to Asian art collections worldwide. The event celebrated a new partnership between a university, USC, and the Pacific Asia Museum.
“The symposium offered a uniquely Pan-Asian context within which to understand the representations of China in museums across the globe,” reported Sonya Lee, the organizer of the conference.
The event was funded by a grant from the initiative on Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society, which is supported financially by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. This program is part of the ACLS Programs in China Studies.
For information on the current competition, please visit:
http://acls.org/programs/chinese-culture/. Grants are available for planning meetings, workshops (for sharing work in progress in a seminar setting), and conferences for more formal presentation of research.
ACLS also offers Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grants in China Studies for intensive interdisciplinary reading of texts.
The deadline for applications is November 4, 2015.
A distinguished group of scholars and museum curators gathered from across the country and world at the USC Doheny…
Posted byUSC East Asian Studies CenteronMonday, January 26, 2015
What Was Contemporary Art?
by Richard Meyer F'94, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art.
Now available from MIT Press.
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.
For more information about the Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, click here.
Filmed by Stephen Pagano and Tom Salvaggio. Edited by Tom Salvaggi for MOCA.