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Selected Publications and Presentations
Asia Adomanis presented “Inscrutable Surfaces and Racial (Il)legibility: Art, Race, and ‘Authenticity’ in the Cold War” at Ohio State’s Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum in February 2023; and “Materiality of the Avant-Garde: Encountering Migratory Aesthetics in Tseng Yuho’s Western Frontier (1964)” at the Understanding Displacement in Visual Art and Cultural History: 1945 to Now Conference at the University of Manchester in October 2023.
Maika Kagawa Bahr presented “Savoring Toxicity: Culinary Nationalism and Wax Food Models from Japan’s Interwar Period” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York in February 2023; and “Shanghai’s ‘Ice Cream’ in the 1930s: Liu Na’ou’s Short Story ‘Attempted Murder’ As Cinematic Fiction” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Boston in March 2023.
Schuyler Black-Seitz presented “Between Marx and Freud: Walter Quirt and American Surrealism in the 1930s” at the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism in Houston in November 2023.
Karin Flora presented “Roman Goddess and Mary: Clashing Conceptions of the Feminine in Giulio Romano and Raphael's 'Ceres'” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2023.
Cole J. Graham presented “Chasing Trains: On a Weeaboo Ethic in Petra Szemán’s Video Work” at the University of Kansas Graduate Symposium in November 2023, where the theme was “Distances and the In-Between”; he also presented a chapter of his master’s thesis Inefficient, Unsustainable, and Fragmentary: The Rauschenberg Combines as Disabled Bodies at the Midwest Popular Culture Association’s annual conference in Chicago in October 2023; and delivered a chapter of his master’s thesis Inefficient, Unsustainable, and Fragmentary: The Rauschenberg Combines as Disabled Bodies virtually at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Graduate Symposium in April 2023 (the chapter will be published in the upcoming spring 2024 volume of UC Santa Barbara’s art and architecture journal react/review). Cole also co-curated the A.K. Burns show Of Space We Are… with Kelly Kivland, chief curator of exhibitions, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in spring 2023 and authored the essay “Gathering Breaks,” which appeared in the gallery guide and on the back jacket of the catalogue entitled Negative Space, edited by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder (Dancing Foxes Press, 2023). Finally, Cole contributed an essay entitled “Monstrous Possibilities: States of Racial Transmutation in FullMetal Alchemist” to the anthology WEEB THEORY, edited by Jamie Sutcliffe and Petra Szemán (Banner Repeater Press, 2023).
Yifan Li presented “Object, Inscription, Reproduction: The Cleverness of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Jade Pebble” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Boston in March 2023; and “Staging Chinese Visual Modernity: Zhang Shuqi’s Painting Demonstrations in the United States, 1941–1946” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York in February 2023.
Allie Mickle co-organized the panel “Representing Labor in Global Asias” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Boston, MA in March 2023. She also presented a paper, “The Promise of Automation: Factory Work in Cao Fei’s Artist Cinema,” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Boston in March 2023.
April Riddle published “Extending Beyond the Ultimate Display in Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics” in Media-N 19, no. 1 in February 2023; and authored “Repurposing Surplus Data in Pursuit of Nonextractive Futures” for Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions (Columbus Museum of Art) in September 2023. She also presented “Figitur et Fractis: St. Vitus's Conversion Coins of Corvey Abbey” at the 22nd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at Harvard University in March 2023.
Peter Smyth presented “Miraculous Kitsch: Comics, Painting, and the Modernist Anticipation of Novelty” at the International Conference on Narrative in Dallas in March 2023.
Emilela Thomas-Adams presented “Material Memory: Imitation and Reuse in Renaissance Florentine Convents” at the 22nd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at Harvard University in March 2023, as well as in a session sponsored by DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion) at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich. in May 2023.
Maggie Wilson presented “Master Heinrich's Two Bodies: Lay Production of Devotional Sculpture at St. Katharinenthal Convent” at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich. in May 2023.
Keyu Yan presented “Pushing Boundaries: Revisiting the Contribution of Post-Mao Artistic Exchanges to Contemporary Chinese Art” at the virtual 52nd Annual Southwest Conference on Asian Studies in November 2023. He also published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Modernizing Sculpture: Print Culture and the New Discourse on Sculpture in China, circa 1880–1929” in East Asian Publishing and Society in September 2023; as well as authoring a book review of Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (ASAP/J: The Open Access Platform of the Association of the Arts of the Present Journal, November 2023) and Documents of Contemporary Art: The Cute (InVisible Culture, June 2023).
