Symposium: Community Of Images

As part of the opening events for the Community of Images exhibition, JASGP and CCJ are hosting a one-day symposium at University of Pennsylvania that is being co-presented by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program. In addition to presenting original research from the curatorial team that shaped the exhibition, this symposium will feature a roundtable panel related to  Asian American independent film and media arts movements that developed during the same time period among Asian diasporic communities in the US. Exploring these contemporaneous Asian American filmmakers and video artists, the objective is not to link them or their works directly to the Japanese artists, but rather discuss in parallel as contemporaries who emerged from the same generation and were simultaneously navigating questions of race and self-identity through the context of media.

The symposium will be held at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

Confirmed presenters include:
Ann Adachi-Tasch (Collaborative Cataloguing Japan)
Rob Buscher (University of Pennsylvania)
Peter X. Feng (University of Delaware)
Go Hirasawa (Meiji-Gakuin University)
Nina Horisaki-Christens (Columbia University)
Julian Ross (Leiden University)

SCHEDULE
9:30-10am - Registration & Breakfast
10:00-12pm - Panel 1, Community of Images: Research process towards the exhibition
12:00-1:00pm - Lunch
1:00-3pm - Panel 2, Asian American Independent Film Movement

Host or Publisher Collaborative Cataloging Japan