Schedule

9:00 – 9:10

Opening Speeches

Prof. Xian Zhou, Nanjing University

Prof. Holli Semetko, Emory University

9:10 – 10:30

Session 1

Chairperson:

Prof. Chengzhou He, Nanjing University

Prof. Kang Liu, Duke University

China's Global Communication and Soft Power

Prof. Deepika Bahri, English Department, Emory University

China in Our Backyard (and Front!)

Prof. Jincai Yang, English Department, Nanjing University

Reading Cultural Politics in He Chongyue’s Photo Images of “Family Planning”

Prof. Walter S. Melion, Art History, Emory University

Karel van Mander’s Nativity Broadcast by Prophets of the Incarnation (1588): The Cultural Politics of the Multi-Confessional Image in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 – 12:30

Session 2

Chairperson:

Prof. Rong Cai,

Emory University

Prof. Holli A. Semetko, Emory University

Visually Speaking: Citizen Consumers and China-US Relations

Prof. Xian Zhou, Nanjing University

Visual Culture and the Social Transformation

Prof. Sissel McCarthy, Journalism School, Emory University

The Power of the Image and the Case for News Literacy in the Digital Age of Journalism

Prof. Chengzhou He, English Department, Nanjing University

The Ambiguities of Chineseness and the Dispute Over the “Homecoming” of Turando

Prof. Ningsheng Chang, Nanjing Arts Institute

Problems of Contemporary Art in China

12:30 – 13:50

Lunch   Buffet at Behind the Screen Restaurant

14:00 -15:30

Session 3

Chairperson:

Prof. Jincai Yang,

Nanjing University

Prof. Rong Cai, Executive Director, Confucius Institute in Atlanta,

Emory University

Make the Present Serve the Past: Restaging On Guard under the Neon Lights on Contemporary Chinese Television

Prof. Aimin Cheng, Institute for International Students, Nanjing University

The Chinatown Image in American literature and Movies

Prof. Joseph Crespino, History Department, Emory University

Race, Violence and Visual Cultural in the Modern Civil Rights Struggle

Prof. Peiqin Zhou, Sociology School, Nanjing University

Domestic challenges in creating an international media superpower: An analysis of negative news on CCTV in the new Millennium

Prof. Manting Yin, Philosophy Department, Nanjing University

The Perturbation of Visual Experience in the Photos of Avant-Garde Art

15:30 – 15:50

Coffee Break

15:50 – 17:30

Session 4

Chairperson:

Prof. Deepika Bahri, Emory University

Prof. Jie Zhang, Research Centre of East Painting and Calligraphy Art, Nanjing University

Artistic Chinese Writings as Cultural Symbols Writing Sense of Place in China

Prof. Qiang Tong, Chinese Thinkers Research Center, Nanjing University

The History of Chinese visual culture: from Fans to Screens

Prof. Allen Tullos, editor, Southern Spaces

Landscapes and Ecologies: Depicting Environmental Encroachments, Disasters, and Protections

Dr. Lei Zhang, IAS, Nanjing University

The Power of Reproduction: Walter Benjamin’s Imagination on a New Barbarism

Dr. Mu Hu, IAS, Nanjing University

Visual Presentation of Chinese Literary Classics: the Case of The Legend of Shangri-La

17:30 – 18:00

Free Discussion and Exchange

18:10 – 20:00

Dinner   Lily Hall A, West Garden Restaurant