Fall 2018 Lectures
Symposium:
Virtual Journeys: Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 12–4 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
12:00–12:20
Opening remarks
12:20–12:50
Digital tour of the Yungang Grottoes, by Dr. Ning Bo (Yungang Grottoes Research Institute) & Dr. Changyu Diao (Zhejiang
University)
12:50–1:20
Fragments and Traces: Reconstituting the Central Binyang Cave of the Longmen Grottoes, by Dr. Fletcher John Coleman (University of Notre Dame)
1:20–1:30
Break
1:30–2:00
Touching the Past: Discovering and Turning Historical Buildings into a Digital Database, by Dr. Jianwei Zhang (Peking University)
2:00–2:30
Digital tour of the Dunhuang Grottoes and the Dazu Rock Carvings, by Dr. Wu-Wei Chen (NYU Shanghai)
2:30–3:00
Cultural Heritage in Dunhuang Conveyed in Digital Media: Creating the Animation for
Cave 254 of the Mogao Caves by Qi Chen and Haitao Chen (Dunhuang Academy)
3:00–3:30
The God's Eye View: How Does Digital Visuality Create Knowledge?, by Dr. Di Luo (Wake Forest University)
3:30–4:00
Q&A session and break
5:00–7:00
Opening Reception
RELATED PROGRAMS
VIRTUAL REALITY DEMO
Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
Wednesdays, September 12–December 15, 218 @ 12 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
EXHIBITION
Virtual Journeys: Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
September 12 through December 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery
ART CRAWL
Guided Exhibition Tour
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 @ 1:30 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Zodiac Gallery
Building the Future of Asian Food Culture
By Danielle Chang, host of Lucky Chow
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 4 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
In this wide-ranging lecture, Danielle Chang will discuss the intersection of Asian identity, food culture, and entrepreneurship. She will also share a sneak-peek of a segment for the national PBS series Lucky Chow that features the Wang Center; read an excerpt from her book Lucky Rice, which is about finding identity and culture through Asian food; and speak to the Stony Brook academic community about the power of voice and cultural entrepreneurship.
About the Speaker
Danielle Chang is the founder of LUCKYRICE, a culinary event and content production brand, as well as the creator and host of Lucky Chow, an award-winning national PBS series. As a cultural entrepreneur, she has spent the past twenty-five years building brands across numerous creative fields, spanning art, media, fashion, and food.
Based in Manhattan’s Chinatown, LUCKYRICE is a pioneering platform that connects global audiences through the universally appetizing lens of food and drink. Its signature LUCKYRICE Festival has expanded to eight U.S. markets and evolved into a definitive voice for Asian pop culture today. Danielle’s first book, Lucky Rice: Stories and Recipes from Night Markets, Feasts, and Family Tables, was published in 2017. Danielle was formerly the founder and publisher of Simplycity, a venture-backed, global women’s lifestyle media company and print magazine. Other businesses she founded include Xiao Bao Chinese, a Chinese language and cultural learning school in partnership with the Museum of the Chinese in America, and ArtWalk Art Tours of SoHo.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 1:30 PM
Tour of the Charles B. Wang Center, Zuccaire Gallery, University Libraries Special
Collections, and Simons Center Gallery.
Reception will follow at the Simons Center Gallery
Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges and collaborations. Our art crawls unite our university’s galleries through a series of free, guided tours led by expert curators. This initiative directly supports the university’s commitment to celebrating diversity and promotes the university’s place in the global community. Each art crawl will offer tours of three to four galleries, visiting each for about 30 minutes, before ending with a reception.
The Charles B. Wang Center will offer a VR tour of the current exhibit, Virtual Journeys: Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era, at 1:30 PM.
1:30 PM Charles B. Wang Center
2:00 PM Zuccaire Gallery
2:30 PM University Libraries Special Collections
3:00 PM Simons Center
3:30 PM Reception, Simons Center
Art Crawl is funded by the Presidential Mini-grant for Departmental Diversity.
RELATED PROGRAMS
SYMPOSIUM
Virtual Journeys: Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
Thursday, September 27, 2018 @ 12 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Theatre
VIRTUAL REALITY DEMO
Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
Wednesdays, September 12–December 15, 218 @ 12 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
EXHIBITION
Virtual Journeys: Chinese Buddhist Art and Architecture in the Digital Era
September 12 through December 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery
Spring 2018 Lectures
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 4:30 PM
Tour of University Libraries Special Collections, Zuccaire Gallery, and the Charles
B. Wang Center. Reception will follow at the Charles B. Wang Center.
Reception will follow at the Charles B. Wang Center
Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 3 PM
Tour of Zuccaire Gallery, Alloway Gallery, and Simons Center Gallery.
Reception will follow at Simons Center Gallery.
Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges and collaborations. Our art crawls unite our university’s galleries through a series of free, guided tours led by expert curators. This initiative directly supports the university’s commitment to celebrating diversity and promotes the university’s place in the global community. Each art crawl will offer tours of three to four galleries, visiting each for about 30 minutes, before ending with a reception.
Jeffrey Allen Price, the co-curator of Potasia: Potatoism in the East, will guide visitors through the current exhibit on March 21.
Art Crawl is funded by the Presidential Mini-grant for Departmental Diversity.
RELATED PROGRAMS
EXHIBITION
Potasia: Potatoism in the East
March 15 through June 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
LECTURE
The Motif of Potatoes in Korean Media (Old and New)
Thursday, March 22, 2018 @ 4 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
LECTURE
Potatoism: A Global History of Potato Art
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 @ 1 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
WORKSHOP
Potato Prints
Friday, April 6, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
WORKSHOP
Small Potatoes: Creating Crochet Amigurumi
Friday, April 20, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
LECTURE
North Korea: Addressing Human Needs in a Challenging Environment
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
The Motif of Potatoes in Korean Media (Old and New)
By Grace Jung
TThursday, March 22, 2018 at 1 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
In conjunction with the Wang Center’s current exhibition, Potasia: Potatoism in the East, Grace Jung will talk about the theme of potatoes as a significant motif in Korean literature, film, and television. Jung has recently published an English-language translation of Korean author Kim Tongin’s classic novel Sweet Potato.
Image credit: Cover of the novel Sweet Potato. Art by by Jee-ook Choi, 2017
RELATED PROGRAMS
EXHIBITION
Potasia: Potatoism in the East
March 15 through June 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
ART CRAWL
Guided Exhibition Tour by Jeffrey Allen Price
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 @ 4:30 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
LECTURE
Potatoism: A Global History of Potato Art
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 @ 1 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
WORKSHOP
Potato Prints
Friday, April 6, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
WORKSHOP
Small Potatoes: Creating Crochet Amigurumi
Friday, April 20, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
LECTURE
North Korea: Addressing Human Needs in a Challenging Environment
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
Potatoism: A Global History of Potato Art
By Jeffrey Allen Price
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 1–2:15 PM, 2:30–3:50 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
Artist and professor of art history Jeffrey Allen Price will give a lecture on the history of the potato as found in works of art from ancient Peru, thru Modernism and the European avant-garde, to contemporary art around the world. Potatoism (a term coined by Price) is a key concept that underlies much of Price’s interdisciplinary works and activities, which include curating art exhibitions on potato art, organizing potato-themed events such as lectures and performances, and collecting over 5,000 potato-themed artifacts from numerous cultures and countries through his organization, Think Potato Institute.
RELATED PROGRAMS
EXHIBITION
Potasia: Potatoism in the East
March 15 through June 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
ART CRAWL
Guided Exhibition Tour by Jeffrey Allen Price
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 @ 4:30 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
LECTURE
The Motif of Potatoes in Korean Media (Old and New)
Thursday, March 22, 2018 @ 4 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
WORKSHOP
Potato Prints
Friday, April 6, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
WORKSHOP
Small Potatoes: Creating Crochet Amigurumi
Friday, April 20, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
LECTURE
North Korea: Addressing Human Needs in a Challenging Environment
Friday, April 27, 2018 @ 3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
By Gennifer Weisenfeld
Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
Electricity is powerful—it is an integral element to modern life. It is also a social and cultural force of unparalleled proportions, one that forever altered the history and landscape of the world when it was first harnessed. Electricity produces the bright lights in our big cities; it is the visual language of the modern urban metropolis, lighting up burlesques, cinemas, and signboards. It also facilitated the production of modern domesticity by expanding and diversifying the number of tools and services in the burgeoning consumer market. Nevertheless, electricity did not market or sell itself. Two Japanese companies at the forefront of creating this electrifying market were actively engaged in innovative advertising design throughout the twentieth century: Tōshiba and Matsushita.
Gennifer Weisenfeld of Duke University will explore the Japanese advertising industry’s important cultivation of a nascent consumer market for electrical goods in the prewar period, and the role of graphic design and advertising in aestheticizing, visualizing, and commodifying the transformative social powers of electric energy.
Image credit: National Light Bulbs, poster, 1940s. Image © Panasonic Corporation
North Korea: Addressing Human Needs in a Challenging Environment
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
North Korea remains a closed-off society. After international aid projects and programs began in the mid-1990s in response to a devastating famine, however, more information began to become available about the social, humanitarian, and economic situation in the country. Yet the international community continues to grapple with the question of whether or not—and if so, how—to engage with North Korea. Based on hands-on experience and frequent visits, Katharina Zellweger will share some of her insights on everyday life in North Korea, the changing food security situation, and what can be done to help the country’s citizens move forward, develop, and grow, despite a complex political environment.
Image credit: Let Us Enhance Vitality of Revolutionary Potato Farming Policy of Our Party, date unknown. Courtesy of Katharina Zellweger.
About the Speaker
Katharina Zellweger is a senior aid manager with over 30 years of field experience in Hong Kong, China and North Korea. She was based in Pyongyang for five years (2006-2011) as the North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), an office of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Zellweger currently manages the Hong Kong-based KorAid Limited, an NGO established in 2015 to focus on serving children in institutions and people with disabilities in North Korea and in China with a view to later engagement in other projects in these countries. Zellweger is also a visiting fellow at the Center for International Cooperation at Stanford University in California. She holds a master’s in International Administration from the School of International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
RELATED PROGRAMS
EXHIBITION
Potasia: Potatoism in the East
March 15 through June 15, 2018
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
ART CRAWL
Guided Exhibition Tour by Jeffrey Allen Price
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 @ 4:30 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery
LECTURE
The Motif of Potatoes in Korean Media (Old and New)
Thursday, March 22, 2018 @ 4 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
LECTURE
Potatoism: A Global History of Potato Art
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 @ 1 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Lecture Hall I
WORKSHOP
Potato Prints
Friday, April 6, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel
WORKSHOP
Small Potatoes: Creating Crochet Amigurumi
Friday, April 20, 2018 @ 10 AM–12 PM, 1–3 PM
Charles B. Wang Center Chapel