Public Eyes / Private Lenses: Visualizing the Chinese in Indonesia and in North America
01/03/2007 - 08:30
March 1-2, 2007
Room 102, Institute of Asian Research (IAR)
CK Choi Building
1855 West Mall, Vancouver
An International Workshop sponsored by:
UBC-Institute of Asian Research (CSEAR / CCR /MCRI Program)
UBC Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian studies (INSTRCC)
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Consulate General of Indonesia, Vancouver
Program:
DAY I: Thursday, March 1 (at IAR)
8:30-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00-9:30am: Welcoming Introduction
Alison Bailey (UBC)
Michael Leaf (UBC)
9:30am-12:00pm: Session I: Contexts / Histories/ Methodologies
Chair: Ed Wickberg (UBC)
Henry Yu (UBC) "Concepts / Contexts / Connections"
Nico de Klerk (The Netherlands Filmmuseum), "Visual Methodologies"
12:00-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-4:00pm: Session II: Private Lenses: Domestic Ways of Seeing
Chair: Eleanor Yuen (UBC)
Karen Strassler (City University of New York), "Modeling Modern Domesticity: The "object
lessons" of Sino-Indonesian photography"
Peter Post (NIOD), "Picturing Peranakan Elite Life in Prewar Java: A Note on the Use of
Home Movies and Family Photo Albums"
Robert Lee (Brown University), "Inventing Chinese America: Pictures from a Family
Album"
Discussant: Abidin Kusno (UBC)
4:00-4:30pm: Coffee Break (and walk to the Buchanan Building A-204)
4:30-6:30pm: Film Discussion Forum: "Peranakan Chinese in Colonial Indonesia"
Tineke Hellwig (UBC)
Nico de Klerk (The Netherlands Filmmuseum)
DAY II: Friday, March 2 (At IAR)
8:30-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00am-12:00pm: Session III: Public Eyes: The Gaze of the State
Chair: John Roosa (UBC)
(9:00am-9:20am: Documentary film presentation from the collection of Mona Lohanda)
Mona Lohanda, (National Archives of Indonesia) "Pictorial Images of the Indonesian Chinese
during the Revolution (1945-1949)"
Aizawa Nobuhiro (National Graduate School for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, "Visualizing
Ethnic Chinese: From the Imageries of the ‘New Order' Surveillance"
Imogene Lim, (Malaspina University College, Nanaimo), "In the Shadow of the Past: Two
Visions."
Discussant: Gordon Chang (Stanford University)
12:00-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-4:00pm: Session IV: Popular Collections: Dandies, Artifacts and the Visual Environment
Chair: Michael Leaf (UBC)
Clarence Aasen (Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand) "From Empathizing to
Terrorizing Artifacts and Aesthetics in the Social Relations of the Bali-Chinese during the Dutch colonial Period"
Gunawan Tjahjono (University of Indonesia), "Visual Environment of Celebration:
Redefining Self and Identity of Chinese Indonesians in the Era of Reformation
Didi Kwartanada (National University of Singapore) "From Oei Tiong Ham to Ferry Salim:
Visualization of the Chinese Dandies, ca 1900-2002."
Discussant: Bambang Purwanto (Gadjah Mada University)
4:00-4:30pm: Coffee Break (and walk to the Buchanan Building A-204)
4:30-6:30pm: Film Discussion Forum: "Chinese in North America"
Loni Ding (UC Berkeley)
Vivian Wong (UCLA)
Anthony Chan (University of Washington)
Karin Lee (Vancouver)