CfP: 2025 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium (Deadline: 10 Jan. 2025)
This time, the symposium will crystallize around the “Art of Journeys—From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong” and take place April 11, 2025 in Cambridge (485 Broadway Street, MA 02138).
The launch of the hit game, “Black Myth: Wukong,” in August 2024 has sparked renewed interests in the many historical sites that inspired its stunning visuals. In fact, the role that players take on in the game—an anthropomorphic monkey with supernatural abilities—also has many previous incarnations in the history of Chinese and East Asian art at large.
The most well-known is perhaps the Monkey King Sun Wukong, from Wu Chengen’s monumental sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. Yet Wu’s Journey to the West was only one of the converging points that brought together visual and textual sources dating back to the Han dynasty, ranging from pictorial representations of tales of the White Ape from Sichuan region of southwest China, the journey of the famous peripatetic Buddhist monk Xuanzang (602-664 CE) recorded in Datang xiyuji 大唐西域記 that served as the main prototype for narratives of westward journeys, visual depictions of traveling monk with a monkey in Buddhist cave temples of northwest China, and popular tales such as the Song dynasty Datang sanzang qujing shihua 大唐三藏取經詩話.
Harvard Visual China invites submissions to our third annual graduate symposium on topics related to art and visual culture concerning the art of journeys centered around that of the “traveling monkey” hou xingzhe 猴行者 in Chinese and East Asian art at large, including but not limited to
· Case studies of visual representations of the figure of hou xingzhe 猴行者 and its historical developments
· Possible precedents and prototypes for hou xingzhe 猴行者, such as visual representations of ape tales
· Afterlives of the figure of hou xingzhe 猴行者 in art and visual culture
· Visual materials related to the journeys of hou xingzhe 猴行者 from East Asia (Japan, Korean Peninsula, etc.)
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a short biography (100 words) to harvardvisualchina@gmail.com; submission deadline: 11:59 pm EST, January 10, 2025. We welcome submissions from graduate students at all stages of study from any area, postdocs, and early career scholars. Speakers will be notified by early February. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a Q&A session led by a discussant. If selected, you will be asked to send a 15-page double spaced paper by early March for the discussant. You may be asked to verify your status and institutional affiliation if selected.
Harvard Visual China (HVC) is a student organization at Harvard University dedicated to the study of Chinese art and culture. This symposium is generously co-sponsored by the Abby Aldrich
Rockefeller Innovation Fund of the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Harvard FAS CAMLab (Chinese Media Lab), and the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture
Series on Buddhism.
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