2023-2024 Symposium • April 24, 2024

• Kristin Eng — “Evolving Symbolism of Monkey Made from Stone“
• Ethan LeBeau — “Traditional Japanese Visual Elements in the Modern World“
• Alexander Diaz — “Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko: How Tanuki Are Used as a Traditional Icon“

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2022-2023 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 12, 2023

• Gideon Holdgate — “Medieval Imagery of Japanese Hungry Ghosts and Their Legacy”
• George Smith — “Gilded Nature: the Kano School of Paintings in Momoyama Japan”
• Linnea Pappas-Byers — “The Euro-Japanese Print Trade: Rangaku and Japonisme”
• Emily Williams — “Big Fish and Begonia: The Netizen-Funded Breakthrough Animation”

2021-2022 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 12, 2022

• Lin Zeng – “Wang Ximeng and Song Huizong’s Portrayal of the Ideal Chinese Paradise”
• Taylor Sarner – “Realism with Chinese Characteristics: The Everyday Perspectives of Post-Mao China”

2020-2021 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 26, 2021

• Olivia Fair – “The Animated Nezha and the Confucian Doctrine of Filial Piety”
• Dante Canario – “From Olympic Harmony Héxié to River Crabs Héxiè”

2019-2020 SYMPOSIUM • OCTOBER 26, 2020

• Alexandru Zaharia – “From Pagoda to Skytree: Ideology Fostering Science in Japanese Architecture”
• Tatyana Andreeva – “China for Sale: Porcelain as a Means of Critique on Consumerism”
• Zhiyao Zhang – “The Tragicomedy of a Piano Made in a Steel Factory”

2018-2019 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 18, 2019

• Alura Leet – “Queen Mother of the West vs. Confucius: A Foreign Myth and Han State Ideology”
• Sonisai Long – “Kung Fu Hustle Culture Hustle: Cinematic Clash of East and West”
• Donvu Le – “Ip Man Martial Art Master as a Philosopher-Gentleman”
• Xingyu Gu – “Have a Nice Day: Realism vs Fantasy in Chinese Animation”

2017-2018 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 4, 2018

• Kaylee Hennessey – “The Book of the People: The Popol Vuh in Maya Life”
• Abygayl Marsh – “The Enemy Has No Face”
• Michael Aiello – “Farewell My Concubine / Hello My Self”
• Rose Wiklund – “The Aztec Legacy in Contemporary Mexican Art”

2016-2017 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 12, 2017

• Jayme Horne – “Reconsidering Thir Gender in the Ancient Maya World”
• Anh Quynh Tran – “Sun Goddess, Virgin Mary, and the Skeleton in the Closet”
• Anagha Prasan – “Examining Southeast Asia’s Most Notorious Art Dealer”

2015-2016 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 6, 2016

• Paul Fitzgerald – The Garden of Earthly Delights as Habsburg-Burgundian Spectacle
• Felix Kauffman – “Wa Complex: An Analysis of Japan’s Identity”
• Rebecca Morrison – “Walid Raad: Fiction’s Truth, from Archive to Imagination”
• John Valeriani – “Jan Svankmajer’s Dimensions of Dialogue: Post Soviet Ideological Exposure”

2014-2015 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 22, 2015

• Cole Wuilleumier – “Justifying Identities: Art Repatriation and the Universal Museum”
• Molly O’Neill – “A World of Glass”
• Andrew Rondinone – “Regarding Ed Ruscha’s Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass“
• Brett Schneider – “Clash of Hokusai Spirit, Shogun, and Emperor”

2013-2014 SYMPOSIUM • APRIL 9, 2014

• Sebastian Francis-Burnell – “Deep Roots, Heavy Fruits: The Grave Realism in Japanese Anime”
• Terese Raschel Lukey – “Living Wampanoag: The Art of Reclaiming the Wôpanâak Language”
• Emily Watlington – “Aby Warburg and Marcel Duchamp: A Microcosm of Radical Western Modernism”