On November 27th, 2018, the Academic Seminar of the exhibition “Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection” sponsored by Tsinghua University Art Museum was held in the fourth-floor- lecture room of the museum.

The site of the seminar
 

       The seminar was attended by Prof. Su Dan, Vice Director of Tsinghua University Art Museum; Prof. Wang Zhongchen, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University; Prof. Wang Hui, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University; Liang Junjian, Associate Professor of School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University; Prof. Li Yang, School of Arts, Peking University; Prof. Feng Yuan, School of Communication and Design, Sun yat-sen University; Jin Yongquan, Editor-in-chief of China Popular Photography; Zhu Qi, Research fellow of Theory Department, China National Academy of Painting; Zeng Huang, Senior Editor of Xinhua News Agency; Stephan Loewentheil, Antiquarian and Founder of the Loewentheil Collection and Phillip Prodger, the Curator of the exhibition. The academic host of the seminar was Chen Anying, Chair of Art History Department, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.

The group photo of the participating experts

       The academic seminar focused on the exhibition “Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection”. Twelve experts, from the fields of history, literature, film and television, photography, anthropology, art and communication etc., surveyed the relationships between the ways of the world and image, history and daily life, observing and being observed, tradition and modernity, China and the world from different perspectives. Nearly 200 people attended the seminar as audience.