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All Tomorrow's Parties — Shanghai Studies Society
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All Tomorrow’s Parties: Summoning Creativity in Shanghai. Shanghai Studies Society, Rockbund Art Museum and NYU Shanghai present a series of conversations exploring urban creativity in Shanghai. The free events will take place as part of 2012-2013 Night@RAM program. They will be held on Friday evenings between 7 and 9 and/or Saturday afternoons from 3 to 6 at the Associate Mission Building, 169 Yuanmingyuan Road, 1st Floor. Every great burst of human creativity in history, is an urban phenomenon. Do nove...
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Founders — Shanghai Studies Society
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Teaches Chinese religions and contemporary Chinese visual culture at NYU in Shanghai. She is the author of The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma. Routledge, 2008) and has co-authored three other books: Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon. Chicago University Press, 2007), Made in China (Mondadori, 2008), and Liu Bolin: Hide and Seek (Ultracontemporary, 2008). 2011) and Pluralism and its Discontents: Buddhism and Proselytising in Modern China (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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Convergences — Shanghai Studies Society
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Convergences: Summoning Creativity in Shanghai. A Series of Conversations. Shanghai Studies Society and Night@RAM. An Evening with Angela Zito. The Rockbund Art Museum. The second series of conversations on urban creativity initiated by Francesca Tarocco and Anna Greenspan in collaboration with Rockbund Art Museum and NYU Shanghai, sees internationally renowned thinkers and practitioners explore, map out and imagine the temporal and spatial landscape of the city. A film on the social life of calligraphy.
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Transcultural Visualities — Shanghai Studies Society
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Blue Sky Day: June 2012, Archival Pigment Ink Print, CYJO 2012. Transcultural Visualities: Global Asian Art. Co-convened by Alexandra Chang and Francesca Tarocco, the symposium is presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and NYU in Shanghai, in collaboration with James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai Studies Society, Leo Xu Projects, Aike Dellarco, and MABSOCIETY. Participants include: Mathieu Borysevicz, Dean Chan, Alexandra Chang, Roberto Ceresia,. Ank Vigneron, Leo Xu, Jian-Jun Zhang. End of p...
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Network — Shanghai Studies Society
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Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. Designer, Founder and Principal Designer:. Bristol University: Department of History. Professor of Sociology and Global Studies:. Sophia University, Tokyo: Faculty of Liberal Arts. Director: Shanghai Program,. Professor:. NYU Shanghai. Journalist and Media Scholar: NYU Shanghai. Professor of Chinese Literature:. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Division of the Humanities. Director: Rockbund Arts Museum. Editor in Chief:. Randian.
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Shanghai Palimpsest — Shanghai Studies Society
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Shanghai Palimpsest: Shadows of the Past in the 21st Century Metropolis. October 14 15, 2011. Room 336, 3rd Floor. East China Normal University. No 3663, Zhongshan Road, North, Shanghai, China. October 14 (Friday), 2011. Morning Session chaired by Francesca Tarocco (NYU Shanghai). By Francesca Tarocco and Anna Greenspan, Chairs. NYU Shanghai) Shanghai’s Jazz Revival: Imaginary Nostalgia, Musical Hybridity, and Cosmopolitan Urbanism in the Contemporary Shanghai Jazz Scene (30 min.). NYU Shanghai/Shanghai ...
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Cultivated City — Shanghai Studies Society
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Contemporary Asia is in the midst of the fastest and largest process of urbanization in human history. Alongside the dynamism of the region’s hyper dense cities, however, are alarming levels of air pollution, recurrent stories of toxic food, contaminated waterways and intensifying popular protests concerning polluting factories and plants. Issues surrounding a sustainable urban ecology have thus become paramount in the construction of Asia’s metropolitan future. Also pays special attention to the urban g...
