AWARE launches a free webinar, open to all, allowing the public to meet and exchange with members of our TEAM programme, as well as guest speakers working towards greater inclusiveness of women artists in the history of art.

For its second webinar, AWARE will host Doris Sung, Assistant Professor of Asian Art history, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA on the subject: “Why Have there Been no Great Chinese Women Artists?”. The webinar will address issues surrounding the lack of visibility of women artists, feminist and gender-related themes in Chinese modern and contemporary art. It will give a brief overview of gender roles in premodern China and focus on the tumultuous socio-political and cultural history of China in relation to art production from the early twentieth century to the present.

Pratical Information
The webinars take place each month on variable day and time depending on the guest. Registration is mandatory to access to the meeting.

The Webinar #2 will be on Thursday, December,10 2020 at 5 PM (Paris time). The meeting will be held in English.

Free (according to available disponibilities), reservation is mandatory

Webinars will be broadcasted and will be available on AWARE website.

Doris Sung’s research focuses on early modern, modern, and contemporary art of East Asia, cultural interactions between Asia and Europe, and gender in visual culture. She published several book chapters and articles on Chinese women artists active in the 2Oth and 21st centuries. She is contributor to entries on modern and contemporary Chinese art in Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online). Doris Sung was former Assistant curator at the Peabody Essex Museum, and Project Coordinator for the international research digital humanities project “A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937”. She is also a visual artist and independent curator.