The 4th CCVA PhD Forum
School of Art
Birmingham City University UK (in-person only)
Lecture Theatre, School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham B3 3BX, UK
£40
An exceptional opportunity to explore the latest advancements and discussions in the field of Asian arts, culture, and media.
The 4th CCVA PhD Forum 2025 opens for registration. In response to the increase in doctoral projects in the field of Asian arts, design, media, and visual culture, the Forum is designed as a UK-wide platform to support PhD students further, enhance intellectual exchanges of ideas and critical debates, expand the participation of young generation scholars, and celebrate our achievement of up-to-date doctoral research. As a summer event to complement our winter conference, the CCVA PhD Forum aims to provide a unique space for all students within and beyond the UK, who are conducting doctoral research, new PhDs (awarded within 12 months), as well as for supervisors, advisors, and examiners, and those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the future, to share, debate and innovate. Join us at The CCVA PhD Forum for a day of networking, presentations, and discussions among fellow PhD students in the field.
Forum Programme
09:00-09:45 Registration
09:45-10:00 Welcome (Professor Jiang Jiehong)
Panel 1: Urban Space, Memory and Spatial Narratives
10:00-10:15 Zhi Dong (University of Macau)
Urban Mapping: Research on Artistic Practices of Memory and Artificial Naturalization
10:15-10:30 Rucheng Yang (Birmingham City University)
City Walk: The Driver for Urban Micro-Regeneration in Contemporary China
10:30-10:45 Lin Cheng (University of Glasgow)
From Republican Shanghai Women’s Manhua to Contemporary Sinophone Autobiographical Graphic Narratives: Re-activating Narrative Tradition and Sense of Place through Artistic Practice
10:45-11:15 Panel Discussion
Panel 2: Cultural Heritage, Archives and Curatorial Practice
11:15-11:30 Yang Zheng (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Negotiating Tradition: Heritage Governance and Cultural Reproduction in Contemporary China
11:30-11:45 Hongyue Liu (The University of Warwick)
How Performative Curatorial Approaches Mediate Between Heritage Representation and Audience Engagement in Contemporary Chinese Museums and Heritage Sites
11:45-12:15 Zitong Zhu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University / University of Liverpool)
Archiving Moving Images as Cultural Heritage: Video Bureau as a Case Study
12:15-12:45 Panel Discussion
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
Panel 3: Gender, Identity and Visual Representation
13:45-14:00 Ayisha Ma (University of Leeds)
An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Actions and Identity Construction: The case of Chinese female photographers
14:00-14:15 Zizhou Chen (University of Birmingham)
Negotiating 'Chineseness': China's Fashion Photography of Men (2016–2024) and the Reconstruction of Masculinity
14:15-14:30 Shuyan Li (University of East Anglia)
Representation of Female Same-Sex Eroticism as Strategy in the Post-2006 Mainland Chinese Cinema
14:30-15:00 Panel Discussion
Panel 4: Contemporary Art, Materiality and Transculturality
15:00-15:15 Zhongping Mao (University College London)
Language-Time and the Afterlife of Socialist-Realist Legibility: Xu Bing and Huang Yong Ping in Post-1979 Visual Culture
15:15-15:30 Liu Chang (Renmin University of China)
From Artistic Ontology to Cultural Alterity: Methodological Shifts in Euro-American Sinological Studies of Chinese Calligraphy
15:30-15:45 Saijun Huang (Glasgow School of Art)
Double Presence: Morphology and Metaphor in Contemporary Studio Ceramics
15:45-16:15 Panel Discussion
16:15-16:35 Coffee Break
Panel 5: Screen Cultures: Cinema, Digital Media and Infrastructure
16:35-16:50 Xiaoxiang Ma (Queen’s University Belfast)
Programmable Revenants: Jiangshi Cinema and the Visual Culture of Gothic Artificial Others in Asia
16:50-17:05 Zhizhuo Zhang (University of East Anglia)
Reimagining Chinese Digital Narratives: Webnovel-Adapted DongHua and the Transnational Reconfiguration of “Chinese Style” in the AI Era
17:05-17:20 Zhining Ding (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Archaeology of the Stack: Art, Digital Infrastructure, and Cosmotechnics in Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture
17:20-17:50 Panel Discussion
17:50-18:00 Closing Remarks