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Dr. April Liu

UBC Museum of Anthropology
Participates in 1 Session
April Liu is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow for Asia at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with research interests in Chinese print culture, contemporary Asian art and visual cultures, and critical heritage studies. Since 2011, she has taught visual culture and art history at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. Liu also worked as an independent curator and event organizer in the United States, Canada, China, and Austria. In 2014, she served as a core event organizer for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s visit to UBC, Vancouver. Liu completed her PhD in East Asian Art History in 2012 from the University of British Columbia. Her PhD dissertation, titled “Living Auspiciousness: the Resurgence of Mianzhu’s New Year Picture (Nianhua) Industry,” critiqued the transformation of Mianzhu, an ancient and rural woodblock-printing center, into a site of "national heritage" for global circulation and tourism. This interdisciplinary study involved extensive field research in rural China and is situated at the intersection of anthropology and art history. Her publications include the following: “Mianzhu’s Global Travels.” In Collected Works of Mianzhu Nianhua, ed. Hou Rong. Chengdu: Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing, 2012. “The Living Word: Xu Bing and the Art of Chan Wordplay.” In Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections, eds. Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger Ames. Albany: SUNY press, July 2011, 117-146. “Karaoke Hyperspace: Gu Xiong’s Red River as a Study of Place-making.” Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7.6 (2008): 78-87.

Sessions in which Dr. April Liu participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00

Sessions in which Dr. April Liu attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:00
13:00
  • What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
  • 13:00 - 15:00  | 2 hours
  • This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the...
  • Workshop
    Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)
17:00
17:00
  • Opening Ceremony and Cocktail
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, Grey Nuns Motherhouse (GN) - Former Chapel
  • 17:00 - 19:30  | 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event

Saturday 4 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Lucie Morisset
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in...
Event manager
18:30
18:30
  • Keynote: Is Tangible to Intangible as Formal is to Informal ? (Michael Herzfeld)
  • Signup required
  • UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J) - Salle Alfred-Laliberté
  • 18:30 - 20:00  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including...
  • Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
    Public event
    Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Participant
Harvard University
Ernest E. Monrad Profess...
Prof. Laurajane Smith
Moderator
Australian National Univ...
Professor and Head of th...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
7:00
7:00
14:00
14:00
Prof. James Count Early
Participant
Smithsonian Center for F...
Director, Cultural Herit...
Prof. Michelle L. Stefano
Moderator
University of Maryland, ...
Visiting Assistant Profe...

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
15:30
15:30
Prof. Xavier Greffe
Participant
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Moderator
UQAM
Professeur émérite
18:00
18:00
  • Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
  • Signup required
  • Concordia, LB Building - LB 123
  • 18:00 - 19:00  | 1 hour
  • To celebrate our film series dedicated to heritage, sponsored by the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland and the United St...
  • Cocktail
    Festive Event