In this talk, Dr. Joseph Ho will explore how photographs, films, and oral histories intersect with cultural histories of East Asian and Chinese American communities across the twentieth century. Drawing from newly-discovered collections of families, individuals, and missionary enterprises in Sino-US contexts, he will trace the ways in which images and personal memories intersected with transnational identities. Photographic translation and circulation enabled American and Chinese people to imagine diverse existences in a modern world, structuring global ways of seeing and remembering. Visual materials and family experiences narrated evolving imaginations across periods of war and peace. In the Second Sino-Japanese War and Cold War diasporas, oral histories and fragmentary images captured idealized pasts, severed relationships, and personal longing – following the journeys of Americans in East Asia and Chinese immigrant groups as they entered new spaces of dislocation and home-making. Drawing from a decade of research in archives and family collections around the world – demonstrating recovered artifacts and rare source materials as part of this presentation – he will illuminate colorful links between vision, materiality, and memory that framed Sino-US experiences and new ways of seeing modern East Asian history.
Admission/Cost: FREE Please Register
Location:
Zoom meeting
Saturday, August 17 - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
