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Looking Through The Glass:
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Asian Reverse Glass Painting Traditions

International Symposium
​Friday, November 16
Altgeld 315, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.


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Schedule
​9 - 9:45 a.m.    Light breakfast
9:45 - 10 a.m. Welcome Remarks
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HE U Aung Lynn, Burmese Ambassador, Washington, DC
Jerry Blazey, Ph.D., vice President of the Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships, NIU
Paul Kassel, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, NIU
John Siblik, director of the School of Art and Design, NIU
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10 - 10:30 a.m. Introductory remarks on Southeast Asian Reverse Glass Painting
Catherine Raymond, Ph.D., professor of Southeast Asian Art History, director of the Center for Burma Studies and curator of Burma Art Collection at NIU
Jerome Samuel, Ph.D., vice president of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INaLCO, Paris
 
Burma/Myanmar
 10:30 - 11 a.m. “Burmese Reverse Glass Painting in Perspective”
Catherine Raymond, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
11 - 11:30 a.m.“The Burmese Artist-Chemist: The Wet Collodion Process in Mass-Produced Reverse Glass Paintings”
Carmin Berchiolly, M.A. art history, Northern Illinois University
11:30 a.m. - noon “A Modern Escapade: Reverse Glass Painting in Bagyi Aung Soe’s Oeuvre”
Yin Ker, Ph.D., Nanyang University, Singapore

noon - 1:30 p.m.  Lunch break (on your own)
 
China
 1:30- 2 p.m. “Chinese Reverse Glass Painting: Collection at The Corning Museum of Glass”
Shelly Xue, Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Visual ArtCarpenter Foundation Fellow for Asia Glass at Corning Museum of Glass
 
Indonesia
 2 - 2:30 p.m. "The Heart and the Fringes: Holy Places of Islam Through Javanese Reverse Glass Painting"
Jerome Samuel, Ph.D., Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INaLCO, Paris
2:30 - 3 p.m.“Glimpses of Indonesia: An Exploration of Represented Realities in Collected Glass Paintings”
Rosalia Sciortino, Ph.D., Mahidol University, Bangkok
 
Cambodia
 3 - 3:30 p.m. "Looking for Reverse Glass Painting in Cambodia”
Sopheap Somcheat, National Museum, Phnom Penh and Catherine Raymond, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University
3:30 - 4 p.m. "The Montague Collection of Reverse Glass Painting from Cambodia"
Joel Montague, collector of Cambodian Reverse Glass Paintings
4 - 4:30 p.m.Closing Remarks and Q&A

Accompanying Art Exhibit

Funded with support from the Allen Series Fund, Division of Art History, NIU School of Art and Design; the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts, the NIU Graduate School, the NIU Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships; the NIU Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the Burma Studies Foundation and the Center for Burma Studies at NIU.
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