The 9th CCVA Annual Conference Making the New World: The Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution 11th – 12th November 2016 Venue: Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London 11 November Friday 11.00-11.20 Registration 11.20-11.30 Welcome 11.30-12.15 Richard King Cultural Policy for a Heroic Age: the summary 12.15-12.30 Q&A 12.30-13.30 Lunch PANEL ONE 13.30-13.50 Minerva Inwald The Socialist Art Palace: early Cultural Revolution art exhibitions 13.50-14.10 Wang Gerui Ambivalence in Li Keran’s Jinggang Mountain: negotiating artistic agency and state obligation during the Cultural Revolution 14.10-14.30 Vivian Li Becoming A Model Artwork: the Rent Collection Courtyard 14.30-14.50 Christine Ho Between Arts and Mass Criticism: perceiving the beautiful through Cultural Revolution audiences 14.50-15.30 Panel discussion (Chair: Craig Clunas) 15.30-16.00 Coffee and tea PANEL TWO 16.00-16.20 Corey Schultz The Maoist Peasant Figure and Its Affective Importance in Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture 16.20-16.40 Zhang Li Agender Performance: aesthetic discipline of heroines in the Cultural Revolution 16.40-17.00 Linda Pittwood Wearing Mao’s Trousers: the methods and consequences of ‘ungendering’ the body during the Chinese Cultural Revolution 16.45-17.30 Panel discussion (Chair Harriet Evans) 12 November Saturday 11.00-11.20 Registration 11.20-11.30 Welcome 11.30-12.15 A conversation with painter Shen Jiawei 12.15-12.30 Q&A 12.30-13.30 Lunch PANEL THREE 13.30-13.50 Martin Mulloy Photography and the Cultural Revolution 13.50-14.10 Andreas Steen Propaganda on Shellac, Vinyl and Plastic: the politics of record production during the Cultural Revolution in China 14.10-14.30 Eldon Pei The Atom Bomb Is A Celluloid Tiger 14.30-14.50 Wang Rujie Image-Music-Text: the rhetoric of the arts from the Cultural Revolution 14.50-15.30 Panel discussion (Chair: Jiang Jiehong) 15.30-16.00 Coffee and tea PANEL FOUR 16.00-16.20 Mark Nash, Rosalind Delmar Screen Theory and the Cultural Revolution Cinema 16.20-16.40 Yawen Ludden From Model Opera to Model Society: Jiang Qing, Yu Huiyong, and Yangbanxi 16.40-17.00 Kristine Harris Re-staging the Red Detachment of Women 17.00-17.30 Panel discussion (Chair: Chris Berry) .