<div dir="ltr"><br>Please see CFP<br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Elaine Y Yau</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:eyau@berkeley.edu">eyau@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM<br>Subject: Pls Share: CFP -- New Directions in Research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha<br>To: Elaine Y Yau <<a href="mailto:eyau@berkeley.edu">eyau@berkeley.edu</a>>, Tausif Noor <<a href="mailto:tausif_noor@berkeley.edu">tausif_noor@berkeley.edu</a>>, Kimberly Yu <<a href="mailto:kimberlysyu@berkeley.edu">kimberlysyu@berkeley.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues, </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am pleased to share the following CFP for a symposium organized on the occasion of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's upcoming exhibition <i>Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings </i>(January 17–April 19, 2026). More details outlined below and in the attached file.</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you for sharing with your networks widely!</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">With every best,</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Elaine</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br></font></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Elaine Y. Yau |</b> <b>丘容 </b>(she/her)</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Associate Curator and Academic Liaison</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://bampfa.org/" target="_blank"><font face="arial, sans-serif">bampfa.org</font></a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:nor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<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>“Multiple Offerings: New Directions in Research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha” </b><b>Symposium </b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Symposium Date: </b>Saturday, February 7, 2026<span> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Submissions Due: </b>Friday, October 7, 2025<span> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On January 17, 2026, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will open <i><a href="https://bampfa.org/program/theresa-hak-kyung-cha-multiple-offerings" target="_blank">Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings</a></i>, the largest exhibition to date dedicated to the art and life of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982). Featuring more than one hundred objects and ephemera drawn primarily from BAMPFA’s collection and archives, the exhibition will span the full breadth of Cha’s multifaceted career across conceptual art, film, performance, and poetry, highlighting Cha’s radical approach of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering.” Curated by Victoria Sung, Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator, with Tausif Noor, Curatorial Associate, the exhibition situates the artist within the lively experimental art scenes of the Bay Area, New York, and Europe in the 1970s and ’80s. Works from the 1970s by figures such as Yvonne Rainer and Terry Fox will be presented in the exhibition alongside newer works made by an intergenerational group of contemporary artists, including Cecilia Vicuña, Renée Green, Cici Wu, and Na Mira, who have engaged deeply with Cha’s practice and speak to the lasting impact of the artist today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue edited by Sung, with curatorial and scholarly essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jordan Carter, Danielle A. Jackson, Mason Leaver-Yap, and the exhibition curators, as well as a roundtable discussion with artists Na Mira and Cici Wu, moderated by Min Sun Jeon.<span> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In conjunction with the exhibition, BAMPFA will host <b>“Multiple Offerings: New Directions in Research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,” </b>organized by Tausif Noor and Kimberly Yu, Jay DeFeo Foundation Curatorial Fellow and PhD student in History of Art at UC Berkeley. <span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">Though Cha is best known for her path breaking work <i>Dictee </i>(1982), her life and work have been the subject of significant scholarly attention across fields as diverse as comparative literature, film and media studies, and Asian American and diaspora studies for her radically interdisciplinary practice. In the spirit of multiple offerings, we invite proposals for paper presentations </span>that expand the existing scholarship on Cha’s oeuvre from a range of specializations, addressing topics that span the breadth of Cha’s oeuvre.<span> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Please submit abstracts of no longer than 250 words by <b>October 7, 2025</b>. </span>Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. We will reserve time for discussion at the end of each panel. The symposium is open to scholars and graduate students in any discipline, as well as artists, critics, and curators. In addition to the abstract, please also submit:<span> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"></p><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">A participant bio<span> </span></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">A description of any necessary support and technical needs you may have beyond a standard microphone<span> </span></font></li></ul><p></p>

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<p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>We regret that we cannot provide funding for travel or housing, nor can we provide an honorarium for participation. All materials must be submitted via email to </b><span style="color:rgb(17,84,204)"><b><a href="mailto:tausif_noor@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">tausif_noor@berkeley.edu</a> </b></span><b>AND </b><span style="color:rgb(17,84,204)"><b><a href="mailto:kimberlysyu@berkely.edu" target="_blank">kimberlysyu@berkely.edu</a> </b></span><b>(please include both organizers) <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">no later than Tuesday, October 7, 2025</span>. Please address all questions and concerns to the conference organizers via email.<span> </span></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><br></p></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
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