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Professors Christine I. Ho and Karen Kurczynski promoted their new books through online events in fall 2020.

In August, Ho co-organized “Envisioning East Asian Art History: 20 Books in 2020,” a website and book launch that gathered 20 scholars who published academic monographs in 2020 (and late 2019) to discuss new directions and methodologies in East Asian art history.  Major themes included the canon, landscape and environment, material culture, and global modern and contemporary art.  Ho was astounded by the reach of a virtual book party— with more than 600 people registered and around 300 people were online at any time during the two-and-a-half-hour webinar. 

In a more intimate and casual format, Kurczynski invited her fellow published authors: Niko Vicario of Amherst College, Alex Dika Seggerman of Rutgers University-Newark, and Ho to congregate at a salon organized by Amherst College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Arts at Amherst Initiative.  The September discussion, “Constellations of Modernism: Writing New Art Histories,” spotlighted research on the surrealist and state-sponsored artists in Egypt, art and trade in Latin America, Cobra movement in Europe, and socialist realist in China.  Their conversation retreaded, from multiple perspectives, longstanding questions in writing global modernism.