by Renee Yu Jin and Haebin Koh
This conversation took place prior to Professor Wong’s lecture in the Humanities Center, structured as both an interview and a graduate student workshop. The interview was led by Visual and Cultural Studies (VCS) PhD student Renee Yu Jin, with participation from Michalina Czubak and Ophelia Adams from Literary Translation program. The conversation engaged topics such as Wong’s forthcoming book project on naming and unnaming, the asymmetries of canonical forms of art, and the varied mediations through which copies circulate and accrue value. It also explored language as both a tool of imperial power and a site of cultural negotiation, while reflecting on the epistemological gap between historiography and ethnography. The dialogue concluded with reflections on pedagogy and the stakes of teaching within interdisciplinary expectations.
in Invisible Culture: a Journal for Visual Culture, 2025
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