Download Book of abstracts here: Mirrors: An Interdisciplinary Approach 2023

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Topic: IVMSC 2023 – Day I
Time: Sep 6, 2023 05:15 PM Beijing, Shanghai
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Topic: IVMSC 2023 – Day II
Time: Sep 6, 2023 05:15 PM Beijing, Shanghai
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Topic: IVMSC 2023 – Day III
Time: Sep 8, 2023 05:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai
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International Virtual Mirror Studies Conference (IVMSC) is organized by the Mirror studies project. The conference theme is Mirrors: an interdisciplinary approach #4.

The main topic of this conference is mirrors and interdisciplinary approach. Mirrors as objects have been important in the plenty of academic fields: arts (sculpture, pictures, photography), literature (Perseus and Medusa, fairy tales Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, children’s book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carrol), humanities (Archimedes and his mirror during siege of Syracuse, written sources about mirrors, folk tales about mirrors), science (physical tests of lightness and waves, chemical reports of texture and materials, metallurgical or glass analysis), social sciences (mirrors as social expression or tool used in rituals, religion festivals and funerals), political sciences (mirrors as gifts, political plans of sharing and spreading mirrors), psychology (mirroring, mirrors and soul, self-reflection), psychoanalysis (Lacan and mirror phase, Jung and symbolic mirrors, Freud and mirrors), philosophy (Foucault and heterotopia, Derrida and deconstruction, Wang Minan and mirrors), popular culture (movies, comics, journalism) and archaeology (mirrors within archaeological context).

This year, we expanded conference topics into various regions (from East Asia to Mesoamerica, Africa, South America to Europe) and time frameworks (from prehistory to contemporary history and present). For the first time, we have covered new topics such as ballet, human-animal studies, ethnology and mirrors. These themes fit our old topics dedicated to Chinese, Central Asia, Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, or Mesoamerican mirrors. In addition, our interdisciplinary approach has been reflected in various academic fields: archaeology, history, art history, anthropology, ethnology, literature, film studies, performance studies, digital humanities, pedagogy, psychology, medicine, nursing, optics, physics, etc.

As you can read, there are three types of events: scientific sessions, invited lecture, and a coffee/tea lounge, a chat event between participants. Invited lecture is our Mirror Studies Virtual Young Researcher Annual Lecture (MSVYRAL), an annual lecture and award for younger scholars. The first winner was Egyptologist Elizabeth Thomas (University of Liverpool) for 2021, and winners for 2022 (Isabella Jaeger from Oxford University) and 2023 (Luis Fernandez Lara from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) will give their lectures during conference.

The conference will be held through Zoom. In every session, two technical assistants will help with the online issues.

The conference will be held through Zoom. In every session, two technical assistants will help with the online issues.

We wish that the conference will be held successfully.

Looking forward to seeing you this year and preparing your abstracts for IVMSC #5 2024.

The International Virtual Mirror Studies Conference (IVMSC)

Committee