I would like to announce a conference I have organized in Berlin, Germany. The conference will take place on 7/9-10, 2015.
Chunjie Zhang <chjzhang@ucdavis.edu>
Global Approaches in European and Chinese Modernisms
July 9-10, 2015
Seminarzentrum L 115
Free University, Berlin, Germany
Organizer and Contact: Chunjie Zhang (chjzhang@ucdavis.edu)
(FU Berlin, Germany / University of California, Davis, USA)
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1-5:00PM
WELCOME REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION
1:00 Joachim Küpper
(Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Humanities Center)
1:15 Chunjie Zhang
(Freie Universität Berlin / University of California, Davis)
I. CHINESE AND GERMAN WORLD PROJECTS AROUND 1900
1.30 Ban Wang
(Stanford University, USA)
Literature, Nation, and Internationalism in Liang Qichao
2:30 Coffee break
3:00 Markus Krajewski
(Universität Basel, Switzerland)
Bureaucratic Visions of the World. How Globality Around 1900 Has Taken Shape
4:00 Howard Chiang
(University of Warwick, UK)
Sinophone as Historiography: Europe and Asia in the Making of Global China
Friday, July 10, 9am-6:30pm
II. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN SEXUAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA
9:00 Veronika Fuechtner
(Dartmouth College, USA)
The Challenges and Possibilities of Writing a Modern Global History of Sexual Science
10:00 Corina Stan
(Duke University, USA)
The Lures of Polyphony: Socrates, Joyce, Schönberg
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Stephan Kammer
(Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Evil Goes Global: The Criminal Mastermind in Early 20th Century Fiction
12:30 Lunch Break
III. BEYOND MODERNISM: LABOR, MODERNITY, AND TRANSCULTURALITY
2:00 Christoph Schaub)
(Columbia University, USA)
Workers’ Movement Modernism: Internationalism and Montage in the Interwar Years
3:00 Hui Zhang
(Peking University, China)
Loneliness and Endurance in the Year of 1931: An Inquiry into Fengzhi’s Self-Exploration in the Mirror of Rilke
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Nina Berman
(Ohio State University, USA)
Modernity and Globalization: A Comparative Reading
IV. CREATIVE COMMENTS
5:30 Thomas Meinecke
(Writer and DJ, Germany)