SINOPHONE STUDIES: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date: October 14-15, 2016
Venue: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University; the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Website: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/sinophone-studies-new-directions/
Organizers:
Jing TSU, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Comparative Literature, Yale University
David Der-wei WANG, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
“Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then, waves of scholarship have grappled with Sinophone Studies, its spatiotemporal boundaries, its methodological feasibility, and above all, its geopolitical and geopoetic implications. With the conference Sinophone Studies: New Directions, we seek to provide a new forum in which scholars and students from different disciplines can evaluate outcomes of prior research, define new topics, raise concerns, and most importantly, offer innovative ideas and approaches.
The conference focuses on the following four themes:
- Site and Sight: locality, landscape, topos
- Sound and Script: multilingualism, linguistic and graphic mediality
- Roots and Routes: heritage in motion, secondary and tertiary diasporas, global mobility
- History and Potentiality: post-loyalism, governance, resistance politics
Participants
Keynote speakers:
Shu-mei SHIH, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
NG Kim Chew, Chinese Malaysian writer and Professor of Chinese Literature, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Presenters:
Rosa Vieira de ALMEIDA, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Andrea BACHNER, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Brian BERNARDS, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Cheow Thia CHAN, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
Howard CHIANG, Assistant Professor of History, University of Waterloo
Stephen Y.W. CHU, Professor of School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong
Chih-Wei CHUNG, Hou Family Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Ge Fei, writer; Professor of Chinese Literature, Tsinghua University, P. R. China
Alison GROPPE, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Oregon
Ha Jin, writer, Boston University
Satoru HASHIMOTO, Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Maryland
Yu-ting HUANG, Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Amherst College
KIM Hye-joon, Professor of Chinese, Pusan National University
Henning KLÖTER, Professor of Modern Chinese Languages and Literatures, Humboldt University of Berlin
KO Chia-cian, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
Yu-lin LEE, Professor, National Chung Hsing University
LO Yi-chin, writer, Taiwan
Xiaolu MA, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Federica PASSI, Associate Professor, Ca’ Foscari University Venice
Carlos ROJAS, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University
Marten Soderblom SAARELA, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Flora SHAO, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Shu Ching SHIH, writer, Taiwan
Kyle SHERNUK, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Dylan SUHER, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
K. TAN, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University
Li Wen Jessica TAN, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Karen L. THORNBER, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
TSAI I-Ni, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program of Teaching Chinese as Second Language, National Taiwan University
Sebastian VEG, Research Professor, Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Alvin K. WONG, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Yonsei University
Nicholas Y. H. WONG, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
WOO Kamloon, publisher, Taiwan
Miya Qiong XIE, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, Harvard University
YING Lei, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University