KFLC 2017

Dear List Members,

The 70th KFLC conference at the University of Kentucky is around the corner! It’s one of the longest running foreign language, literature, and culture conferences in the nation!

We are very excited to have Prof. Xiaomei Chen with us from UC Davis as the EAS Keynote Speaker. Her keynote lecture is entitled “Staging Chinese Revolution: The Color Scheme of Socialist Epic Theater (1964-2006),” it will take place on Friday April 21 at 12:15 pm in Patterson Hall 306 on the University of Kentucky campus. A catered lunch with accompany the keynote. 

I include the EAS program below, FYI. The full conference program is available online: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/program.

Luo Liang

Thursday, April 20, 2017 – 9:30am to 12:00pm

Traveling Texts and Images across East Asia (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Shengqing Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Thursday, April 20, 2017 – 2:30pm to 3:30pm

History and Imagination in Chinese Cinema (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
2:30
Eastern and Western Depictions of Republican China in Film
Jie Gao, Murray State University; Sean McLaughlin
3:30
Coffee Break

Friday, April 21, 2017 – 9:30am to 10:30am

Teaching Languages across Cultures (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Buck Ryan, University of Kentucky

Friday, April 21, 2017 – 11:00am to 12:00pm

The Many Faces of Modernities in Early China (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Tongdong Bai, Fudan University/Harvard University
11:30
The Excellent Body in Early China
Paul Fischer, Western Kentucky University

Friday, April 21, 2017 – 12:15pm to 1:30pm

East Asian Studies Keynote: Dr. Xiaomei Chen, UC Davis (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

Friday, April 21, 2017 – 2:30pm to 5:00pm

Comparative Studies of Arts and Politics in Modern China (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

Saturday, April 22, 2017 – 8:30am to 10:30am

Cinematic Reality(ies): Cultural Memory and Chinese Cinema (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Yuhan Huang, Purdue University

Saturday, April 22, 2017 – 11:00am to 12:30pm

The Anxiety of Influence in Japan, Mainland China, and Taiwan (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

Saturday, April 22, 2017 – 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Gender, Domesticity, and the Nation in Modern China (Patterson Hall, PH 306)
Chaired by: Charlie Yi Zhang, University of Kentucky

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