KFLC 2019

Dear Friends,

We are very excited about the upcoming KFLC: the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures conference, with Professors Karen Thornber and Ronald Suleski serving as Keynote Speakers, to be held from next Thursday afternoon to Friday afternoon, April 11 to 12, in Lexington Kentucky. Please see the full program below. We have some thirty participants from Britain, China, New Zealand, and the United States, the Keynote Lectures will be from Noon to 2 pm on Friday April 12, lunch buffet provided on Friday, all welcome!

Warmly,
Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

Thursday, April 11, 2019 – 2:30pm to 5:00pm

Formation and Transformation of the “International” in 20th Century Asia  
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, Room H
Thursday, April 11, 2019 – 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Organized by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

2:30 Women’s Resilience Reflected in Geling Yan’s Works: A Feminist Study
Xiaoyang Li, University of Canterbury

3:00 The Legacies of Joris Ivens in Mid-twentieth-century China and Beyond 

Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Regimes of Nuclear Nonproliferation in East Asia: Treaty Frameworks and U.S. Intervention
Chris Junwon Lee, Independent Scholar

4:30 Private Contacts and National Feelings: Lau Shaw and America
Guimei Wang, Jilin University, China

Friday, April 12, 2019 – 9:30am to 12:00pm

Revisiting the “Traditional” across Asia  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 A
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 9:30am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

9:30 Japanese Renku as Performance: Game, Ritual, and Art
David G. Lanoue, Xavier University of Louisiana

10:00 Water Festivals of Renewal: A Deep Cultural Linguistics Dive Across the Dai People and 11 Asian Nations 
Jing Yang, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ; Jing Yang; Buck Ryan

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Folklore and Chinese Paper-Cut Art: A Case Study of HaiLun Area, Hei Longjiang Province, China
Yahan Zhao, University of SuiHua

11:30 Pilgriming through Snowscape: Japanese Ideological Reinterpretation of Winter Scene on the Woodcuts in Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Junfu Wong, University of Cambridge

Post/memory in the Production of 20th Century East Asian Culture and Identity  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 B
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 9:30am to 12:00pm
Organized by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky

9:30 Chindonya: Japan’s Unique Subcultural Tradition
Yasue Kuwahara, Northern Kentucky University

10:00 Taiwan’s Memory War and the Future of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Sean J. McLaughlin, Jie (Selina) Gao, Murray State University

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 The Barren Heroic Road: Li Yu’s Writing Dilemmas and Explorations of Redemption
Yingchun Fan, Harvard University

11:30 Studies of Ocean Nationalities and its Cultures in the Beibu Gulf of South China Sea
Junjie Pan, Zhou Li, Pan Yuting, Beibuwan University, China

Friday, April 12, 2019 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm

East Asian Studies Keynote and Luncheon: Dr. Karen L. Thornber  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 A
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

12:00 Global Environmental Crisis, Literature, and Asia
Dr. Karen L. Thornber, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center and Chair of the Harvard Asia Center Council

Friday, April 12, 2019 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm

East Asian Studies Keynote and Luncheon: Dr. Ronald Suleski  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 A
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Organized by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

1:00 Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850-1950
Dr. Ronald Suleski, Professor of History and Director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University

Friday, April 12, 2019 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Power, Culture, and History in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century Asia  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 B
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Organized by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky

2:00 The Dream and Plight of Representation: A New Reading of Lu Xun’s “A Madman’s Diary”
Qinghua Cao, Miami University, Shenzhen University

2:30 Making the Patriotic Mothers: The Role of Wartime Women’s Organizations
Ryoko Okamura, Bowling Green State University

3:00 Writing Osaka as Resistance—Osaka in Oda Sakunosuke’s Literature
Ran Wei, Washington University in St. Louis

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Nakazato Kaizan’s Daibosatsu tōge: Tsukue Ryūnosuke and the Locus of Nihilism in the Post-Taigyaku Jiken Japan
Artem Vorobiev, Oakland University

4:30 Negotiating Communist Feminism: Shrews, Runaway Wives, and the Yan’an Literature
Shu Yang, Western Michigan University

Friday, April 12, 2019 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Aspects of Contemporary Asian Culture and Literature  
Gatton Student Center, GSC 330 A
Friday, April 12, 2019 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Organized by: Masamichi Inoue, University of Kentucky
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

3:00 On the Multi-level Symbol System in Chinese Western Movie Song of the Phoenix (2013)
Yanrui Zhang, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Screening Caring Masculinity in Where Are We Going, Dad?
Wing Shan Ho, Montclair State University

4:30 Migrating Between Cultures Through Social Media: U.S. Social Networking App Adoptions by Visiting Chinese Students
Shan Ni, University of Kentucky, Min Jiang University

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