2022 Berkeley-Stanford grad conference

[Conference Program] 2022 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 22-23
IEAS Conference Room, 5th Floor, 1995 University Avenue
Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

Friday, April 22

2:15 PM  OPENING REMARKS
2:30 – 4:00 PM  HANDCRAFTED MODERNITIES

Elise Huerta / Stanford University
Hands at Work: Embodied Labor and Mechanized Dreams in Great Leap Fiction

Anran Tu / UC San Diego
Modernizing Nature, Scientizing Brush, and the Reincarnation of Gongbi Bird-and-Flower Painting in Early Twentieth-Century China

Lingjia Xu / Stanford University
Decolonizing Taiwan through Craft: Yan Shuilong and the Taiwanese Folkcraft Movement

Discussants
Andrew F. Jones / UC Berkeley        Jiahe Mei (chair) / UC Berkeley

4:15 to 5:45 PM  KEYNOTE
Christine I. Ho/ Associate Professor of East Asian Art History, UMass Amherst
Socialist Realism’s Counterpublics: On the Beijing Airport Murals, 1979

6:00 PM  PARTICIPANT DINNER (presenters and discussants only)

Saturday, April 23
8:45 – 10:15 AM  IMAG(IN)ING INFRASTRUCTURE: SPATIAL PERFORMANCE IN LITERATURE, POETRY and ART

Kelly Fan / UC Berkeley
The Space of the Text: Atmosphere in Lin Huiyin’s In Ninety-Nine Degrees Heat

Charlotte Pu / UCLA
Re-imaging the Ruins in the Disintegrating City: Post-Socialist Detective Noir in Black Coal, Thin Ice and Moses on the Plains

Kevin Zhichen Dong / UC Davis
Tiananmen: A Haunted Space in Modern Chinese Poetry

Discussants
Haiyan Lee / Stanford        Juliet Tempest (chair) / Stanford

Saturday, April 23 (cont.)
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM  ALUMNI KEYNOTE

Laurence Coderre / Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, NYU
Too Much of a Good Thing: The Problematics of Plenty

12:00 – 1:15 PM PARTICIPANT LUNCH (presenters and discussants only)
1:30 – 3:20 PM  GIVING VOICE TO POLITICS

Yang Hua / Yale University
A Communist Prepares: Impersonating Revolutionary Ancestors in Yan’an

Jiarui Sun / The University of Chicago
What Is Exclaimed?! – Toward an Indexical History of Exclamation Points from Chinese Punctuation Reform to Xiao Hong’s The Field of Life and Death

Tianyue Zhang / University of California, Berkeley
The “Aphasia” of Socialism: “Women’s Literacy” in Yan’an Literature

Jinghui Wang / University of Colorado, Boulder
Singing Together in (Post)revolution Times: The Politics of Voice, Affect, and Memory in Socialist China and its Legacies

Discussants
Puck Engman / UC Berkeley        Matteo Cavelier Riccardi (chair)  / UC Berkeley

3:35  – 5:25 PM  BELONGING FROM THE BORDERS AND BEYOND

Yuqing Liu / The University of British Columbia
Sinicizing European Languages: The Lexicographic and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth Century China

David Xu Borgonjon / Columbia University
Narrating the Land Below the Winds: A Preliminary Discussion of Hu Yuzhi’s Young Aviator and Ba Ren’s Neighbors

Kang Kang / Northwestern University
Belonging with Difference and Other Fictions: On Ureltu’s Evenki Stories

Tienwen Lin / Harvard University
Cinematic Frontiersman: War, Frontier-making, and the Northwest Motion Picture Studio (1935-1941)

Discussants
Laikwan Pang / CUHK         Aaron Gilkison (chair) / Stanford

5:30 PM  CLOSING REMARKS

Posted by: Jiahe Mei <jiahemei@berkeley.edu>

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