[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>