Historicism Beyond Periodization Conference
University of Chicago, April 21-22, 2023
We are pleased to invite you to the conference, “Historicism Beyond Periodization: Transhistorical Methods in Chinese Literary Studies,” to be held at the University of Chicago on April 21-22, 2023, with a keynote speech by Jack W. Chen (Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Virginia).
For a full schedule, please visit the conference website. Please note that the keynote (April 21, 4:45 pm Chicago time) will be both in-person and live-streamed via Zoom. Registration, on the conference website, is required for attendance.
This conference explores new research methods that can bridge the conventional premodern/modern divide in Chinese literary studies. We ask: What do we miss by studying literary history period by period? How do literary works relate to the works of preceding historical periods? How can we use the theories and concepts, originating from the study of one historical moment, to study another moment? By putting scholars working on different genres, media, and historical periods into conversation, this two-day conference searches for methodological possibilities toward a transhistorical future in literary studies and beyond.
Speakers:
Jack W. Chen (University of Virginia)
Chloe Estep (University of Pennsylvania)
Satoru Hashimoto (Johns Hopkins University)
Lucas Klein (Arizona State University)
Iris Ma (University of Notre Dame)
Thomas Mazanec (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University)
Jiayi Chen (University of Chicago)
Yueling Ji (University of Chicago)
Siting Jiang (University of Chicago)
Elvin Meng (University of Chicago)
This conference is sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago; organized by Jiayi Chen and Yueling Ji with the support of Paola Iovene.
Posted by: Yueling Ji jiyueling@uchicago.edu