10th Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference On Modern Chinese Humanities
April 12-13, 2019
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University
Friday, April 12
10:00 AM | OPENING REMARKS
10:15 AM- 12:00 PM | Air, Affect, Atmosphere
Presenters:
Hazel Shu Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Transmitting Flames in the Air: Li Wo and His “Sky Novel” in the early 1950s Hong Kong
Lu Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bacterial Imaginations: Seeing through the Microscope in the 1952 Anti-Germ Warfare Campaign
Linda Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Technological Splendor: The Instability and Materiality of Color in Socialist Chinese Film
Tinghao Zhou, Columbia University
Neonized Hong Kong: Light Pollution and Atmospheric Media
Discussants:
Frederick Green, San Francisco State University
Maciej Kurzynski, Stanford University
12:15-1:45 PM | LUNCH
1:45 – 3:30 PM | Mechanical Images and the Making of Chinese Social Bodies
Presenters:
Menglan Chen, Harvard University
Reconfiguring the National Frontier: Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Zhaung Xueben’s Photography, 1934 – 1948
Belinda He, University of Washington
The Crucible of Images: Pidou (hui) as a Tale of Multiple ‘Show Trials’ in China
Linda Huang, The Ohio State University
Rethinking ‘Human’: Post-Mao Technocracy and the Disappearance of Laboring Body in Zhang Peili’s Paintings
Yiwen Liu, The Ohio State University
Witnessing Death: The Trans-media Circulation of Lu Xun’s Post-mortem Image
Discussants:
Andrew Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Wan-ting Wang, University of California, Berkeley
3:30-3:45 | BREAK
3:45-5:15 PM | KEYNOTE
Andrea Bachner, Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Literature, China, and the World
6:00 PM | CONFERENCE DINNER
Conference dinner for all presenters and discussants
Saturday, April 13
9:00-10:30 AM | KEYNOTE
Zha Jianying, Journalist and Writer
Legacies and Futures of Social Activism, in China and Beyond
10:30-10:45 AM | BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 PM | Politics of Literature
Presenters:
Yaowen Dong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Closing the Revolution: The Criticize Water Margin Campaign and the Surrender of Mao’s China
Jue Hou, University of Chicago
Dictionarism: Ah Cheng’s “King of Children” and the Ideology of Literacy
Hsin-Hui Lin, National Chengchi University
Island as Prosthesis: The Ecological Futurity of Taiwan in Wu Ming-Yi’s Fiction
Discussants:
Haiyan Lee, Stanford University
Yvonne Lin, University of California, Berkeley
12:15-1:30 PM | Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 PM | Rendering Polities
Presenters:
Yasser Nasser, University of Chicago
The Pedagogy of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Xin Zhongguo Fun, Roshni, and Defending the Peace of Asia
Odila Schröder, University of Nottingham
“Performing the ‘Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’ in China: New Music and Concert Life in Occupied Beijing (1942-1945)”
Xiaoshun Zeng, University of Washington
“From Racial Hygiene to Ethnic Health: Translating minzu weisheng in Twentieth-Century China”
Discussants:
Ban Wang, Stanford University
David Hazard, Stanford University
3:00-3:15 PM | BREAK
3:15-4:45 PM | ALUMNI KEYNOTE
Keisha Brown, Assistant Professor, History, Tennessee State University
Breaking the Binary: De-centering Whiteness, Addressing anti-Blackness
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