Wiring China conference

Wiring China: Information, Affect, and Media Technologies
連綫中國:信息、情動與媒介技術
Sponsored by Department of Chinese History and Culture and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dates and Times:
February 14, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
February 15, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Venue:
AG 710, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong


Conference Program 

Day 1 (February 14, 2024)

9 am – 9:30 am: Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:30 am-9: 40 Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

Xing Hang 杭行 (Associate Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Associate Professor, Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Yu Zhang 張宇 (Convener and Associate Professor, Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

9: 40 am – 11: 00 am Keynote Lecture

Margaret Hillenbrand 何依霖 (Oxford University)
Emotion Frozen in Time: Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes Continue reading Wiring China conference

Future of East Asian Comp Lit–cfp

Call for Proposals: The Future of East Asian Comparative Literature
Modern Language Association in Toronto
January 9-12, 2026

Both area studies and comparative literary studies have changed much in the past 20 years. We are inviting submissions for a guaranteed double session in MLA 2026 that explores the future of East Asian comparative literature. Our aim is to explore the ways in which East Asianists think transnationally and across languages to produce new scholarship on the region and inter-regionally from fresh perspectives. This includes textual dynamics involving under-represented languages around major East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as trans-Asian or other transregional relationships. The ultimate composition of these two sessions will be determined by the number and kind of proposals we receive; however, we are open to having two conventional paper-drive sessions, two roundtable sessions, or one of each. To that end, we seek proposals that address this issue broadly and with the future direction and development of comparative East Asian cultural studies in mind. Possible topics include but are not restricted to the following: what does the future look like for those of us who compare two or more linguistic heritages? Have we moved beyond the East-West paradigm or is there still room for further theorization of it? How do we foster a sustainable model for the multilingual training of East Asian Comparatists? How do we rethink CJK-centric comparisons? How could methods and ideas of comparison change according to different kinds of languages, periods, and textual genres involved? We envision this roundtable will include between 6 and 10 scholars of mixed backgrounds, both senior and early-career scholars, depending on the responses we receive. We are committed to inclusivity, which means in terms of ethnic, racial, gender, and gender-orientation diversity. It also means inclusivity in terms of rank and experience: graduate students, early-career, mid-career, and senior scholars. We also welcome proposals from MLA members regardless of where they live or work.

Title, abstract, and bio of up to 250 words each to Christopher Lupke <lupke@ualberta.ca> and Satoru Hashimoto <shashimoto@jhu.edu> by March 7, 2025.

Chinese Lit and Film after 1900, RMMLA 2025–cfp

CFP: Chinese Literature and Film After 1900
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 78th Annual Convention
Conference Date: October 16-18, 2025
Location: Spokane, WA

In recent years, there has been a growing effort in scholarship to connect critical studies more directly to the pressing realities of our world, both past and present. While ethical considerations have always played a role, they have become increasingly significant as we grapple with various global challenges, such as climate change, conflict and war, the erosion of democratic institutions, systemic inequalities, and so on. We welcome paper proposals that engage with a wide variety of critical issues and themes to explore the intersection of ethics and the human experience in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film.

Interested participants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short biography (2-3 sentences) through this Google Form by March 15, 2025. All presentations will be conducted in person and in English.

Please direct any inquiries to:

Andrew Kauffman (andrew.kauffman@unlv.edu)
Sijia Yao (syao@soka.edu)
Daniela Licandro (daniela.licandro@unimi.it)
Miao Dou (miao.dou@nau.edu)

RMMLA Asian Drama and Performance Session–cfp

CFP: Asian Drama and Performance Session
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 78th Annual Convention
Date: October 16–18, 2025
Location: Spokane, WA

In an era marked by global interconnectivity, rapid cultural change, and social transformation, Asian drama and performance emerge as vital sites of aesthetic negotiation and political intervention. Through embodied practices, transmedial production, and creative expressions, drama and performance have shaped how Asian and Asian diasporic communities remember, resist, and reimagine their place in the world.

Perceiving Asian drama and performance as a critical force of negotiation, resistance, and (re)imagination, this session seeks to address the following questions: How do performances engage with histories of colonialism, migration, and cultural exchange? In what ways do performers negotiate between individual expression and collective memory? How do performances address historical, political, and environmental concerns? What roles do performance spaces – physical, imaginary, or digital– play in shaping cultural discourses and aesthetic conventions?

We seek papers that interrogate how performance practices both reflect and challenge established paradigms of cultural expression, social hierarchy, and artistic innovation. We welcome topics including but not limited to: Continue reading RMMLA Asian Drama and Performance Session–cfp

Contemporary Taiwanese Art — cfp

Call for Papers: A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art and Its Global Connections (University of Edinburgh, 4-5 November 2025)

Deadline for submission to Professor Chia-Ling Yang (cyang@ed.ac.uk): 28 February 2025

The international conference A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art and Its Global Connections invites scholars, artists and museum curators to submit papers that explore the global significance and impact of contemporary art across regions and mediums. The conference will engage with diverse interdisciplinary approaches across art, design, fashion, and new media, aiming to challenge dominant narratives and amplify underrepresented voices from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other politically and culturally marginalised regions.

As part of our broader vision, we plan to propose an edited volume of selected conference papers to a leading international publisher in January 2026.

We invite submissions on, but are not limited to, the following tentative themed panels: Continue reading Contemporary Taiwanese Art — cfp

Ecologies of Indigeneity (Taiwan Lit)–cfp

Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere
Taiwan Lit special issue 2026 Call for papers
Theme: Ecologies of Indigeneity in the New Millennium
Guest Editors: Dingru Huang, Kyle Shernuk
Managing Editor: Chia-rong Wu 吳家榮

This special issue is dedicated to updating and expanding our understanding of Indigeneity in Taiwan as it has developed in the new millennium. We foreground ecological thinking due to the historically important role it has played in shaping Indigenous identity. Inspired by Chih Fan Chen’s recent publication Being and Becoming Indigenous People, we focus on the “becoming” of Indigenous cultural identities in the context of globalization and understand “Indigeneity” as a “model of subject articulation.” (16) Rather than inherently tying Indigenous life to the environment and animism, however, we seek to reflect on “ecologies of Indigeneity” more broadly. We hope that submissions will investigate the multiple ecologies of Indigenous cultural production, knowledge construction, and world making, as well as the negotiations and integration of their power dynamics. We welcome new theoretical frameworks for engaging in these discussions in addition to close readings of texts and cultural phenomena, as our aim is to create space for exploring new, evolving, and even experimental forms of Indigeneity in Taiwan.

To this end, we might ask: What is “new” about Indigenous literary and media culture in the “new” millennium? Are there new concerns, political or personal, that have emerged or are emerging? How have other social concerns, such as gender and sexuality or class and late capitalism, affected the development of Indigenous identities? Conversely, what kind of continuities are there with earlier stages in the development of Indigenous identities? Does the environment still play the same role or have such discourses changed? Continue reading Ecologies of Indigeneity (Taiwan Lit)–cfp

New Chinese Migrants in SE Asia

Dear colleagues,

The Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster is pleased to announce the next event in our Conference Deconstructed. Please feel free to circulate it widely in your networks and with colleagues whom might be interested, thank you.

New Chinese Migrants (Xinyimin 新移民) in Southeast Asia: Partnerships, Engagement and Faultlines
Wednesday, 26  March 2025,  11:00 AM  – 1:00 PM  GMT
Online, Zoom

Speakers: Associate Professor Wasana Wongsurawat, Dr Sylvia Ang, and Professor Enze Han
Chair: Dr How Wee Ng

Registration: The event is free to attend and open to all. A Zoom link will be provided to all those who register before 26th Mar 2025.

Book your tickets here Continue reading New Chinese Migrants in SE Asia

Horizons of Meaning RMMLA 2025–cfp

Horizons of Meaning: Expanding Frontiers in Asian Comparative Literature and Film
2025 RMMLA Asian Comparative Literature and Film Sessions
Date: October 16–18, 2025
Location: Spokane, WA

Since its inception, the Asian Comparative Literature and Film sessions at RMMLA have provided a dynamic platform for exploring the intersections of Asian history, politics, culture, language, and art through the lenses of literature and film. This year, we aim to expand these cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal dialogues by inviting scholars, researchers, and artists from all fields to contribute to an inclusive and thought-provoking exploration of Asian Comparative Literature and Film.

This panel seeks to illuminate the richness and interconnectedness of Asian and global narratives. We encourage creative interpretations and innovative approaches to understanding the interplay between literature, film, and broader historical, political, economic, religious, and philosophical contexts. We especially welcome contributions that address universal themes and resonate with global concerns.

We invite submissions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including but not limited to: comparative studies, translation studies, postcolonial analysis, gender and sexuality studies, memory studies, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, linguistics, eco-criticism, and media studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Continue reading Horizons of Meaning RMMLA 2025–cfp

Trans Asia Photography 16.1–cfp


Trans Asia Photography invites submissions for a general issue, Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2026). The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory, and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary. It welcomes:

  • articles (5,000–7,000 words) that broaden understanding of Asian photography in transnational contexts
  • shorter pieces (1,000–2,000 words) in formats that include interviews, curatorial or visual essays, and portfolios

Deadline: April 1, 2025.

Trans Asia Photography is an international, refereed, open-access journal based at the University of Toronto and published by Duke University Press. It provides a venue for interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia.

Guidance for authors on submissions can be found at: transasiaphotography.org/submit

For more information, contact the editors: transasiaphotography@gmail.com

The TAP Editorial Team
Deepali Dewan, Royal Ontario Museum & University of Toronto
Yi Gu, University of Toronto
Thy Phu, University of Toronto
transasiaphotography.org
@transasiaphotography

Peace and Love poetry reading (1)

On December 31, I participated in a New Year’s  Eve and New Year’s Day poetry marathon on the internet in Chinese and other languages, hosted by the poet 桉予 An Yu. Altogether 300 poets reading over 24 hours. One section  was devoted to poets from Ukraine. An Yu has now been circulating video recordings of readings from this section on WeChat, under the title Real Tiktok Refugees. I have seen reports from Ukraine and even online anthologies of poetry from Ukraine censored on WeChat, but for now, these voices are there to be heard and seen. It is a diverse selection, maybe as diverse as possible in this situation.

Real TikTok refugees – Ukrainian section of New Year poetry readings on the Chinese internet: Introduction and nine poets reading their works, along with translations.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ifq5ZTOPY7c0d4eemiJr7g

Real TikTok refugees, part 2: Ten more poets reading their works, along with translations
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jG7IN-2rH-nkApXSW4FGeg

Martin Winter 维马丁

Voicing Gender in China–cfp

Voicing Gender in China
Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender

Dates: 17-18 June 2025
Location: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (France)
Deadline for abstracts (300 words): 1 February 2025
Send to: voicinggenderinchina@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce that the Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender will be hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle on 17-18 June 2025. Titled ‘Voicing Gender in China,’ the conference seeks to explore the multiple sites of intersection between voice and gender in Chinese society, past and present.

Within Chinese studies, fruitful articulations between voice and gender studies have drawn from studies of women’s political activism in history and sociology, exploring the ways in which activists and organisers have articulated new political identities in rallying cries and everyday protest. Literary scholars have looked at the shaping of gendered subjectivities through self-narratives and autobiographies, paying close attention to dialogue, orality and the mechanisms of silencing within literary establishments. In recent years, an explosion of sensory histories have explored how gender is enacted and defined through music, opera, dance and song. In parallel, sound studies scholars have brought to life the gendered soundscapes of modern and contemporary China in considering, for instance, the production of socialist state-sponsored music as well as the aural experiences of everyday life. Drawing from these multivocal approaches, this conference seeks to explore ways of rewriting into academic scholarship previously silenced minority voices, paying attention to the affective and political resonances of voicing out gender issues in different spaces, academic and public-facing. Continue reading Voicing Gender in China–cfp

SEC-AAS 2025 registration

Dear list members,

The registration link for the SEC-AAS conference has been reopened and you can still register for the conference by January 9, 2025:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sec-aas-2025-tickets-1096536613529

You are welcome to register and join us as an observer even if you are not presenting. We look forward to welcoming you to Lexington in late January!

Warmly,

Luo, Liang

Bridging the Gap btw Museum and Migration Studies

Dear colleagues,

You are warmly invited to attend this upcoming symposium, ‘Bridging the Gap Between Museum and Migration Studies in Chinese Diasporas and Beyond’, to be hosted by the University of Westminster on 9th and 10th January 2025. The event is jointly organised by the Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces (HOMELandS) Research Centre of the University of Westminster and the Chinese Heritage Centre of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. It brings together academics, museum professionals, and members of diasporic Chinese communities to discuss the intersection and interaction of the movement of people and things in a global context through the prism of the museum.

This is the concluding event of the ‘Global Diasporic Chinese Museums Network Initiative’ project that has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The event is free to attend but the capacity is limited. Please register via Ticket Tailor to book a place.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofwestminster9/1505137

Join us for this exciting and free event jointly organised by the Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Spaces (HOMELandS) Res…

Best regards,

Cangbai Wang
University of Westminster

Handbook of Trans Studies–cfp

Sinologists are warmly invited to contribute to The Handbook of Trans Cinema. High-priority chapters include “Trans Cinema from China” and “Trans Cinema from Hong Kong.” Examples of films that might be examined include The Two Lives of Li Ermao《他她:李二毛的双重人生》.

The Handbook of Trans Cinema provides an encyclopedic overview of international trans cinema, with chapters examining the variety of genres of trans cinema from around the world, as well as the connections between these films and core concepts in trans studies and in film theory. Each chapter will provide a broad overview of its subject, with extensive references to both trans theory and film theory. In addition to giving surveys of the chapter’s topic, chapters will include in-depth discussion of at least three films. Abstracts for proposed chapters should include several references to both trans theory and film theory, and abstracts should list at least three films that will be explored in-depth.

The senior editor of The Handbook of Trans Cinema, Douglas Vakoch, has edited over two dozen books, including The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (with Sabine Sharp, 2024) Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences (2022), and Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature (2020).

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article at http://bit.ly/HandbookofTransCinema no later than January 30, 2025. Proposals submitted by email will not be accepted. Abstracts and biographies should be submitted as Word documents, and previously published chapters or articles should be submitted as PDFs. Both Word files and PDFs should contain the author’s name in the file names. Please include your email address in your biography file so we can contact you with our decision about your proposal. Continue reading Handbook of Trans Studies–cfp

Peace and Love poetry reading

Organized by An Yu 桉予, Peace and Love – 24小时直播跨年读诗, is an online poetry reading to be held from December 31st 10:00 (Beijing time, GMT +8) till January 1st 10:00 (Beijing time, GMT +8). 300 poets reading in Chinese and other languages, including Ukrainian, from 4:00 till 6:00 (Beijing time, GMT +8). I am reading at 20:00 (Beijing time, GMT +8)

For the full program, see https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BuPUsKws1YU7QJ7UCJIEVg and my blog.

Martin Winter