MCLC: Berkeley-Stanford Grad Conference

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Christine I. Ho <ciho at stanford.edu>
Subject: Berkeley-Stanford Grad Conference
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Please join us for the 4th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student

Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities on Friday and Saturday, April
26-27, 2013.  Our keynote speaker this year is Professor Eugenia Lean,
East Asian Languages and Culture, Columbia University.

Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student
Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current
graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present
innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural
production in the humanistic disciplines.

Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University,
and Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.

Conference schedule and details follow:

http://ceas.stanford.edu/resources/chinese_humanities.php

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Barnes and McDowell, Fisher
Conference Center, Stanford University

Friday, April 26, 2013

Panel 1, 2:00-4:00 pm: Images, Re-territorialized

An Italian Bicycle in the People’s Republic: Minor Transnationalism
and the Chinese Translation of Ladri di biciclette / Thomas Chen, UC
Los Angeles

Learning to Love Again / Calvin Hui, Duke University

Film Discourse and the Cinematicization of Colonial Taiwan:
“Eigaka” in the New Taiwan Daily / Laura Wen, University of
Wisconsin, Madison

Discussants: Lawrence Zi-qiao Yang, PhD Candidate, East Asian
Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Jean Ma, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, Stanford University

Keynote Address, 4:15 p.m.
Compiling the Industrial Modern, 1930s China
Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Columbia University

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Panel II, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Overlooked Histories? Revisiting
Money, Bandits, and Land

Criminal, Victim and Heroine: the Portrayal of the Woman Bandit
Tuolong 驼龙 in Twentieth Century China / Xiaofei Gao, UC Santa Cruz

From Worshiping Promotion to Worshiping Fortune: Monetary Modernity
in Nineteenth-century Folk Paintings / En Li, Washington University,
St. Louis

Feeding the People, Funding the Nation – Xiao Zheng and the “Land
Problem” of the 1930’s / Larissa Pitts, UC Berkeley

One Country, Two Capitalisms:  Cultural Meanings of Capitalism Amongst
Mainlander and Hongkonger Chinese Bankers in Hong Kong / Hantian
Zhang, Stanford University

Discussants: Paulina Hartono, PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley
Haiyan Lee, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Stanford University

Panel III, 1:15-2:45 p.m.: Textual Mediations

Wei Cheng and weisheng: Hygiene, disease and the body in Qian
Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged / Benjamin Kindler, University of Oxford

The Curious Case of a Robot Doctor: Artificial Intelligence, Post-Mao
Condition of Knowledge and Professional Ethics / Xiao Liu, UC Berkeley

Lu Xun, the Editor: The Paratextual Self-Fashioning of an Author /
Myra Sun, Columbia University

Discussants:  Yvon Wang, PhD Candidate, History, Stanford University
Andrew Jones, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

Panel IV, 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Performing Culture, Performing Nostalgia

The Performance of “Chinese-ness” in the Work of Four Contemporary
Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights / Wahguan Lim, Cornell University

The Prehistory of New Chinese Dance: Wu Xiaobang and Modern Dance in
the 1930s / Nan Ma, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Reimagining the Soviet Union in Postsocialist Chinese Literature:
Critical Nostalgia in Wang Meng’s In Remembrance of the Soviet Union
and Feng Jicai’s Listening to Russia / Zhen Zhang, UC Davis

Discussants: Christine Ho, PhD Candidate, Art & Art History, Stanford
University
Weihong Bao, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
UC Berkeley