MCLC: Berkeley-Stanford Grad Conference 2014

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Larissa Pitts <larissa.jesanis at berkeley.edu>
Subject: Berkeley-Stanform Grad Conference 2014
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The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley as well as the Center for
East Asian Studies at Stanford University invite you to attend the
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese
Humanities. 

Where: IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St, 6th Floor, UC Berkeley
When: April 18-19

http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/events/2014.04.18.html

For more information, see the schedule below:

Friday, April 18, 20142:00 pm — Panel 1 — Media History: Political
Machinations and Aesthetic Aspirations

Hongwei Chen, The Lightest Form of Theater: Cai Yuanpei and the Axiology
of Cinema Education
Rebecca Scott, Situating Lianhuanhua in Political Culture
Tianshuang Liang, A True Record: the Interplay of Local, Regional and
World Art in 1910s Shanghai
Xingzhou Hu, City Toy, Toy City — An Implicit Dialogue between Rubber Duck
and City
Student discussant: Eldon Pei
Faculty discussant: Jean Ma

4:00 pm — Keynote speech

Fabio Lanza, History, University of Arizona, Tucson, When China Existed:
Scholarship, Activism, and Asian Studies

This presentation looks back at the only other time in the last two
centuries when Asia, as today, was the focus of sustained global interest:
the 1960s and 1970s, the era of Global Maoism and wars of liberation.
Through an analysis of the formation and dissolution of the Committee of
Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS), I will illustrate how China,
(mis)perceived, imagined, or experienced, was not only and not simply the
location of a utopia that could be deployed by idealistic youth to define
more locally-specific goals. Rather, that "China" also represented a
short-lived radical political alternative, one that forced the people who
took it seriously to rethink their relationship to work, social roles,
daily practices, and the production of knowledge. Within the field of
Asian Studies, it was the existence of this particular "China" that opened
up possibilities for CCAS to challenge the established narratives and
produce some major political and scholarly discoveries. This presentation
traces their discoveries but also the foreclosure of those possibilities
once that "China" disappeared with the end of Maoism.

Saturday, April 19, 201410:00 am — Panel 2 — Bodies on Display: Discipline
and Emancipation

Andrew Elmore, Building Modern Bodies: (Trans)nationalizing Physical
Culture and Physique Photography in Early Twentieth-Century China
Jiao Lin, Memory of the Body: The Silent Practice of Breast-Binding in the
Cultural Revolution
Kelly Tang, Ivory "Doctor's Ladies": The Medical and the Erotic Female Body
Student discussant: Renren Yang
Faculty discussant: Haiyan Lee

Noon — Lunch break

1:00 pm — Panel 3 — Martial Fictions: Violent Texts and and Alternative
Visions 

Emily Goedde, The Humming of Radios, the Explosion of Bombs: The Searchfor
Everyday Sounds in Poetry from Kunming During the War of Resistance
Yunwen Gao, Race, Language and Culture in the Construction of Nationalism
at the End of the Empire: Liang Qichao's "Ban Dingyuan Conquering the West"
Rachel Leng, Military Gay Comrades: Negotiating the Homosocial(ist)
Identity in Mainland China's Tongzhi Fiction
Student discussant: Julia Keblinska
Faculty discussant: Andrew Jones

2:30 pm — Break

2:45 pm — Panel 4 — Transnational Encounter: Otherization and
Indigenization

Elizabeth Emrich, Dueling Exhibitions: Chinese Nationalist Performance on
the World Stage
Keisha Brown, Sounds of Blackness: Musical Performances and
Representations of Blackness in Maoist China
Jesse Chapman, Daoism in the Age of Evolution
Student discussant: Larissa Pitts
Faculty discussant: Alexander Cook