MCLC: KFLC 2014

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Luo, Liang <llu222 at uky.edu>
Subject: KFLC 2014
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Dear List Members,

Please join us at the East Asian Studies sessions at the KFLC: Language,
Literature, and Culture Conference at the University of Kentucky this
Friday and Saturday. Scholars from Israel, Japan, Australia, and the
United States will join University of Kentucky faculty, graduate student,
and undergraduate student in presenting their work. We are honored to have
Prof. Alexa Huang of George Washington University as our keynote speaker,
she will be speaking on " 'Fair Ophelia' in Victorian and East Asian
Visual Cultures." The full program is listed below. All events are open to
the public. We hope to see you in beautiful Lexington over the weekend!

Warm regards,

Liang Luo
University of Kentucky

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Program: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/program

Friday, April 11, 2014 - 12:00pm to 1:45pm


East Asian Studies Plenary Address Luncheon: East Asian Studies
Old Student Center, 357
12:00 Luncheon (advanced ticket purchase required or bring your own lunch)
12:30 Lecture: "Fair Ophelia" in Victorian and East Asian Visual Cultures
Alexa Huang, George Washington University

Friday, April 11, 2014 - 9:30am to 11:30am

Body and Labor
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, F-G
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 9:30am to 11:30am
Chaired by: Matthew V. Wells, University of Kentucky

9:30: Mutilation and Self-Mutilation in Early China
Jianjun He, Western Kentucky University

10:00: Negotiating Rights and Welfare: The Postwar Japanese State and
Military Towns
Tomoyuki Sasaki, Eastern Michigan University

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Visions of Labor in Kuroi Senji's
"Hole and Sky"
Peter Tillack, Montana State University

Friday, April 11, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Performing the Past
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, F-G
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

2:00: Phrasemes in Old Japanese: Typology and Semantics
Ekaterina Levchenko, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

2:30: The Modernity of the Pre-modern: Gender Transgressions in the Early
Metamorphoses of the White Snake Legend
Liang Luo, University of Kentucky; Adam Woeltz (UK undergraduate Chinese
major); Benjamin Kandt (UK undergraduate Chinese major)

3:00 Coffee Break

3:30: Performing China in British Pantomime of Aladdin
Dongshin Chang, Hunter College, City University of New York

4:00: Performing the Past, Eyeing the Future: Negotiating Collective
Identity in Kangxi's Court Theatre
Liana Chen, George Washington University

Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 9:00am to 11:30am

Encountering the Contemporary
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, F-G
Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

9:00: The Encounter between Visiting Chinese Teachers' Funds of Knowledge
And U.S. Schools
Beth L. Goldstein, University of Kentucky; Qi Xiaoliang, University of
Kentucky

9:30: Translation and Ethnic Resurgence: Missionary Linguistic Work in
Contemporary Yunnan
Gideon Elazar, Haifa University

10:00: Writing Bureaucrats and the Short-short Genre
Aili Mu, Iowa State University

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00: From Discrimination to Human Rights: The Changing Portrait of MSM in
Post-AIDS Era China
Gang Su, University of Technology, Sydney

Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

The Use of the Popular
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, F-G
Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Chaired by: Donna L. Kwon, University of Kentucky

12:30: Using Movie Trailers to Teach Languages: Movie Trailers as
Educational Material
Hong Seok Kim, Defense Language Institute

1:00: More Than an Environmental Noise?: Pop Song "Liuxing gequ" in Jia
Zhangke's Pickpocket
Zhichun Lin, Ohio State University

1:30: Asserting Cultural Continuity and Performative Hybridity in Korean
Hip-Hop and Rap
Donna L. Kwon, University of Kentucky

Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 2:30pm to 5:00pm

Past in the Present
Patterson Office Tower, 18th Floor, F-G
Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Chaired by: Liang Luo, University of Kentucky

2:30: Reviving China¹s Traditionalist Painting through New Readings of Old
Poems: Tang Yun's Twelve-leaf Album after Lu You's Poems (1976)
Yanfei Yin, Ohio State University

3:00: The Future is the Past: Youth and Nostalgia in Contemporary Chinese
Cinema
Hui Faye Xiao, University of Kansas

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00: Classic Chinese Theatre in Globalized Shanghai: A Study of the Major
Kunqu Productions by Shanghai Kunqu Company, 1978-2013
Ming Yang, University of Hawaii, Manoa

4:30: The Divine Mother Figure as a Critique of Historical Violence:
Reading Mo Yan's Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Tonglu Li, Iowa State University