MCLC: Tiananmen in History and Memory program

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Jian Guo <guojian2007 at gmail.com>
Subject: Tiananmen in History and Memory program
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Tiananmen in History and Memory
A Conference Organized by Harvard College Students to Commemorate the 25th
Anniversary of the Tiananmen Movement
 
April 26, 2014, Saturday, 9am-6pm
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard
 

PROGRAM

9am -930am Welcome & Opening Remarks
William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Former Director
of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard
China Fund, Harvard University.

Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History,
Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

930pm – 1005am: Student Paper Panel One
Chair: Martin Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and
Sociology, Harvard University.

Panelists: 

Molly Wharton
To Love one’s Country: Patriotism before and after Tiananmen

Sarah Fellay
Keeping the Memory Alive: A Case study of Li Wangyang

Antonio Coppola    
The Tiananmen Archives: A Journey through Memory


1005am – 1040am: Student Paper Panel Two
Chair: Professor Arthur Waldron, Department of History, University of
Pennsylvania.

Panelists:

Sarah Mellors
The Jewish Holocaust: My Tiananmen

Alex Foote
Bleached

Stephen Kim
Mother Knows Best: A Tribute to the Tiananmen Mothers

1040am – 1055am: Break

1055am-1215pm: Cross-generational Dialogue Panel One

Chair: Rowena He, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Translation will be provided for this panel

 “I was there” Panelists:

Fang Zheng
A student at the Beijing Sports Institute in 1989 whose legs were crushed
when a tank drove over him from behind on June 4.
 

Liane Lee
A student of journalism at the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1989; she
witnessed the military crackdown and was rescued from Tiananmen Square by
local citizens on June 4.
 

Shen Tong
A student of biology at Peking University in 1989; co-chair of the Student
Dialogue Delegation during the Tiananmen Movement.
 

Zhou Fengsuo
A student at Tsinghua University in 1989; listed number 5 on the 21 most
wanted list after the Massacre; he was kept in Qincheng Prison for one
year.

Student Participants: Peter Wu, Charlie, Qiuqiu Gao, Jacqueline Ma

1215pm – 145pm: Lunch Break

145pm – 300pm Cross-generational Dialogue Panel Two

Chair: Adi Ignatius, Wall Street Journal Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989;
co-editor of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao
Ziyang 

“I was there” Panelists:

Jeff Widener
the Tank Man photographer
 

Dan Southerland
Beijing Bureau Chief for the Washington Post in 1989
 

Dinda Elliot
Former Beijing Bureau Chief of Newsweek; covered the 1989 Tiananmen
Movement.
 

Claudia Rosett
Editorial-page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in 1989, reporting
from Beijing on June 4 1989.
 

Student Participants: Janice Jia, Jeff Seidl, Elizabeth Pike, Katrina
Malakhoff, Carlino Mark Natividad
 

300pm-335pm: Student Paper Panel Three

Chair: Paul Cohen, Professor of Asian Studies and History, associate at
the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard
University.

Panelists:

Amanda Mozea
Learning of a Massacre: A Personal Narrative
 

Peyton Fine
Mock Trial of the Tiananmen Massacre
 

Trevor Byrne (performed with the Harvard Callbacks)
I Remember

335pm-355pm Break

355pm-435pm Cross-generational Dialogue Panel Three

Chair: Victor Falkenheim, Professor of Political Science and East Asian
Studies, University of Toronto

Panelists:

Wu Guoguang, Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and
Chair in China & Asia-Pacific Relations, University of Victoria, Canada;
speechwriter for former premier Zhao Ziyang

Pei Minxin, Tom and Margot Pritzker’72 Professor of Government, director
of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont
McKenna College.

Student Participants: Annie Qin, Adam Ganik, Iris Feng

435pm-455pm Student Performance

Directed by Bex Kwan, Class 2014, with Violinist Lynn Chang, Class 75, who
played at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo.

455pm-510pm Closing Remarks

Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and
Political Science, Harvard University.

510pm-6pm Reception