MCLC: Vernacular Practices Across East Asia

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Vernacular Practices Across East Asia
Graduate Conference: Vernacular Practices Across East Asia, Oct 7-9
The University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference 2016
Friday, October 7th through Sunday, October 9th
For more detailed information, please visit https://ceas.uchicago.edu/page/ea-vernacular-practices
Keynote Speaker: Bao Weihong, Associate Professor in the Chinese Program and Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Special Event: “Kagawa Ryo Live in Chicago,” a performance of Japanese folk music
Location:
Logan Seminar Terrace Room 801
915 E 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
The study of East Asia is perennially haunted by the specters of standardization, and the centralization of political and cultural capital in the nation-state. What is often lost in the margins is the particular, the non-standard, the suppressed, the minor, and the indigenous experience in which vernacular practice and its potential for various modes of reproduction, resistance, transcendence, and imminence takes place. Recently, postcolonial studies, area studies, media studies, and other fields have taken a common interest in how and to what extent the vernacular as language, aesthetic, and sensibility and more importantly as literary, cultural, and political practice can offer new perspectives and possibilities to our understanding of East Asia. Rather than defining the object of this project through the arbitrary political demarcations of nation, or the structural mechanisms of the state, or an oversimplified, homogenized discourse of particular -isms, we want to focus on place, community, and people created by and through a variety of practices. Practice is embodied: it is always localized and informed both by geographically-defined environments and by ever-changing networks of power. The vernacular holds the prospect of specificity, and practice, that of immediacy: in combination, they can be used to address dynamic issues of democracy, agency, and power.
Friday, Oct 7, 5:00pm Keynote Address by Assoc. Prof. Weihong Bao (UC-Berkeley): “What is Environment? Set Design Thinking in Chinese Film and Theater”
Saturday, Oct 8 
9:30-11:30am Vernacular Language
12:30-2:15pm Vernacular Aesthetics and Media
2:30-4:30pm Vernacular Performance
5:30-6:15pm Pre-concert remarks, Assoc. Prof. Michael Bourdaghs
7:30pm Ryo Kagawa Live in Fulton Recital Hall
Sunday, Oct 9
9:00-10:40am The Vernacular in Modernity
10:50am-12:00pm Roundtable
This conference is funded with the assistance of the China, Japan, and Korea Committees of the Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute, and the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Anne Rebull anner at uchicago.edu
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 28, 2016
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