MCLC: Brothers symposium

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Agnes Zhuo Liu <agnesliuzhuo at hotmail.com>
Subject: Brothers symposium
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Fiction and Social Change: Symposium on Yu Hua's Brothers
December 1, 2011, New York University

Join us for a one-day research workshop/symposium on Yu Hua¹s acclaimed
novel Brothers, where Yu Hua himself will be joined by his translators,
Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow, as well as NYU professor Xudong Zhang, for
an in-depth discussion of the novel. Additionally, NYU graduate students
will showcase their research on issues of contemporary Chinese literature
with respect to Yu Hua¹s authorial practice, the role of the writer in
contemporary China, and other issues. The workshop will have both Chinese
and English as working languages.

The workshop/symposium is open to the public. For any questions, contact
China House assistant Jacob Dreyer at ! jad575 at nyu.edu or at (434)
825-9848. In the Kimmel Center, room 905.

Schedule

10:00 AM: opening remarks from Xudong Zhang, Chair, Department of East
Asian Studies and Director, China House

10:05 AM: Introduction on Brothers, Yu Hua

10:30 AM: Presenter: Todd Foley, doctoral student in EAS

11:00 AM: Discussants: Shiqi Liao, Lecturer in EAS; and Xudong Zhang

11:30 Open Discussions

12:30pm:  Lunch Break

1:30 PM: Presenters:  Carlos Rojas & Eileen Chow, Department of Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, and co-translators of Brothers

2:30 PM:  Presenter:  Jun Xie, doctoral student in EAS

3:00 PM:  Response by Yu Hua

3:30:  Coffee break

3:45-5:15PM: Concluding roundtable: Yu Hua, Eileen Chow, Carlos Rojas,
Todd Foley, Jun Xie, Agnes Zhuo Liu (Ph.D., EAS), Pu Wang (Ph.D.
candidate, Comparative Literature), and Xudong Zhang. Moderated by Peter
Button (Professor, EAS).