Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
The conference features innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline.
When:
April 16, 2010 3:00pm to April 17, 2010 3:30pm
Where
This is the inaugural session of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities. This will be an annual event, to be held in alternate years at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford.
Each year, the conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
This year the keynote speaker is David Der-wei Wang, of Harvard University.
Conference agenda
Friday, April 16, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Media Matters: Visual and Aural Expressions of Chinese Modernity
Jessica K.Y. Chan, “Translating "Montage": the Discreet Attractions of Soviet Revolutionary Aesthetics for Chinese Revolutionary Cinema (1932-1966)”
Tiffany Lee, “Photography and Modernity in China through the Figure of the Double.”
Kristina Kleutghen, “Out From Behind the Curtain: Modernizing the Face of Imperial China?
Jing Wang, “Freedom in Listening: Depiction of Sound Art in Beijing”
Friday, April 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Keynote speech
David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University. Title tba
Saturday, April 17, 10:00 a.m.
Panel 2: Embodiments of Modernity: Chinese Representations of Gender and Body
Howard Chiang, “The Demise of Chinese Eunuchism”
Emily Wilcox, “The Cultivation of Yunwei [??] in Contemporary Chinese Classical Dance”
Shing-ting Lin, “Hygienic Menstruation: Popularization and the Commodification of Female Hygiene in Republican China, 1910s-1930s”
Gary Wang, “Making 'Opposite-sex' Love in Print”
Saturday, April 17, 1:30 p.m.
Panel 3: "People's Arts:" Art production and performance in Post-1950s Mao-era
Daisy Yan Du, “From Politicized Tadpoles to Idealized Herd Boy”
Agnes Liu Zhuo, “The Role of Wengongtuan and Chinese Revolutionary Literature”
Margaret Greene, “A Ghostly Bodhisattva and the Price of Vengeance”
Saturday, April 17, 3:30 p.m.
Panel 4: Border Crossings: The Construction of National and Transnational Identities
Chen Xin, “Female Protestant Missionaries in Modern China and Japan (1880s-1940s)”
Ren Ke, “The Boulevardier from Fuzhou”
Ka Wong, “Depicting Other, Defining Self: Chinese Modernity and the Representations of “Nanyang” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Art”
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