2nd Annual Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in the Modern Chinese Humanities

2nd Annual Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in the Modern Chinese Humanities will be held at Stanford University on April 22- 23.

This conference is designed to provide a venue for graduate students in the Chinese humanities to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production.  Together with a  keynote speech by a leading scholar of Chinese studies, these presentations will provide an introduction to leading young scholars and new topics in the Chinese humanities.

This year's Key Note Speaker is Tani Barlow of Rice University.

April 22, 2011 2-6PM
Panel 1 From the Top: Cultural History in the PRC
Di Yin Lu, "Inventing the Shanghai Museum"
Michale Evans, "Newspaper Mastheads and the Authority of Calligraphy in Contemporary China"
Vivian Li, "The Measure of Revolution: Rent Collection Courtyard"
Megan Steffen, "Nationalist Legacies of the Great Wall: The Shift from the Chinese Tradition of Iconclasm in the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony"

April 23, 2011 10AM -6PM
Panel 2 Anxieties and Adaptations: Changing Visual Modes of Representation in Modern China

Fongfong Chen, "Screens and Shadows: Artistic Pursuit of Wu Youru and His Anxiety in Late 19th Century Art World in Shanghai"
Sarah Dodd, "Liaozhai zhiyi and its Adaption: the HUman and the Monstrous"
Yao Wu, "Chinese Sons' Solicitude: Modern "Pietas" by Pang Xunqin and Wang Guangyi"

Panel 3 Discourses of Sexuality: Citizenship, Bodies and Constructions of Space
Hongwei Bao, "Beijing and Berlin: Sexuality, Space and Urban Citizenship in Post-1989 Cities"
June Lei, "Natural Curves: Changing Aesthetics of Female Breasts in Republican China (1911-1937)"
Bryna Tuft, "Self-ish Women: Individualized Writing and Privacy in the Works of Lin Bai"

Panel 4 Wartime Productions: Memory, Consumerism and Literary Imaginations
Sara Bush, "Commemorating the Nanchang Uprising: How the Chinese Communist Party Legitimized Its Use of Force, 1933-1953"
Nga-li Lam, "Wing-On Monthly and Consumer Culture in War-Time Shanghai"
Evelyn Shih, "Writing China from Wartime Taiwan and Japan: Chen Fengyuan and Kobayashi Hideo"