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Conference program

Day 1 – Friday, December 13, 2024 @ La Colombaria

09:00 Welcome & Intro

09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Literature I

  • Hong Kong Writings in Cold War Paris: Cross-Racial Identification in Sinophone Literature

  • Imagining the Modern: Exotic Experiences in China’s New Poetry, An Examination of Li Jinfa’s Literary Experiment in the 1920s

  • Chinese or Else? Yan Ge’s Metalinguistic Debut

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2: Film

  • Writing the History of Asian(Sino)-European Identity Through Film

  • Sinophone Cinema in Europe: From Diaspora to Interweaving

  • From Red Sorghum to Red Main Melody: Contemporary Sinophone Film Distribution in Germany

  • Hong Kong Vampire Films: Anxious Imaginings of Death and Illness

12:45 – 13:15 Projects presentation

12:45 – 14:30 Lunch (at the venue)

14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3: Art

  • Contesting Stereotypes and Building Identities: A Longitudinal Approach to the Artistic Production of Chinese Migrants’ Descendants in Spain

  • Exhibition of ‘Chinese Female Artists,’ Permeating Sounds, and Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Wu Mali at Half of the Sky in Bonn, Germany

  • Out of China…So Where? Reimagining Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Art Practices: The Case of Italy

16:00 – 16:30 Poster presentation

20:00 Dinner

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Day 2 – Saturday, December 14, 2024 @ UniFi – FORLILPSI

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome

09:15 – 10:15 Keynote speech: “Pensando Xibānyā: Voices from the Chinese Diaspora” by E.K. Tan

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 4: Identity

  • Marriage, Kinship and Our-Selves: The Queering of Diasporic Chinese Performance Art and Community Space-Making in Europe during 2015-2022

  • On Not Speaking Cantonese: The Glory Café Incident (2020), Xeno/Sinophobia, and the Postcolonial Identity Politics in Hong Kong

  • The Transformation of a Female Subject: The Shadow of Chinese Culture in Qiu Ping’s Installation Art

  • Empowerment And Resistance: Negotiating Chinese Female Migrants’ Digital Dating Experience in Europe

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Panel 5: Literature II

  • Yang Lian in Spanish, Spain in Yang Lian: How the European Semi-Periphery Places the Exilic Sinophone

  • Sinophone Comics in Italy: Yi Yang’s Easy Breezy (2021) And Deep Vacation (2022)

  • Sinophone Social Poetics Through Art in Italy: The Wuxu Collective

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 16:45 Panel 6: Linguistic Expressions and Community Building

  • The Sinophone Community of the Chinese College of Naples: Chinese Cultural and Linguistic Production in Late Modern Europe

  • Chinese Folksongs from Overseas: Reimagining Pidgin English in the National Language Movement

  • Beyond Boundaries: Investigating Sinophone Cultures Through Heritage Language and Multiple Belongings

  • Chinese Community as a Bridging Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)

16:45 Summary/Outlook

17:00 End

*The panels with a "V" after the panel number indicate virtual panels that conference attendees can attend from anywhere. All times EST. For more info, please visit mla22.org:

Thursday, January 6

5:15-6:30 p.m. EST

128V: Southeast Asian Performance and Its Publics

Friday, January 7

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. EST

180V: Transnational Transgender 

10:15 - 11:30 a.m. EST

244V: Cultural Contagion: The Pandemic and Chinese Social Media

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST

270: Theory beyond English

3:30 - 4:45 p.m., EST

343V: Decolonizing Comparative Literature 

Saturday, January 8

10:15-11:30 a.m. EST

442V: Marxist Internationalism?

12:00-1:15 p.m. EST

469V: The Translation's Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan

5:15-6:30 p.m. EST

575V: Non-Sinitic Literatures of the People's Republic of China

Sunday, January 9

10:15-11:30 a.m. EST

633V: Sex Work and Labor Politics 

Video Recording of Conversation with Howard Chiang: https://youtu.be/-LcIh-EPFKk

Sat, Jan 4

1:30-3:00 pm (Chelsea (Sheraton New York, Lower Level): Economies on the Edges of Empire: China and Inner Asia from the 18th to 20th Centuries (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session19791.html)

Sun, Jan 5

10:30 am-12:00 pm (Gramercy West; New York Hilton, Second Floor): Global Queer History: Themes, Methods, and Approaches (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session19547.html)

1:30-3:00 pm (Metropolitan Ballroom West; Sheraton New York, Second Floor): Late Breaking: Mass Protests in Historical Perspective—Hong Kong, Ecuador, Lebanon, Chile (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20896.html) 

3:30-5:00 pm (Murray Hill East; New York Hilton, Second Floor): Rice and Power in the Pacific World (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20223.html)

Mon, Jan 6

11:00 am- 12:30 pm (Trianon Ballroom; New York Hilton, Third Floor):  Late Breaking: Hong Kong’s Current Protests in Historical  and Global Perspective  (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20878.html)

Thu, Jan 9

12-1:15 pm (WSCC - Skagit 3): Southeast Asia and the Oceanic (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7613)

Fri, Jan 10

8:30-9:45 am (WSCC 616): Sino-French Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century   (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7956) 

12-1:15 pm (WSCC 619): Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6990)

12-1:15 pm (Sheraton - Issaquah): Transnational Queer Studies: New Directions  (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7758)

Sat, Jan 11

5:15-6:30 pm (WSCC 303): Race in Translation: East Asian Literatures  (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7768)

Sun, Jan 12

8;30-9:45 am (WSCC - Skagit 3): Southeast Asian Diasporic Authors in Conversation (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7326)

Thurs, March 19

7:30-9:15 pm (Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor): Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars (https://cdmcd.co/YX9Krb)

Fri, March 20

11:15 am-1:00 pm (Hynes: Room 208, Level 2): Sinophone Socialisms: Economy, Culture, and the Socialist Imaginary Across Chinese Speaking Worlds (https://cdmcd.co/9DdW3v)

1:30-3:15 pm (Hynes: Room 200, Level 2): Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives (https://cdmcd.co/38BwZL)

Sat, March 21

9:00 am- 10:45 pm (Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor): Transregional Crossings: Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, Film and Theater Since the Mid-20th Century (https://cdmcd.co/4m8dqG)

7:30 pm- 9:30 pm (Sheraton: The Fens, 5th floor): Cambria Sinophone World Series Reception

Sun, March 22

9:00 am- 10:45 am (Hynes: Room 204, Level 2): Multilingual Challenges: Performing Identity in the Sinophone Context (https://cdmcd.co/9Dd3Qm)

11:00 am- 12:45 pm (Hynes: Room 200, Level 2): China-US Transcultural Communication: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (https://cdmcd.co/5r5n5P)

 
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Thursday, April 2, Session F: 11:15AM - 1:00PM

F 16 Undercurrents: Minorities and Media Margins in Asia         

Chair: Lin Song, University of Macau       

·        Ying Diao, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Christianity through Studio Production: Technology and the Changing Sounds of Lisu Religiosity in Contemporary Myanmar

·        Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University, Translocal Memory in Local Currents: Re-Imagining Hong Kong Through Minor Encounters

·        Qi Li, King's College London, In the Micro and For the Minor: Chinese Queer Cinema Goes Online

·        Lin Song, University of Macau, Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and DIY Pornography among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities

Saturday, April 4, Session R: 5:45PM - 7:30PM

R 1 In/Visible Crossings: Borders, Elsewheres, and Contemporary Asian Media Cultures                     

Chair: Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan  

Co-Chair: Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University 

·        Erin Huang: Princeton University, Ocean Media: Floating Visuality and the Neoliberal Seascape

·        Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Alien Encounters: Virtuality, Precarity, Displacement, and the Aesthetics of Despair in Chao De-Yin’s Films

·        Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan, Dreamscapes of the Borderlands: Mobility and Stasis in Zhang Lu’s Films

·        Sudhir Mahadevan, University of Washington, From a Material Politics to a Psycho-Politics: Faulkner to Lee Chang-dong

Individual papers

Thursday, April 2, Session H 3:15PM - 5:00PM

H15       Seeing Within and Beyond the Body: Transcending the Corporeal in Global Film and Media

·        Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Languages/SDI, Inbetween-ness of Queer Bodies: Disabled Gender in Contemporary China

Friday, April 3, Session J: 9:00AM - 10:45AM

J1           Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema

·        Lingzhen Wang, Brown University, The Black Velvet Aesthetic:Universal Cultural Feminism and Chinese Neotraditionalism in Woman Demon Human (1987)

Friday, April 3, Session M:  3:00PM - 4:45PM

M1         Self, Sex, and Nation: Ethnicity and Gender Across Asia

·        Xiuhe Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara, Regional Cinematic Mediation: Recalibrating Postsocialist Modernity through Sexual Economy in the Rust Belt of China

·        Li Zeng, Illinois State University, The Voice Within: Chinese Muslims, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Representation in the Hui Filmmaking Movement

Sunday, April 5, Session T: 11:30AM - 1:15PM

T21        Affect and Media Culture in Asia

·        Sarah Liao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, From Emotional to Political: Post-It-Note Arts of the Lennon Wall in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong