Christopher Connery, Professor, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Harry Harootunian, Professor, History, New York University
Wang Hui, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; Former Editor of Dushu (读书)
Theodore Huters, Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Andrew F. Jones, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, New York University
Li Tuo, Research Scholar, East Asian Languages Cultures, Columbia University
Lydia Liu, Research Scholar, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Viren Murthy, Assistant Professor, History, University of Ottawa
Xiaobing Tang, Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Alan Tansman, Professor, Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Yiching Wu, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
| DATE: | Friday, April 3, 2009 Saturday, April 4, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM |
| PLACE: | The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Shorenstein Foundation, Townsend Center for the Humanities |
Friday, April 3, 4:00 p.m. - Keynote speech
Variations between Culture and Politics: War, Revolution, and May Fourth, Wang Hui, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
Note: the Seaborg Room is not wheelchair accessible
The conference continues on Saturday, April 4 in the Heyns Room, Faculty Club, first floor.
9:00 a.m. - Coffee and registration
9:30 - PANEL 1: The Long 19th Century: From the Late Qing to the May 4th Moment
Rebecca Karl, "Of Slavery and Race in the Late-Qing"
Viren Murthy, "Buddhist Epistemology and Modern Self- Identity: Zhang Taiyan on Religion and Morality"
Theodore Huters, "Rethinking the Simplification of Chinese Prose"
Andrew F. Jones: "The Year 1887: Evolutionary Adventure from the Late Qing to the May 4th"
12:15: lunch
1:30- PANEL 2: The Global 1960s and its Afterlives: From Cultural Revolution to 'Depoliticization'?
Christopher Connery, "Intellectuals and Revolution in the Chinese and World Sixties, and Beyond"
Yiching Wu, "Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution"
Tang Xiaobing, "On the Politics of Political Pop"
Li Tuo, title TBA
4:00 p.m. - PANEL 3: Moments in Time, Moments in Media: Methodologies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Lydia Liu, "Empires of the Mind: From Old Media to New Media"
Harry Harootunian, "Uneven Temporalities/Unpredictable Pasts: Preliminary Thoughts on Forms of Time in the Historical Field"
5:15 p.m. - ROUNDTABLE - Alan Tansman, Moderator
5:45 adjourn
