Zhihui Ang
Nanjing University

Jonathan Arac
University of Pittsburgh

Susan Z Andrade
University of Pittsburgh

Ryan Bishop
National University of Singapore

Paul A Bové
University of Pittsburgh

Beng Huat Chua
National University of Singapore

Allen Chun
Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Jiwei Ci
University of Hong Kong

Chris Connery
University of California, Santa Cruz

Wlad Godzich
University of California, Santa Cruz

Ruth Hung
University of Hong Kong

Theodore Huters
University of California, Los Angeles

Chris Hutton
University of Hong Kong

Ronald AT Judy
University of Pittsburgh

Douglas Kerr
University of Hong Kong

QS Tong
University of Hong Kong

Sebastian Veg
The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China

Aihe Wang
University of Hong Kong

Ban Wang
Stanford University

Hui Wang
Tsinghua University

Lindsay Waters
Harvard University Press

Rob Wilson
University of California, Santa Cruz

June 17th Thursday
9:20 - 9: 30	Opening remarks Q.S. Tong (University of Hong Kong) Paul A. Bové (University of Pittsburgh)
9:30 - 10:50	Chair: Jonathan Arac Paul A. Bové (University of Pittsburgh) Historical Humanist, American Style Ban Wang (Stanford University) Rights Discourse and Chinese Modernity
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30	Chair: Rob Wilson Allen Chun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) The Japanese Diaspora in Postwar Taiwan: Narrating and Interpreting the Experiences of a Silent Minority Ronald A.T. Judy (University of Pittsburgh) A Discrepant Reading of 'Diaspora'
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch at SCR
2:00 - 3:20	Chair: Ronald A. T. Judy Sebastian Veg (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China) Opening Public Spaces: Chinese Independent Cinema Ruth Hung (University of Hong Kong) The State and the Market: Chinese TV Serials and the Case of Dwelling Narrowness
3:20 - 3:40	Coffee break
3:40 - 5:00	Chair: Sebastian Veg Ryan Bishop (National University of Singapore) Militarization, Technicity, and the 'Auto-' Rob Wilson (University of California, Santa Cruz) Towards an Ecopoetics Across Oceania: Asia/Pacific Entanglements
5:00 - 5:20	Coffee break
5:20 - 6:40	Chair: Douglas Kerr Q.S. Tong (University of Hong Kong) National Learning, National Language, and National Literature Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore) Contradictions of Liberal Multiculturalism
7:00	Dinner
June 18th Friday
9:30 - 10:50	Chair: Chris Connery Jiwei Ci (University of Hong Kong) China and the Question of Freedom Hui Wang (Tsinghua University) The Dialectics between Self-reliance(duli zizhu) and Opening: Debating the History of PRC: 60 Years or 30 Years
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 12:30	Chair: Theodore Huters Lindsay Waters (Harvard University Press) Rebuilding Aesthetics from the Ground Up Zhihui Ang (Nanjing University) Jane Austen and the idea of nature
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:20	Chair: Chris Hutton Susan Z. Andrade (University of Pittsburgh) After Midnight: Form, A Fine Balance, and the Politics of Realism Aihe Wang (University of Hong Kong) Positioning the Underground Culture in China's Revolutionary Modernity
3:20 - 3:40	Coffee break
3:40 - 5:00	Chair: Paul A. Bové Chris Connery (University of California, Santa Cruz) Political Movements in the Universities in the Sixties and Today Jonathan Arac (University of Pittsburgh) The Age of the Novel and the First Age of US Imperialism: Reflections around 1900
5:30 - 6:30	Reception
6:30	Dinner
June 19th Saturday
10:30 - 11:30	Closing discussion Chair: Paul A. Bové
12:15	Lunch

 

Paul A Bové (University of Pittsburgh)
QS Tong (University of Hong Kong)

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