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University of Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference 2017 

(Extra)ordinary China: Practices of the Everyday

 

Conference Schedule

 

Day One

 Wednesday 11th January

 

 

12:30pm

Registration

Mok Common Room

 

1:00pm

Introductory remarks

Lecture Theatre

 

1:15 – 2:30pm

Keynote

 Andrew F. Jones, Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese, University of California, Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre

 

2:30 – 2:45pm

Short break

 

2:45 – 4:30pm

Parallel Panel Session

 

Panel One - Traversing the (Extra)ordinary: Travel as Everyday Practice

Panel chair: Professor Henrietta Harrison

Lucina Ho Room

 

  • Documenting the Everyday: Yuan Zhongdao’s Records of Travelling and Dwelling. Emily Teo, University of Kent/ Free University of Berlin.

  • From Foe to Friend? China Through the Eyes of American Visitors, 1971-78. Pete Millwood, University of Oxford.

  • Practices of a Budget Traveler: Everyday Experience on the Road in Eighteenth-century China. Huiying Chen, University of Illinois.

  • Writing Diaries: Private and Public Records. Ching Kit Wu, University of California, Berkeley.

 

Panel Two - Landscapes of the Everyday: Writing Identity in Urban Spaces

Panel chair: Professor Andrew F. Jones

Lecture Theatre

 

  • Affecting Nostalgia: Performing the Past in Taipei People. Yvonne Lin, University of Oxford.

  • "Informal City": The case study of Chen Shaoxiong. Di Lu, Birmingham City University.

  • Listening to the Everyday – Commemorating Contemporary Urban China's Resounding Loss of Identity? L. Odila Schröder, University of Heidelburg.

 

4:30-5:00

Coffee

Mok Common Room

 

5:00- 6:45

Parallel Panel Session

 

Panel Three - Echoes of the (Extra)ordinary: Experiences of Buddhism in the Everyday

Panel chair: Professor Dirk Meyer

Lucina Ho Room

 

  • Buddhist Cultivation of the Everyday in Sixth-century China. Guttorm Norberg Gundersen, University of Oslo.

  • Libertine Monks and Women: Sexual Fantasies in Late Imperial Chinese Vernacular Erotica. Wai Cheuk Yee, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

  • Pagodas in View of Each Other: Mapping Everyday Urban Experience in A Record of Buddhist Monasteries of Luoyang. Anne Feng, University of Chicago.

 

Panel Four - Negotiating the Everyday: Visual Media as Everyday Practice

Panel chair: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand

Lecture Theatre

 

  • Articulating Fatherhood on Television in China. Arjen Nauta, University of Amsterdam.

  • Piercing I and i.Mirror: Flickering Animation and Alternative Realities. Linda C. Zhang, University of California, Berkeley

  • Traces of Disappearing and Appearing Objects: Reflections on two Photographic Works by Li Jun and Jiang Pengyi. Roberto Figliulo, Pompeu Fabra University.

 

7:15pm

Dinner Reception at Turl Street Kitchen (for speakers only)

16 Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DH

 

9:30pm

Informal drinks at the Kings Arms (Wadham Room). All welcome.

40 Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3SP

 

 

 

Day Two

 Thursday 12th January


 

 

9:30-10:00

Registration and coffee

Mok Common Room

 

10:00 – 11.15am

Keynote 

Craig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre

 

11.15 – 11.30am

Short Break

 

11.30 – 1.15pm 

Parallel Panel Sessions

 

Panel Five -  Narrating the Ordinary: Chronicles of the Everyday

Panel chair: Professor Micah Muscolino

Lucina Ho Room

 

  • The Everyday Voice in Hong Kong: A Study of Leung Ping-kwan's Food Poetry. Poon Soon Yi, National Taiwan University.

  • Rhythm, Poverty, and the Quotidian in Lao She's Luotuo Xiangzi. Keru Cai, University of California, Berkeley.

  • The Writer’s Role-Type: Autobiographical Personae and the Playwright-Protagonists of Early-Mid Qing Drama. Allison Bernard, Columbia University.

 

Panel Six - Perspectives on Gender: Representations of Everyday Womanhood

Panel chair: Professor Robert Chard

Lecture Theatre

 

 

  • Internationalizing and institutionalizing women’s bodies: The YWCA within mission schools for girls in Republican Era Zhejiang, 1923-1949. Jennifer Bond, SOAS, University of London.

  • Subversively Ordinary: Love and Women in Stories of the Strange. Josiah Stork, Middlebury College.

  • Struggles and Strategies: Single women’s Abortion in 1940s Shanghai. Chang Liu, King’s College London

  • The Spinning Wheel in Wartime China: Women in-between Confucian Tradition and Socialist Revolution. Maria-Caterina Bellinetti, University of Glasgow.

 

1.15 – 2.30

Lunch

Mok Common Room

 

2.30– 4.15 pm

Parallel Panel Sessions

 

Panel 7 - Crafting the Ordinary: Material Culture as Everyday Practice

Panel chair: Professor Craig Clunas

Lucina Ho Room

 

  • The Circulation of Things in the Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅) and the Novel as Moral Critique. Jiang Chenxin, University of Chicago.

  • Everyday Life in the Ruins: Experiencing the Ming Dynastic Sites in Early Qing. Yayun Zhu, Australian National University.

  • Extraordinary Display and Everyday Encounter: The Agency and Transcultural Appropriation of a Chinese Painting Motif. Feng He, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.

  • Extraordinary Everyday and Extraordinary Shape: A Doctor’s Desk from Canton. Xiaoxin Li, SOAS, University of London.

 

Panel 8 - Rhythms of the Everyday: Mobile Practices in Public Spaces

Panel chair: Professor Pamela Hunt

Lecture Theatre

 

  • Dance Dance Revolution: Factory Dance, Creative Labour, and the Socialist Everyday in 1950s China. Benjamin Kindler, Columbia University.

  • Exercising the Everyday: Modern Chinese Calisthenics as Redemption and Remediation. Wentao Ma, Columbia University.

  • Evaporating Aesthestics: Everyday Practices of Water Calligraphy. Laura Vermeeren, University of Amsterdam.

  • Arrhythmic Ordinary Life: Dust in the Wind (1986) and Taiwanese-Dialect Cinema. Xiaoyu Xia, University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

4.15 – 4.30pm

Closing remarks

Lecture Theatre

 

 

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