9:00 – 9:30 AM
REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN
9:30 – 10:50 AM
Panel 1: Ineffability, Aesthetics, and Religion in the Premodern World
Discussant: Dr. Ori Tavor
Moderator: Doris Yixuan Tang
- Ming Sun, University of Pennsylvania: “Speaking the Unspeakable: The Ineffability and the Solutions in Zhuangzi and Mādhyamika.”
- Sophie Xi, University of Pennsylvania: “A Case Study of Fenyang Shengmumiao Mural and its Artistic, Religious, and Ritual Context.”
- Xiaoyang Ma, University of Pennsylvania: “Rethinking Cartouches, A Study of Visual-Verbal Dynamics of Filial Piety Illustrations in Qu Qing’s Tomb.”
- Tianqi Zhu, Stanford: “Imagining the Landscape: Constructing Social Space through Poetry, Painting, and Buddhism in the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang.”
10:50-11:10 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM-12:20 PM
Panel 2: Identity Formation and Expression of Self
Discussant: Dr. Julie Nelson Davis
Moderator: Nick Purgett
- Runjie Wang, University of Washington: “Must Tibetan Filmmakers Speak about National Identity? Tibetan New Wave as an Alternative Framework.”
- Marina Nascimento, University of Pennsylvania: “Embodying Modernity: A Historiography of the ‘New Women’ and the ‘Modern Girls’ in interwar China and Japan.”
- Shirin Mikiko Sadjadpour, University of Chicago: “Creative Prints and the Making of Modernism(s) in Early-Twentieth Century Germany and Japan.”
12:40-1:35 PM
Lunch
1:35–1:45 PM
COMMEMORATION OF MARK BOOKMAN
1:45-2:30 PM
Keynote Speech
Dr. Ruodi Duan, Haverford College: “East Asian Studies and the Global South: Reflecting on Afro-Chinese Entanglements of the 20th Century.”
2:40-3:45 PM
Panel 3: From the Margins
Discussant: Dr. Nancy S. Steinhardt
Moderator: Yumi Kodama
- Chunhao Luo, University of Pennsylvania: “Knowledge and Conceptions of the Yunnan-Tai Frontiers: Changing Perspectives from Mongol-Yuan to Ming.”
- Bibiana Tsang, University of Pennsylvania: “Ming Dynasty Jiehua: Architectural Elements in Paintings by Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying.”
- Lucien Sun, University of Chicago: “A Print in Flux: Rethinking the Print of Guan Yu from Khara-Khoto.”
3:50PM-4:55PM
Panel 4: Discourse on Gender and Identity in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Discussant: Dr. Vanessa Baker
Moderator: Suyoung Kim
- Cynthia Chen & Zifan Yang, Stanford: “In the Name of Revenge: Suicidal Women in Contemporary Chinese Romantic Novels.”
- Inkyeong Chung, University of Pennsylvania: “Non-Human Forms in Contemporary Korean Literature.”
- Mingkang Hao, Duke University: “Rethinking Female Homosexuality in the Republican China: A Study Based on the Tao-Liu Homicide Case, 1932.”