Event

Please join the EALC department for the 6th Graduate Student Research Colloquium Conference, featuring a keynote speech by Dr. Seiji Shirane!

Hear about the research graduate students at Penn and beyond are conducting. We hope that this will be a chance to deepen our understanding of East Asia and establish connections with faculty members and graduate students working in this field. Each panel will consist of paper presentations by the authors, followed by feedback from our discussants and a Q&A session. Lunch and dinner will be provided.

Program:

All sessions will take place in Houston Hall, Ben Franklin Room. 

Structure 15 minute presentation per presenter, 10 minute feedback from discussant, 20 minute General Q&A

Panel 1: Memory through art and literature

9:30 - 10:50 (80 min)

Discussant: Dr. Linda Chance

Moderator: Marina Nascimento 

• Oscar Qiu Jun Zheng (UPenn): Sages and Femmes Fatales Reimagined——"Old Tales Retold" in Premodern and Modern Chinese Literature
• Jiayin Yuan (UPenn): Intertwined Narratives, Contested Memories: Commemoration and Reimagination in Heike Kindachi Zōshi
• Julie Morris (UCLA): “Set In Ink Evermore: Reinterpreting Scribal Motivation in Ryōjin hishō 梁塵秘抄”

Coffee Break: 10:50-11:10 (20 min)

Panel 2: Memory and Gender

11:10-12:30 PM (80 min)

Discussant: Dr. Ayako Kano

Moderator: Julio Nascimento

• Xi He (Stanford): A Literati in Exile: The Private and Public Memories of Huang Yuanjie (1610-1668)

• Fiona Yu (NYU): Reimagining the Demilitarized Zone: The Border Poetics of Yong Soon Min (NYU)

Lunch: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Panel 3: Memories of Authority 
1:40-3:00 PM (80 min)
Discussant: Dr. Christopher P. Atwood

Moderator: Calvin Lin

• Sarah Brooker (UPenn): Reproduction and Recreation: Qianlong's Stone Drums under Political and Spatial Context
• Jerry Yang (UBC): “Did Gunpowder originate in China?” The Historical Memory and Narrative of Firearms during the Ming Dynasty
• Yuzhu Wang (Bryn Mawr): Recasting a Template: A Study of Wu Huifei’s Sarcophagus

Panel 4: Decentering China(s)
3:00PM - 4:20PM (80 mins)
Discussant: Dr. Ruodi Duan
Moderator: Julian Tash

• Harriet Dai (UBC): In-betweenness: Voices from Chinese diasporic academics in Canada
• Bentley Brown (NYU): Mao Meets Muddy: Memory and Frederick J. Brown’s 1988 Beijing Retrospective 
  
   
• Quinton Huang (UBC): Structures of Disappearance: Memory, Oral History, and Fragments of the Postwar Squatter Settlements of Hong Kong 
  
   

Coffee Break 20 min (4:20-4:40)

Keynote: Transnational Directions in Asian Studies: The Case of Colonial Taiwan

4:40PM - 6:10PM

Dinner: 6:10 ~