IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing
Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters Between Russia and East Asia
Detailed program
Day 1 (April 17, Sat) |
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9:00 - 9:50 pm | Keynote speech | |
- | “The Chinese Appropriation of Russian Texts during the Inter-War Years” Prof. Katerina CLARK (Yale University) |
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10:00 - 11:20 pm | Session A) Encounters and transformations | |
- | “Science and Mythology in Manchurian Prose of Nikolai Baikov” Prof. Olga Anatolyevna VOLKOVA (Clemson University) |
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- | “Departure from Western Modernity: Russian Literature and Futabatei Shimei in the Making of Kunikida Doppo” Dr. Yu SAKAI (University of Oxford) |
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- | “Nikolai Konrad and his Project of “World Literature” in the USSR” Prof. Shunichiro AKIKUSA (Nihon University) |
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- | “Dual Homeland: Cho Myoung-hui and the Origins of Koryo Saram (Soviet Korean) Literature” Prof. Susanna Soojung LIM (University of Oregon) |
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11:25 pm - 12:25 am | Session B) The circulation of ideas | |
- | “Life as Form-Giving Concept: China, Russia, Idealism” Prof. Roy CHAN (University of Oregon) |
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- | “From Commune to Cooperative: Translation and Localization of Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread” Prof. Andrew Way LEONG (University of California, Berkeley) |
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- | “Bringing Up Asia: Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Children in a Russian International Children’s Home” Prof. Elizabeth MCGUIRE (California State University, East Bay) |
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Day 2 (April 18, Sun) |
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9:00 - 9:50 pm | Keynote speech | |
- | “Doing Transnational Intellectual History from Below: Underground Origins of Japan’s Russia” Prof. Sho KONISHI (University of Oxford) |
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10:00 - 11:20 pm | Session C) Modernism and post-modernism | |
- | “Chinese Stories for International Readers: Aesthetics of Xiao San’s Russian Poems” Prof. Zhen ZHANG (Renmin University of China) |
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- | “Love Lost in Transmission and Translation: Kollontai’s 'Theory of a Glass of Water' in the Early Soviet Union, Japan and May Fourth China” Prof. Sasha Hsiang-Yin CHEN (Academia Sinica) |
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- | “Poetry in the Era of Reform: The Russian Poetics of Chinese Avant-Garde” Prof. Jinyi CHU (Yale University) |
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- | “A Different Version of Socialist Realism: Revolutionary Romanticism in China and its Reconfiguration by Mo Yan” Prof. Xiaolu MA (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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11:25 pm - 12:25 am | Session D) Cinematic internationalism | |
- | “Stalled at Friendship Station: Under Ancient Desert Skies and Cinematic Internationalism on the Eve of the Sino-Soviet Split” Prof. Edward TYERMAN (University of California, Berkeley) |
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- | “The Translation and Reception of Soviet Acting Theories in Chinese Socialist Cinema” Prof. Jessica CHAN (University of Richmond) |