Opening Remarks                                                            10:00 AM

Mark Frank, SEAS president

 

Panel 1  Gender out of Bounds                                      10:15 - 11:30 AM

Yuan Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Geographical Imagination of Jiangnan as Lotus-picking Girl During the Six Dynasties"

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Suisui Wang, Indiana University Bloomington
“Of Illness and Identity: Scientific Internationalism, Sexual Modernity, and the Demedicalization of Homosexuality in China (1978-2001)”

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Short film: "An OutChina Story: Stand by Me"

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Lunch                                                                                 11:30 - 12:30 PM

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Q&A (via Skype)

Pat & Michelle, the subjects of "An OutChina Story: Stand by Me"                                                                                                      12:30 - 12:45 PM

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Panel 2    Transnational Lives                                        12:45 -  2:15 PM

Xue Ma, Illinois State University
“Exploring ethnic food authenticity in the U.S.: Ethnicity and Authenticity as Tools of Consumerism”

 

Fangheyue Ma, University of South Florida:
“Seeking Meaning Overseas: Chinese International Scholars’ Conversions to Christianity in the U.S.”

 

Yuefan Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“History and Memory: The Poetic Odyssey in Luo Fu’s ‘Driftwood’”

 

Zihan Feng, Duke University (Cancelled due to Family Emergency)
“Separation and Connectedness through Travels Towards the Peach Blossom Spring: The Lack of Correspondence Between Diasporic Spaces”

 

Panel 3     Where State Meets Society                           2:30 - 4:00 PM

Haochen Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
“The Rise of Red Police: Chinese Policemen in Maoist Movies, 1949-1966”

 

Lingxiao Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Re-envisioning ‘Community Policing’ in Post-Socialist China”

 

Aolan Mi, Indiana University Bloomington
“Poetic Machines: Literary Representations of Machines in 1920s and 1930s China”

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Keynote Address                                                              4:00 - 5:15 PM

Dr. Sara Friedman, Indiana University Bloomington​

 

Dinner