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Memory in Chinese Studies
Thursday, 5 May 2016,  9:00am -  6:00pm

Location: Brower Commons A & B

 

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at Rutgers University will host a special workshop for visiting scholars from National Taiwan University on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Scholars working on premodern and modern periods, and in the various disciplines of literature, history and religion, will present their latest research on memory studies and engage in discussions on methodologies and the state of the field in this one-day long event.

Participants: Jessey Choo (Rutgers University), Hsu Hui-lin (National Taiwan University), Lin Hung-chia (National Taiwan University), Wang Shih-pe (National Taiwan University), Xiaojue Wang (Rutgers University), Weijie Song (Rutgers University), Wendy Swartz (Rutgers University)

Schedule:

9:00–9:30                             Welcome Remarks and Breakfast

9:30–10:20                           Lin Hung-chia, “An Examination of the Characterization of ’The Collar'” (〈子衿〉人物刻畫試探)

10:30–11:20                         Wendy Swartz, “Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning and Cultural Memory in Early Medieval China”

11:30-12:20                          Jessey Choo, “Whose Bloody Hell is This?—Buddhism, Daoism and Women’s Salvation in Late Medieval China” (到底是                                                             誰發明了血的地獄?—佛教丶道教與中古晚期女性的救贖)

12:20–1:30                           Lunch 

1:30–2:20                             Weijie Song, "Imaginary Memory, Chivalric Geography, and Sinophone Cartography"

2:30–3:20                             Hsu Hui-lin, “Objects, Senses, and the Fallen State: On the Ming  Loyalist Dong Yue’s Feiyan Xianfa” (物、感官與故國:明                                                         遺民董說的《非煙香法》)

3:30–4:20                             Wang Shih-pe, “Writing the Past through Historical Reconstruction and Dramatic Fall: The Ending of 'Peach Blossom                                                               Fan' in Textual Metaphor and Performing Adaptation” (歷史書寫與戲劇破局:桃花扇結局的文本隱喻與表演改編)

4:20–4:40                             Coffee Break

4:40-5:30                              Xiaojue Wang, “Media and Mediation: Radio on the Silver Screen"

This seminar is open to all faculty and graduate students. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to RSVP before April 21, 2016.