Concepts of Space for East Asian Studies
May 11, 2019
University of Minnesota Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Presented by the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota
2019 marks the 30th year after urban theorist Edward Soja’s proposal of the “spatial turn” that has since inspired critical examinations of space among scholars of the social sciences and humanities alike. Beyond the notion of a fixed territory, space comes to denote a series of cultural and political relationships informed and enframed by human interactions with architecture, physical surroundings, local and national boundaries, eco-systems, geographical configurations, etc. Space provides an important conceptual framework through which we understand, feel, and navigate ourselves in the world we inhabit. From the notorious “Co-
Prosperity Sphere” to the experience of displacement caused by colonial wars; from the “discovery of landscape” to the construction of a theater hall; from literary writing to cinematic technology; the imagination and representation of space constitute a crucial part of the modern discursive history of East Asia.
Commentator:
Christine Marran, Professor, University of Minnesota
Travis Workman, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Schedule
Day 1 (May 11, 112 Folwell)
09:15-09:30
Opening Remarks by DGS
Professor Baryon Posadas
09:30-10:20
Toward a Thick Solidarity: The Imagination of the Decolonizing Third World and
the Cultivation of Internationalist Sensibilities in Socialist China
Yucong Hao, University of Michigan
10:20-11:10
Ports, Oceans and the Other Shores: Repositioning China in a Revolutionary
World
Ye Liu, New School for Social Research
11:10-12:00
“Your Lips are Bright Mountains”: Topographies of Homoerotic Desire and
Subject Formation in Murayama Kaita’s Poetry and Prose
Tanya Barnett, University of Hawaii at Manoa
12:00-01:00
Lunch break
01:00-01:50
Enchanted Space: Stop-motion Tricks in Chinese Silent Cinema
Panpan Yang, University of Chicago
01:50-02:40
Measuring the Traces of Dream: On Literary Kitsch in Taishō Japan
Yan Chang, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
02:40-03:00
Short break
03:00-03:50
Stereo Socialism: CinemaScope and the Construction of Socialist Spectacle
Ling Kang, Washington University in St. Louis
03:50-04:40
Does Acoustic Space Have Borders? Reading Marshall McLuhan and R. Murray
Schafer in China
Junting Huang, Cornell University
Day 2 (May 12, 113 Folwell)
09:30-10:20
Affective Male Audiences in the Taetkŭl Space
Jahyon Park, Cornell University
10:20-11:10
Performing the Utopian: Shōjo Space in Yoshiya Nobuko’s Hana Monogatari
Francesca Pizarro, University of Hawaii at Manoa
11:10-12:00
Arisu in Eden
Michael Kuehl, University of Texas at Austin
Contact Information:
[email protected]
Graduate Student Conference on East Asia
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
220 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St SE
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: 612-625-6534