The UKCHA Annual Conference 2021, ‘Re-Imagining the Global’

The UK China Humanities Alliance Annual Conference 2021, ‘Re-Imagining the Global’

Date and time:

Day 1: Wednesday 19th May 2021, 10:00-13:00 BST (17:00-20:00 Beijing Time)

Day 2: Thursday 20th May 2021, 10:00-14:00 BST (17:00-21:00 Beijing Time)

Day 3: Friday 21st May 2021, 10:00-13:20 BST (17:00-20:20 Beijing Time)

Location: Hosted online via the platform Zoom

Overview

The UK China Humanities Alliance annual conference is an opportunity for British and Chinese scholars to come together and discuss major global challenges. Under the heading ‘Re-Imagining the Global’, the 2021 conference will explore the role of the Humanities in addressing issues including Biopolitics, Transnational Identities, and Environmental Futures.

Day 1 - Wednesday 19th May, 10:00-13:00 (UK) / 17:00-20:00 (Beijing)

Welcome: Prof Mark Goodwin

Keynote Speaker: Prof YAN Haiping

Building Community in an Uncertain World – Panel Session. Chairs: CHEN Lei (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Vivienne Guo (Exeter)

• Todd Hall (Oxford), The Politics of Emotion in International Relations

• He Weiwen (Shanghai Jiaotong University), The Early Modern: Nationalized Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitanized Nationalism

• Zheng Songyun (Tsinghua IWLC/ Shanghai Maritime University), Igbo, Nostalgia, and the Transatlantic Mirror: The Meaning of Community in Equiano's Autobiography

• Anastasiia Akulich (Manchester) ‘Memory Eternal’: Boxer Trauma, Celebration, and Rejuvenating Chinese Orthodox Community (1900-1917)

• Chen Xiangjing (Tsinghua), The Concept of Feudalism and its Cultural Politics in the Debate on Chinese Social History

• He Guimei (Peking) 21st Century Chinese New Martial Arts Cinema and the Cross-Cultural Communication of Chinese Civilization

• Yingnan Chu (Exeter) Rejecting Racism against Chinese People in Laughter: Stand-up Comedy and Utopian Performative

Day 2 - Thursday 20th May, 10:00-14:00 (UK) / 17:00-21:00 (Beijing)

Transnational Identities, Movement and Travel – Panel Session. Chairs: CHU Xiaoquan (Fudan), Hans van de Ven (Cambridge)

• Regenia Gagnier (Exeter), The Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration

• Towhidul Islam Khan (Warwick), Mobility of Happiness

• Wu Juan (Tsinghua), Monks and Classics Across the Border: The Contribution of Foreign Missionary Monks in the Formation of the Chinese Tripitaka

• Hao Tianhu (Zhejiang University), Why Did Milton Land in China Earlier than Shakespeare?

• Sun Hongwei (Nanjing University), Roundabout Entry: Chinese Export Wallpaper and Sino-British Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century

• Zhao Yuan (Tsinghua) The Poetics of Auden's Syllabic Verse and China

• Molly Silk (Manchester), China’s Newly Emerging Space Culture: a Tool for Transnational Connection

Biopolitics in a Time of Pandemic – Panel Session. Chairs: WANG Xin (Shanghai International Studies University), Dora Vargha (Exeter).

• Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge), Medical Internationalism and the Biopolitics of Vaccination in 20th Century China

• Dora Vargha (Exeter), Epidemic endings: Cold War case study

• Zhang Jian (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Poems on Plague and on the Sense of Community

• David Houston Jones (Exeter), ‘COVID 19: Visual Traces and Community’

Day 3 - Friday 21st May, 10:00-13:20 (UK) / 17:00-20:20 (Beijing)

Environmental Humanities and Sustainability – Panel Session. Chairs: YANG Jincai (Nanjing) Lucia Nagib (Reading)

• Dr Chloe Preedy (Exeter), ‘Contagious’, ‘Poisoned’, and ‘Stinking’: The Air of Shakespeare’s Drama

• Shang Biwu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Approaching Non-Human Narratives: Definition, Categories and Functions

• Adam J Roberts (KCL), Animals, Species, and Habitats after Kant

• Qi Zhou (Exeter), Sustainable Development of Porcelain Art

• Zeng Qingyi (Tsinghua/Oxford) Deforming Tobacco, Altering Life on Xu Bing's Tobacco Project

• Liu Shusen (Peking University), Translated Literature and Sustainable Development"

• David Huddart (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Life Writing and the Conservation Humanities

• Cathy Zhang (Exeter), Museum-based Life Education for Children

Keynote: Professor James Mark (Exeter), Alternative Globalisations: Between Eastern Europe and East Asia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

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