IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing - Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters between Russia and East Asia

Name: IAS Program on Chinese Creative Writing - Virtual Workshop: Transcultural Encounters between Russia and East Asia
Start: 2021-04-17
End: 2021-04-19
Location: Zoom (Meeting ID: 98784488650 / Passcode: 283241) https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98784488650

17 April 2021 to 19 April 2021

9:00pm - 12:25am

Zoom (Meeting ID: 98784488650 / Passcode: 283241) https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98784488650

Detailed program

Day 1 (April 17, Sat)
9:00 - 9:50 pm	Keynote speech
	-	“The Chinese Appropriation of Russian Texts during the Inter-War Years” Prof. Katerina CLARK (Yale University)
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)
	-	“Departure from Western Modernity: Russian Literature and Futabatei Shimei in the Making of Kunikida Doppo” Dr. Yu SAKAI (University of Oxford)
	-	“Nikolai Konrad and his Project of “World Literature” in the USSR” Prof. Shunichiro AKIKUSA (Nihon University)
	-	“Dual Homeland: Cho Myoung-hui and the Origins of Koryo Saram (Soviet Korean) Literature” Prof. Susanna Soojung LIM (University of Oregon)

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)
	-	“From Commune to Cooperative: Translation and Localization of Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread” Prof. Andrew Way LEONG (University of California, Berkeley)
	-	“Bringing Up Asia: Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Children in a Russian International Children’s Home” Prof. Elizabeth MCGUIRE (California State University, East Bay)

Day 2 (April 18, Sun)
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)
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)
	-	“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)
	-	“Poetry in the Era of Reform: The Russian Poetics of Chinese Avant-Garde” Prof. Jinyi CHU (Yale University)
	-	“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)

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)
	-	“The Translation and Reception of Soviet Acting Theories in Chinese Socialist Cinema” Prof. Jessica CHAN (University of Richmond)