Sinophone Europe
The first Sinophone Europe Conference took place
on December 13-14, 2024, in Florence, Italy.
https://sinophoneeurope.com/
Conference program
Day 1 – Friday, December 13, 2024 @ La Colombaria
09:00 Welcome & Intro
09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Literature I
Hong Kong Writings in Cold War Paris: Cross-Racial Identification in Sinophone Literature
Imagining the Modern: Exotic Experiences in China’s New Poetry, An Examination of Li Jinfa’s Literary Experiment in the 1920s
Chinese or Else? Yan Ge’s Metalinguistic Debut
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2: Film
Writing the History of Asian(Sino)-European Identity Through Film
Sinophone Cinema in Europe: From Diaspora to Interweaving
From Red Sorghum to Red Main Melody: Contemporary Sinophone Film Distribution in Germany
Hong Kong Vampire Films: Anxious Imaginings of Death and Illness
12:45 – 13:15 Projects presentation
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch (at the venue)
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3: Art
Contesting Stereotypes and Building Identities: A Longitudinal Approach to the Artistic Production of Chinese Migrants’ Descendants in Spain
Exhibition of ‘Chinese Female Artists,’ Permeating Sounds, and Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Wu Mali at Half of the Sky in Bonn, Germany
Out of China…So Where? Reimagining Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Art Practices: The Case of Italy
16:00 – 16:30 Poster presentation
20:00 Dinner
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Day 2 – Saturday, December 14, 2024 @ UniFi – FORLILPSI
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
09:15 – 10:15 Keynote speech: “Pensando Xibānyā: Voices from the Chinese Diaspora” by E.K. Tan
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Panel 4: Identity
Marriage, Kinship and Our-Selves: The Queering of Diasporic Chinese Performance Art and Community Space-Making in Europe during 2015-2022
On Not Speaking Cantonese: The Glory Café Incident (2020), Xeno/Sinophobia, and the Postcolonial Identity Politics in Hong Kong
The Transformation of a Female Subject: The Shadow of Chinese Culture in Qiu Ping’s Installation Art
Empowerment And Resistance: Negotiating Chinese Female Migrants’ Digital Dating Experience in Europe
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Panel 5: Literature II
Yang Lian in Spanish, Spain in Yang Lian: How the European Semi-Periphery Places the Exilic Sinophone
Sinophone Comics in Italy: Yi Yang’s Easy Breezy (2021) And Deep Vacation (2022)
Sinophone Social Poetics Through Art in Italy: The Wuxu Collective
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:45 Panel 6: Linguistic Expressions and Community Building
The Sinophone Community of the Chinese College of Naples: Chinese Cultural and Linguistic Production in Late Modern Europe
Chinese Folksongs from Overseas: Reimagining Pidgin English in the National Language Movement
Beyond Boundaries: Investigating Sinophone Cultures Through Heritage Language and Multiple Belongings
Chinese Community as a Bridging Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
16:45 Summary/Outlook
17:00 End