“Re-Visualizing ‘The West’: The Sinophone Across Disciplines and Space” Workshop

“Re-Visualizing ‘The West’: The Sinophone Across Disciplines and Space” Workshop

Date: October 1, 2025

Venue: University of Milan, Room T1 (Piazza Indro Montanelli 1, Sesto S. Giovanni)

Organizer: Simona Gallo (University of Milan, Project PI)

Schedule

* 10:00-10:30   Opening Address & Welcome Coffee

* 10:30-12:30   Session 1: Re-framing

“Sinophone Studies and Its (Dis)contents”

Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

“Taiwanese Literature as Planetary Literature”

Wen-chi Li, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern

“Re-Imagining Europe: Futurist and Concrete Poetics in Sinophone Taiwan”

Rosa Lombardi, Roma Tre University

*12:30-13:30    Lunch break

*13:30-15:00    Session 2: Re-placing

“Transnational ‘Ghosting’ in the Sinophone Taiwanese Novels of Kevin Chen and Jade Y. Chen”

Irmy Schweiger, Stockholm University

“Speaking of Home: Sinophone Women’s Poetics Between Fatherland and Mother Tongue”

            Justyna Jaguścik, University of Bern

“Europe in Sinophone comics. The case of ‘Paris’ in Golo Zhao’s Reverie (2017)”

         Martina Caschera, University of Bergamo

 *15:00-16:30   Re-mapping

“Sinophone Cartographies: Mapping Diaspora, Space, and Belonging”

Melody Yunzi Li, University of Houston (online)

“Exile, Estrangement, Europe: Re-Sounding Taiwanese History in Lai Hsiang-yin’s White Portraits”

Serena De Marchi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

“Counter-Mapping Paris: Hsia Yü’s First Person and the Geopoetics of Dislocation”

Simona Gallo, University of Milan

*16:30-16:45    Coffee break

*16:45-17:45    Roundtable Discussion