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Upcoming Sinophone Events
*Please contact us with any upcoming sinophone-related events to add: admin@sinophonestudies.org
*The panels with a "V" after the panel number indicate virtual panels that conference attendees can attend from anywhere. All times EST. For more info, please visit mla22.org:
Thursday, January 6
5:15-6:30 p.m. EST
128V: Southeast Asian Performance and Its Publics
Friday, January 7
8:30 - 9:45 a.m. EST
180V: Transnational Transgender
10:15 - 11:30 a.m. EST
244V: Cultural Contagion: The Pandemic and Chinese Social Media
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
270: Theory beyond English
3:30 - 4:45 p.m., EST
343V: Decolonizing Comparative Literature
Saturday, January 8
10:15-11:30 a.m. EST
442V: Marxist Internationalism?
12:00-1:15 p.m. EST
469V: The Translation's Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan
5:15-6:30 p.m. EST
575V: Non-Sinitic Literatures of the People's Republic of China
Sunday, January 9
10:15-11:30 a.m. EST
633V: Sex Work and Labor Politics
Video Recording of Conversation with Howard Chiang: https://youtu.be/-LcIh-EPFKk
Sat, Jan 4
1:30-3:00 pm (Chelsea (Sheraton New York, Lower Level): Economies on the Edges of Empire: China and Inner Asia from the 18th to 20th Centuries (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session19791.html)
Sun, Jan 5
10:30 am-12:00 pm (Gramercy West; New York Hilton, Second Floor): Global Queer History: Themes, Methods, and Approaches (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session19547.html)
1:30-3:00 pm (Metropolitan Ballroom West; Sheraton New York, Second Floor): Late Breaking: Mass Protests in Historical Perspective—Hong Kong, Ecuador, Lebanon, Chile (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20896.html)
3:30-5:00 pm (Murray Hill East; New York Hilton, Second Floor): Rice and Power in the Pacific World (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20223.html)
Mon, Jan 6
11:00 am- 12:30 pm (Trianon Ballroom; New York Hilton, Third Floor): Late Breaking: Hong Kong’s Current Protests in Historical and Global Perspective (https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Session20878.html)
Thu, Jan 9
12-1:15 pm (WSCC - Skagit 3): Southeast Asia and the Oceanic (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7613)
Fri, Jan 10
8:30-9:45 am (WSCC 616): Sino-French Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7956)
12-1:15 pm (WSCC 619): Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6990)
12-1:15 pm (Sheraton - Issaquah): Transnational Queer Studies: New Directions (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7758)
Sat, Jan 11
5:15-6:30 pm (WSCC 303): Race in Translation: East Asian Literatures (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7768)
Sun, Jan 12
8;30-9:45 am (WSCC - Skagit 3): Southeast Asian Diasporic Authors in Conversation (https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7326)
Thurs, March 19
7:30-9:15 pm (Sheraton: Olmsted, 5th Floor): Asian Digital Identities: Media, Platforms, and Cultural Wars (https://cdmcd.co/YX9Krb)
Fri, March 20
11:15 am-1:00 pm (Hynes: Room 208, Level 2): Sinophone Socialisms: Economy, Culture, and the Socialist Imaginary Across Chinese Speaking Worlds (https://cdmcd.co/9DdW3v)
1:30-3:15 pm (Hynes: Room 200, Level 2): Chineseness in Motion: Rethinking the Field in Global Perspectives (https://cdmcd.co/38BwZL)
Sat, March 21
9:00 am- 10:45 pm (Sheraton: Gardner B, 3rd Floor): Transregional Crossings: Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, Film and Theater Since the Mid-20th Century (https://cdmcd.co/4m8dqG)
7:30 pm- 9:30 pm (Sheraton: The Fens, 5th floor): Cambria Sinophone World Series Reception
Sun, March 22
9:00 am- 10:45 am (Hynes: Room 204, Level 2): Multilingual Challenges: Performing Identity in the Sinophone Context (https://cdmcd.co/9Dd3Qm)
11:00 am- 12:45 pm (Hynes: Room 200, Level 2): China-US Transcultural Communication: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (https://cdmcd.co/5r5n5P)
Thursday, April 2, Session F: 11:15AM - 1:00PM
F 16 Undercurrents: Minorities and Media Margins in Asia
Chair: Lin Song, University of Macau
· Ying Diao, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Christianity through Studio Production: Technology and the Changing Sounds of Lisu Religiosity in Contemporary Myanmar
· Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University, Translocal Memory in Local Currents: Re-Imagining Hong Kong Through Minor Encounters
· Qi Li, King's College London, In the Micro and For the Minor: Chinese Queer Cinema Goes Online
· Lin Song, University of Macau, Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and DIY Pornography among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities
Saturday, April 4, Session R: 5:45PM - 7:30PM
R 1 In/Visible Crossings: Borders, Elsewheres, and Contemporary Asian Media Cultures
Chair: Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan
Co-Chair: Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University
· Erin Huang: Princeton University, Ocean Media: Floating Visuality and the Neoliberal Seascape
· Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Alien Encounters: Virtuality, Precarity, Displacement, and the Aesthetics of Despair in Chao De-Yin’s Films
· Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan, Dreamscapes of the Borderlands: Mobility and Stasis in Zhang Lu’s Films
· Sudhir Mahadevan, University of Washington, From a Material Politics to a Psycho-Politics: Faulkner to Lee Chang-dong
Individual papers
Thursday, April 2, Session H 3:15PM - 5:00PM
H15 Seeing Within and Beyond the Body: Transcending the Corporeal in Global Film and Media
· Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Languages/SDI, Inbetween-ness of Queer Bodies: Disabled Gender in Contemporary China
Friday, April 3, Session J: 9:00AM - 10:45AM
J1 Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema
· Lingzhen Wang, Brown University, The Black Velvet Aesthetic:Universal Cultural Feminism and Chinese Neotraditionalism in Woman Demon Human (1987)
Friday, April 3, Session M: 3:00PM - 4:45PM
M1 Self, Sex, and Nation: Ethnicity and Gender Across Asia
· Xiuhe Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara, Regional Cinematic Mediation: Recalibrating Postsocialist Modernity through Sexual Economy in the Rust Belt of China
· Li Zeng, Illinois State University, The Voice Within: Chinese Muslims, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Representation in the Hui Filmmaking Movement
Sunday, April 5, Session T: 11:30AM - 1:15PM
T21 Affect and Media Culture in Asia
· Sarah Liao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, From Emotional to Political: Post-It-Note Arts of the Lennon Wall in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong