ANNOUNCEMENTS

This space is reserved for announcements of the following types of events: conferences, seminars, film series, special courses open to the public, call for papers, lectures, performances, job announcements, etc. Events should relate to the fields of modern Chinese literature, society, culture, history, etc. Send submissions to denton.2@osu.edu. For information on Asian studies academic conferences, see also Agenda Asia (IIAS).AS).

Submitted in April 2008

Call for Papers: Chinese Perspectives on Zizek, special issue of the International Journal of Zizek Studies (deadline: June 1, 2008)

Call for Papers: Journal of Chinese Cinemaa (general call)

Submitted in March 2008

Conference: Modernism Revisited: Pai Hsien-yung and Chinese Literary Modernism in Taiwan and Beyond (University of California, Santa Barbara; May 1-3, 2008)

Submitted in February 2008

Call for Papers: International Convention of Asian Scholars (Daejon, South Korean; Aug. 6-9, 2009)

Call for Papers: Asian Creativity in Culture and Technology (Trondheim, Norway; Nov. 12-16, 2008)

Submitted in December 2007

Conference: Marketization in China: A Contested Project from the Communicative Perspective (Hong Kong Baptist University; March 14-16)

Film Festival and Conference: Cinema China 07 (University of Edinburgh, March 2007).

Submitted in November 2007

Conference Announcement: Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings (Harvard University; Dec. 6-8, 2007)

Call for Papers: 11th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference (Harvard University; Feb. 29-March 2, 2008)

Symposium: China on Display: Past and Present Practices of Selecting, Exhibiting and Viewing Chinese Visual and Material Culture (Leiden University; Dec. 6-8, 2007)

Submitted in October 2007

Position: ANU postdoc (Deadline: Oct. 26, 2007)

Position: Chinese Studies, University of Victoria (Deadline: Oct. 15, 2007)

Submitted in September 2007

Position: Modern Chinese Cultural Studies, University of California--Irvine (Deadline: Nov. 9, 2007)

Conference: Asian Studies panels, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (Calgary; Oct. 4-6, 2007)

Position: Modern Chinese Literature, University of British Columbia (Deadline: Dec. 1, 2007)

Call for Papers: Asia in the World: Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (Hilton Head, SC; Jan. 18-20, 2008)

Submitted in August 2007

Position: Dr. Hwalin Lee Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, University of California, San Diego

Position: The Ohio State University, Modern Chinese Cultural Studies

Position: The Ohio State University, Chinese Language Pedagogy

Conference: The Individual and Society in Modern Chinese Literature (Macau Ricci Institute; Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2007)

Call for Papers: North American Conference of Chinese Linguistics--20 (Deadline: November 30, 2007)

Submitted in June 2007

Call for Submissions: Comic Visions: Special Issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Deadline: February 1, 2008)

Submitted in March 2007

Film Series and Lectures: Crossing Boundaries: Fiction and Documentary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Hong Kong Science Museum; April 3-4, 2007)

Workshop: In the Heat of the Sun: The Production of Legitimacy in Mao's China (Harvard University; April 7, 2007)

Submitted in February 2007

Conference: Scenes and Visions: Approaches to 20th-Century Chinese Visual Culture (University of Southern California; April 6-7, 2007)

Call for Papers: Stars of Chinese Cinemas, special issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (deadline for abstract: July 31, 2007)

Call for Papers: Biennal Conference of 2007 Chengdu Sichuan (Aug. 6-7, 2006)

Submitted in January 2007

Call for Papers: Modern Chinese Literature Panels, Rocky Mountain Modern Langauage Association (Calgary; Oct. 4-6, 2007)

Submitted in December 2006

Call for Papers: "Decentering Asia," the New York Conference on Asian Studies (Binghamtom, NY; Oct. 26-27, 2007)

Submitted in October 2006

Call for Papers: 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia (Columbia University; Feb. 9-10, 2007)

Call for Papers: China / East Asia / Media /New Media (Brisbane; July 5-6, 2007)

Conference: Paths Towards Modernity: Conference on the Occasion of the Centenary of Jaroslav Prusek (Charles University, Prague; Oct. 12-16, 2006)

Submitted in April 2006

Conference: Cinema at the City's Edge: Film and Urban Space in East Asia (University of Washington, Seattle; April 28-30, 2006)

Workshop: Reconfiguring Forms, Genres, and Social Space in Modern China (Fairbank Center, Harvard University; April 29-30, 2006)

Submitted in March 2006

Conference program: Crisis and Detour: 25 Years of Today (Notre Dame University; March 19-21, 2006)

Call for Papers: NYCAS 2006 (Oct. 6-7, 2006) [Deadline: July 16, 2006]

Submitted in August 2005

Conference program: New York Conference on Asian Studies (New Paltz, NY; Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2005)

Film Retrospective and Symposium: Celebrating 100 Years of Chinese Cinema and Chinese Film Symposium (New York; Oct. 21-25, 2005)

Call for Papers: Questions of Methodology: Researching Tourism in Asia. Asia Research Institute 5th Annual Graduate Workshop (Singapore; Sept. 5-6, 2006)

Submitted in July 2005

Call for Papers: Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies (Atlanta; Jan. 20-22, 2006)

Call for Papers: Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Vancouver; March 2-5, 2006)

Submitted in May 2005

Call for Papers: The Future of Chinese Cinema (University of New South Wales, Sydney; April 1-3, 2006)

Call for Papers: Midwest Conference on Asian Affaris (Michigan State University; Sept.23-25, 2005)

Workshop: Studying the Daily Medium: Newspapers as Subject and Source in Republican-era China, 1911-1949 (Fairbank Center, Harvard University; May 28-29, 2005)

Conference: Regarding Modern Chinese Literature: Methods and Meanings (University of Chicago; May 6-7, 2005)

Submitted in February 2005

Conference Abstracts: China and Inner Asia, AAS 2005 (Chicago; March 31-April 3, 2005)

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Modernisms' Chinas, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (to be guest edited by Judith Green). DEADLINE: August 1, 2005.

Call for Papers: Rationalising China's Place in Asia, 1800-2005. (Singapore; August 3-4, 2005).

Call for Papers: New York Conference on Asian Studies 2005: Facing Asia (Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2005).

Conference: Chinese Nation, Chinese State, 1850-2000 (Singapore; June 25-27, 2005)

Submitted in January 2005

Call for Papers: 100 Years of Modern Poetry in Chinese (Beijing; August 18-20, 2005)

Call for Papers: 54th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (Michigan State University; Sept.23-25, 2005)

Call for Papers: The Global Literary Economy, Workshop 4 of the The Social Context of Literary Production and Consumption (SOAS, University of London; May 18-20, 2005)

Conference: Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia (UCLA; Jan. 21-22, 2005)

Call for Submissions: Poetrysky (new bilingual journal that is a "professional platform for the poetic exchange between Chinese, American and English poets"; edited by Yidan Han)

Submitted in October 2004

Conference: From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition (The Ohio State University; Nov. 3-7, 2004)

Conference: Chinese Poetry Conference (Simmons College; Oct. 8-10, 2004)

Submitted in September 2004

Workshop: The China Quarterly Special Issue Worshop on Arts and Culture in Contemporary China (Harvard University, Fairbank Center; Oct. 15-16, 2004)

Symposium: Modern Girl Asia and Beyond: Global Capital, Colonial Modernities, and Medi Representations (Tokyo; Sept. 25, 2004)

Call for Papers: Chinese Studies Association of Australia 2005 Conference (Bendigo, Australia; June 30-July 3, 2005)

Call for Papers: Canadian Asian Studies Association Conference 2005: "Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons" (Montreal, Quebec; April 27 - May 1, 2005

Conference: New Approaches to Taiwan Literature (Ruhr University, Bochum; November 8-9, 2004)

Conference: Modern China Digital Resources: A Hands-On Workshop (Heidelberg University; August 21-23, 2004)

Conference: 53rd Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (University of Minnesota; Oct. 1-2, 2004)

Submitted in August 2004

Call for Papers: Tensions, Conflicts, Transformations:Chinese Worlds in the Post-reform Era (Cornell University graduate conference; Oct 15-16, 2004)

Conference: New Gender Constructs in Literature, Visual and the Performing Arts of Modern China and Japan (Heidelberg University; Oct. 28-31, 2004)

Submitted in July 2004

Conference: Exploring East Asia: Postgraduate Conference (University of Durham; July 8, 2004)

Submitted in May 2004

Exhibition: Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (New York, International Center of Photography; June 11-Sept. 5, 2004)

Conference: Chinese Cosmopolitanism: New Perspectives on the Location of 'Cultural China': A Conference in Honor of Leo Ou-fan Lee (Harvard University; May 7-9, 2004)

Submitted in April 2004

Symposium: Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II (University of Chicago; April 23-34, 2004)

Film Festival: Far East Film Festival (Udine, Italy; April 23-30, 2004)

Reading: Chinese Poets Here and There: A Reading and Discussion of Chinese Poetry and Poetics with Yan Li, Zhang Er, and Meng Lang (Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; May 2, 2004)

Symposium: Symposium on Chinese Poetry (Aarhus University, Denmark; part of larger Danish Poetry Festival, held April 22-28, 2004)

Call for Papers: Canadian Asian Studies Association 2004 Meeting (Calgary, Alberta; Oct. 7-10, 2004)

Submitted in March 2004

Conference: Shakespeare in Asia (Stanford University; April 1-4, 2004)

Submitted in February 2004

Conference: Orientalism and Modernism: Cross-Cultural and Interartistic Connections (Cambridge University; June 17-19, 2004)

Submitted in January 2004

Conference: The Persistence of Tradition: Monuments and Preservation in Late Imperial and Modern China (Columbia University; April 2-3, 2004)

Call for Papers: Biennal Conference of the European Associations of Chinese Studies (University of Heidelberg; Aug. 25-29)

Submitted in November 2003

Call for Papers: "The Comic," special issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (deadline: Feb. 20, 2005)

Call for Papers: "Chinese Culture in an Inter-Asian Context," special issue of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (deadline: Nov. 1, 2004)

Call for Papers: "Cultural Migrations in Late Qing and Early Republican China," Frankfurt University conference (deadline: Jan. 31, 2004)

Conference: Focus on Taiwan Cinema (National Taiwan University, Nov. 28-30, 2003)

Call for Papers: "Asian Documentary," special issue of Asian Cinema (deadline: May 15, 2004)

Submitted in October 2003

Conference: Walls in Asia: The New York Conference on Asian Studies (Buffalo, NY; Oct. 17-18, 2003)

Film Festival: UCSD Chinese Underground Film Festival (University of California, San Diego; Oct. 8-10)

Submitted in September 2003

Festival: Taipei International Poetry Festival (Taipei, Taiwan; Sept. 12-26, 2003)

Conference: Constructing Pan-Chinese Cultures: Globalism and the Shaw Brothers Cinema (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; Oct. 2-4, 2003)

Symposium: Symposium on Xu Zhimo: A Chinese Poet Extraordinaire (China Institute, New York City; Sept. 27, 2003)

Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on East Asia (Columbia University, NYC; February 7-8, 2004)

Concert: Weaving Pines Dance Concert (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; October 19, 2003)

Conference: The Beaux Arts, Paul Philippe Cret and Twentieth Century Architecture in China (University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA; Oct. 3-5, 2003)

Submitted in July 2003

Conference: Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (SOAS, London, Aug. 6-8, 2003)

Symposium: First International Liang Qichao Symposium (Tianjian, PRC; Oct. 13-15, 2003)

Submitted in March 2003

Symposium: China: Bridges for a New Century (Pacific Lutheran University, Washington; April 10-12, 2003)

Symposium: From Prints to Photography: First Annual Symposium of the Center for the Art of East Asia (University of Chicago; May 16-17, 2003)

Submitted in February 2003

Conference: China’s Long Twentieth Century: Words, Images, Voices (University of Chicago, April 18-19, 2003)

Conference: Entertainment China: Ideology, Industry, Aesthetics (University of Oregon, April 18-19, 2003)

Conference: In Search of Modernity: Re-examining the May Fourth Movement (Oregon State University; Feb. 14-15, 2003)

Submitted in October 2002

Symposium: Proletarian Literature in East Asian: Leftwing Politics and Artistic Production in the 1920s and 1930s (University of Chicago, Nov. 1-2, 2002)

Submitted in March 2002
Call for Papers: International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) (Singapore, August 2003)

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Taiwan Cinema, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (to be guest edited by Yomi Braester and Nicole Huang)

Symposium announcement: Urban Cultural Institutions in Early Twentieth Century China (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; April 13, 2002)

Call for Papers: Midwest Conference on Asian Culture and History (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; May 4-5, 2002)

Call for Papers: Asian Studies Graduate Conference (University of Texas, Austin; Oct. 4-5, 2002)

Submitted in February 2002
Call for Papers: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) (Wittenburg University; Sept. 27-29, 2002)

Conference Announcement: Globalization and Media in Asia: Hollywood, Asian Media, and the Global Market (University of Notre Dame; Feb 28-March 2, 2002)

Symposium and Film Series: Crisis & Nostalgia: a Brief Survey of Hong Kong Cinema (Columbia University, East Asian Institute, Feb. 17-24, 2002)

Symposium: Island of Light: A Symposium on Taiwan Film and Popular Culture (University of Wisconsin, Madison; March 7-9, 2002)

Submitted in November 2001

Summer Seminar Announcement: Dai Jinhua Popular Culture in China Seminar (The Ohio State University; June 24-July 26, 2002)

Conference Announcement: Political Practice in Modern China (Churchill College, Cambridge, England; 25-27 June 2002)

Submitted in October 2001
Call for Papers: Sex, Love, and Romance: Reflections on East Asian Music (University of Sheffield, U.K., 26 to 29 July 2002)

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Conference on the History and Culture of Taiwan (Washington University, St. Louis; May 3-4, 2002)

Re-Call for Papers: Special Issue of MCLC on Gao Xingjian (deadline: May 1, 2002)

Call for Papers: China in the "Post" Socialist Era: Literary and Cultural Approaches (Duke University, Feb. 1-3, 2002)

Conference: Interpretation and Intellectual Change in China: An International Conference on the History of Chinese Hermeneutics (Rutgers University, Oct. 4-6, 2001)

Submitted in May 2001
Conference: Asia Interacts: Graduate Students Second Annual Conference (Oct 19-20, 2001; University of Toronto)

Conference: Association of Chinese Comparative Literature Biennial Conference (June 15-17; Fudan University, Shanghai)

Submitted in March 2001
Conference: AAS 2001 Modern Chinese Culture Panels
Submitted in February 2001
Conference: Remapping Taiwan: Histories & Cultures in the Context of Globalization (Fifth Annual Conference on the History & Culture of Taiwan, UCLA, Oct. 13-15, 2000))

Symposium: Over the Edge: Hong Kong Cinema and Popular Culture (University of Wisconsin, March 1-3, 2001)

Conference: 1900, The Boxers, China, and the World (SOAS; June 22-24, 2001)

Conference: Memory and Media in and of Contemporary China (UC Berkeley; March 2-4, 2001)

Submitted in January 2001

Conference: Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture (Heidelberg, Feb. 22-24)

Call for Papers: China's Long Twentieth Century: Words, Images, Voices (Second Annual Graduate Symposium, University of Chicago, Aprile 13-14, 2001)

Submitted in November 2000
Conference: Modern Chinese Historiography and Historical Thinking (May 23-27, 2001, Heidelberg, Germany)

Conference: Word vs. Meaning: Art and Culture in Twentieth Century China (SUNY, Buffalo, March 31, 2000)

Submitted in October 2000
Call for Papers: Special Issue of MCLC on Gao Xingjian (deadline: June 1, 2001)

Conference Announcement: Beyond Peony Pavilion: Performance, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China, Ohio State University (April 27-28, 2001)

Conference Announcement: Boston Conference on Television Development in the 21st Century: A Dialogue between Chinese and American Television Professionals and Educators Tufts University, Boston (October 28, 2000)

Call for Papers: Worshop on Chinese Concepts of Privacy, Leiden University (May 31-June 2, 2000)

Call for Papers: Memory and Media in and of Contemporary China University of California, Berkeley (March 2-3, 2001)

Conference: The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century (Aug. 26-27, 2000; Achern, Germany)

Submitted in June 2000
Conference: Modern Chinese Literature Abstracts for European Association for Chinese Studies, Torino, Italy (August 30-Sept 2, 2000)

Conference: Gateways to China, Old and New: A Lecture Series in Commeration of Professor Helmut Martin (Ruhr University, Germany, June 8, 2000)

Submitted in May 2000
Conference: Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture (May 12-14, 2000, The Ohio State University)
Submitted in March 2000

Conference: Contested Modernities: Perspectives on Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia University, April, 2000)

Submitted in February 2000
Conference: AAS 2000 Modern Chinese Culture Related Panels (San Diego, March 2000)

Conference: The Chinese Labor Camp: Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation (UC Riverside, Jan. 15, 2000)

Submitted in November 1999

Symposium: China's Long Twentieth Century: Words and Images (University of Chicagoe; April 14-15, 2000)

Submitted in August 1999

Conference: "Visual Art as Cultural Memory in Modern China: Interdisciplinary Symposium" (The Ohio State University; Oct 15-16, Oct 22-23)

Submitted in June 1999
Workshop: Literature/ Theory/ China/ Japan (A SOAS/IIAS workshop, London, 23-25 June 1999)

Call for Papers: Female Images, Female Lives (Yale University, Feb. 2000)

Conference: The Role of the Republican Period in Twentieth Cenury China: Reflections and Reconsiderations (Venice, June 30-July 3, 1999)

Conference: American Association of Chinese Comparative Literature (Vienna, June 1999)

Submitted in March 1999
Conference: AAS 1999 Modern Chinese Culture Related Panels
Submitted in February 1999
Dai Jinhua (Peking University) will teach a course in Chinese on women's writing in the PRC at The Ohio State University during the summer of 1999. (Click here to view the syllabus). The course is divided into three separate courses that can be taken individually, though it is recommended that one take all three courses (lasting approximately ten weeks). The course is open to graduate students and faculty (undergraduates with good fluency in Chinese may also take the course). Those interested should contact Judson Murray (murray.45@osu.edu).