A one day conference on contemporary Chinese film and media featuring a Keynote address by Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University.
Schedule
10:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks + Ceremony
Professor Jane Gaines, Columbia University
Keynote Speech
Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University
“The Blue Book, Film Industry Aesthetics, and Imagination Consumption: An Analysis and Theoretical Interpretation of Recent Trends in Chinese Cinema Based on Three Keywords”
Break
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Panel 1
Chair, Yingda Wang
Prof. Xiaoxi Shi, Nankai University; Visiting Professor, Columbia University
“From New Terms to Key Concepts: The Spread of Knowledge and the Discursive Strategies of Chinese Film Theories”
Prof. Ling Zhang, State University of New York, Purchase College
“Modernization of Chinese Cinematic Language: 1980s Sonic Realism and Its Contemporary Resonance”
12:15 PM – 1 PM Roundtable
Chair, Xiaoxi Shi
featuring professors Jane Gaines, Xuguang Chen, Xiaxi Shi, Ling Zhang
1 PM – 2 PM LUNCH BREAK
2 PM – 3 PM Panel 2
Chair, Matthew Huh
Prof. Jing Yang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute
“An Alternative Narrative of Science Fiction Cinema in China: Crazy Alien”
Yulong Hu, PhD student, Stony Brook University
“Creating A World of Glaciers: Virtual Reality Animation as the Core of an Artistic Transmedia Ecosystem”
Ailin Zhou, PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Familial (Unbe)Longing, Worldly (Be)Longing: Visual Politics of the Queer Chinese Diaspora”
3 PM – 3:20 PM Q & A
3:20 PM – 3:45 PM BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Panel 3
Chair, Yulong Hu
Wentao Ma, PhD student, University of California, San Diego
“The Ecological Apora: Necropolitics & Planetary Becoming in The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990)”
Yingda Wang, MA graduate, Columbia University
“Perception and Logistics: Dromology, Dynamics of Transportation and Cinematic Perception”
Mia (Chuyang) Jin, MA graduate, Columbia University
“We Were Smart (2019): Infrastructural Body, Affective Labor and the Potential of Smart Culture”
4:45 PM – 5 PM Q & A
5 PM – 6PM ROUNDTABLE
Chair, Ailin Zhou
featuring Film and Media Studies MA Program Second-Year Students Matthew Huh, Qianhui Ma, Aileen Min, and Ann Wang
6 PM DINNER RECEPTION