Schedule

February 7-8, 2012 | Free & Open to the Public
Humanities 1 Building, Room 210, UC Santa Cruz
Directions and Parking Information

Moderator: Emily Honig

10:00-10:30 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research
Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor and Chair of History, University of California Santa Cruz

10:30-11:30 AM: Panel 1

Benjamin Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University:
“Early Modern or Late Imperial? Classical Philology in Eighteenth Century China”
Chang So-an, Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica:
“Scholastic Specialization in the Qing Dynasty: From Methodology to New Intellectual Orientation” (清代的專門之學：從方法到學問)

11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Panel 2

Johan Elverskog, Professor of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University:
“Injannashi and the End of Qing Cosmopolitanism”
Tobie Meyer-Fong, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University:
“A Cosmopolitan and His Past: Li Gui and the Record of Pondering Pain”

12:30-1:30 PM: Lunch

1:30-2:30 PM: Panel 3

R. Bin Wong, Director of the UCLA Asia Institute and Professor of History, University of California Los Angeles:
“Early Modern Europe in Global History: Asian Connections and Chinese Comparisons”
Chiu Peng-sheng, Professor of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong:
“Legal Reasoning in Economic Cases of Qing Central and Local Administration in the Mid-nineteenth century” （十九世紀中葉清代地方與中央經濟案件中的法律推理)

2:30-3:30 PM: Panel 4

James Frankel, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Hawaii at Manoa:
“Of Manchus and Muslims: Communal Identity Negotiation in Late Imperial China”
Chang Che-chia, Associate Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica:
“Translating Anatomy in Modern East Asia: Rethinking Translators’ Backgrounds and Lexical Accuracy”

3:30-3:45 PM: Break

3:45-5:00 PM: Panel 5

R. Kent Guy, Professor of History, University of Washington:
“The Appointment of Tian Wenjing and the Challenges Activism In Qing Provincial Government”
Minghui Hu, Associate Professor of History, University of California Santa Cruz:
“The Passage to Modern Chinese Thought: Reflections on the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Confucianism in Early Modern China”

5:00 PM: Reception and Dinner, Location: Cowell Provost House, Cowell College

Moderator: Gail Hershatter

10:00-11:00 AM: Panel 6

Peter Zarrow, Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
“From Self-cultivation to Civics: Morality and Social Knowledge in Early Twentieth-century Textbooks” (從修身課到公民課：道德教育與社會知識在清末民初的教科書 )
Zhang Qing, Professor of History, Fudan University (Shanghai)
“New Media and the Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Modern China” (新型媒介與近代中國的“知識傳播”與“知識生產”)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Panel 7

Stephen Roddy, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of San Francisco:
“Zhina or Zhongyuan? Decentering the Center in Gong Zizhen’s Prose Writings”
Liu Shu-qin, Professor of Taiwanese Literature, Tsinghua University (Taiwan):
“Wu Kun-huang (1909-1989) and Communist Underground in East Asia: Minority Discourse and Writers in Colonial Taiwan” (左翼走廊與吳坤煌：殖民地臺灣日語作家的少數敘事)

12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00-2:00 PM: Panel 8

Ban Wang, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University:
“Enlightenment, Humanism, National Culture, and the Chinese Concept of World Literature”
Huang Ko-wu, Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica:
“Psychical Research and the Transformation of Knowledge in Modern China”

2:00-3:00 PM: Panel 9

Wang Hui, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University (Beijing):
“Why Culture?: Republicanism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Great War of the 1910s”
Lisa Rofel, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz:
“Between Tianxia and Postsocialism: Contemporary Chinese Cosmopolitanism”

3:00-3:15 PM: Break

3:15-4:45 PM: Round Table Discussion

4:45 PM: Reception and Dinner, Location: Oakes Provost House, Oakes College