International Conference on Ethnicity,Identity and Contemporary Literary Studies:A Global Perspective
Ethnicity, Identity and Contemporary Literary Studies: A Global Perspective
Conference Program
June 13-14, 2010
Nanjing University
Co-Sponsored by
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, NJU
The Halle Institute, Emory University
The Confucius Institute in Atlanta
School of Foreign Studies, NJU
Institute for International Students, NJU
Co-Chairs: Professor Zhou Xian
(Associate Vice President of Nanjing University)
Professor Holli A. Semetko
(Vice Provost for International Affairs, Emory University)
Executive Chair: Professor Yang Jincai
(Associate Dean, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University)
As part of the new EmoryNanjing Visiting Scholars Program, launched with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the
two institutions in December 2009, a joint conference will be held each year rotating annually between Emory and Nanjing.
Sunday, June 13 Registration
ALL Day CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS ARRIVE IN NANJING ANG CHECK IN AT XIYUAN HOTEL
Monday, June 14
All Panels Are Held in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, NJU (Auditorium on 9th Floor, Yifu Building).
8:30 A.M. — 9:00 A.M. Opening Ceremony
Chair: Professor Cheng Aimin, Dean, Institute for International Students, NJU
Speakers: Professor Zhou Xian, Associate Vice President, NJU
Professor Earl Lewis, Provost, Emory University
Professor Holli A. Semetko, Vice Provost, Emory University
Professor Zhu Gang, Dean, School of Foreign Studies, NJU
9:00 A.M. —9:40 A.M. Keynote Speech
Chair: Professor Mark Sanders, Emory University
Speaker:
Jerry Ward: “Recent African American Studies”
9:40 A.M. —10:00 A.M. Photo-taking and Tea/Coffee Break
Panel One Memory and Identity 10:00 A.M. —11:20 A.M.
Chair: Professor Cai Rong, Emory University
Angelika Bammer: “Landscapes of Memory and the Rhetoric of Memorials”
Carolyn Denard: “Language, Myth and Music: Toni Morrison’s Search for a Usable Past”
Mark Sanders: “The Autobiography of a Ricardo Batrell, a Black Mambí, and the Cuban National Narrative”
Shi Pingping: “Ethnicity, Memory and Nationhood in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
Panel Two China and Cultural Identities in Imagination and Arts 11:20 A.M.—12:40 P.M.
Chair: Professor Carolyn Denard, Emory University
Luo Lianggong: “China and the Political Imagination in Langston Hughes’s Poetry”
Juliette Stapnanian Apkarian: “Writing East-West: China and the Early Russian Avant-Garde”
Wang Guanglin: “Translating Ethnicities: on Interpretations of Cultural Identities of Ethnic Chinese Writings”
Fang Cheng: “Moral Panic, Mass Hysteria, and National Stockholm Syndrome: Cultural Pathology in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior”
12:40 —14:00 P.M. Lunch
Panel Three Identity and Inter-Racial Relations 14:00 —15:40 P.M.
Chair: Professor Li Guicang, Zhejiang Normal University
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders: “Mammy: A Century of Portraits with Children”
Iping Liang: “Trans-Asias: Asian American Passing in Onoto Watanna and Chang-rae Lee”
Fang Hong: “Passing vs Refusing to Pass: Different Identification in Charles Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson”
Wang Yukuo: “Violence and Freedom Reconsidered in Richard Wright’s Native Son”
Zou Huiling: “Parody, Rewriting and Survivance: An Interpretation of Vizenor's Hybridized Standpoint as Reflected in Griever and Heirs of Columbus
Panel Four Space, Identity and Ecocriticism 15:40 —17:20 P.M.
Chair: Professor Liang Iping, National Taiwan Normal University
Catherine Nickerson: “Chinatown Identities”
Cheng Aimin: “Reclaiming America: The Quest for Home in Shawn Wong’s Homebase”
Yang Jincai: “Ecocritical Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism”
Li Guicang: “Li-Young Lee’s ‘I’ Poetry: In Quest for His Self as a Diaspora”
Cheng Xilin “Some Thoughts on African American Literature Studies in China”
Closing Remarks 17:20 —17:40 P.M.
Professor Yang Jincai, Nanjing University
Professor Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory University
18:00 —19:30 P.M. Dinner
