Detailed program
3 July (Sat)
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8:00 - 8:45 am |
Keynote speech |
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At Home in the World
Carlos ROJAS (Duke University)
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8:55 - 9:55 am |
Session A – Humanism and Humanity |
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The Unpassable Pass: Time, Humanity, and the Worlding of Transcendence in Lu Xun and Guo Moruo’s Fiction on Lao Zi
Kun QIAN (University of Pittsburgh)
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Being Human in an Inhuman World: Lu Xun’s Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk
Eileen J. CHENG (Pomona College)
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Lu Xun’s “Severe Style”: Speculative Prose and the Decolonial Absolute
Roy CHAN (University of Oregon)
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10:00 - 10:40 am |
Session B — Biopolitics and Animals |
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The Will to Power and the Generation of a “New Life”: Lu Xun, Nietzsche and Mara Poetry
Wenjin CUI (University of New Hampshire)
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Lu Xun, Animals, and Anti-colonial Thought
Christopher K. TONG (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
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10:45 - 11:45 am |
Session C — Visuality and Materiality |
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Lu Xun, Influencer: Media, Mustaches, and the Making of a World Literary Celebrity
Daniel M. DOOGHAN (University of Tampa)
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Archeology of the eyeball: Lu Xun and “On Photography”
Tim Shao-hung TENG (Harvard University)
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Deckle-Edged Lu Xun: Stories from Overseas, the Revolution of the Book, and the Imagination of a New Readership
Xiaoyu XIA (University of California, Berkeley)
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4 July (Sun)
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8:00 - 9:20 am |
Session D – East Asia and the Sinophone World |
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Death in Semi-colonial Shanghai: the Real Story
Jon Eugene von KOWALLIS (University of New South Wales)
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Lu Xun and Japan
Joshua A. FOGEL (York University)
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Lu Xun, Takeuchi Yoshimi, and a World Literature
Satoru HASHIMOTO (Johns Hopkins University)
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Troubling the Empire of Intertextuality: Lu Xun’s Sinophone Reinscriptions
Wayne YEUNG (The Pennsylvania State University)
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9:25 - 10:25 am |
Session E – Intertextuality and Close Reading |
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Lu Xun’s Grabbist Realism: “Diary of a Madman” and its Russian Intertexts
Keru CAI (The Pennsylvania State University)
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Lu Xun’s Man-Eating Discourse: Reading the Empire of Psychiatry in “A Madman’s Diary”
Chienyn CHI (The Immigration and Ethnic History Society)
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Translation, Europeanization, and Classical Chinese: A Stylistics of Old Tales Retold
Yueling JI (University of Chicago)
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10:30 - 11:50 am |
Session F – Translation and European Literature |
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Lu Xun’s Translation of Ivan Vazov via German Sources
Xiaolu MA (HKUST)
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Lu Xun’s Appropriation of Weltliteratur: Taking Collection of Foreign Fiction as an Example
Wendong CUI (City University of Hong Kong)
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A History of Lu Xun’s Works in Dutch Translation
Audrey HEJINS (Shenzhen University)
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The Conflicting Dynamics of World Literary Heritage: The Entangled Spaces of Lu Xun and Sándor Petőfi
Emily Mae GRAF (Freie Universität Berlin)
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For attendees’ attention
HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
Enquiries: ias@ust.hk / 2358 5912
http://ias.ust.hk
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