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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic\, interdisciplinary field\, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. \nThe Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive\, creative\, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies\, with a primary focus on literary studies\, Indigenous studies\, ethnomusicology\, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. \nBiographies of the Panel Speakers:\nKyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures\, film\, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations\, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity\, Indigeneity\, queerness\, and language in global Chinese communities. His current book project\, Sinoscapes: Chinese Studies for the New Millennium\, advances a new model for imagining the potential of Chinese studies through an investigation of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinitic-language texts. He is also an active Chinese-English translator\, and his translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. \nHo Chak Law is an assistant professor in race and musicology at The New School. His research focuses on the cultural politics of performance and representation in the Sinophone. Most recently\, his article “Naamyam\, Creative Music\, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s ‘Burial Mound’” was published in Music Theory Spectrum. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Cosmopolitan Decadence: Popular Music and the Politics of the Sinophone in the Twentieth Century. \nDian Dian is a researcher and community organizer working at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, migration\, and labor. They received a Ph.D. in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University\, with a dissertation on queer feminist organizing across Sinophone communities. Dian has been involved in LGBTQ+ and feminist movements since 2009\, including serving as editor-in-chief of Queer Lala Times and as communications manager of Chinese Lala Alliance. Now based in Seattle\, they lead research and campaign organizing at the Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) and support community building among overseas Chinese queer women through Upwomxn. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/interdisciplinary-sinophone-conference/
LOCATION:2252 HSSB\, HSSB\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible and the Sino-Soundscape in North America
DESCRIPTION:The defining tunes of the Sinophone community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were those of the Cantonese opera performed in Chinese theaters. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of materials about Sinophone community in archives. The sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in English newspapers and travelogues. Drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer to piece together the history of vibrant Chinese theaters\, this talk offers readings against the grain to consider how archives structure our understanding of the past and frame how we enter into the present and future. \nNancy Yunhwa Rao is Distinguished Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone and Inter-Asia studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she is the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. For The Cambridge Companion to Serialism\, she contributed a chapter on East Asia. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition recently appeared in Music Theory Spectrum. Rao currently serves as editor of the journal American Music. Her new book\, Inside Chinese theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond\, will be published in March 2025. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Music\, and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-inside-chinese-theater-archive-of-the-invisible-and-sino-soundscape-in-north-america/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: One China\, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Ian Rowen will highlight how Chinese tourism split Taiwan into “Two Taiwans”—one portrayed as part of China for Chinese tour groups\, and the other experienced as the everyday reality of local residents and independent travelers. He will also examine how this dynamic intensified conflicts between business\, civil society\, and government entities with differing stakes in maintaining a PRC-focused tourism industry\, ultimately contributing to a more diverse civic nationalism in Taiwan. Rowen’s book One China\, Many Taiwans explores how tourism\, used by the PRC as a political tool to influence Taiwan\, heightened tensions between the two governments\, deepened divisions within Taiwanese society\, and increased public support for national self-determination. \nRowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture\, Languages\, and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Geography and Urban Planning at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University (China) and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany)\, a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)\, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance. His research has been supported with a Fulbright Fellowship and multiple US National Science Foundation grants. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-one-china-many-taiwans-the-geopolitics-of-cross-strait-tourism/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Beyond the "New Cold War": Intimating Movements across Taiwan and Asian/Pacific/America
DESCRIPTION:Taiwan has long held a pivotal—if “strategically ambiguous”—position in inter-imperial tensions over global influence and has in recent decades been frequently used to refurbish debates over a “new Cold War.” Situated at the nexus of inter-imperial entanglements\, settler-colonial formations\, and migrant labor networks\, Taiwan’s perpetually unresolved status is\, Wong argues\, pivotal not only for the geopolitics of empire but more importantly for its place in trans-geographical alliance building for those who have long survived\, navigated\, and challenged these imperial binds—e.g.\, Indigenous coalitions\, informal economy workers\, militaristically displaced refugees. In this talk\, Wong discusses the ongoing work of grassroot organizations that have built transpacific networks—through conferences\, community-driven research\, and cultural productions—across Taiwan\, the Philippines\, North America\, and the Pacific. Examining these convergences complicates narrow definitions of both “anti-Asian hate” and “new Cold War” discourses simultaneously\, as such narratives often obscure the many coalitional openings—”the linked\, if uneven intimacies\,” citing Lisa Lowe—that have always already been in formation. \nLily Wong is an Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor\, racial capitalism\, and transpacific coalitional movements. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-beyond-the-new-cold-war-intimating-movements-across-taiwan-and-asian-pacific-america/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Queering Taiwan Studies International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ku’er\, the Mandarin transliteration of the English word “queer\,” has a distinctly Taiwanese genealogy\, as implied in the homophonic meaning of being “cool.” This conference examines the interrelationships between queer studies and Taiwan studies\, from placing Taiwanese history and culture on the map of queer inquiry to the queering of Taiwan studies. Does queer Taiwan studies mean a focus on queer content\, or is “queering” a method that can be used in studying any content in Taiwan studies? In light of the emergence of queer indigenous studies and queer of color critique in North America\, how might we consider the question of indigeneity\, race\, and ethnicity in queering Taiwan studies? Ultimately\, what can a focus on Taiwan do to exceed the existing limits of queer theory\, and how might the method of queering advance the transgressive potential of Taiwan studies? \nLocations will vary for the conference sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for location information. \n11/14 9:00am – 3:35pm HSSB 4020\n11/14 4:00pm – 5:30pm SSMS 4315\n11/15 9:00am – 4:30pm McCune Conference Room \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCLA’s Asia Pacific Center \nImage: Jess\, Ex. 5 – Mind’s I: Translation #12\, 1965; The National Gallery of Art
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-conference-queering-taiwan-studies-international-conference/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Wen Liu will argue that Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population\, but they are made so through the psychological technologies of “racecraft.” These technologies aim to demonstrate the racial elasticity of the Asian American mind\, including cultural essentialism\, democratic governmentality\, white ascendancy\, and unconscious microaggression. They help construct a flexible racial identity that can demonstrate the wide range of cognitive styles\, cultural practices\, and\, most importantly\, race elasticity for the postwar USA as it strives to become a multicultural democracy. \nWen Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology\, Academia Sinica. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/feeling-asian-american-racial-flexibility-between-assimilation-and-oppression/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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