Conference: The Cultural Lives of Science and Technology in the Sinosphere: From the Late Qing to the Present

Please direct inquires to conference organizer, Kevin Gao, PhD candidate Chinese in Language and Literature

RSVPs are greatly appreciated.

Coffee and Pastries, 8:00-8:30 am

Opening Remarks, 8:30-8:45 am

Book Talk: Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis), 8:45-10:15 am
Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age

Panel One: Gender and Technology of the Body, 10:30-11:45 am
Discussant: Sarah Mellors (Associate Professor, Missouri State University)

Chang Xu (PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis)
“Therapeutic, Toxic, and Incendiary Drug Formulas for the Qing Military”

Yihan Wang (PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis)
“Technologized Care and Domestic Labor: Hao Jingfang’s ‘The Question of Love’”

Miao Dou (Visiting Professor, College of the Holy Cross)
“Imagining Alternative Realities: Cyborg-Human Romance and the Chinese Web Dramas”

Lunch, 12:00-1:10 pm (DUC Goldberg Formal Lounge)

Panel Two: Popular Science and the Numerical Power, 1:15-3:15 pm
Discussant: Jianqing Chen (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)

Thorn Chen (Assistant Professor, Tulane University)
“National Products and Their Secrets: Cinema and the Pedagogy of Industrial Process in Nationalist China”

Lu Liu (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Translating Phage: Therapy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1965”

Keren He (Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Can Technology Save a Grey China?”

Panel Three: Empire and Infrastructure, 3:30-4:45 pm
Discussant: Jiayi Chen (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)

Ruochen Chen (PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis)
“Between the Global and the Local: Infrastructural Reconfiguration of the Yangzi River in the Late 19th Century”

Dongyang Li (PhD Candidate, University of Sydney)
“Imaginations and Fantasies: The Sci-Technical Structure of Feeling on Oceans in the Late Qing China”

Aolan Mi (PhD Candidate, Indiana University Bloomington)
“Railway (Anti)-Colonialism: TAZARA Railway and the Formation of Afro-Asian Brotherhood (1965-1976)’”

Roundtable: Sinosphere through Science and Technology, 5:00- 6:00 pm
Moderator: Lingchei Letty Chen (Chair of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Concluding Remarks, 6:00-6:15 pm

Dinner Reception, 6:30-8:30 pm (Women’s Building Formal Lounge) RSVP required

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures with funding from Global Qing and Its Legacies Grant