Schedule
Day 1: Thursday, February 28, 2019
Location: Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Film Screening: “Faith in Ailao Mountain” (Ci Zhang, 2015; 56 minutes)
7–8:10 p.m.
Film Screening: “Bumming in Beijing” (Wu Wenguang, 1990; 70 minutes)
Day 2: Friday, March 1, 2019
Location: Hallock Auditorium, AJ Lewis Center (Unless otherwise noted)
8:30–9:00 a.m.
Coffee and Refreshments
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
President Carmen Twillie Ambar
9:15–10:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “Chinese Cinema and the World”
Panelists:
Lingzhen Wang (Brown University)
“Geopolitics, Feminist (Film) Theory, and the Reception of Chinese Women’s Cinema”
Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University) and Dudley Andrew (Yale University)
“The News, in fact, is Poetry”: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues”
Ci Zhang (Independent artist)
“From a Social Actor to a Public Artist”
Moderator: Joshua Sperling (Oberlin College)
10:45–11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Keynote: “The Art of Unforgetting: A Folk Memory Project”
Speaker: Wu Wenguang (documentary filmmaker)
Introduction: Gavin Tritt (Oberlin Shansi)
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30–2:45 p.m.
Allen Memorial Art Museum Tour (Kevin Greenwood)
2:45–3 p.m.
Break
3–4:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante: Public Intellectual Without a Face”
Panelists:
Tiziana de Rogatis, University for Foreigners of Siena
Michael Reynolds, editor in chief, Europa Editions
Moderator: Stiliana Milkova (Oberlin College)
4:30–5 p.m.
Break
5–6:30 p.m.
Keynote: “Where Public Intellectuals Should Probably Fear to Tread: Sex and Gender Politics in a Changing World”
Speaker: Laura Kipnis (Northwestern University)
Introduction: DeSales Harrison (Oberlin College)
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Reception and Dinner (Location: StudiOC, Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center)
9–10:30 p.m.
Film Screening: “Investigating My Father” (Wu Wenguang, 2016; 80 minutes)
Day 3: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Location: Hallock Auditorium, AJ Lewis Center (Unless otherwise noted)
8:30–9:15 a.m.
Coffee and Refreshments
9:15–10:00 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “The ‘World’ in World Literature” Part I
Panelist:
Mariano Siskind (Harvard University)
“About the end of the world: mourning, melancholia, and nothing more”
Moderator: Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin College)
10–10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15–11:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “The ‘World’ in World Literature” Part II
Panelists:
Christi Merrill (University of Michigan)
“What ‘a Harijan bai riding... a bicycle!’ has to teach the reader of World Lit”
Pashmina Murthy (Kenyon College)
“Re-orienting the World”
Moderator: Anuradha Needham (Oberlin College)
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Round Table Discussion on “The ‘World’ in World Literature”
Mariano Siskind
Christi Merrill
Pashmina Murthy
Sebastiaan Faber
Anuradha Needham
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30–2:30 p.m.
“Art, Culture, and Emotional Well-being”
Speaker: Carol Ryff (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Moderator: Taylor Allen (Oberlin College)
2:45–4:15 p.m.
“Public Music in a Changing World”
Speakers:
Imani Mosley (Duke University)
“‘White European Men Aren’t The Only People Who Composed Classical Music #historiansignbunny’ or ‘What Happens When You Do Discourse on Social Media’”
Will Robin (University of Maryland)
“Public Musicology and Public Writing”
Moderator: Charles McGuire (Oberlin College)
4:15–4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30–6 p.m.
Film Screening: “Self-Portrait with Three Women” (Zhang Mengqi, 2011; 75 minutes)
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Dinner Reception (Sponsored by Oberlin Shansi)
9–10:15 p.m.
Jazz Concert: Benjamin Bock (Location: Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse)