International Graduate Student Conference
“Flows and Circulations – Agents, Narratives, Institutions: A Transcultural Perspective”
流动与交通——行动者、叙事、建制:跨文化的视角
For the first time since the cooperation between Heidelberg University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University began more than 10 years ago, the Center for Asian Studies and Transcultural Studies (CATS), the Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University (CIHD), and the School of Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) hosted an International Graduate Student Conference in November 2022.
Six young scholars from each of the two universities – master’s and doctoral students – presented their research in twenty-minute online presentations, which were then discussed in plenary sessions. The broad spectrum of topics covered Chinese and German poetry, visual arts, Buddhism, Chinese history and history didactics, science fiction literature, as well as production and reception aesthetics of historical newspaper advertising and contemporary computer games. The two best papers were awarded the “Sheng Sheng 生生 Best Student Paper Award”, which was endowed with 3,000 RMB each.
After the great success of the first workshop in 2022, CATS, SJTU and CIHD are happy to announce that a joint International Graduate Student Conference will be held again on November 16-17, 2023 in order to promote the academic exchange between the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), Heidelberg University.
Nov. 16, 2023
9:15–13:15 (Heidelberg Time) / 16:15–20:15 (Shanghai Time)
Meeting ID: 894 4873 1695
Passcode: 230313
Day 1 Moderator: Petra Thiel |
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9:15-9:25 / 16:15-16:25 | OPENING SPEECH | Petra Thiel |
9:25-10:00/16:15-17:00 | Lennart Riedel, University of Heidelberg ______________________________ Contemporary Literature between Harmony and Dissonance - Reframing China's Present with China's Past | Respondent: Shi Donglai |
10:00-10:35 / 17:00-17:35 | Chen Peiheng (陈沛亨) Shanghai Jiao Tong University ______________________________ A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports on the Dissemination of Chinese Traditional Festival Culture | Respondent: Sara Landa |
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10:45-11:20/17:45-18:20 | Yawen Hu, University of Heidelberg ______________________________ Transclutural Placemaking, Mobility, and Identities In-Between: Socialist Migrant Workers and Their Transcultural Lives in Luoyang | Respondent: Yu Qiong |
11:20-11:55/18:20-18:55 | Liu Tongyang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ______________________________ The Plant Migration: Eco-colonialism and Internal Orientalism in the Kudzu Metaphor | Respondent: Petra Thiel |
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12:05-12:40/19:05-19:40 | Olivia Wenzel, University of Heidelberg ______________________________ Medicine, Mobility, and Modernization: The pio-neering lives of two medical haigui–students in 1920s Heidelberg | Respondent: Ren Yi, Ding Yijun |
12:40-13:15/19:40-20:15 | Tang Yan (唐艳), Shanghai Jiao Tong University ______________________________ "Tong Meng": Ignorant but not Imbecilic, Childish but not Weak – On the Origin of the Character "Meng" and philosophical interpretation | Respondent: Petra Thiel |
Day 1 Moderator: Li Juan |
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9:15-9:20/ 16:15-16:20 | SUMMARY |
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9:20-9:55/ 16:20-16:55 | Jonas Schmid, University of Heidelberg ______________________________ Transcultural History Teaching: Flows and Circulations on the Silk Road(s) | Respondent: Guo Liandong |
9:55-10:30/ 16:55-17:30 | Wei Enze (魏恩泽), Shanghai Jiaotong University ______________________________ POUVOIR-EN-COMMUN, Ricoeur’s transforma-tional account on Arendt’s political ontology to re-locate community as a transcendental one | Respondent: Cai Wenjing |
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10:40-11:15/ 17:40-18:15 | Suk Man YIP (葉淑敏), University of Heidelberg ______________________________ When James Bond Converts into Iron Guanyin: Exploring Shaw Brothers’ Angel Strike Again (1968) and the Political Metaphor Inside | Respondent: Wang Yuping |
11:15-11:50 / 18:15-18:50 | Yao Shun (姚舜), Shanghai Jiaotong University ______________________________ To Imagine Southeast Asia in Chinese Cinema | Respondent: Barbara Mittler |
11:50-12:25 / 18:50-19:25 | Chang Ming Ly, University of Cologne ______________________________ Multisensory impact-aesthetics of video games: Images of China in Videogames | Respondent: Huang Yuanfan |
12:25-12:35 / 19:25-19:35 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF "SHENG SHENG AWARD" WINNERS |