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Poetry, Pedagogy, and Alternative Internationalisms: From the Early 20th Century to the PresentJune 10, 2005 Sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, the UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, Chain, the UCLA International Institute, Palm Press, West Coast Line, and Xcp: Crosscultural Poetics. For more information contact Walter K. Lew, conference organizer <Lew@humnet.ucla.edu>. Friday, June 109:00-9:30 Announcements and Opening Remarks
9:30-10:45 Translation's Role in East Asian Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism
10:45-12:00 Anarchism and Poetry in East Asia During the 1930s
Lunch1:15-2:30 Other Internationalist Poetries of Resistance
Break2:45-4:00 Histories of Internationalist Poetry and Reforming "Creative Writing" in the U.S.A.
4:00-5:30 Readings of Poetry, Translations, Poetics
7:45-11:00 Films (314 Royce Hall)
****************** Biographical/Bibliographical Notes on the Participants DAVID BUUCK lives in Oakland, where he edits Tripwire. Recent work, poetic and critical, has appeared in Chain, Artweek, and Comparative American Studies. Buuck is currently a doctoral candidate in the History of Consciousness program at UC, Santa Cruz, where he also works with the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. ANN CHOI, who earned her doctorate in Korean literature at UCLA, teaches in the Asian Languages and Cultures Dept. of Rutgers University. She is currently at work on a book manuscript on affect and lyric poetry in 1920s Korea. A former Stegner Fellow whose poems have appeared in journals and anthologies (Ploughshares, Premonitions, etc.), she hopes to have her poetry collection published soon. WILLIAM GARDNER teaches Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College. His research interests include Japanese interwar modernism and intermediality in contemporary literature. His study Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920's is forthcoming from Harvard Asia Center Publications. KOICHI HAGA is a doctoral student in Japanese literature in the Asian Languages and Cultures department at UCLA. DONGYOUN HWANG teaches East Asian history and other Asia-related courses at Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA. His main research interest has been collaboration in China during World War II; his recent article on the postwar trials of collaborators was just published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6.1 (March 2005). He is currently working on a study of the transnational and cosmopolitan aspects of East Asian anarchism in the early 20th century. VINAY LAL teaches history at UCLA. He writes
widely on Indian history, the popular and public culture of India, the
Indian
diaspora,
global
politics, and the politics of knowledge
systems. His most recent books include: Empire of Knowledge: Culture
and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto Press, 2002); The
History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford,
2003); Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History
and Culture (Seagull Books, 2003; Penguin, 2005); Introducing
Hinduism (London:
Icon Books, 2005), and (co-edited with Ashis Nandy) The Future of
Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century (Viking/Penguin,
2005). MARK NOWAK is author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down (with an afterword by Amiri Baraka), and co-editor (with Diane Glancy) of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours, all from Coffee House Press. He is the editor of the journal Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics <http://www.xcp.bfn.org/> and founder of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers <http://www.urww.org>. His essay on gothic-industrial music in America’s rust belt is forthcoming in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke U P). JULIANA SPAHR is the author of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (U of California P, 2005), Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan U P, 2001), Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identities (U of Alabama P, 2001), and Response (Sun & Moon, 1995). She co-edits the arts journal Chain with Jena Osman. See <http://people.mills.edu/jspahr> for more. PALM PRESS <www.palmpress.org>, is directed by Jane Sprague in Long Beach, California and publishes writers who work within and across the insterstices of poetry, essay, cultural studies, narrativity, and theory. Sprague’s own chapbooks include monster, break / fast, and The Port of Los Angeles. SERK-BAE SUH is a doctoral candidate in the History Dept. of UCLA currently writing his dissertation on "National Literature" in Japan and Korea during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea. RITA WONG teaches in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998) and is on the editorial board of West Coast Line. Sybil Unrest, the first segment of a long three-part poem she co-authored with Larissa Lai, appeared in chapbook form in 2004. She has essays forthcoming in Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (Hong Kong UP) and Essays on Canadian Writing. HERIBERTO YEPEZ, professor of philosophy at UABC-Tijuana, is the author of several books in Spanish and writes for the Reforma newspaper in Mexico City. His writing in English has appeared in U.S. journals such as Tripwire and Xcp. Two of his famously incisive blogs are at <http://mexperimental.blogspot.com> and <http://www.hyepez.blogspot.com/>. ******************************** This event is free and open to the public. |
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