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Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia
January 21-22, 2005
314 Royce Hall
University of California-Los Angeles
Open to the Public
This conference is the part of the Translating
Universals CIRA project.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, the
UCLA Asia Institute, the National Science Council of Taiwan, the Multicampus
Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies, the UCLA Center
for Japanese Studies, and the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
For more information contact Michael Bourdaghs (bourdagh@humnet.ucla.edu)
or John Duncan (Duncan@humnet.ucla.edu)
Friday, January 21
Opening remarks (9:45)
Michael Bourdaghs (UCLA, Japanese literature) and John
Duncan (UCLA,
Korean history)
Morning panel (10:00-12:00): Asian Universals
- Esha De (UCLA, Indian literature), “Rabindranath
Tagore and Anti-Imperialist Universalism: A Theater of the Feminine”
- Jeong-il Lee (UCLA, Korean history), “Engaging the Universal in
Late Chosôn Korea”
- David Schaberg (UCLA, Chinese intellectual history), "Market,
Court, Agora: On the Making of New Literary Taxonomies"
Discussant: R. Bin Wong (Chinese history, UCLA)
Afternoon panel 1 (1:30-3:30) Universals in the Age of Empire
- George Dutton (UCLA, Vietnamese history), “Vietnamese
Language Issues in the Early Twentieth Century and the Case of ‘Xã Hoi’ (Society)”
- Kyung Moon Hwang (USC, Korean history), “Competing
Visions of the State in Korea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
- Chao-yang Liao (National Taiwan University, comparative
literature), “Translatability
and 'Real' Translation”
- Stefan Tanaka (UC-San Diego, Japanese history), “Time
as Theory”
Discussant: Takashi Fujitani (UC-San Diego, Japanese history)
Afternoon panel 2 (4:00-6:00) Universals, Decolonization, and the Cold
War
- Richard Calichman (CUNY, Japanese Literature), “Literature,
Philosophy, Nation: An Exchange Between Kobayashi Hideo And Nishitani
Keiji”
- Theodore Hughes (Columbia University, Korean literature), “Developmentalism
and Racial Formation in Cold War South Korea: From Ch'oe In-hun's The
Square to The Tempest”
- Mark Bradley (Northwestern University, Vietnamese
history), “Torments
of the Soul: The Ambiguities of the Cold War and the Postcolonial
Moment in Vietnam”
- Alessandro Russo (University of Bologna, Sociology), “How
To Translate Cultural Revolution?”
Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (Japanese literature, UCLA)
Saturday, January 22
Morning panel (10:00-12:00): Post-1968 Universals in Translation
- Namhee Lee (UCLA, Korean history), “Contemporary
Debates on Theory, Praxis, and Intellectuals in South Korea”
- Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo (UCLA, Vietnamese political
science), “Saigon by Night: Sex and Realism in the Governing
of Neoliberal Freedoms in Vietnam”
- Naoki Sakai (Cornell University, Japanese literature), “Comparison,
and the Proprietaries of Theory”
- Shu-mei Shih (UCLA, Chinese literature), “Sinophone
Translations of Chineseness and Cosmopolitanism”
Discussant: John Duncan (Korean history, UCLA)
Afternoon panel 1 (1:00-3:00): Taiwan and the Translations of Theory Today
- Ying-ying Chien (Fu Jen University, Feminist theory), "Literacy,
Translation, and Personal Narratives"
- Kuei-fen Chiu (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan
cultural studies), “Border
Historiography and the Politics of Translation in the Age of Transnational
Flows"
- Liang-ya Liou (National Taiwan University, Queer
theory), “Queer
Theory and Politics in Taiwan”
- Te-hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Chinese American
literature), “Representing Edward W. Said in Taiwan”
Discussant: Jin-kyung Lee (UC-San Diego, Korean literature)
Afternoon panel 2 (3:30-5:30): Translating Theory Today—Roundtable
with participants from East Asia
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This event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available at UCLA
for $7. For a detailed map of the campus, including parking lots and
kiosks, please visit: http://www.ucla.edu/map/index.html.
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