International Colloquium - Critical Borders. Theories, Experiences and Narratives of Cultural Mobility, March 11-12, 2022 | Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, SUSTech

Critical Borders
Theories, Experiences and Narratives of Cultural Mobility

Interdisciplinary Colloquium of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
SUSTech - Southern University of Science and Technology
March 11-12, 2022

The Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at SUSTech is happy to organize an interdisciplinary colloquium exploring the role that borders and cross-border mobilities play in a broad spectrum of cultural practices, histories and contexts.

The event will take place online:

Zoom Meeting ID: 911 1067 385
Passcode: 910219
Link: https://zoom.us/j/9111067385?pwd=bmpmdUhHeEFuSFVpQXhyWEhaM2FkZz09

Time: GMT+8

For any question do not hesitate to get in touch with us: sofcolloquium2021@outlook.com.

Friday, March 11^th


9:30–10:00	Opening Remarks – Participants are welcome to access the Zoom meeting a few minutes in advance
10:00–11:30	Panel 1 \| Cultural Borders and Geopolitical Frontiers Chair: Tommaso Pepe	Thomas Byrne - Sun Yat-Sen University Home-World and Alien-Worlds: A Phenomenology of Cultural Borders
		Leonora Masini – Brown University Representations of Eritrea in Italian Documentaries (1951 – 2015)
		Luan D. Vu - Vietnam National University Unearthing the Border: Frontier Mining and the Birth of a Sino-Vietnamese Borderland, 1725-1728
11:30–11:45	Break
11:45–12:30	Keynote Address	Bin Yang – University of Macau Port Marriage: Sailors and Their Temporary Wives in Maritime Asia
12:30–15:00	Lunch Break
15:00–16:30	Panel 2 \| The Borders of Language: Translation and Weltliteratur Chair: Ailin Qian	Mengwen Zhu – SUSTech Tracking the Original: Ezra Pound's Translation and Transfiguration of Li Bai
		Wendong Cui – City University of Hong Koong In Search of a Self-Conscious Voice: Lu Xun’s Appropriation of German Weltliteratur Sources
		Marta Arnaldi – University of Oxford Translation and the Borders of the Future
16:30–16:45	Break
16:45–17:45	Panel 3 \| Cities, Borders, and Mobility: Case Studies Chair: Jennifer Hirst	Ailin Qian - SUSTech Cities and Nostalgia in the Islamic World
		Nikolaos Mavropoulos – European University Institute Early Japanese Mobility Across the Pacific; Migrants or Colonizers?
Saturday, March 12^th
9:30–10:15	Keynote Address	Thomas Kvan – SUSTech Spatial Translations: From Vertical to Volumetric Discussant: Jing Xiao - School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University
10:15–10:30	Break
10:30–12:00	Panel 4 \| China Viewed through Transnational Lenses Chair: Lili Wang	Hiroko Naito - Institute of Developing Economies of Japan External Trade Organization The Practice of Judicial Reform in China and Conditions for Success or Failure
		Shakir Ullah – SUSTech China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Local People in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Opportunities and Challenges
		Vivien Wai-wan Chan - South China University of Technology Place, Class and Social Movement in Hong Kong: A Geographical Information System Perspective
12:00–14:00	Lunch Break
14:00–15:30	Panel 5 \| Literary Exiles, or the Exile of Literature Chair: Mengwen Zhu	Yiyi Luo - Capital Normal University A Displaced Poet’s Representation of Wars in the Sixth Century
		Tommaso Pepe - SUSTech & Wuming Chang – Peking University The Shadow of Ulysses. Dante, Primo Levi and the Writing of Exile
15:30	Closing Remarks

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Yang Bin, University of Macau, Prof. Thomas Kvan, founding Dean of the School of Design, SUSTech.

Marta Arnaldi, University of Oxford, Translation and the Borders of the Future

Thomas Byrne, Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, Home-World and Alien-Worlds: A Phenomenology of Cultural Borders

Wendong Cui, City University of Hong Kong, In Search of a Self-Conscious Voice: Lu Xun’s Appropriation of German Weltliteratur Sources

Yiyi Luo, Capital Normal University, Beijing, A Displaced Poet’s Representation of Wars in the Sixth Century

Leonora Masini, Brown University, Providence, Representations of Eritrea in Italian Documentaries (1951 – 2015)

Nikolaos Mavropolous, SUSTech / European University Institute, Florence, Early Japanese Mobility Across the Pacific; Migrants or Colonizers?

Tommaso Pepe, SUSTech and Wuming Chang, Peking University (joint talk), The Shadow of Ulysses. Dante, Primo Levi and the Writing of Exile

Ailin Qian, SUSTech, Cities and Nostalgia in the Islamic World

Hiroko Naito, Institute of Developing Economies of Japan External Trade Organization. The Practice of Judicial Reform in China and Conditions for Success or Failure

Shakir Ullah, SUSTech / Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Local People in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Opportunities and Challenges

Luan Dong Vu, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Unearthing the Border: Frontier Mining and the Birth of a Sino-Vietnamese Borderland, 1725-1728

Mengwen Zhu, SUSTech, Tracking the Original: Ezra Pound's Translation and Transfiguration of Li Bai

Vivien Chan, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Place, Class and Social Movement in Hong Kong: A Geographical Information System Perspective

The organizers would like to thank Shakir Ullah, Yanni He and Xincheng Meng and all the participants for their help and support.

Organized by:

Tommaso Pepe

Tommaso Pepe is a literary scholar working on the intersections that cross literature, memory, trauma and intercultural dialogue.

Mengwen  ZHU

I received my Ph.D. and M.A. in Chinese Literature from the University of Hong Kong and Fudan University, respectively.

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Organized by:

Tommaso Pepe

Mengwen ZHU

Mengwen  ZHU