403 Kent Hall
Lydia H. Liu, Ulug Kuzuoglu, and Anatoly Detwyler
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
The Program in Chinese Literature and Culture
The Huang and Lin Fund, the Lian and Nie Fund
Columbia Global Centers | Beijing
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
More information about the event may be found here.
Saturday, May 4th (403 Kent Hall)
Schedule
9:00-9:15: Welcome & Introduction
Safwan Masri | Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University
Opening Remarks by Lydia H. Liu | Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Director, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
9:15-10:45:
First Panel: The Great War and the May Fourth | Discussant : Shang Wei
XU Guoqi (City University of Hong Kong) | “Chinese Workers on the Western Front during the Great War and the May Fourth Movement: A Transnational Approach”
GUO Shuanglin (Renmin University) | “Telegraphy and Political Time: Understanding the May Fourth Incident in 1919”
Coffee Break: 10:45 – 11:00
11:00-1:00:
Second Panel: Global May Fourth | Discussant : Marwa Elshakry
Ulug Kuzuoglu (Columbia University) | “Alphabet and Revolution: Rethinking May Fourth Radicalism”
Michael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary) | “China’s Arabic After May Fourth”
Chengzhi Wang (Columbia University) | “May Fourth Movement Student Leaders and Participants in the US: Activism Relocated and Expanded”
Lunch Break: 1:00-2:00
2:00-3:30:
Third Panel: Labor, Language, and Life | Discussant: Andrew Nathan
Yurou Zhong (University of Toronto) | “‘Sacred, the Laborers’: Rethinking World War I and the May Fourth”
Gal Gvili (McGill University) | “Thinking Realism as Writing Life in the May Fourth”
Coffee Break: 3:30 – 4:00
4:00-5:30:
Fourth Panel: Critical Legacies | Discussant : Eugenia Lean
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | “Rethinking temporality of the May Fourth: The Cases of Takeuchi Yoshimi and Mizoguchi Yûzô”
PANG Laikwan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) | “A Chinese Theory of Pluralism: Rereading Zhang Dongsun”
ICLS’ listing for the first day of the conference may be found here.
