Restless China: mobility in literature, art and film

This seminar series brings together scholars who deal with the theme of mobility in China and Sinophone regions over the past four decades. With a broad geographic range and covering literature, theatre, film and art, they consider mobility in terms of physical travel, imagined movement, and the circulation of ideas, information and objects; but also the glaring absence of movement, be it in terms of social immobility or recent regional lockdowns. Together, the series explores how movement, restlessness and stasis have shaped contemporary cultural production.

Seminar convenor: Pamela Hunt, University of Oxford, pamela.hunt@orinst.ox.ac.uk.

 

27 April, 5pm BST
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Kyle Shernuk, QMUL, ‘Sinophone Mobilities: Syaman Rapongan, Dadelavan Ibau, and the Politics of Indigeneity’

 

11 May, 5pm
Online talk
Please email pamela.hunt@orinst.ox.ac.uk to register
Rossella Ferrari, University of Vienna, ‘Sinophone Performances in Journey-Form in Times of (Im)mobility’

 

18 May, 5pm
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Ros Holmes, University of St Andrews, ‘Not Moving: Performing Sleep in Contemporary China’

 

25 May, 5pm
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham, ‘Performing Transnational Chinese Masculinity: Whiskey Chow’s Performance Art’

 

1 June, 5pm
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford, ‘The Logic of Expulsion in Contemporary China’

 

8 June, 5pm
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Mingwei Song, Wellesley College, ‘New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: The Rise of the She-Sci-Fi in China’

 

10 June, 5pm
Ho Tim Seminar Room, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Annabella Mei Massey, University of Oxford, ‘Frontier aesthetics and psychological healing in Guo Xiaolu's Village of Stone’

 

15 June, 5pm
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre
Yomi Braester, University of Washington, ‘Walking the City 2.0: Urban Space as Digital Noise’