Du Fu

Modern sculpture of Du Fu (712-770)

Du Fu Cottage, Chengdu

Writers, Critics, and Scholars: The Public Intellectual and Chinese Literature

The Biennial Conference of the Association of Chinese & Comparative Literature

Tsinghua University, Beijing

Part I, June 20-21, 2009

Part II, August 10-11, 2009

Work plan:

  • October 15, 2008 Call for papers
  • December 15, 2008 Deadline for submission of abstracts and/or panel proposals (including panel participants' abstracts)
  • January 31, 2009 Letters of acceptance posted
  • February 25, 2009 Approved participants notified
  • March 2-9, 2009 Letters of invitation posted to approved participants
  • April 30, 2009 Deadline for confirmation of attendance and paper titles;
  • May 15, 2009 Conference program released
  • May 24, 2009 Conference program uploaded to website
  • May 30, 2009 Deadline for submission of revised English and Chinese abstracts
  • June 4 Conference divided into two parts
  • June 20-21 Conference Part I
  • August 10-11 Conference Part II

Conference Schedule Part I

Follow this link to see full details of individual panels.

Friday, June 19: Registration 6:30-8:30 pm (late arrivals can register through Saturday)
Saturday, June 20 08:00-08:30Opening Remarks 开场白
08:30-10:15 Panel Session 1: 公共知识分子与公共记忆
10:30-12:30 Panel Session 2: New Media, the Public Sphere, and Identity Panel Session 3: 阶级，政治、知识分子的反思与自我改造——作为 “批判知识分子”的中国公共知识分子
12:40-13:50 Lunch at 干锅居(威新国际大厦2楼)
14:00-16:00 Panel Session 4: Shifting Paradigms in a Globalized, Digital Era: Emergent and Residual Aesthetics Panel Session 5: Narrative, History, and Self
16:10-17:50 Panel Session 6: Literature as Intellectual Discourse and Social Critique Panel Session 7: Translation and the (Im) possibility of Cross-Cultural Understanding

18:30-20:30 Dinner at 尚存 (威新国际大厦2楼)

Sunday, June 21

08:00-09:50 Panel Session 8: Popular and Elevated: Overlapping Roles for Intellectuals Panel Session 9: Negotiating Cultural Authenticity and Modernity
10:00-11:50 Panel Session 10: 危机下的民族叙述、大众启蒙与文学书写: 一九三〇和一九四〇年代的历史与知识分子话语
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Roundtable Discussion at 宴铭园 (中关村东路1号院2号楼)

 

We hope through in-depth and detailed discussions we can examine the writer as social/cultural agent of change from new perspectives.

Inquiries to accl2009@gmail.com.