Monday through Thursday, May 22-25, 2023
Memorial Union (800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706) and other campus locations
The UW-Madison is honored to be hosting a prestigious Summer Institute on Chinese literature in May 2023! This Institute is primarily supported by the international organization, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, in partnership with the Taiwan-based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.
Center for East Asian Studies (a federally-funded Title VI National Resource Center), is co-hosting the event in partnership with faculty host Anatoly Detwyler, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.
Chinese Literature and the Global South: Writing, Translating, Reading, Looking
Artists:
Xu Bing
Kabir Mohanty
Writers:
Zhai Yongming, poet, Beijing China
Sharmistha Mohanty, poet, Mumbai, India
Allan Sealy, writer, Uttarakhand, India
Han Shaogong, writer, Beijing, China
Bei Dao, writer, New York
Li Tuo, writer and critic, New York
The Summer Institute format will consist of a series of focused conversations on current work, along with public events including a film screening, artists’ dialog, and a culminating session of public readings.
Registration
Participants can register for the film screening and artists’ conversation.
No registration is necessary for the public readings event.
For logistical questions, please contact Laurie Dennis at ldennis@wisc.edu.
Film Screening and Artists’ Conversation
Film Screening: Dragonfly Eyes
Date, time, and place information here.
Registration info.
Description
Artists’ Conversation:
Xu Bing and Sharmistha Mohanty
Date, time, and place information here.
Registration info.
Description
Public Reading
Bei Dao and Li Tuo
Bios here
ZHAI Yongming
On-line contributor
Bio here
Sharmistha Mohanty and Allan Sealy
Bios here