Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia
January 21-22, 2005
314 Royce Hall
University of California-Los Angeles
Open to the Public
This conference is the part of the Translating Universals CIRA project.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, the UCLA Asia Institute, the National Science Council of Taiwan, the Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies, the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, and the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
For more information contact Michael Bourdaghs
(bourdagh@humnet.ucla.edu) or
John Duncan (Duncan@humnet.ucla.edu)
Friday, January 21
Opening remarks (9:45)
Michael Bourdaghs (UCLA, Japanese literature) and John Duncan (UCLA, Korean
history)
Morning panel (10:00-12:00): Asian Universals
Esha De (UCLA, Indian literature), "Rabindranath Tagore and Anti-Imperialist
Universalism: A Theater of the Feminine"
Jeong-il Lee (UCLA, Korean history), "Engaging the Universal in Late Chosÿÿn
Korea"
David Schaberg (UCLA, Chinese intellectual history), "Market, Court, Agora:
On the Making of New Literary Taxonomies"
Discussant: R. Bin Wong (Chinese history, UCLA)
Afternoon panel 1 (1:30-3:30) Universals in the Age of Empire
George Dutton (UCLA, Vietnamese literature), "Vietnamese Language
Issues in the Early Twentieth Century and the Case of 'Xÿÿ Hoi' (Society)"
Kyung Moon Hwang (USC, Korean history), "Competing Visions of the State
inKorea at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"
Chao-yang Liao (National Taiwan University, comparative literature), "Translatability and 'Real' Translation"
Stefan Tanaka (UC-San Diego, Japanese history), "Time as Theory"
Discussant: Takashi Fujitani (UC-San Diego, Japanese history)
Afternoon panel 2 (4:00-6:00) Universals, Decolonization, and the Cold War
Richard Calichman (CUNY, Japanese Literature), "Literature, Philosophy,
Nation: An Exchange Between Kobayashi Hideo And Nishitani Keiji"
Theodore Hughes (Columbia University, Korean literature), ""Anticommunism, Developmentalism, and Racial Formation in Cold War South Korea"
Mark Bradley (Northwestern University, Vietnamese history), "Torments
of the Soul: The Ambiguities of the Cold War and the Postcolonial Moment in
Vietnam"
Alessandro Russo (University of Bologna, Sociology), "How To Translate
Cultural Revolution?"
Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (Japanese literature, UCLA)
Saturday, January 22
Morning panel (10:00-12:00): Post-1968 Universals in Translation
Namhee Lee (UCLA, Korean history), "Contemporary Debates on Theory,
Praxis, and Intellectuals in South Korea"
Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo (UCLA, Vietnamese political science), "How Should
We Think About Freedom? Commercial Sex, Popular Culture, and the Governing
of Citizens in a Liberalized Vietnam"
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University, Japanese literature), "Comparison, and
the Proprietaries of Theory"
Shu-mei Shih (UCLA, Chinese literature), "Sinophone Translations of
Chineseness and Cosmopolitanism"
Discussant: John Duncan (Korean history, UCLA)
Afternoon panel 1 (1:00-3:00): Taiwan and the Translations of Theory Today
Ying-ying Chien (Fu Jen University, Feminist theory), "Literacy, Translation, and Personal Narratives"
Kuei-fen Chiu (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan cultural studies), "Border Historiography and the Politics of Translation in the Age of Transnational Flows"
Liang-ya Liou (National Taiwan University, Queer theory), "Queer Theory
and Politics in Taiwan"
Te-hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Chinese American literature), "Edward
Said in Taiwan"
Discussant: Jin-kyung Lee (UC-San Diego, Korean literature)
Afternoon panel 2 (3:30-5:30): Translating Theory Today-Roundtable with participants from East Asia
Ping-hui Liao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Nguyen Ngoc (Independent writer and translator, Vietnam)
Ukai Satoshi (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Moderator: George Dutton (Vietnamese literature, UCLA)
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This event is free and open to the public.
Parking is available at UCLA for $7. For a detailed map of the campus,
including parking lots and kiosks, please visit: http://www.ucla.edu/map/index.html.
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