Friday, November 27, 2020
8:45: Zoom-Session start
9:00: Welcome Note
- David Chiavacci: Director of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies UZH
- Jessica Imbach: Chinese Studies UZH; EURICS (Paris); workshop co-organizer
9:30 Web Fiction and Community (Moderator: Justyna Jaguscik)
- Helena Wu: Writing (Web Fiction) in Invisible Ink: Fictionalizing the Present and Historicizing the Future
- Cui Qian: Reimagining Tianxia in the Digital Fictional Space
- Jin Sujie: Reading and Writing Boys’ Love (BL) Farming Fiction
- Zhang Jiahua: “Domestic Fights” (zhaidou) Fiction: A Feminist Reading of Online Middle-class Culture
10:50 Coffee Break
11:00 Cyberculture/Cyberpolitics (Moderator: Justyna Jaguscik)
- Gwennaël Gaffric: The Rise and Fall of Cyber Time-travel Fiction
- Jessica Imbach: The Digital Brain in Cyberpunk Fiction
- Lorenzo Andolfatto: Semantics of Tea-drinking; or, On the Creation of the Governed Subject in Contemporary China
- Liu Jun: Multimedia Censorship in Chinese Social Media
12:20 Lunch
13:20 Digital Art (Moderator: Qian Cui)
- Kim Jiyun: The Posthuman in Lu Yang(陆扬)’s post-internet video art
- Tan Diyi : Art and Dialogues in the times of the Covid-19 epidemic: interviews and reflection on the outreach projects in Guangzhou
- Helen Hess: Art without Borders? Sino-Malaysian Art Spaces in the Age of Digital Culture
- Daniela Zhang: Contemporary Art and Artists on WeChat
14:40 Digital Society (Moderator: Lena Kaufmann)
- Rao Yichen & Xie Jieyi: Becoming Digital Middle Class by Virtual Island-hopping: Gaming capital in China’s Animal Crossing fever amidst COVID-19 outbreak
- Barclay Bram Shoemaker: Getting to Know Yourself: How Wechat Is Changing the Understanding of Mental Health
- Marylaure Bloch: The Social Credit System in China: Imagined Future and Engineered Values
- Marianna Levtov: Digital Silk Road: Chinese Generation 5.0. Takes Lead in the Industrialisation 4.0
16:00 Coffee Break
16:10 Memes and Virality (Moderator: Jessica Imbach)
- Paula Teodorescu: The 2000s xiangpi poetry site ‚memetized‘ on social media: Avant-garde ‚replicators‘ from Weixin and their relevance today
- Elvin Meng: Viral Text: Translation, Censorship, Community
- Lai Yaqian: Against Oblivion: The Visual Communication of The Whistle-giver
17:10 Short Break
17:20 Keynote Lecture (Zoom)
- Speaker: Florian Schneider: China’s Digital Nationalism: Online Challenges to Sovereignty in a Time of Crisis
- Respondent: Jens Damm (ERCCT, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; EURICS, Paris)
Saturday, November 28, 2020
9: Begin Zoom Session
9:30 Social Media and Popular Culture (Moderator : Qian Cui)
- Liu Chang: Recounting the Early Development of China’s Online Music Culture
- Jia Ruxin: Cross-platform Collaboration of Digital Media and the Making of Women in Beijing’s Lipstick Hype
10:30 Coffee Break
10:40 New Media/New Voices (Moderator: Helen Hess)
- Rui Kunze: Visualizing Culinary Authenticity: The Vlogger Li Ziqi and China’s Influencer Culture
- Yang Fan: Feminist Interventions through Podcast in Mainland China
- Joanna Krenz: “If Recently the Art of Language Text is a Natural Compatriot” (Xiao Bing): AI Poetry in a Comparative Perspective
11:40 Lunch Break
14:00 Rewiring Genre (Moderator: Jessica Imbach)
- Yang Renren: Genre-fiction Generator, the De-Territorial Program(mer), and Tangjia sanshao’s Fantasy of Re-territorialization
- Zoe Goldstein: Renewable Resistance: Chinese Cyberpunk Fiction and the Afterlives of our Digital Things
- Huang Wanchun: Danmu Visuality: The temporal-spatial tension of cross-platform spectatorship
15:00 Closing Note and Discussion
- Justyna Jaguscik: Chinese Studies UZH, workshop co-organizer