Sinophone Europe

Day 1 – Friday, December 13, 2024 @ La Colombaria

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome & Intro

• Ersilia Menesini, Pro-Rector of Teaching and Orientation of the University of Florence
• Claudia Brunner, President of the University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich

Welcome by the organizers Valentina Pedone (University of Florence) &
Rebecca Ehrenwirth (University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich)

09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Literature I
Chair: Miriam Castorina (University of Florence)

• Imagining the Modern: Exotic Experiences in China’s New Poetry, an Examination of Li Jinfa’s Literary Experiment in the 1920s (Xinying Yang, Peking University)
• Chinese or Else? Yan Ge’s Metalinguistic Debut (Martina Codeluppi, University of Bologna)
• Chinese Folksongs from Overseas: Reimagining Pidgin English in the National Language Movement (Yuqing Liu, University of Edinburgh)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2: Film
Chair: Martina Codeluppi (University of Bologna)

• Identity, Representation and Activism in Asian/Chinese Diaspora Cinema in Europe (Valeria Zanier, University of Bologna)
• Chinese-Language and Sinophone Cinema: A New European Wave? (Fabrizio Massini, University of Vienna)
• From Red Sorghum to Red Main Melody: Contemporary Sinophone Film Distribution in Germany (Yongli Li, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts)

12:45 – 13:15 Projects presentation

• ECCO Italy – Education of Children of Chinese Origin in Italy (Tommaso Pellin, University of Bologna)
• MeTChE – The Mediterranean Through Chinese Eyes (Renata Vinci, University of Palermo)

13:15 – 14:30 Lunch (at the venue)

14:30 – 16:00 Panel 3: Art
Chair: Valeria Zanier (University of Bologna)

• Contesting Stereotypes and Building Identities: A Longitudinal Approach to the Artistic Production of Chinese Migrants’ Descendants in Spain (Irene Masdeu Torruella, Autonomous University of Barcelona)
• Exhibition of ‘Chinese Female Artists,’ Permeating Sounds, and Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Wu Mali at Half of the Sky in Bonn, Germany (Jacob Zhicheng Zhang, University of Toronto)
• Out of China…So Where? Reimagining Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Art Practices: The Case of Italy (Giacomo Cacciaguerra, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

16:00 – 16:30 Posters presentation

• ECCO Italy (Andrea Del Bono, University of Bergamo, and Yedi Yu, University of Bologna)
• MeTChE (Yating Yu, University of Florence)

20:00 Dinner [For registration, please contact us]

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Day 2 – Saturday, December 14, 2024 @ UniFi – FORLILPSI

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome

Vanna Boffo, Director of the Department FORLILPSI, University of Florence

09:45 – 10:45 Keynote speech

“Pensando Xibānyā: Voices from the Chinese Diaspora” by E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Panel 4: Identity
Chair: Federico Picerni (University of Bologna)

• Marriage, Kinship and Our-Selves: The Queering of Diasporic Chinese Performance Art and Community Space-Making in Europe during 2015-2022 (Diyi Mergenthaler, University of Zurich)
• On Not Speaking Cantonese: The Glory Café Incident (2020), Xeno/Sinophobia, and the Postcolonial Identity Politics in Hong Kong (Eva Li, Lancaster University, and Desmond Sham, University of Nottingham)
• The Transformation of a Female Subject: The Shadow of Chinese Culture in Qiu Ping’s Installation Art (Yiyi Liang, Harvard University)
• Empowerment And Resistance: Negotiating Chinese Female Migrants’ Digital Dating Experience in Europe (Zixuan Zhang, Freie Universität Berlin)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 5: Linguistic Expressions and Community Building
Chair: Giovanni Giamello (Aalborg University)

• The Sinophone Community of the Chinese College of Naples: Chinese Cultural and Linguistic Production in Late Modern Europe (Miriam Castorina, University of Florence)
• Beyond Boundaries: Investigating Sinophone Cultures Through Heritage Language and Multiple Belongings (Giuseppe Rizzuto, University of Florence)
• Chinese Community as a Bridging Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) (Bojana Pavlovic, Ljiljana Stević, Sonja Stanković, and Anja Mudrenović, University of Banja Luka)

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 – 17:15 Panel 6: Literature II
Chair: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich)

• Yang Lian in Spanish, Spain in Yang Lian: How the European Semi-Periphery Places the Exilic Sinophone (Lucas Klein, Arizona State University)
• Sinophone Comics in Italy: Yi Yang’s Easy Breezy (2021) And Deep Vacation (2022) (Martina Caschera, University of Bergamo)
• Sinophone Social Poetics Through Art in Italy: The Wuxu Collective (Federico Picerni, University of Bologna)

17:15 – 17:30 Summary/Outlook

17:30 End