Program

10 October 2024

9:00–9:05 Welcome message

Eddy U, Director, UC Davis East Asian Studies

9:05–9:10 Opening remark

Ching Kwan Lee (Professor, UCLA)

9:10–10:30 Panel I Diasporic Politics in the Age of Globalization

(Chair: Howard Chiang, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB)

Kennedy Wong (PhD candidate, University of Southern California), “Place-matching Here and There: Examining the Right-wing Partisan Alignments Among Hong Kongers in the US and UK” (Discussant: Chia-Wei Lai)

Samual Chan (Lecturer, Harvard University), “Diasporic Political Obligations” (Discussant: Wendy Cheng

10:40–12:00 Panel II Diasporic Art and Poetry

(Chair: Tianyun Hua, Comparative Literature, UCD)

Chia-wei Lai (PhD student, National Taiwan University), “Reimaging Connections with Chinese Diasporas through Art Publications: Ko Ling-Mei published “Chang Dai-Chien” after 1949” (Discussant: Chris Song)

Chia Cian Ko (Associate Professor, National Taiwan University), “Route of Poetry Across the Malacca Strait: Zhang Yunan and the Literature of Penang Island Port” (Discussant: Wayne Yeung)

1:10–3:10 Panel III Diaspora and Literature

(Chair: Sheldon Lu, Comparative Literature, UCD)

Wayne Yeung (Assistant Professor, University of Denver), “Conceptualizing the Cantophone: Thinking Hong Kong literature as a trans-diasporic formation.” (Discussant: Ting Guo)

Shih-chang Chen (PhD, National Taiwan University), “The Stinks, Agency, and Metamorphoses of East-Asian Female Bodies in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” (Discussant: Justin Wu)

Chris Song (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Hong Kong Fiction on Diaspora and Its Enduring Discontent” (Discussant: Shih-Chang Chen)

3:20–4:40 Panel IV Diaspora and Advocacy

(Chair: Xiaomei Chen, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCD)

Ugyan Choedup (Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University), “Rethinking Exile Tibetan Democracy: Insights from Early Exile Political Manifestoes.” (Discussant: Tenzin Lhadon)

Wendy Cheng (Professor, University of Southern California), “Locating Taiwanese Americans in Global History (Discussant: Tenzing Wangdak)

4:50–5:50 Keynote address I

Peter Baehr (Fellow, Center of Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida), “After the Uprising: Hong Kong Emigres Amid Loss, Solidarity, and Vengeance

11 October 2024

9:00–9:05 Opening remark

Michelle Yeh (Distinguished Professor, UC Davis)

9:05–10:25 Panel V Diasporic Art and Religion

(Chair: Ching Kwan Lee, Sociology, UCLA)

Ting Guo (Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong), “From Sorcery Aunties with Love: Political Diasporas and the Enchanted Economy of Hope” (Discussant: Joseph Ho)

Joseph Ho (Associate Professor, Albion College), “Between Worlds, Within Frames: Transnational Visual Culture and Religious Diaspora in Cold War Taiwan” (Discussant: Quinton Huang)

10:35–11:55 Panel VI Diaspora and Nationalism

(Chair: Mark Halperin, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCD)

Tenzin Lhadon (Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute), “Gender and Nationalism: The Case of the Tibetan Diaspora” (Discussant: Ugyan Choedup)

Justin Wu (Assistant Professor, CSU Sacramento), “The Diasporic Politics of Imagining China: Rethinking Nationalism through the Writings of Liu Ta-jen” (Discussant: Chia Cian Ko)

1:10–2:30 Panel VII Diaspora and Citizenship

(Chair: Ga Young Chung, Asian American Studies, UCD)

Quinton Huang (MA student, University of British Columbia), “Becoming ‘Local’ at the Margins of the Margins: Displacement, Identity, and Networks in Hong Kong’s Postwar Squatter Settlements” (Discussant: Kennedy Wong)

Tenzing Wangdak (PhD student, UC Irvine), “Paper Citizenship: The Materiality of Tibetan Identity in Exile” (Discussant: Samuel Chan)

2:40–3:40 Keynote address II

Howard Chiang (Professor, UCSB), “Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies.”

4:00–5:00 Open discussion

Keynote Seminar Zoom Links

Please note ONLY the Keynote Seminars will be broadcast on Zoom each day. The remainder of the conference is only in person at UC Davis, CA.