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Recording of Prof. Maghiel van Crevel's Keynote Lecture
Venue / Registration
University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
Room RAA E30: 29.09. / 01.10.2022
Room RAA G15: 30.09.2022
Abstract
Poetry occupied a privileged position in China's cultural production throughout history. Late Qing intellectuals initiated the quest for lyrical voices that would adequately intonate Chinese modernity. Soon after, the so-called "new poetry" (xin shi) successfully challenged the premodern canon. While every phase of modernization had its particular poetic forms and lyrical articulation, the most recent stage resonates with entangled local and global concerns, such as intense environmental anxieties, massive socio-political transformations, and a hightened interest in the afterlife of ancient Chinese aesthetic forms. This conference brings together international experts on modern Sinophone poetry and will explore its trajectories by addressing its entanglements through the lens of five shared concerns: eco-aesthetics, multiple realities, formal crossovers, liquid boundaries and activism/re-imagined communities.
Keynote Lectures
Prof. Henrieke Stahl (University of Trier)
Prof. Maghiel van Crevel (University of Leiden)
Specials
Film Screening in the Presence of the Directors Dean Brink and Wong King Fai
Matinée: Themen der Zeit. Chinesische Lyriker*innen lesen ausgewählte Werke
Contact
Convenor
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies - Chinese Studies
University of Bern - Department of Linguistics