Friday, April 7
7:30 pm Meet at Ellington Hotel lobby to go to dinner, location TBA

Saturday, April 8
8:30-9:00 am    Registration
9:00-9:30       Opening Remarks
David Wang, Columbia University
Charles Laughlin, Yale University
C.T. Hsia, Columbia University

9:30-11:00      Panel 1:  Conceptual Frameworks of Modernity
Alexander Des Forges, University of Michigan
Zhang Jingyuan, Georgetown University
Yang Xiaobin, University of Mississippi
Chair:  Yue Gang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:15-12:45     Panel 2:  Defining the Chinese Diaspora
Ann Huss, Wellesley College
Lingchei Letty Chen, Columbia University
Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair:  Charles Laughlin, Yale University

1:00-2:00       Lunch

2:00-3:30       Roundtable Discussion
Wang Ban, SUNY Stony Brook
Yue Gang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zhang Jingyuan, Georgetown University
Zhang Xudong, New York University
Charles Laughlin, Yale University
Chair:  Jeffrey Kinkley, St. John¹s University

3:45-5:45       Panel 3:  Capitalism, Commericalism, and Cultural
Production in Urban China
Wang Lingzhen, Brown University
Deirdre Sabina Knight, Smith College
Robin Visser, Columbia University
Claire Conceison, Cornell University
Chair:  Olga Lomova, Charles University

6:30    Meet at Ellington Hotel lobby to go to dinner at Empire Szechwan

Sunday, April 9

9:00-10:30      Panel 4:  Assessing Visual Literature
Carlos Rojas, Columbia University
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Harvard University
Liu Jianmei, University of Maryland
Chair:  David Wang, Columbia University

10:45-12:15     Panel 5:  Conceiving and Canonizing Gender
Amy Dooling, Connecticut College
Megan Ferry, Union College
Tze-lan Deborah Sang, Stanford University
Chair:  Zhang Xudong, New York University

12:30-1:30      Lunch
1:30-3:00       Panel 6:  History and Memory in Fiction, Film, and Drama
Xu Gang, Bard College
Yomi Braester, University of Georgia
John B. Weinstein, Columbia University
Chair:  Wang Ban, SUNY Stony Brook