top of page

Panels

Saturday, June 22nd

Panel I: Technologies and Techniques of Sound (9:30--10:50)
 
  • Chair: Jennifer Egloff, Undergraduate Coordinator of the Writing Program; Clinical Assistant Professor of History at NYU Shanghai
  • Peter Moody (Korea University) - "The Applicability of Sound Studies in North Korea Research Methods"
  • Joseph Ho (Albion College) - "Broadcasting National Salvation: Sonic Technologies and Christian Auralities in Republican China, 1920–1949"
  • Yolanda Zhang (University of Toronto) - "Cyber-Companions: On Dialogue-based Emotional AI and the Ethics of System Design"
Panel II: Sonic Warfare (11:10--12:30)
 
  • Chair: Shuang Wen, Clinical Assistant Professor of History at NYU Shanghai
  • Amane Kasai (Kyoto University of the Arts) - "Imperialized Ears: Auditory Representations of Hawaii in Transwar Japan"
  • Kevin Dong (Cornell University) - "From Chongqing to Yan’an: The Soundscape of China under Aerial Bombardment, 1938-1943"
  • John Alekna (Peking University) - "Isolation and Connection in the Sonic War of Resistance"
Panel III: Language, Music, and Popular Media (14:00--15:40)
 
  • Chair: Hye Eun Choi, Clinical Assistant Professor of Korean Language and Culture at NYU Shanghai
  • Ze Gong (Nanyang Technological University) - "From Rigid to Vibrant – Film Dialogue and the Workflow of Contemporary Chinese Film Sound"
  • Seth Henderson (Duke Kunshan University) - "The Ecology of Sound in the Hong Kong Film Unit: the Distinctive Soundscape of Coloniality"​
  • Jin Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology) - "Deviant Writing and Youth Identity: Transcription of Shanghai Wu Dialect on the Internet"
Panel IV: Sound and the Cultural Politics of the Masses (16:00--17:40)
 
  • Chair:  Yucong Hao, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai
  • Yingchuan Yang (Columbia University) - "Broadcast Rally and the Dilemma of Sonic Governance in High Socialist China"
  • Yifan Shi & Yue Wang (East China Normal University) - "Molding Mao’s Announcers: Sound Politics in Suburban Shanghai, 1949-1965"
  • Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase) - "Roadside Guitar Band and “Red Song” Groups: Chinese Amateur Sonic Culture in Public Spaces"
  • Dayton Lekner (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) - "The Great Meeting in the Sky” – CCP Radio and the Birth of an Alternative Acoustic Community"

Sunday, June 23rd

Panel V: Audio-visual Dynamics (9:00--10:20)
 
  • Chair: Michelle Yeonho Hyun, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, NYU Shanghai
  • Jinghui Wang (New York University) - "Bearing ear-witness to the hidden past: sound technology, the economy of haunting, and the sonic ruins in The Lonely Spirit in An Old Building (1989)"
  • Yanxiao He (Tsinghua University) - "Sounding Asian Americana: Race, Empires, and Trans-Pacific Circuits in BTS' “Dionysus”"
  • Richard Davis (Duke Kunshan University) - "Acousmatic Anxieties: Image, Sound, and Agency in the “Belated” Japanese Talkie"
Panel VI: Sound and Performance (10:40--12:20)
 
  • Chair: Rory Huang, Assistant Professor of History, TAMU-Corpus Christi
  • Yu Shi (UCLA) - "Producing Strategies of Transnational Gramophone Companies in 1920s China through Quyi Recordings"
  • Kent Cao (Duke Kunshan University) - "Yangtze Bells: Art and Archaeology of Bronze Nao in South China, c. 15th-10th Century BCE"
  • Kim Hunter Gordon (Duke Kunshan University) - "Competing Authenticities in Kunqu Song: Debates and Practices among Professionals and Aficionados"
  • Linshan Jiang (Duke University) - "Voicing Queer Sexuality in Chinese BL Novel and Audio Drama"
bottom of page