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Beyond Identity Politics:

Global Challenges & Humanistic Responses

ICCT NYU

Winter Institute 2020

NYU PKU UTokyo

ANU

Todd Foley

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Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………..3 Program Schedule……………………………………………………………..5 List of Participants…………………………………………………………….12 Monday Keynotes……………………………………………………………..14 Tuesday Presentations……………………………………………………….20 Symposium: World Literature as Japanese Literature…………………25 Wednesday Presentations…………………………………………………...31 Thursday Presentations……………………………………………………...35 Graduate Student Workshop 1……………………………………………...39 Graduate Student Workshop 2……………………………………………...42 Graduate Student Workshop 3……………………………………………...46 Practical Info……………………………………………………………………50 Maps……………………………………………………………………………..52

January 6-10, 2020 New York University

International Center for Critical Theory

Organizing Committee:

Takahiro Nakajima, University of Tokyo Paul Pickering, The Australian National University

Xudong Zhang, New York University

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Introduction

The organizers of the NYU Winter Institute 2020 seek to critically

examine our current global cultural-political situation by characterizing it as

a dilemma vis-à-vis the presumed stable, foundational Subject: On the one

hand, one witnesses the continued and progressive development of

identitarian politics played out along the lines of demands for equal rights,

recognition, and respect by minorities vis-à-vis the social-cultural

mainstream of advanced, cosmopolitan civil society. The demand for

inclusion, while taking the presumed universal values to task by demanding

substantive rather than rhetorical fair distribution of wealth, material or

symbolic, sometimes ends up driving ever smaller divisions of human

groups and subgroups and, along the way, essentializing some emergent

identities while deconstructing other previously held, more general,

identities. On the other hand, the entire world as a whole now also seems

to be rapidly engulfed in and realigned along resurging "group politics" of

racial, class, religious, tribal or "civilizational" varieties.

Faced with this challenge, we are interested in exploring an

intellectual and discursive path out of this dilemma by striving to think

“beyond identity politics”—not by escaping from it, but by confronting the

deeper-seated issues for which the rubric of “identity politics” often proves

to be intellectually and practically inadequate, and which tends to slip into

ideological impasses and discursive dead-ends. We would like to call on

colleagues and students to participate in a week-long discussion this

January at NYU’s Washington Square Campus, an event made possible

by the international and multi-disciplinary platform of the Winter Institute

consortium. We hope to bring together different perspectives, voices and

concerns resulting from different experiences, expertise, and institutional

frames to converge on a sustained critical reflection on identity and identity

politics as a cultural, representational, and ideological complex of realities

and symptoms. Our shared common points of departure are humanistic in

nature, referring not only to the central disciplines in the humanities that

have been undergoing intensified attack or marginalization; but also to the

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very concept of the human as it is rooted in different social norms, cultural

imaginations, and collective experiences. The latter inevitably informs and

demands a necessarily critical and antagonistic stance toward the status

quo and its rhetorical reinforcements often found in the main players in the

global ideological arena, such as liberalism, nationalism, conservatism,

radicalism, religious fundamentalism, and so forth. We may all agree that

the underpinning questions and challenges posed to us as humanists at

this juncture appear to be global and political in nature, having to do with

the twin forces of the capitalist market and the persistent nation-state, both

of which proclaim to safeguard but, in actuality, trap culture—as ideas and

socialized human activities—to render them divided and imprisoned more

or less along national lines. It appears sensible to us to start with

reexamining the logic of the intensity of human groupings and divisions

around the more particular phenomenon of identity formation as we

embark on rethinking and reformulating the question of "what it is to be

human" vis-a-vis new planetary conditions of possibility.

The theme for this Winter Institute will be elaborated along the five

topics around which the keynote lectures, faculty papers and graduate

student presentations are to be organized:

A. Identities and Their Discontents: Rethinking Political Ontology of

Human Groupings in the Post-Globalization Era

B. Necessities and Limits of Minorian Identities vis-a-vis National and

Global Trends

C. Language, Translation and Literary Humanities in the Shaping of

Emergent Identities

D. Universalism as Utopia and Ideology

E. Geopolitics and Cultural Politics in Critical Asian/Area Studies

Program Schedule

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Program Schedule

Monday, January 6 The Grand Hall

NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life, 5th Floor Identities and Their Discontents: Rethinking Political Ontologies of the Human 10:00-10:50 Welcoming remarks; Position Statements from Delegations followed by an

Initial General Discussion, Moderated by Ulrich Baer (NYU)

10:50-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Winter Institute 2020 Keynote Speech:

Hent de Vries (NYU), “On Inexistence”

Introduced by Xudong Zhang

Discussant: Takahiro Nakajima (UTokyo)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:10 Delegation Keynote Speech-ANU: Paul Pickering and Shirley Leitch

“Constructing the Alt-Right: The Identitarian Politics of the Global

Movement against Globalization”

Discussants: Thomas Looser (NYU) and Mark Kenny (ANU)


3:20--4:30 Delegation Keynote Speech-NYU: Markus Gabriel (Univ. of Bonn)

“A Neo-Existentialist Account of Human Nature and Social Identity”

Discussant: Xudong Zhang (NYU)

5:30-6:30 Public Reception

7:00-9:00 Dinner for Winter Institute 2020 Participants

Program Schedule

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Tuesday, January 7 The Colloquium Room

NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life, 5th Floor

10-10:35 Takahiro Nakajima (UTokyo), “Okinawa in the Eyes of Ōta Masahide”

Discussant: Annmaria Shimabuku (NYU)

10:35-11:10 Nathan Emmerich (ANU), “Expertise and the Claims of Lived Experience”

Discussant: Zakir Paul (NYU)


11:20-11:55 Yoon Jeong Oh (NYU), “Cosmopolitan Dilemmas and/of Diasporic

Subjects in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West” Discussant: Qin Wang (UTokyo)

11:55-12:30 Masaaki Takeda (UTokyo), “Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao’s

Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the Human Archetype of Post-War

Japan”

Discussant: John Y. Zou (PKU/Chongqing University)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-5:00 Symposium

World Literature as Japanese Literature: How Novelists, Critics, and Translators Adapted Western Ideas

Co-Chaired by

Catharine Stimpson, Dean (Emerita) of the Graduate School of Arts and Science (NYU)

Masaaki Takeda (U Tokyo)

2:00-2:10 Introduction by Catharine Stimpson (NYU) and Masaaki Takeda (U Tokyo)

2:10-2:30 Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University), “Subjectivity in Description:

How Japanese Writers Adapted Naturalism”

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2:30-2:50 Masatsugu Ono (Waseda University), “Fiction Writing and Translation:

The Need for Foreignness in the Modern Japanese Novel”

2:50-3:10 Koji Toko (Waseda University), “Translating Translation: Rendering Junot

Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Japanese”


3:20-3:40 Kohei Kuwada (UTokyo), “On the Concept of Surface: A Short Remark on

Japanese Postmodernism in Literary Criticism”

3:40-4:00 Masaaki Takeda (UTokyo), “ ‘I know not what to call this’: Looking for

Crusonian Moments in Modern Japanese Literature”

4-4:40 General Discussion

Discussants: Robyn Creswell (Yale), Nina Coryetz (NYU), Zakir Paul

(NYU), Sonia Werner (NYU), and Yoon Jeong Oh (NYU)

Program Schedule

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Wednesday, January 8

The Great Room 19 University Place, First Floor

10-10:35 Annmaria Shimabuku (NYU), “The Female Voice as Trace: The

Intertextual Odyssey of the 18th Century Ryukyuan Poetess Onna Nabe

throughout the Chinese, Yamato, and American Worlds”

Discussant: Mark Kenny (ANU)

10:35-11:10 Carolyn Strange (ANU), “Identifying Victims of Violence by Gender:

Historical Constructions and Future Considerations”

Discussant: Ulrich Baer (NYU)


11:20-11:55 Cheng Xing (Zhejiang Univ./ ICCT-PKU), “The Inevitable Failure of the

Xiake Dream of the Literati: The Political Allegories in Chinese Martial Arts

Fiction”

Discussant: Todd Foley (NYU)

11:55-12:30 John Y. Zou (ICCT-PKU/Chongqing Univ.), “Richard’s Proverbial

Horselessness: The Person of State and Politico-Cultural Transformation

on the Shakespearean Stage”

Discussant: Avital Ronell (NYU)

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon free (optional excursions to the MET, MoMA, Brooklyn Bridge, 911

Memorial, etc.)

Program Schedule

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Thursday, January 9

The Grand Hall NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life, 5th Floor

10:00-10:35 Sakura Yahata (UTokyo), “Created Conflict and the Possibility of Dialog

by Art: from Aichi Triennale 2019”

Discussant: Thomas Looser (NYU)

10:35-11:10 Peter Alwast (ANU), “Contemporary Positions on Aesthetics and Politics

beyond Identity and Representation”

Discussant: Sonia Werner (NYU)


11:20-11:55 Qin Wang (UTokyo), “The Rhetoric of Carl Schmitt’s “Forward” to The

Nomos of the Earth” Discussant: Markus Gabriel (Univ. of Bonn)

11:55-12:30 Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (ANU), “On Machine-Readable Ontologies and the

Representation of Human Groupings”

Discussant: Leif Weatherby (NYU)

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:15 Graduate Student Workshop #1

(25 minutes allocated to each participant for presentation and discussion)

Katie Cox (ANU), “Insecure identities: Reading Identity Politics through the Affect

and Logic of National Security”

Juntao Lin (PKU), “Window, Border and Body: Aesthetics and Politics in the

Cinematic Representation of Shenzhen”

Ryohei Tatebe (UTokyo), “Maruyama Masao’s Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takeuchi

Yoshimi’s Lu Xun: Different Styles of Enlightenments in Modern Japan

and China”

Moderator: Honey Watson (NYU)

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Yue Qi (PKU), “Mapping as Method”

James Mortensen (ANU), “The ‘Unacknowledged Consensus’: The Forgotten

Identity of Security”

Wan-Chun Huang (NYU), “Chinese Identities Split and Questioned in Su Tong’s

Riverbank”

Moderator: Alyssa Yue Pu (NYU)

Program Schedule

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Friday, January 10

The Silver Board Room NYU Kimmel Center, 9th Floor, room 914


(25 minutes allocated to each participant for presentation and discussion)

Lee-Anne Sim (ANU), “Influencing the Social Impact of Financial Systems –

Alternative Strategies”

Shuang Wu (PKU), “Sun Yat-sen’s Xun Zheng and Contemporary United States’

Domestic Politics”

Kathrin Witter (Princeton) & Haziran Zeller (Technische Universität Berlin), “Non-

Identity, Singularity and Adorno’s Critical Theory”

Zijian Tan (NYU), “Rereading Lu Xun’s Wild Grass: Language, Translation, and

Literary Humanities in the Shaping of Emergent Identities”

Moderator: Todd Foley (NYU)


11:30-12:30 Concluding Roundtable

Moderated by: Mariano Siskind (Harvard)

12:30 Lunch

List of Participants

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List of Participants University of Tokyo

NAKAJIMA Takahiro (Professor), Delegation keynote speaker

TAKEDA Masaaki (Professor), faculty paper

YAHATA Sakura (Assistant Professor), faculty paper

WANG Qin (Lecturer), faculty paper

Ryohei Tatebe (Graduate student), student paper

“World Literature as Japanese Literature,” organized by Takeda Masaaki ONO Masatsugu, Waseda University

TOKO Koji, Waseda University

KUBO Akihiro, Kansei-Gakuin University

KUWADA Kohei, University of Tokyo

Peking University delegation John. Y. Zou, Center for Literary Studies, Chongqing Univ., faculty paper

XING Cheng, Dept. of Chinese Language & Literature, Zhejiang University, faculty

paper

LIN Juntao, PhD student, Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, student paper

QI Yue, PhD candidate, Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, student paper

WU Shuang, PhD candidate, School of Law, student paper

Australian National University delegation Paul Pickering, Director, Australian Studies Institute & Director, Research School in the

Humanities and Social Sciences

Shirley Leitch, Professorial Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, faculty commentator

Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, faculty commentator

Peter Alwast, School of Art and Design, delegation keynoter speaker

Carolyn Strange, School of History, faculty paper

Nathan Emmerich, Bioethics, College of Health and Medicine, faculty paper

Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, faculty paper

Katherine Cox, PhD Candidate, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics,

student paper

James Mortensen, PhD Candidate in National Security College, student paper

Lee-Anne Sim, PhD Candidate in College of Law, student paper

List of Participants

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New York University Home Team Hent de Vries, German Dept. & Director of School of Criticism & Theory at Cornell

University, Winter Institute keynote speaker

Markus Gabriel, German Dept./University of Bonn, NYU delegation keynote speaker

Catharine Stimpson, Dean Emerita, Graduate School of Arts and Science

Thomas Looser, East Asian Studies, general commentator

Ulrich Baer, Comparative Literature & German; Director, NYU Humanities Center

Nina Cornyetz, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies

Robyn Creswell, Yale/NYU alum

Todd Foley, Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies

Amy Wan-Chun Huang, PhD student in East Asian Studies

Yoon Jeong Oh, East Asian Studies

Zakir Paul, Comparative Literature; Director of Poetics & Theory

Alyssa Yue Pu, PhD student in Comparative Literature

Avital Ronell, Comparative Literature & German

Annmaria Shimabuku, East Asian Studies

Mariano Siskind, Harvard/NYU alum

Stefan Zijian Tan, M.A. student in East Asian Studies

Honey Watson, PhD student in Comparative Literature

Leif Weatherby, German

Sonia Werner, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies

Kathrin Witter, PhD student in German at Princeton University

Haziran Zeller, PhD student in Technische Universität Berlin

Xudong Zhang, Comparative Literature & East Asian Studies

Local organizing committee Xudong Zhang

Todd Foley

Shiqi Liao

Stefan Tan

Monday, Jan. 6

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Monday Keynotes

“On Inexistence”

Recent philosophical discourses have insisted that it is time to revisit as well as

develop new conceptions of "inexistence" -- perhaps, even including ideas of the "in-

finite" -- that might guide and, indeed, reorient our more urgent inquiries in the humanities

and social sciences, but that are, interestingly, not without analogies and resonances with

motifs in the sciences and in literary fiction either. Paradoxically, almost all of these

proposals borrow heavily from theological, mystical, and metaphysical traditions that now

function as apparent resources and repositories for a sophisticated critical, theoretical no

less than pragmatic, agenda that had, at least in origin, sought to overcome or displace

them. This lecture offers a brief account and summary assessment of the stakes involved

in this resolutely speculative turn to "inexistence," its use of "divine inexistence" as a

model, addressing the perspectives it opens and the questions it raises.

Hent de Vries is Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities. He received his

BA/MA in Judaica and Hellenistic Thought (Theology), Public Finance and Political Economy (Law), at Leiden University, and obtained his PhD there in Philosophy of Religion, with a study on Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, entitled Theologie im pianissimo. Zwischen Rationalität und

Dekonstruktion.

Hent de Vries Professor of German, Religious

Studies, Comparative Literature, and

Affiliated Professor of Philosophy

(NYU)

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Before joining NYU, de Vries directed The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, holding the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities with a joint appointment in Philosophy. He also taught in the Philosophy departments of Loyola University in Chicago and the University of Amsterdam, where he long held the Chair of Metaphysics and its History and co-founded and directed the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. He received visiting positions and fellowships at Harvard, Chicago, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, the Paris Collège International de Philosophie, the Université Saint Louis in Brussels, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Université de Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Hent de Vries is currently serving his second term as Director of the summer School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University (SCT), Ithaca. In 2018, he was the Titulaire of the Chaire de Métaphysique Étienne Gilson at the Institut Catholique, Paris. He is the editor of the book series "Cultural Memory in the Present," published by Stanford University Press.

Monday, Jan. 6

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“Constructing the Alt-Right: The Identitarian Politics of the Global Movement against Globalization”

On March 15, 2019, Facebook livestreamed a massacre. A single gunman, toting

semi-automatic weapons, killed 51 people and wounded 49 others in an act of alt-right

terrorism targeting Muslims. Two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, were the

physical location of the massacre but the attack itself was intended for a global audience.

In preparation for the massacre, the terrorist posted an 87-page ‘Great Replacement’

manifesto on 8Chan and emailed a personal copy to the New Zealand Prime Minister.

Drawing on the Christchurch massacre as a case study, in this paper we examine the

identitarian politics espoused by the radical alt-right. Our focus is on the three roles played

by social media in: (1) shaping an Alt-Right imaginary in which the 'White Races' face

extinction; (2) forging a global brotherhood espousing real-world, violent action; and (3)

providing a global forum within which such atrocities may be planned, distributed, and

Shirley Leitch Professorial Fellow, Australian Studies

Institute (ANU)

Paul Pickering Director, Australian Studies Institute;

Director, Research School of Humanities

and the Arts (ANU)

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consumed. Our analysis is situated within its broader economic and political context,

including, the mainstream political discourses associated with populist politics and the

monopoly position enjoyed by a small number of major social media companies.

Professor Shirley Leitch is a Professorial Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University, where she was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) and Dean of the College of Business and Economics. Her research is focused on public discourse and change, including science-society engagement in relation to controversial science and technology, such as Genetically Modified Organisms. Shirley and her research teams have received more than $5m in national competitive grants. For an overview of publications, see https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/leitch-sr

Professor Paul Pickering is Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, and the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University, where he was formerly Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His recent books include: Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790-1914, (2017) (with Kate Bowan); Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn (2010); Feargus O'Connor: A Political Life (2008); and Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform (2007). For an overview of publications, see https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/pickering-pa

Monday, Jan. 6

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“A Neo-Existentialist Account of Human Nature and Social Identity”

Recently, in Identity. The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Francis Fukuyama has argued social identity is irreducible plural and local. Similarly,

Martha Nussbaum in her The Cosmopolitan Tradition. A Noble but Flawed Ideal offers a

genealogy of cosmopolitanism which questions the universalist assumption that there

could be a universal form of social identity. Against this trend, I will argue that there is a

universal form of humanity realized in the human capacity to act in light of a conception

of the human being. This notion of a universal form of human being draws on a re-reading

of the existentialist tradition in order to counter-balance the idea of insurmountable socio-

cultural otherness which only captures a part of a more adequate, neo-existentialist

picture of the human being.

The paper has two parts. In the first, negative part I reconstruct the shortcomings

of Fukuyama’s and Nussbaum’s particularist worries concerning the cosmopolitan

tradition. In the second, positive part, I develop the concept of neo-existentialism and

present some (dialectical) difficulties relating to the fact that authenticity is not sufficient

to ground an adequate form of human self-consciousness (as philosophers of social

identity such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre thought). We need to replace the norm

of authenticity by a stronger conception of the human being which considers that our self-

consciousness (and, therefore, the origin of social identity) essentially involves human

animality. Yet, the universal form of human universality does not suffice to justify a

cosmopolitan conception of human nature as long as we do not second it by a full

recognition of historical, diachronic and synchronic variation in the human self-portrait.

Markus Gabriel Eberhard Berent Goethe Professor (NYU)

University Professor and Chair in

Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary

Philosophy (University of Bonn)

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Markus Gabriel (Dr. phil. and Habilitation, University of Heidelberg) currently holds the Eberhard Berent Goethe chair at NYU (Fall 2019). He also holds the chair in epistemology, modern and contemporary philosophy at the University of Bonn where he is the director of the International Center for Philosophy and the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. With Jocelyn Benoist he co-directs the Bonn-Paris Center for Research on New Realisms. His work focuses on epistemological and ontological issues in contemporary philosophy in an attempt to spell out the consequences of recent philosophical trends in a conversation with the humanities. He just finished a book called Fictions which deals with foundational topics at the intersection of philosophy, literary studies and sociology. His recent books include Why the World does

not Exist (Polity 2013); I am not Brain (Polity 2019) and Neo-Existentialism (Polity 2019).

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Tuesday Presentations

Okinawa in the Eyes of Ōta Masahide Takahiro Nakajima

Abstract:

In Japanese history, Okinawa is a place where political violence is deeply

embedded. My paper discusses some prominent historians’ scholarship on this issue,

with a particular focus on Ōta Masahide. Ōta served as governor of Okinawa between

1990 and 1998, devoting himself to a lawsuit over the forced leasing of land for U.S. bases

in his prefecture. During his term, he sought to re-conceptualize Okinawa’s past, present

and future states from a historical perspective. Ōta previously taught as a professor at

University of the Ryukyus, and maintained his investigations into Okinawa history even

after becoming a politician. This paper aims to clarify how Ōta understood the meaning

of Okinawa in his dual roles as a historian and a politician.

Bio:

Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy at Institute for

Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. After graduating from graduate school

of Humanities, University of Tokyo, he worked for the University of Tokyo (1991-1996),

Ritsumeikan University (1996-2000), and the University of Tokyo (2000-). He is an editor

in chief of International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press).

His main fields of research are the circulation of philosophical concepts in East and West

and East Asian discourses of food.

His publications include Language qua Thought (Iwanami, 2017), Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish (Eds. Roger T. Ames and Takahiro Nakajima, University of Hawai’i Press,

2015), Philosophy of the Evil (Chikuma-shobo, 2012), Praxis of Co-existence: State and Religion (University of Tokyo Press, 2011), The Zhuangzi, (Iwanami, 2009), Philosophy in Humanities (Iwanami, 2009), The Reverberation of Chinese Philosophy: Language and Politics, (University of Tokyo Press, 2007), etc.

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Identifying Victims of Violence by Gender: Historical Constructions and Future Considerations Carolyn Strange

Abstract:

Interpersonal violence is overwhelmingly an intra-gender phenomenon. Across

time and cultures, males have greatly outnumbered females as perpetrators and victims

of violence. The laws of war and civil society have authorised and venerated violence

committed by men, and it was not until the late eighteenth century that male violence

against women was subjected to critique. Early exponents of ‘woman’s rights’ identified

inter-gender male violence as a form of tyranny, since husbands were legally permitted

to discipline their wives (as well as their children and servants) through physical force.

Consequently, early feminists likened men’s conjugal authority to the slaveholder’s. They

called out marital violence and ‘wife bashing’ as cruelty, and they dehumanised its male

authors as brutes. In contrast, wives who suffered did not acquire an identity in public

discourse prior to 1970s, when a wave of feminist-inspired activism thrust the problem of

domestic violence in to the realm of public policy. Campaigners’ focus turned away from

male ‘bashers’ and toward female victims. Even women who responded with lethal

violence to abuse were depicted as victims in feminist critiques of gender disparities and

legal constructions of self-defence. However, the victims’ rights movement in the late-

twentieth century fostered new identities. Women who left abusive partners were

encouraged to identify as survivors – rights-bearing subjects who required services, not

pity. This paper examines textual and visual evidence from the past two centuries in

Australia to track this shift and to project its implications for the analysis of gender-based

violence in a projected future of proliferating, non-binary gender identities.

Bio:

Carolyn Strange is a professor in the School of History, ANU. She has published

for over thirty years on the history of gender and violence. She has published in the fields

of criminology, law, women’s studies and cross-cultural studies. Her work has appeared

in leading historical journals (the Journal of Social History, History Workshop, History and

Memory), plus the British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Media and Culture, and Law and

Society Review. Her latest book, published by NYU Press, is Discretionary Justice: Pardon and Parole in New York, from the Revolution to the Depression (2016).

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Cosmopolitan Dilemmas and/of Diasporic Subjects in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West Yoon Jeong Oh

Abstract:

This paper examines the transpacific critique of the cosmopolitan subject which

renders colonial diasporic issues illegible. Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, an

autobiographical story of a hero who escapes colonial Korea and immigrates in the United

States via Canada in 1920s, provides a compelling account of the cosmopolitan

challenges faced by the colonial diaspora. Kang displays cosmopolitan aspirations

throughout the novel while encountering various struggles with respect to race, class,

gender, ethnicity, nationality, and language. His discursive positionality is constantly in

transit in an eccentric travelogue that relates multiple spaces and times between East

and West. Ultimately, Kang’s diasporic writing recounts a cosmopolitan multiplicity

superimposed on the liminality of colonial diaspora and thus addresses cosmopolitan

dilemmas in terms of the nation-state, issues of political sovereignty, and questions of

universal humanity. If the law of cosmopolitanism is restricted to the conditions of

universal hospitality, as Kant supposes, colonial migrants and diasporic subjects in East Goes West illustrate how these conditions are institutionalized within the national border,

state sovereignty, and public/political space. Via close analyses of oriental guests to

universal hospitality in Kang’s text, this paper will argue that it is an Other, epitomized by

the colonial diaspora as a transitory figure, that conditions a cosmopolitan idea. A new

cosmo-politics, then, must simultaneously invent new forms of solidarity that can be allied

to an essential Other and recognize these limiting conditions.

Bio:

Yoon Jeong Oh is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of East

Asian Studies at New York University. Her research interests include modern Korean and

World literatures, translation theories, postcolonial diasporas, urban studies, and

psychoanalysis. She is currently working on her book manuscript, Translingual Interventions: Literatures of Migration from Post/Colonial Korea, which engages with

colonial and postcolonial literatures and translation theories to investigate the notion of

singularity in translingual and transmedial practices of Korean diasporic writers.

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Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao’s Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the Human Archetype of Post-War Japan Masaaki Takeda

Abstract:

Ōtsuka Hisao (1907-96), an economic historian and leading theorist in the

democratic movement of post-war Japan, frequently mentioned Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) as a story embodying the archetype of modern capitalism. Also, he

recommended the autonomous and individualistic character of Robinson Crusoe as the

“Human archetype” that should be imitated by defeated Japanese, who were in need of

establishing democracy for themselves rather than under foreign pressure. However,

Ōtsuka’s analyses of Robinson Crusoe are not always faithful to Defoe’s original. This

paper traces the source of Ōtsuka’s misinterpretation back to eighteenth-century

Germany and France. By so doing, it shows that Ōtsuka’s purification of the original text

was not a digression but a continuation of the history of the misrepresentation of Robinson

Crusoe (the character) and that, in his idealisation of Robinson Crusoe, Ōtsuka fell into

the same contradiction and danger as his predecessors (e.g. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

and Joahim Heinrich Campe) did: namely, to justify coercion under the name of

democracy. Then, this paper examines whether Japanese post-war democracy neglected

this contradiction for the sake of the national economic growth. It is noteworthy in this

context that Ōtsuka considered the sound development of the national economy more

important than the acquisition of profits through entrepôt trade. His political idea (of

establishing democracy through Robinsonising Japanese) and his economic idea (of

restoring Japan through developing the national economy) seem to be inseparable. If this

is true, it can be said that the stereotypical image of Japan as monoethnic and monolithic

nation is an invention that has served to obliterate the contradiction stated above. This

paper finally suggests that the burst of Ōtsuka’s (and probably Japan’s) illusion might

have brought about or restored the problems Japan had neglected, such as the right of

minorities and the inspection of pre-war imperialism.

Bio:

Masaaki Takeda is an associate professor at Graduate School of Arts and

Sciences, University of Tokyo. He published many articles on Daniel Defoe, Jonathan

Swift and other eighteenth-century British writers as well as on modern Japanese

literature. His recent articles are included in Comprehensive Annotations to Gulliver’s

Travels (co-written with Noriyuki Harada and Noriyuki Hattori, 2013), The Eight Famous

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Literary Awards in the World (edited by Koji Toko, 2016), Ken’ichi Yoshida Revisited

(edited by Nao Kawamoto, et al., 2019), and British Literature and Film (edited by Kunio

Shin, et al., 2019). He also translated Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and The Journal of the Plague Year into Japanese. His new book, Nominal Desire: The Generation of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain is to be published in 2020. He currently works on the

projects called “Anthropological Readings of Modern British Novels” and “Robinsonades

in Modern Japanese Economics.

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Symposium Co-chaired by Catharine Stimpson

& Masaaki Takeda

Introduction

Consciously or unconsciously, Japanese writers since the Meiji Restoration (1868)

have adapted what they discovered in foreign, especially Western literature to their own

environments. Thus, most of the ideas they imported were translated into something else:

the interest in Western Naturalism for example resulted in the rise of the I-novel, a style

of fiction peculiar to modern Japanese literature. So the history of modern Japanese

literature can be described neither as a linear, indigenous development nor as a list of the

superficial copies of exotic vogues. It has been formed and transformed through perpetual

negotiations with world literature. This symposium aims at delineating such a subtle

process of alterations, distortions, and inventions through the analyses of texts that

illustrate how modern Japan encountered or failed to encounter Western ideas. Revealing

differences in apparent similarities, however, we would also like to consider the common

ground and methodology that enable us to surpass the restrictions of national literature,

whether it is Oriental or Occidental.

Subjectivity in Description: How Japanese Writers Adapted Naturalism Akihiro Kubo

Abstract:

Naturalism, which was imported from the West into Japan at the beginning of the

twentieth century, played a major role in the history of modern Japanese literature. Mitsuo

Nakamura, a prominent literary critic, wrote that Japanese Naturalism has formed “the

techniques of realism peculiar to Japan and the concept of literature itself”. However, this

literary movement not only produced the works which aim to grasp the world by means

of objective observations and scientific methods, but also gave rise to the I-novel, that is,

World Literature as Japanese Literature How Novelists, Critics, and Translators

Adapted Western Ideas

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a kind of fictionalized autobiography. For those writers who were seeking to establish “the

techniques of realism”, byosha (description or “painting” in Japanese) was one of the

important topics. Katai Tayama presented his theory of the “flat painting” in his “Byosha-

ron (On Description)” (1911) and other writings, Shusei Tokuda has underlined the

difficulty of description in his Jinbutsu Byosha Hou (How to describe the characters) (1912)

which is a handbook for writing and Homei Iwano proposed his ideas on the “monistic

description” in several writings and criticized Katai’s conception of description. In this

paper, I will examine these theoretical writings in the light of western literary theories in

order to understand the peculiarities of modern Japanese literature.

Bio:

Akihiro Kubo is a professor at School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University.

His research focuses on the literary theory and French literature in the twentieth century.

He has published various books and articles on the theory of fiction as well as on literary

modernism in France and in Japan. He also translated Jean-Marie Schaeffer’s Pourquoi la fiction? (Why Fiction?) and Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro (Zazie in the Metro) and Le Chiendent (The Bark Tree) into Japanese.

Fiction Writing and Translation: The Need for Foreignness in the Modern Japanese Novel Masatsugu Ono

Abstract:

Modern Japanese literature was born in the second half of the nineteenth century,

through encounters with Western literature. Though Japanese readers were accustomed

to traditional popular narrative forms, the notion of the Western “novel” was completely

new to them at that time. The reading of foreign literature either in the original or in

translation played a decisive role in the literary self-formation of Japanese writers from

the giants in the Meiji era (1868-1912) such as Ogai Mori and Soseki Natsume to the

major names in the twentieth century literature such as Junichiro Tanizaki, Ryunosuke

Akutagawa, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, and Kenzaburo Oe, and to

contemporary novelists like Haruki Murakami. For instance, Ogai and Soseki could not

have become writers without their study abroad experience (the former in Germany, the

latter in the UK).

Now that the novel form has become an integral part of Japanese culture, however,

contemporary Japanese writers do not seem to be aware of the foreignness that exists in

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the very origin of modern Japanese literature. Haruki Murakami’s example is a significant

point in case. One of the most popular Japanese writers in the global literary market,

Haruki is appreciated in Japan as a great novelist as well as a great translator of Anglo-

American literature. He is also known to have created his own prose style, in his years of

literary apprenticeship, by translating the text he had written in English into Japanese. In

this paper, I will try to show how the experience of the “foreign” made it possible for him

to become a novelist, and to trace the major transformation that the rise of Haruki

Murakami brought to the contemporary Japanese literary scene.

Bio:

Masatsugu Ono is an author, translator and a professor at Waseda University’s

School of Culture, Media, and Society. He has won numerous awards for his fiction

including the Asahi New Writers Award, Mishima Award, and Akutagawa Prize. English

translations of his work include At the Edge of the Woods (Strangers Press, 2017) Lion Cross Point (Two Lines Press, 2018) and Echo on the Bay (forthcoming from Two Lines

Press in 2020). He is also a translator of both fiction and non-fiction from French and

English into Japanese—including works by Édouard Glissant, Marie NDiaye, and Akhil

Sharma.

Translating Translation: Rendering Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Japanese Koji Toko

Abstract:

Translating Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao into Japanese

was really a tough experience to me, because this fictional chronicle of a Dominican

American family, written both in English and Spanish, is marked with the lingual as well

as cultural hybridity that challenges the very concept of translation. Díaz came to the US

when he was six years old, and was raised in a Dominican immigrant community in New

Jersey. Code switching between the two languages was a quotidian experience for him:

he spoke Spanish with his family members and neighbors, was taught in English in the

educational system of the US, and read in the two languages.

Based on such experiences, there appear many types of “translation” in this work.

Sometimes, even the failure in code switching could be interpreted as creative. For

example, the name Oscar Wao is a transcription of “Oscar Wilde” pronounced by a

Spanish character. Through this mistake of enunciation, Oscar Wao, the protagonist of

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this book, was named, and then this person grew up to be an otaku guy who struggles

alone with the Dominican despotic state.

Nevertheless, this kind of failure in code switching is hard to translate into

Japanese. Confronted with this difficulty, I decided to use the hybridity of Japanese

language. In the fifth century, Japanese people decided to import Chinese characters to

write down their own language. As Chinese characters are ideograms, Japanese at that

time combined Chinese sounds and meanings with proper Japanese sounds and built up

a complicated writing system, in which the same Chinese character is pronounced in

various ways, depending on the context.

As the phonetic sign, Japanese often put small phonetic alphabets next to Chinese

characters, which are called “rubi.” In my translation, I extended this “rubi” sign system. I

wrote down the meaning in Japanese main lines, and showed English or Spanish sounds

in “rubi.” In some cases, I also utilized “rubi” to show puns and connotations in the original

text. By using this polyphonic strategy, I attempted to draw readers’ attention to the

hybridity of Japanese language, which might revitalize their recognition in their own

hybridity, though Japanese are generally regard themselves as a monolingual,

monoethnic nation.

This kind of hybridity has been changing the course of Japanese literature in the

twenty-first century. After reading the Japanese translation of Sandra Cisneros’ The House on the Mango Street, which also is filled with both English and Spanish, On Yujyu,

a Taiwanese immigrant writer, thought up her debut novel The House of Happiness

(��), written in Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese. Akira Higashiyama, who is also

a Taiwanese immigrant, wrote Stream (�), which uses the hybridity of Japanese as well.

Bio:

Koji Toko is a professor at Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda

University. He is a translator and American literary scholar. His published works include

The Birth of Pseudo-American Literature (Suiseisha), Towards a Planetary Reading of 30 Books in the 21st Century (Shinchosha), Being Planetary for Survival:24 Books in the 21st Century (Shinchosha), and The Rapturous Reader (Editorial Republica); he has also

translated The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This Is How You Lose Her by Junot

Díaz (translated with Naomi Kubo, Shinchosha), Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmerelda

(translated with Motoyuki Shibata, et al., Shinchosha), Factotum by Charles Bukowski

(Kawade Shobo Shinsha), and more.

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On the Concept of Surface: A Short Remark on Japanese Postmodernism in Literary Criticism Kohei Kuwada

Abstract:

The hypothesis proposed in this presentation is as follows: Japan was––and

maybe still is––one of the world's leading laboratories for postmodernism. Furthermore,

Japan, which was compelled to implement rapid modernization, ought to have resulted in

a unique postmodernism. To examine this hypothesis, I will focus on Japanese literary

criticism in the late 1960s and early 1970s that incubated unique ideas on the concept of

"surface" in the process of appropriating the so-called "French theory". Atsushi Miyakawa,

art critic and translator of André Breton, Georges Bataille, Yves Bonnefoy and others,

denied "a true or real world of essence" to be found outside appearances so as to

consider modern art and culture as affirmation of a world without a beyond. Under the

considerable influence of the contemporary French theory, Miyakawa refined his thoughts

on the concept of "surface". This affirmation or even admiration of the surface seems to

have had a continual impact, whether explicitly or implicitly, on subsequent Japanese

criticism and literary works. To clarify a singular aspect of Japanese postmodernism, we

will try to show some examples of this impact: for example, film analyses by Shigehiko

Hasumi, which appreciate the movement of images rather than the plot construction;

critical essays by Casio Abe on the importance of metonymy in Japanese contemporary

poetry; and some novels about everyday life devoid of drama or distress.

Bio:

Kohei Kuwada is an associate professor at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,

University of Tokyo. His research interests are focused on modern and contemporary

French literature and art as well as on modern Japanese poetry. He published a book on

Roland Barthes (Roland Barthes ––A Look at the Incidents, 2011) and many articles on

Pascal Quignard, Gérard Macé, Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre Reverdy, Alberto Giacometti,

Auguste Rodin, Balthus and other contemporary writers and artists. He also wrote essays

on Japanese poets such as Kiwao Nomura, Taro Kitamura and Hiroshi Iwata. His recent

articles are included in The Eight Famous Literary Awards in the World (edited by Koji

Toko, 2016), Réceptions de la culture japonaise en France depuis 1945 : Paris-Tokyo-Paris (edited by Fabien Arribert-Narce, et al., 2016), and Les mondes de Gérard Macé

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(edited by Ridha Boulaâbi, et al., 2018). He translated François Cusset’s French Theory,

Pascal Quignard’s Les Ombres Errantes, Gérard Macé’s Pensées Simples, and some art

exhibition catalogues.

“I know not what to call this”: Looking for Crusonian Moments in Modern Japanese Literature Masaaki Takeda

Abstract:

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) is often regarded as the work that

inaugurated the rise of the modern, realistic novel in England and then in Europe. Since

its first translation in the mid-nineteenth century, Robinson’s adventure has been popular

in Japan, too. Japanese writers in the early modern period completely neglected the

novelty of its literary style, however, probably because of the large gap between the year

of publication and that of translation. Sōseki Natsume even doubted the literary value of

Defoe’s fiction in Literary Criticism (1909), a book based on his lectures on eighteenth-

century British literature at the Tokyo Imperial University. This paper first shows what is

missed out in Sōseki’s criticism on Defoe’s realistic style through the analyses of both

Sōseki’s and Defoe’s texts. With all his insensibilities to the merit of Defoe’s writings,

however, Sōseki seems to have adopted the style of Robinson Crusoe without realising

it in Kokoro (Heart, 1914), his most popular work. Then, this paper traces what could be

called “Crusonian moments” in modern Japanese literature from Ōgai Mori’s historical

stories, through Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s late, autobiographical stories, to Hideo

Kobayashi’s critical essays. By so doing, it tries to imagine a possible, if virtually lost,

genealogy in pre-war Japanese literature that illustrates the conditions of the modern

novel irrespective of country.

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Wednesday Presentations

The Female Voice as Trace: The Intertextual Odyssey of the 18th Century Ryukyuan Poetess Onna Nabe throughout the Chinese, Yamato, and American Worlds Annmaria Shimabuku

Abstract:

Onna Nabe was an early 18th century poetess from an agrarian village in the

Ryukyus. While classical Japanese literature boasts of écriture féminine of the likes of

Murasaki Shikibu and Seishōnagon, the Ryukyus are largely absent of women’s writing.

One exception is Onna Nabe, whose poems were sung in the open air and caught the

attention of the King and his entourage as they toured the northern territories of the

Ryukyus. From there her poems became legendary byway of an intertexual odyssey of

translations that occurred by word of mouth, music, song-dance kumiodori dramas, and

the contemporary literature of another female author, Sakiyama Tami. This paper

examines these translations as acts of transposition into disparate systems that converge

into the space of the Ryukyus/Okinawa, or what the U.S. military has called the "Keystone

of the Pacific.” After 1609, the formerly independent Ryukyu Kingdom was secretly

subjugated to the Satsuma clan of the Tokugawa bakufu unbeknownst to Ming/Qing

China, just as Okinawa Prefecture is subjugated to the Japanese state under the

sanctioned ignorance of the U.S. today. Although many have taken this ambiguity as an

opportunity to debate whether the Ryukyus are more Chinese or Japanese, this paper is

not interested in pinpointing an original and authentic “Okinawa”; in parallel, it is

not interested in tracing the “true voice” of this poetess. Rather, it positions the otherness,

opacity, unintelligibility, and aleatory element—the “thing-in-itself,” or the x— as a trace

that provides the animating force of transposition to another system of signification, to

another world. Inspired by Derrida’s statement that “one plus one makes at least three”

and W.E.B. Dubois’s notion of “double consciousness,” it follows this x or trace with

binocular (double) parallax vision. In this way, it argues that the structure of ambivalence

in the movement between positions is the dreamwork to build another world in the Pacific

deadlocked by competing Chinese/Japanese capitalism and a U.S. military basing project.

It is precisely in this movement that Onna Nabe’s poetry finds its most contemporary

expression in the novella Swaying, Swinging by Sakiyama Tami.

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Bio:

Annmaria Shimabuku is Associate Professor of East Asian, Japanese, and

Okinawan Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at NYU. Her research lies at

the crossroads of postcolonial and trans-Pacific studies, with a particular interest in

Japanophone (minor) literatures, U.S. militarization, Marxism, and critical theory. Her

book,Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life was recently published

from Fordham University Press in 2019. She is currently working on two monographs on

the “father of Okinawan studies,” Ifa Fuyū, and modern Okinawan literature in comparison

with African/Asian American thought and literature.

Expertise and the Claims of Lived Experience Nathan Emmerich

Abstract:

Over the past decade or so it has become relatively commonplace for individuals

to make knowledge claims based on their identity or, perhaps more accurately, their lived

experience. Insofar as such claims represent a challenge to traditional or established

epistemic authorities, the notion that lived experience as an epistemic warrant or

foundation can be related to the so-called ‘crisis of expertise’ (Eyal 2019). However, it is

arguably the case that lived experience can itself be understood as a form of expertise

and, furthermore, that more traditional forms of experience are themselves based on (or

developed in relation to) certain kinds of ‘lived experience.’ Drawing on Collins and Evans

(2007), this paper will set out to give substance to the idea that lived experience can be

understood as a form of expertise and how more traditional forms of expertise can be

seen as being embedded in (a certain kind) of lived experience. I will then turn to what is,

perhaps, the more pertinent issue; how these different kinds of expertise and lived

experience can be placed in a mutually productive, rather than mutually antagonistic,

relation.

Suggested Reading: Collins, H.M., and R. Evans. 2007. Rethinking Expertise. Chicago, USA: University of

Chicago Press.

Eyal, G. 2019. The Crisis of Expertise. London, UK. Polity.

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Bio:

Dr Nathan Emmerich is a research fellow in the ANU Medical School. He leads the

medical ethics curriculum in years one and two of the medical degree and teaches

bioethics to various students in the College of Health and Medicine and the College of

Science. His intellectual background is in philosophy, STS and the social theory of Pierre

Bourdieu and he has previously published work on bioethics and expertise.

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The Inevitable Failure of the Xiake Dream of the Literati: The Political Allegories in Chinese Martial Arts Fiction Cheng Xing

Abstract:

Louis Cha (Jin Yong, 1924-2018), whose most prominent works were produced

from the 1950s to the 1970s in Hong Kong, challenges the literary boundaries set by the

tradition of the New or Modern Literature in China with tremendous popularity among a

mass audience.

This essay examines what is “modern” in Jin Yong’s fiction by focusing on the

changes of vocational and political identities of the personages; and by arguing that an

allegorical reading helps make explicit the distinction between the academic and political

spheres as they interfere with each other.

In his early works, Jin Yong’s protagonists take martial arts (�) as their vocation,

the most heroic of whom commit themselves to politics, taking crucial parts in the conflicts

between nations or dynasties in a manner that is both tragic and replete with the sublime.

Such an imagination of “xiake”(��), on the one hand, is a symbolized transformation of

the traditional Confucian scholar-officials (��) who are supposed not merely to

accomplish the academic achievement, but also to devote themselves to political affairs.

On the other hand, however, writing in the colonial Hong Kong in mid-20th century, Jin

Yong suggests a much more complicated attitude toward the identities of the literati,

which is believed to reflect the plight of his own and, furthermore, the plight of the last

generation of the old fogies who survived the transition of modern China. In his last fiction

which was completed in 1972, he created a slippery ignoramus who dramatically

succeeds in dealing with political issues, and declared an end to his writing career with a

profound gesture: turning his eyes from the sublime to the trivial. I argue that this reversal

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pronounces the failure of the xiake dream of the literati, which in turn symbolizes a final

curtain call of the traditional Confucian scholar-officials.

Bio:

Xing Cheng is an assistant professor of the Chinese department at Zhejiang

University. She majors in modern Chinese literature, especially the studies on Brothers

Zhou. The title of her dissertation is Remembrance and Construction: A Study of Lu Xun’s Self Narration. Her published works appear in several core journals in China, including

Modern Chinese Literature Studies and Literary Reviews.

Richard’s Proverbial Horselessness: The Person of State and Politico-Cultural Transformation on the Shakespearean Stage John Y. Zou

Abstract:

At the end of Richard III, the Shakespeare’s desperate tyrant limps and cries: “A

horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” The utterance is extensively noted among

readers, but the horse-kingdom connection has yet to generate adequate analysis

regarding the play’s structure and late Elizabethan social discourse. This essay argues

that it brings into focus cultural and political transitions in early modern England: whereas

the exchange of horse for kingdom may work for their comparable service to a medieval

prince in realizing his political purpose qua existence, under Tudor monarchy where

Shakespeare finds voice, this instrument-end ratio is at a point of reversal. I submit that

it is by his contrarian evocation of the two interlocked political rationales of divine

monarchy and popular sovereignty that King Richard’s crook-backed, horseless persona

poignantly registers the significant though drastically unstable figure of “the person of

state” in early modern English society, and sustains his enormous attraction for

contemporary and later audiences.

Bio:

John Zou teaches literature and theater at the Institute for Advanced Studies in

Humanities and Social Sciences at Chongqing University, China. His research interests

include comparative theater, cultural modernity and western sinology.

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Thursday Presentations

Created Conflict and the Possibility of Dialog by Art: from Aichi Triennale 2019 Sakura Yahata

Abstract:

In recent years, many art festivals have been held in Japan, in order to revitalize

regions. On the one hand, art is seen as a helpful tool for communication between

different generations, countries and cultures, etc. On the other hand, art sometimes

makes a new conflict between citizens. I deal with the case of an international art festival

in Japan, ‘Aichi Triennale’ in autumn 2019. A small exhibition in this festival titled ‘After

“Freedom of Expression?”’ was radically criticized by different mediums (mainly twitter,

internet news and another social networking service) and canceled. Most of the artworks

in the exhibition had also been canceled in the past because of their serious political

subjects, for example, ‘comfort women’ statue and the emperor of Japan. It created a

conflict between the right wing and the defenders of "freedom of expression" including

artists. As a result, the subsidies were not granted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of

Japan. These problems remain under discussion and continues after the festival. We are

facing now the danger of development of contemporary art. The series of this movements

could show us the risk of art festival and the difficulty to curate contemporary arts which

dealt with complexed political topics. Through the case study, I will shed light on the

today’s problem of art festival and argue the possibility of dialog by art to overcome the

conflict in our society.

Bio:

Sakura Yahata is project assistant professor in the East Asia Academy for New Liberal

Arts (EAA) at the University of Tokyo. In 2014, she got her Ph.D. at Kobe University,

Japan. Her main book The Imagination in the Philosophy of Art by Schelling was

published in 2017 and won The 13th Award for Early Career Scholars from Schelling-

Gesellschaft Japan. Her main research field is Schelling's philosophy of art, Kantian

aesthetics, German Idealism, Romanticism and today's art festivals in Japan.

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Contemporary Positions on Aesthetics and Politics beyond Identity and Representation Peter Alwast

Abstract:

This presentation will survey recent artistic and theoretical positions that move

beyond conventional understandings of aesthetics and politics in contemporary art.

Artworks from Australia and the United States shall be discussed which have capacity to

confound conventions of intelligibility associated with identity driven art. Although it is

impossible to either completely affirm or deny the validity of identity politics in

contemporary art, this paper will seek to outline possible alternatives to its usual

representational logic.

The critical potential of art will be viewed through the lens of Jean-Luc Nancy’s and

Jacques Rancière’s aesthetic philosophy. In both accounts the aesthetic experience of

the artwork is treated as a disruption of the so called ‘natural’ or representational

correspondence between words, images, sounds, language and human actions. For

Nancy, the artwork’s sensory effects have the capacity to dispel with prefigured

significations and therefore disrupt what is conventionally deemed intelligible within a

given cultural grouping or social context. Similarly, for Rancière the political potential of

the artwork is registered through the unbinding of hierarchical classifications. In both

cases the artwork’s aesthetic effect is analogous to a re-ordering that potentially spurs

the opening of unexpected and unscripted avenues of meaning, inherent to the ethos of

equality in radical democratic politics.

Bio:

Dr Peter Alwast is an artist and academic at The Australian National University,

School of Art and Design. In 1997 he received his Bachelor of Visual Art at The

Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 2001 he completed his

Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Parsons School of Design in New York and in 2018 he

was awarded a PhD from The University of New South Wales, Sydney. Alwast's studio

practice employs a range of media including painting, video, computer graphics and

drawing. He has held over 17 solo exhibitions and has been shown in group exhibitions

at the Tate Modern (London), Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania), the Greater Taipei

Biennial, the Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney), and the Gallery of Modern Art,

Brisbane, among others. Alwast’s paintings, prints and videos are held in numerous public

and private collections in Australia and the United States.

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The Rhetoric of Carl Schmitt’s “Forward” to The Nomos of the Earth Qin Wang

Abstract:

As the intensification of politico-economic conflicts between nation-states over the

past few years increasingly draws the attention of scholars from political theories and

international relationships towards geopolitics, Carl Schmitt’s 1950 book The Nomos of the Earth has been frequently mentioned as an important reference to the possibility of

achieving a balance of political powers and an inter-state stability against the backdrop

of globalization in which the order resulted by, or so does Schmitt believe, jus publican Europaeum before the end of the nineteenth-century has given way to politico-economic

homogenization dominated by the United States. Schmitt seems to be appealing to a new

balance between the element of land and the element of sea that once determined the

nomos of the earth. But through a close reading of the rhetoric of the brief “forward” of the

work, this article argues that what Schmitt implies by the “nomos” of the earth is not such

a balanced relationship between terrestrial powers and maritime powers in an era of

globalization so much as a not yet existing terrestrial power which would establish new

political orders for the land and the sea. It is this positionality of the land that leads Schmitt

from discussions of “nomos” to a radical, seemingly self-stultifying appreciation of the

revolutionary partisan.

Bio:

Qin Wang received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University.

He is currently a lecturer in East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts at the University of

Tokyo. He is the author of Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and the translator of the Chinese edition of Jacques Derrida’s

Donner la mort among others.

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On Machine-Readable Ontologies and the Representation of Human Groupings Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller

Abstract:

On July 5, 1993, Peter Steiner published a cartoon about Internet anonymity in

The New Yorker. This now cult status meme’s two canine protagonists commented on

the ability of users to be anonymous online, bringing up the issues of privacy and trust

that have been a challenge for the users, abusers, and developers of the online world

since its inception.

Kaamran Hafeez revisited the motif in 2015. Fears of the public are no longer of the

unidentifiable boogie man lurking among the pixels – the new Big Bad are online

oligopolies (Google, Facebook), who thrive by converting our readily disclosed data into

financial gain through targeted marketing and profiling.

Even when aware of the threat to privacy, billions of users across the globe opt to

share their data, choosing convenience, or for fear of missing out. Personal data (whether

voluntarily given away as postings, photos, and video; or covertly collected though

observed and recorded behavior, such as time spend on a page, or as consumer choices;

or deliberately accumulated as medical, financial, employment or other records by the

State), amalgamates to create a comprehensive and complete picture of an individual.

Many have called for data sovereignty, but complex challenges remain to its large-scale

and comprehensive implementation.

In this digital space of the Information Society and the Data Economy, where there

is nowhere to hide, how are we to strive for control over our data? In this paper, I will

argue that it is not a fight for control for data or the reinstatement of privacy that needs to

be (or that can be) fought – the best we can strive for is a more accurate and truthful

capture of the richness and diversity with which our species views itself, diversifying

information categories, resisting traditional groupings, and opposing historically biased

and reductionist approaches to data science.

Bio:

Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Digital Humanities

Research at the Australian National University. Her research examines how digital

technologies can be used in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). She

publishes in three areas: the use of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies in

HASS; on 3D digital models in GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), and

Web Science, examining the Web from both social and technical perspectives. She is a

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member of the Australian Government Linked Data Working Group; a Fellow of the

Software Sustainability Institute, UK; an eResearch South Australia (eRSA) HASS DEVL

(Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory) Champion; an

iSchool Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2019 -

2021), and a British Library Researcher in Residence (Collections), UK.

Graduate Student Workshop 1 Insecure Identities: Reading Identity Politics through the Affect and Logic of National Security Katie Cox

Abstract:

Identity politics are deeply intertwined with the logic and practices of national

security; the global surge in alt-right populism, anti-immigration sentiment and anti-

refugee policies demonstrates the ascendance of a political imaginary in which national

identities are perceived to be always under threat. This paper explores the affective

relationship between identity politics and the exceptional logic of national security,

through an analysis of Marvel’s Iron Man films. In these films, national identity is always

emergent – shaped through the text’s mediation of crises that threaten the continuity and

legitimacy of the identity in question – and consequently always insecure.

Drawing on the work of Lauren Berlant, especially her theory of ‘cruel optimism’, I

will argue that because the Iron Man films use the metaphor of the cyborg to embed

security logic into the American identity they imagine, they illuminate how the ‘ideological

impasses and discursive dead-ends' of identity and security politics are experienced, affectively and narratively. For Iron Man, security logic is both a means of surviving in the

face of persistent threat and a pillar of the identity he builds for himself. Therefore,

although the films present partial critiques of American security policy post-9/11, they are

ultimately unable to relinquish exceptional security logic, no matter how destructive it

proves, as it offers the ‘conditions of possibility’ for America to preserve and legitimate an

exceptionalist national identity.

As such, I argue that the Iron Man films not only imagine the way in which

exceptional security politics have become entangled with American identity, but highlight

the difficulty of imagining a viable future in which the two can be separated. To move

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beyond identity politics, I propose, we will need to examine the cruelly optimistic

interdependency between identity and national security.

Bio:

Katie Cox is a current PhD candidate in Literature at the Australian National

University, specialising in contemporary speculative fiction, popular film, American

cultural studies, and political theory. Her doctoral research brings affect theory into

conversation with critical security studies to examine the consequences of post-9/11

national security logic through the lens of popular superhero films. Her research has been

featured on local and international radio, and in 2018 she won the People’s Choice Award

for the ANU 3 Minute Thesis Grand Final.

Window, Border and Body: Aesthetics and Politics in the Cinematic Representation of Shenzhen Juntao Lin

Abstract:

Regarded as the "future" of China's Socialism, Shenzhen and its representation

illustrate the multiple faces of the cultural politics of contemporary China. While current

scholarship usually centers on questions like bottom narrative and immigrant identities,

this essay wishes to reframe the aesthetic discourse for Shenzhen from a broader

perspective by examining the recent cinematic representation of Shenzhen including

World (Jia Zhangke, 2004), Walking Past the Future (Li Ruijun, 2017), and The Crossing

(Bai Xue, 2019). In particular, this essay analyzes three aesthetic images in order to

reveal different layers of Shenzhen as a cultural-political question. The first image is

"border," which presents Shenzhen serving as the geopolitical frontier of "socialism," in

which multiple encounters between globalization and locality, urban and rural, the market

economy and state governance take place. The second image, "window," indicates the

postsocialist landscape changes and the material spatial reconfigurations. Finally, the

image of "body" demonstrates how the transforming urban organism represents its

aesthetic complexities, such that it presents a new understanding of the bio-politics

individuals in contemporary China. Through the examination of these cinematic

representations of Shenzhen, this essay also seeks to grasp the fundamental features of

(post)socialist modernity in contemporary China.

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Bio:

Juntao Lin is currently a Ph.D. student in modern and contemporary Chinese literature at

Peking University. His research concerns various literary and cultural forms, and

intellectual discourses in contemporary China.

Maruyama Masao’s Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takeuchi Yoshimi’s Lu Xun: Different Styles of Enlightenments in Modern Japan and China Ryohei Tatebe

Abstract:

Maruyama Masao (1914-1996) and Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) were

representative intellectuals in post-war Japan. Both were close to the age and were

intellectuals who experienced the catastrophic path of Japan which was ended up in the

cessation of WWII. Because of they faced the such kind of “mistake”, their main missions

after the WWII were rethinking the modern and modernization in Japan and East Asia.

Maruyama thought that the “mistake” of modern Japan was resulted in the lack of political

subjectivity in Japanese society and individual. The reason why Maruyama deeply

encouraged by Fukuzawa Yukichi was the point that Fukuzawa’s notion about freedom,

subjectivity, autonomous namely his project of enlightenment. The one of the most

important attempts of Maruyama was to refocus the soul of Fukuzawa’s enlightenment

which had been forgotten in later history. Takeuchi, on the other hand, thought the

possibility that the history of modern Japan which started from Fukuzawa, itself had

serious fallacy. Therefore, he focused on modern China, which had been considered the

“uncivilized” nation before the end of WWII, through the literature and resistance of Lu

Xun. Takeuchi trying to think that there was a true enlightenment in Lu Xun’s literature.

About 40 years have passed since Takeuchi died, and 20 years have passed since

Maruyama died. What does the argument between the two mean for us? In this paper,

by analyzing several texts of Maruyama Masao and Takeuchi Yoshimi, who are

representative intellectuals after the war, especially the texts talking about Fukuzawa

Yukichi and Lu Xun, to describe the two different styles of enlightenments in modern

Japan and China, and also, to think about the future of the East Asia and the world.

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Bio:

Ryohei Tatebe is a first- year PhD student of philosophy, Depertment of Area

Studies at the University of Tokyo. His research field include Confucianism in Qing

Dynasty and philosophy in modern and early modern East Asia. In the master course, he

researched the interpretation of Mencius in Qing Dynasty, especially the scholars Dai

Zhen and Jiao Xun.

Graduate Student Workshop 2 Mapping as Method Yue Qi

Abstract:

Considering how to carry out critical thinking and explore more potential

imaginations of the existing East Asian research framework, this paper attempts to

propose a spatial perspective, that is, taking border as the method to rethink and

reconfigure the multicultural phenomena of East Asia. The idea will be embodied in the

following three aspects, combined with the analysis of concrete examples, from Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, the special

exhibition being held at Harvard Art Museums.

First of all, the concept of border provides a space, making contradictions, overlaps,

and heterogeneous factors between different discourse constructions (the conceptualized

academic unit such as nation-states and area studies), possible to resurface. In such a

hybrid space, we can capture the inadequacy, failure, and paradox of single perspective

structures more specifically.

Second, the method prompts us to take border as a changing process and an

autonomous subject, rather than a fixed subordinate and passive object, like an island

continually modifying the coastline during the interaction. Thus, we can identify these

perpetual movements: dividing and crossing, absorbing and exiling, folding and releasing,

hiding and recalling, negotiating and resisting, recognizing and ignoring, in the wide range

of cultural and political contexts. The ever-lasting processes that cannot be fixed, located,

and represented on the map, too often ignored by scientific stereotypes, however, are

precisely the rich texts with tension and broad spaces for theoretical exploration.

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Finally, by acknowledging that border is an "intermediate state" between A and non-A,

which cannot be reduced to either side of the boundary, we can trace more complex

realities and inseparable transitions that could only be possible to happen here. What

unique transformations and distortions have occurred after the entering of people with

different backgrounds, meanwhile considering the ever-changing situation itself, is still an

essential question about the reproduction, reconfiguration, and representation of

geopolitics and cultural politics.

Bio:

Yue Qi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature,

Peking University, majoring in Chinese Contemporary Literature. Now she is the visiting

fellow at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

(2019-2020), and interested in the theory of space and landscape, as well as the

borderland studies of China.

The “Unacknowledged Consensus”: The forgotten identity of security James Mortensen

Abstract:

The analysis of politics on the basis of identity problematizes the assumption of

core, foundational political concepts – if perspective and experience creates political

realities, then any political technology must have an origin in expressions of identity.

Beginning from this position, this talk will examine ‘security’ on this basis. As a political

concept, security must emerge from the circumstance, context and identity of a political

group; despite this, political and philosophical treatments of security have been

prosecuted with the assumption that security simply is - that security is a given necessity

within political considerations, rather than a concept that emerged from a specific cultural

group and as a result of concrete circumstance.

This talk will seek to explain how this oversight has occurred, its ramifications, and

how scholarship may benefit from a more identity-driven definition of security. It will first

detail the dominant positions within security scholarship, then move to give an overview

of the historical, cultural and philosophical inheritances that culminated in ‘security’.

Through such analysis, security ceases to be a political ‘reality’ and instead becomes a

subject to compare across identities; it is no longer an enforced category by which other

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identities can be judged, but rather an experience of a particular identity that may or may

not hold value across contexts. This should build a greater appreciation of security on its

own terms, but also demonstrate the utility of similar reclamations of identity in words that

would otherwise remain reified.

Bio:

James Mortensen is a doctoral candidate of the National Security College at the

Australian National University, having previously attained First class Honours (Religious

Studies) from the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research interests include the

philosophical underpinnings of security and political theory, the role of belief systems in

political action, and the role of technology in politics and society.

Chinese Identities Split and Questioned in Su Tong’s Riverbank Wan-Chun Huang

Abstract:

This paper analyzes how Su Tong’s novel Riverbank (မધ) (2009) represents a

case of rebelliousness that challenges Chinese literature tradition which sees rivers as

the origin of the Chinese ethnics and brings up a humanistic concern of identity issues in

contemporary China. As one of experimental fiction writers of Post-Mao China, Su Tong’s

rebellion demonstrates on his choices of topics, narrative voice, and aesthetics. In

Riverbank, Su Tong chooses to tell the story of a boat of people exiled from the land to

explore a topic that is unseen in Chinese literature. The journey of the “exiled”—the

unwanted people—who swayed between the boat and the land demonstrate a continuous

searching of Chinese people for who they are, from where they are, and where they are

heading. This paper argues that the continuous questioning of the purpose of the journey

not only problematizes the protagonist’s identity—whether he belongs to the boat or the

land—but also the subjectivity of making a choice on the river that eventually leads to the

same end of an ocean. River, which was published twenty years after China’s economic

reforms in 1989, shows Su Tong’s humanistic concern of China’s future that is swaying

on the river to the unknown end. To deal with the identity issues concerning to the

uncertain future, Su Tong employs a young protagonist point of view—someone who is

able to jump back and forth between the boat and the land, yet never truly belongs to

both. While river has been symbolized as the origins of Chinese ethics in Chinese

literature, Su Tong provides us a different case that is able to rethink “Chinese” identity in

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contemporary history when China wavers its options of path between capitalism and

socialism, the market and the party. After ten years of Riverbank’s publication, this paper

revisits Riverbank and argues that river symbolism as aesthetics is Su Tong’s authorial

technique to not only rebel against an orthodox “literature” tradition but also evoke readers

to sympathize with the post-Mao China, when China pilots its future as a boat to an

unknown destiny.

Bio:

Wan-Chun Huang received her B.A. in Chinese Literature in National Chengchi

University, Taiwan, and a Master degree in East Asian Studies at the University of

Pittsburgh. Currently, she is a second-year PhD student of East Asian Studies at New

York University. Her research interest focuses on China’s literature and media, and how

they are shaping a post-socialist culture in contemporary China.

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Friday Presentations Graduate Student Workshop 3 Influencing the Social Impact of Financial Systems – Alternative Strategies Lee-Anne Sim

Abstract:

The social impact of the 2007-2009 global financial crisis turned public and

academic attention towards global and domestic financial systems. While over the last

ten years, governments have introduced a range of regulatory reforms, there are still low

levels of public trust in financial sectors, and academics continue to express their

concerns about financial systems and their desire for more influence. This is particularly

the case for scholars of the humanities who are interested in financial systems.

As popularized in the Occupy Wall Street protests, the ‘identity politics’ version of the

financial systems debate pits the ’99 per cent’ against the ‘1 per cent’ – the 1 per cent

being the echelons of the financial, political and bureaucratic classes. While my paper

was not originally framed in terms of ‘identity politics’, it describes an existing approach

to financial systems reform which reflects this divisiveness. This limits the longevity of

reforms in favour of the socioeconomically vulnerable – and explains the ongoing public

and academic dissatisfaction.

My paper offers an alternative approach to reform that sidesteps this ‘identity

politics dilemma’. It argues for the consideration of strategies aimed at making allies of

financial sectors and regulators in influencing change. The main advantage of these

alliance strategies is that they address key constraints to influence, as identified in

existing scholarship, which are difficult to relax because they are tied to features inherent

in financial systems. By addressing these constraints, alliance strategies could increase

the likelihood that financial system outcomes more closely align with their preferred social

values. However, to successfully execute these strategies, scholars must reconsider how

they characterise financial sectors. This approach to recharacterization could have

broader implications for how the humanities approaches other global challenges that are

the subject of the ‘identity politics dilemma’.

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Bio:

Lee Anne Sim is a current PhD candidate in the College of Law at the Australian

National University. An admitted lawyer with post graduate qualifications in economics,

and ten years professional experience in finance tax and regulation, and fiscal policy, her

research interests are focused on considering how the financial system can facilitate more

sustainably inclusive global and national economies.

This paper will be published in the journal, International Affairs, in 2020. She

wishes to thank the editor, Professor Andrew Dorman, for his support and the two

anonymous reviewers for their comments.

Sun Yat-sen’s Xun Zheng and Contemporary United States’ Domestic Politics Shuang Wu

Abstract:

Most of the existing studies on Sun Yat-sen’s Xun Zheng (political tutelage)

presuppose a dichotomy and a linear progressive view of history. The dichotomy

presupposes a despotic, pre-modern China and a democratic, republic and modern West.

The linear progressive view of history further asserts that this pre-modern China should

and will transform into a semblance of the modern West politically, economically and

ideologically. Starting from these presuppositions, Sun Yat-sen’s Xun Zheng is widely

regarded as a uniquely Chinese phenomenon which stems from China’s own tradition.

These arguments, however, highly simplify and even distort both China and West.

Throughout his life, Sun Yat-sen regards the western powers as the most outstanding

representation of modern civilization. As a result, he draws considerable resources from

western powers’ domestic politics and the discourses thus produced to justify his idea of

Xun Zheng. In particular, contemporary United States’ domestic politics, among others,

plays a major part in Sun Yat-sen’s justification of Xun Zheng.

Bio:

Shuang Wu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law School of Peking University. His

research interests include legal theory and history.

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Non-Identity, Singularity and Adorno’s Critical Theory Kathrin Witter & Haiziran Zeller

Abstract:

In his broadly discussed study Gesellschaft der Singularitäten, of which an English

translation will appear with Polity Press, Andreas Reckwitz has described what he would

call the replacement of the logic of the universal with the logic of the particular in western

late-capitalist societies, in which striving for individuality and particularity are not only

individual intention but social expectation. This is the cultural set-up we all know so well

by now and which is the ideal soil for the blooming of identity politics. Reckwitz’s

sociological analysis of this present-day cultural logic, which in philosophical terms must

be characterized as implying a “metaphysics of finitude” (Alenka Zupančič), provides us

with a broad and kaleidoscopic picture of it. Yet one remains to wonder about the inner

fiber of these processes and how we may be able to grasp it. To find this, the most obvious

move is to turn to the philosophy of Theodor Adorno, who may be understood as the last

thinker of totality before the postmodern turn of fragmentary thinking kicked in. With

Adorno we may understand the two tasks thinking has to master today: historizing the

contemporary and understanding what is at its core, and defending reason against the

irrationalism that neoliberalism has meant since Hayek.

Bios:

Kathrin Witter is a PhD student in Princeton’s German Department after studying

cultural studies, philosophy and antisemitism research in Munich and Berlin. She is writing

her dissertation about discussions on “Anschaulichkeit” and the representation of truth

between Goethe and Hegel as well as Benjamin and Adorno. She is currently editing the

anthology Kritische Theorie und Metaphysik.

Haziran Zeller studied philosophy in Bonn, Frankfurt and Berlin and is a PhD

student in Technical University of Berlin´s Philosophy Department. He is writing his

dissertation about “Adorno´s system” or Frankfurt School´s Critical Theory as

metaphysics in the tradition of Kant, Hegel and Marx.

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Rereading Lu Xun’s Wild Grass: Language, Translation, and Literary Humanities in the Shaping of Emergent Identities Zijian Tan

Abstract:

Wild Grass is the poeticized crystallization of Lu Xun’s philosophy which began to

take shape as early as 1910s around which he wrote several essays on civilization and

history, ethics and poetics, and began his arduous translation of Western works of

literature and philosophy. The central thematic concern of Wild Grass is founded on its

close relation with his early years’ reading of Nietzsche, which, on the most conspicuous

level, contributed to many of the dark yet intriguing images and symbols in the work. Lu

Xun in fact confessed that around the years of The Wild Grass’s creation he often found

in his mind traces of toxic and ghostly content that gave him so much mental suffer and

caused his inexplicable agony and solitude. I attempt in this paper to address the origin

of Lu Xun’s intellectual solitude and argue that his solitude bears profound philosophical

significance as it requires the shattering of the foundation of subjectivity in the act of

writing. The first section reveals how Lu Xun imagined the solitary figure of the overman

through a reading of “Vengeance I” along with “Zarathustra’s Prologue”. The second

section and the third section address, based on Maurice Blanchot’s reading of Nietzsche,

the dangerous knowledge of affirming the eternal return and how this knowledge

demands a new relation of thought which transforms the subject into a neutralized non-

subject in its relation with the unknown other, through a reading of “The Passer-By” and

“The Shadow’s Leave-Taking”.

Bio:

Zijian Tan received his BA from NYU Shanghai and is currently completing his MA

in East Asian Studies at NYU. His research interests include 20th-century Chinese

literature as well as Western literary criticism of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a special

focus on community and solitude, the origins of language and of morality, minor literature,

and lyrical poetry and poetics.

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48 Tisch School of the Arts (B-2) 721 Broadway

41 Torch Club (B-2) 18 Waverly Place

5 University Hall (B-1) 110 East 14th Street

69 Vanderbilt Hall (A-3) 40 Washington Square South

53 Virginia and Muriel Pless Building (B-2) 82 Washington Square East

97 Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (C-3) 295 Lafayette Street

80 Warren Weaver Hall (B-3) 251 Mercer Street

6 Wasserman Center for Career Development (C-1) 140 East 14th Street

56 Washington Square East Galleries (B-2) 80 Washington Square East

90 Washington Square Village (B-3) 1-4 Washington Square Village

53 Washington Square Windows (B-2) 80 Washington Square East

39 Waverly Building (B-2) 24 Waverly Place

33 Weinstein Hall (B-2) 11 University Place

68 Wilf Hall (A-3) 139 MacDougal Street

35 10 Astor Place (B-2)

92 665 Broadway (B-3)



52 20 Cooper Square (C-2)

82 14 East 4th Street (NYU Shanghai) (B-3)

1 105 East 17th Street (B-1)

7 60 Fifth Avenue (B-1)

44 244 Greene Street (B-2)

51 411 Lafayette Street (C-2)

86 130 MacDougal Street (A-3)

96 194-196 Mercer Street, 627 Broadway (B-3)

43 285 Mercer Street (B-2)

37 111-113 Second Avenue (C-2)

31 13-19 University Place (B-2)

21 19 Washington Square North (NYUAD) (A-2)

20 22 Washington Square North (A-2)

60 19 West 4th Street (B-2)

62 25 West 4th Street (B-2)

81 Mercer Plaza (B-3)

63 Meyer Hall (B-2) 4 Washington Place

50 Moses Center for Students with Disabilities (B-2) 726 Broadway

6 Palladium Athletic Facility (C-1) 140 East 14th Street

6 Palladium Hall (C-1) 140 East 14th Street

47 Philosophy Building (B-2) 5 Washington Place

54 Pless Annex (B-2) 26 Washington Place

68 Provincetown Playhouse (A-3) 133 MacDougal Street

63 Psychology Building (B-2) 6 Washington Place

46 Public Safety (B-2) 7 Washington Place

97 Puck Building (C-3) 295 Lafayette Street

50 Residential Life and Housing Services (B-2) 726 Broadway

Rory Meyers College of Nursing (not on map) 433 1st Avenue

14 Rubin Hall (B-2) 35 5th Avenue

34 Rufus D. Smith Hall (B-2) 25 Waverly Place

8 School of Professional Studies (SPS) (B-1) 7 East 12th Street

SPS Midtown Center (not on map) 11 West 42nd Street

SPS Woolworth Building (not on map) 15 Barclay Street

69 School of Law (A-3) 40 Washington Square South

76 Schwartz Plaza (B-3)

93 Second Street Residence (C-3) 1 East 2nd Street

36 Seventh Street Residence (C-2) 40 East 7th Street

77 Shimkin Hall (B-3) 50 West 4th Street

38 Silver Center for Arts and Science (B-2) 100 Washington Square East

25 Silver School of Social Work (B-2) 1 Washington Square North

94 Silver Towers (B-3) 100 & 110 Bleecker Street

74 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (B-3) 566 LaGuardia Place

71 Skirball Department (A-3) 53 Washington Square South

53 Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development (B-2) 82 Washington Square East

77 Stern School of Business, Graduate Program (B-3) 44 West 4th Street

79 Stern School of Business, Undergraduate College (B-3) 40 West 4th Street

83 StudentLink Center Consolidated Services for Bursar, Financial Aid, Registrar, Global Programs, and Global Services (C-3) 383 Lafayette Street

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Bus to airport

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Late nights (midnight to 6am, daily)

42 St

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96 St/2 Av-Metropolitan Av

Dyre Av-Bowling Green

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Local inBrooklyn

Local, 207 St-Far Rockaway.

Euclid Av-LeffertsBlvd Shuttle

Myrtle Av-Metropolitan Av

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Local, viaFinancialDistrict

Local inManhattan,

via ManhattanBridge

Whitehall St-95 St

148 St-Times Sq/42 St

Local, Woodlawn-New Lots AvSkips Hoyt St

Dyre Av-E180 StShuttle

No service-use NR

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