
FUTURE MEMORY SERIES
For Young Scholars
Global Session on the
Humanities and Social Sciences 2023:
Paradigm Shifts and Theoretical Breakthroughs
Host:
Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies
Peking University

Session 2
Idea vs Theory: Through the Mirror of Literature, Poetics, and History
Time & Date
Beijing Time:
9 am-12 pm, April 1, 2023 SAT
Eastern Standard Time:
9 pm-12 am, March 31, 2023 FRI
VooV Meeting
ID: 929 619 080
Moderator
Dandan CHEN
State University of New York
Farmingdale State College
Program
09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10-10:25 Presentations
Jinyi CHU: Modernism and Aphasia: On Three Poems by Osip Mandelstam
Wen JIN: Literary Studies in the Context of World History: The Case of the Eighteenth Century
Chunling PENG: Interlocking Worlds of Modern Thought: Intellectual Communities and Conceptual Changes in English, Chinese and Japanese Language Circles from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century
Pu WANG: Solidarity with the Faraway: Travel Writing and Utopian Geopolitics in Chinese Revolutionary Culture and Beyond
Shoufu YIN: Global History as an Approach to Political Theory: The Case of Jurchen Statecraft in the Mongol, Manchu, Russian, and Belgian Empires
10:25-11:05 Comments from Discussants
Hansong LI
William Guanglin LIU
Erik H. WANG
Wen YU
11:05-11:30 Responses from Speakers
11:30-12:00 Open Discussion and Q & A
List of Scholars

Associate Professor of History Farmingdale State College State University of New York Ph.D., Harvard University

Assistant Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University Ph.D., Stanford University

Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College Ph.D., Harvard University

Associate Professor of History Farmingdale State College State University of New York Ph.D., Harvard University