Workshop Schedule
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Best Regards,
Novella Chiechi
Workshop “Reading the Revolution: Locating and Interpreting Sources on 1950–60s China”
University of Chicago, September 28–30, 2012
Workshop venue:
Social Science Research Building
John Hope Franklin Room (room 224)
1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Workshop Program
Friday, September 28 | |
8:15-8:45 | Breakfast |
8:45-9:00 | Welcome address |
9:00-12:00 | Panel I |
| Aminda Smith (Michigan State University): Conventions of Official Communication |
| Coffee break |
| Wang Xian (University of British Columbia): Archival Materials on the Shadian Incident of 1970 |
| Victor Seow (Harvard University): Energy and Socialist Industrialization in 1950s Manchuria |
12:00-1:00 | Lunch break |
1:00-3:45 | Panel II |
| Jacob Eyferth (University of Chicago): PRC Archives: What Do they Collect, How Do they Catalog Their Holdings, How Is Access Regulated? |
| Novella Chiechi (University of Chicago): Woman Hooligan Wang Weilin |
| Li Huibo李慧波 (China Women’s University)《新中国十七年北京市婚姻文化嬗变研究》 |
| Coffee break |
4:00-6:45 | Panel III |
| Jake Werner (University of Chicago): Contradictions Among the People in Shanghai's Factories, 1949-1958 |
| Jeremy Tai (UC Santa Cruz): City Planning in 1950s Xi’an |
7:00 | Conference dinner at Tapas Valencia (1530 S State St., Phone 312-842-4444 |
Saturday, September 29 | |
8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
9:00-12:00 | Panel IV |
| Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University): Tying things up? Correspondence, Standardized Forms, and Responsibility in the Archives |
| Arunabh Ghosh (Columbia University): Reporting Statistical Work |
| Amanda Shuman (UC Santa Cruz): The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People’s Republic of China |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch break |
1:30-6:00 | Panel V |
| Neil Diamant (Dickinson College): Using Archives to Research State-Society Relations in China: Challenges, Opportunities, and Disciplinary Boundaries |
| Britta Ingebretson (University of Chicago): Women’s Journals and Rural Reading Practices in the Early PRC |
| Coffee break | |
| Lara Di Luo (Ohio State University): Learning to Be Revolutionaries: Communist Literacy Movements in 1930s and 1940s Rural China |
| Anne Rebull (University of Chicago): Opera Reform in the 1950s |
7:00 | Dinner in Chinatown |
Sunday, September 30 | |
8:30-9:00 | Breakfast |
9:00-12:00 | Wrap up of last two days and discussion of future plans |