Conference Programme

December 4, 2021 (Saturday) HKT

Welcome and opening remark: Nicole Huang (Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature); Alvin K. Wong

Panel 1: Qiu Miaojin and Cinematic Representations: A Discussion of Love and Death in Montmartre 蒙馬特之愛與死 (2019)

Featuring: Gina Marchetti, Mike Ingham, Shi-yan Chao, and Evans Chan

Moderator: Alvin K. Wong

<10 Minutes Break>

Panel 2: Body, Affect, and Pedagogy

Kate Costello, Teaching Translation to Students of World Literature: Notes of a Crocodile as a Case Study
Tze-lan Sang, How Far Have We Come?: From Notes of a Crocodile to Small Talk
T.M. Mamos, Emotional Vectors: Intertextuality in Qiu Miaojin’s Novels
Jenn Marie Nunes, The Motif of Writing and Queer Female Agency in 1990s Taiwanese Short Fiction

Moderator: Pei-yin Lin

Lunch: 11:40am-12:45pm

Panel 3: Queer Literary Publics and Performance

Chi Ta-wei, Literature as a Public: Qiu Miaojin on Mental Disorders
Alvin K. Wong, Queer Minor Transnationalism in Qiu Miaojin and Wong Bik-wan’s Works
Fan-Ting Cheng, Performing Queer Intervulnerability

Moderator: Calvin Hui

*This session will be conducted in Chinese*

Panel 4: The Legacy of Qiu Miaojin: Writers in Dialogue

Luo Yijun (駱以軍), “Portraits of the Young Artist” 青年藝術家的畫像
Lolita C.F. Hu (胡晴舫), “Dying Young and Withering” 早夭與凋零, excerpt from Anonymity《無名者》
Chi Ta-wei (紀大偉), “What is Love in Montmartre?” 愛是什麼？—看《蒙馬特遺書》
Li Kotomi, (李琴峰), “Situating Qiu Miaojin’s Novels in Japan: Notes on Qiu and Japanese Queer Literature” 邱妙津小說在日本：兼談日本同志文學

Moderator: Nicole Huang

<10 Minutes Coffee Break>

Panel 5: Animality, Cultural Translation, and Queer Aesthetics

Yahia Zhengtang Ma, “Desire” as a Verb: Translating Same-Sex Desire in Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre
Ari Larissa Heinrich, Writing Your Own Obituary: Reception of Last Words from Montmartre among English-language Readers (interview with Yahia Ma)
Carlos Rojas, Animality and the Limits of Language

Moderator: Grace Ting

Roundtable