Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University
June 27–28, 2025
June 27
9:00-9:15 Opening
9:15-10:30 Keynote 1: John Crespi, “The Many Faces of ‘Leader Manhua’ in Post-Mao China”
10:30-11:00 coffee break
Panel 1. Resignification of memory
11:00-11:45 Laura Pozzi, “Mnemocomics: The San Mao Comics Strips as Agents of History and Memory in the People’s Republic of China”
11:45-12:30 Leshan Li, “From Fading Red to Rising Tianxia: The Evolution of Political Symbols in Chinese Symphonic Music from Mao to Xi”
12:30-13:30 lunch
Panel 2. Multimedial transformations
13:30-14:15 Nick Stember, “Utopian Revisionism: Ritual Practice and Revolutionary Symbolism in Xiao Ganniu’s Folktale The Zhuang Brocade (1955)”
14:15-15:00 Martina Caschera, “From Lianhuanhua to Manhua, from Propaganda to Soft Power”
15:00-15:45 Mei Liu, “The Penetration of National Ideology into the Chinese Classic Story Sun Wukong Battles the White Bone Demon: An Analysis of Four Key Works (1961–2016)”
15:45-16:15 coffee break
Panel 3. Science and harmony
16:15-17:15 Marcin Jacoby and Piotr Machajek, “Critical Visions of China as a Perfectly Harmonious Society and a World Leader in Science: ‘Hospital’ by Han Song and ‘Nova’ by Cao Fei”
June 28
Panel 4. New media
9:00-10:00 Lili Jiang and Yang Sheng, “New Media Poster: TV Dramas as Political Tools in the Xi Jinping Era”
10:00-11:00 Keynote 2: Barbara Mittler, “Déjà Vu? Repurposing Iconic Repertoires: The Photographic Archives of Mao Zedong”
11:00-11:30 coffee break
Panel 5. Imprinted emotions of propaganda
11:30-12:15 Xi Xu, “Paper Tiger and Everyday Enemy: Framing Knowledge and Emotion in Early PRC’s Narratives of the USA”
12:15-13:00 Lauren Walden, “Surrealist Pop in China: Propaganda as Muse?”
13:00-14:00 lunch
Panel 6. Noisy silent lianhuanhua
14:00-14:45 Lena Henningsen, “Sounds of Silence: Sonic Comic Stories amid the Noises of Maoist China”
14:45-15:30 Damian Mandzunowski, “Revolutionary Onomatopoeia: Soundscapes in/of Chinese Comics of the Mao Era”
15:30-16:00 coffee break
Panel 7. Enforcing or obliterating didacticism
16:00-16:45 Elizabeth Emrich-Rouge, “Obliteration: Multiplicity in Chinese Contemporary Art from the 1990s”
16:45-17:30 František Reismüller, “Are They Dreaming Differently? Contemporary Chinese Film Seen through the Socio-Cultural Policies of Xi Jinping Era”
17:30-18:00 round table and concluding remarks
Image sources: 顾朴, “触景生情”, 漫画 149期, 23.11.1959; 方非, “乐动北京：新年音乐会重回人民大会堂”, 北京日报, 1.1.2024 (https://www.sohu.com/a/748662804_163278)