15 Hours Reading Club
“15 Hours” is an online reading club co-sponsored by the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona and the College of Visual Art Research at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. The name reflects the time difference between Chongqing, China, and Tucson, Arizona, where the two universities are located. Our goal is to promote collaboration between graduate students from UA and SCFAI, enabling them to exchange insights and foster international knowledge-sharing in East Asian studies while promoting a commitment to global academic service.
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Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press, 2016.
Date: Thursday, Feburary 20, 2025
Time: 3:30-6:00PM (MST)
Zoom meeting link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88002135863 （Password: wanwu25）
Discussant: Dr. Hai Ren, Professor of East Asian Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Anthropology; Art; Gender & Women’s Studies; Social, Cultural & Critical Theory; and Applied Intercultural Arts Research at the University of Arizona. He is also Bayu Scholar Distinguished Professor at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing.
Moderator: Dr. Yanhua Zhou, Professor of Art History, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona.
People who are interested in literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, art history, environmentalism, non-human studies are highly recommended to join us for the discussion.
Past Events
Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim, Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020 (Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1, 3, 7, 9)
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- Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024
- Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (PST) / 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (MST)
- Zoom meeting link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89952234968 (Passcode: 334494)
- Discussant: Dr. Meiqin Wang, Professor at California State University Northridge, specializing in contemporary Chinese art. She has written on topics such as artist villages, creative cultural industries, art and urbanization. Currently, her research focuses on socially engaged art and its related categories such as public art, artivism, and ecological art.
- Moderator: Dr. Yanhua Zhou, Professor of Art History, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona.
- People who are interested in literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, art history, environmentalism, non-human studies are highly recommended to join us for the discussion.
Rey Chow, Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014. (Introduction, Chapter 4, Chapter 5)
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- Date: November 1, 2024
- Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST) / 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (MST)
- Registration required.
- Discussant: Dr. Xuefei Ma, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Ma is an assistant professor of Chinese Culture at the Department of World Languages and Cultures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on feminist, queer, and trans-cultural production in the global Chinese and Sinophone communities.
- Moderator: Dr. Yanhua Zhou, Professor of Art History, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute; Affiliated Faculty, University of Arizona.
- People who are interested in literary studies, political science, political theory, postcolonial studies, language and linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and philosophy are highly recommended to join us for the discussion.