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END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20360309T030000 RDATE:20361102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4cc9c194c83ebddb354849aa57d2478b CATEGORIES:Workshops CREATED:20210106T230956 SUMMARY:A Chinese-English Keywords Workshop Series LOCATION:Zoom DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office. This is a collaboration betwee n Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Ethics, Society, and C omputing (ESC) at the University of Michigan, and the Chinese-English Keywo rds Project. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please reach out to Yuchen Chen (This email address is being protected from spamb ots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).\nCOVID TECH & CHINA: Aft er Surveillance? After Authoritarianism? After COVID? A Chinese-English Key words Workshop Series\nFebruary-April, 2021, Remote/Zoom\nTouted as border- crossing and irreverent of human differences such as nation and class, the C-19 pandemic has nonetheless become a fulcrum for slicing populations into insiders versus others. While the US promulgates histrionic demonizations of communist totalitarianism, China champions its benevolent state discipli ne and its citizens’ purported self-discipline (zilu) as enablers of victor y over the pandemic and of a spectacularized return to normalcy. This parti cipatory workshop series centers language incommensurabilities in Covid tec hnologies so as to complicate binaries such as liberalism vs. authoritarian ism, science versus politics and high tech as enabler of health safety or a s surveillance mechanism. Specifically, we explore how the discrepant subje ctification of populations allows one virus to be lived so differently. Mob ilizing the plural meanings of “after” we subvert narratives of inevitable, linear progression and question what they render invisible.\nUnpacking ke ywords from both languages as windows onto respective values and sensibilit ies, we query, for instance, what difference it makes when restrictions on movement are captured through the English “lockdown”, which connotes stern prison control, state mandates and active shooter protocols, versus the Chi nese “fengcheng” which evokes a more protective sealing off of a city. What in English is chronically denounced as government violations of rights and freedoms, is lauded by some Chinese speakers as effective management (guan li) and an ethic of care (zhaogu). And while such technologies as China’s Q R Health Code app are impugned by Western media as encroachments of a top-d own surveillance state, China’s national discourse relies on these digital technologies to govern through safeguarding and “positive energy” (zhengnen gliang). Aggregating words from both languages that emerge from the COVID c risis, we meander through their varied social lives and allow them to speak in official, academic, mass media and vernacular registers, thereby plural izing and destabilizing the categories they invoke. \nFormat: Zoom workshop s will take place on Feb 6, Feb 27, Mar 27 and Apr 17, 2021 from 9-11 AM ES T. Multidisciplinary workshop facilitators rely on active interchange and c ollaborative knowledge production for analyzing the social lives of keyword s. Showcasing certain revealing words in their accompanying contexts we the n invite attendees to contribute from their respective vantage points, both semantic and sociological. Working knowledge of Chinese is recommended. \n Hosts: Louisa Schein, Fan Yang, Silvia Lindtner\nGraduate Coordinator: Yuch en Chen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need Java Script enabled to view it.)\nAbout the Chinese-English Keywords Project\nTh e Chinese-English Keywords Project (CEKP) is a global and growing network o f scholars interested in mapping the multivalence and conceptual gaps that emerge when key terms migrate between English and Chinese. Representing fie lds such as anthropology, sociology, literature, politics, geography, media and technology studies, participants are based in China, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Through international workshops and pane ls, we create ongoing dialogue on the key concepts themselves as well as th eir social import.\nAs theorists of sociocultural process, we investigate i ncommensurability of usages and connotations not as problems to be solved b ut as windows onto distinct contexts, histories, and social relations. We s trive toward an evenhanded approach to vocabularies in both Chinese and Eng lish, eschewing the linguistic domination that might develop as scholars in mainland import and disseminate prestigious Western terms such as “ethnogr aphy” or “decolonizing”. We attend to words in all their specificities of u sage to grasp the societal impacts of Chinese and Western semantic interpla y and of the discrepancies even between Chinese regions.\nWe are not lingui sts per se, or philologists, nor are we translators or etymologists. Our em phasis exceeds terminology as we are fascinated with anecdotes, frustration s, resolutions, and conversations from diverse perspectives and locations. Disaggregating usages into official, scholarly, popular media and vernacula r domains, we take what we call the “social lives” of keywords as lenses on China and pursue vibrant accounts that reveal how power, authority, dissen t, even humor and parody, proliferate meanings rather than standardize them . In the ethnographic spirit, we are interested in observing, listening and talking to a range of people, including ourselves, to collect disparate us ages and portray them evocatively. Keyword entries assemble a heteroglot se t of sources and vignettes to tell vibrant stories reflecting that word’s s ignifications. Hence, our method is to construct entries through collective participation so as to capture heterogeneity, polysemy, multiplicity.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office. This is a collaboratio
n between Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Ethics, Societ
y, and Computing (ESC) at the University of Michigan, and the Chinese-Engli
sh Keywords Project. If you are interested in participating in the wor
kshop, please reach out to Yuchen Chen (
COVID TECH & CHINA: After Surveillance? After Authoritarianism? After COVID? A Chinese-English Keywords Works hop Series
February-April, 2021, Remote/Zoom
Touted as border-crossing and irreverent of human differences such as nation and class, the C-19 pandemic has noneth eless become a fulcrum for slicing populations into insiders versus others. While the US promulgates histrionic demonizations of communist totalitaria nism, China champions its benevolent state discipline and its citizens’ pur ported self-discipline (zilu) as enablers of victory over the pandemic and of a spectacularized return to normalcy. This partic ipatory workshop series centers language incommensurabilities in Covid tech nologies so as to complicate binaries such as liberalism vs. authoritariani sm, science versus politics and high tech as enabler of health safety or as surveillance mechanism. Specifically, we explore how the discrepant subjec tification of populations allows one virus to be lived so differently. Mobi lizing the plural meanings of “after” we subvert narratives of inevitable, linear progression and question what they render invisible.
Unp acking keywords from both languages as windows onto respective values and s ensibilities, we query, for instance, what difference it makes when restric tions on movement are captured through the English “lockdown”, which connot es stern prison control, state mandates and active shooter protocols, versu s the Chinese “fengcheng” which evokes a more protective sealing off of a c ity. What in English is chronically denounced as government violations of r ights and freedoms, is lauded by some Chinese speakers as effective managem ent (guanli) and an ethic of care (zhaogu). And while suc h technologies as China’s QR Health Code app are impugned by Western media as encroachments of a top-down surveillance state, China’s national discour se relies on these digital technologies to govern through safeguarding and “positive energy” (zhengnengliang). Aggregating words from both la nguages that emerge from the COVID crisis, we meander through their varied social lives and allow them to speak in official, academic, mass media and vernacular registers, thereby pluralizing and destabilizing the categories they invoke.
Format: Zoom workshops will take place on Feb 6, Feb 27,
Mar 27 and
Hosts: Louisa Schein, Fan Yang, Silvia Lindtner
Graduate Coor
dinator: Yuchen Chen (
About the Chinese-English Keywords Project
T he Chinese-English Keywords Project (CEKP) is a global and growing network of scholars interested in mapping the multivalence and conceptual gaps that emerge when key terms migrate between English and Chinese. Representing fi elds such as anthropology, sociology, literature, politics, geography, medi a and technology studies, participants are based in China, the U.S., Europe , Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Through international workshops an d panels, we create ongoing dialogue on the key concepts themselves as well as their social import.
As theorists of sociocultural process, we investigate incommensurability of usages and connotations not as problem s to be solved but as windows onto distinct contexts, histories, and social relations. We strive toward an evenhanded approach to vocabularies in both Chinese and English, eschewing the linguistic domination that might develo p as scholars in mainland import and disseminate prestigious Western terms such as “ethnography” or “decolonizing”. We attend to words in all their sp ecificities of usage to grasp the societal impacts of Chinese and Western s emantic interplay and of the discrepancies even between Chinese regions.
We are not linguists per se, or philologists, nor are we translators or etymologists. Our emphasis exceeds terminology as we are fascinated w ith anecdotes, frustrations, resolutions, and conversations from diverse pe rspectives and locations. Disaggregating usages into official, scholarly, p opular media and vernacular domains, we take what we call the “social lives ” of keywords as lenses on China and pursue vibrant accounts that reveal ho w power, authority, dissent, even humor and parody, proliferate meanings ra ther than standardize them. In the ethnographic spirit, we are interested i n observing, listening and talking to a range of people, including ourselve s, to collect disparate usages and portray them evocatively. Keyword entrie s assemble a heteroglot set of sources and vignettes to tell vibrant storie s reflecting that word’s significations. Hence, our method is to construct entries through collective participation so as to capture heterogeneity, po lysemy, multiplicity.
CONTACT:Yuchen Chen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) DTSTAMP:20240328T211026 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210206T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR