Bei Dao
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The 2008 Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature
World Literature Today
April 3–4, 2008

Bei Dao, the 2008 Puterbaugh Fellow, is the most distinguished poet of his generation and considered by many to be one of the major writers of modern China. (For a full biography, click here.)  His keynote lecture (11:00 on Friday, April 4, Union Ballroom, Oklahoma Memorial Union, on OU’s Norman campus) is free and open to the public. A complete schedule of events for the 2008 Puterbaugh Conference is listed below.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

Puterbaugh Symposium, Scholars Room (OMU 315), 9-11:30am

9-10:00am – Panel One: Politics & Society, Daniel Simon, WLT, moderator

• R.C. Davis-Undiano, Welcoming Remarks
• Peter Hays Gries, “Harmony & Hegemony in US-China Relations,” University of Oklahoma
• Mark W. Frazier, “The Paradoxes & Politics of Rapid Growth in China,” University of Oklahoma

10:30-11:30am – Panel Two: Culture & Language, Pamela Genova, chair of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics,                                                                                      moderator

• Ming Chao Gui, "Understanding the Chinese Language and Its Future," University of Oklahoma
• Yunte Huang, "Reading Poetry East and West," UC Santa Barbara
• Ning Yu, “Visual Metaphors of China’s Cultural Identity & Globalization as Seen through a TV Commercial,” University of Oklahoma

3-4pm – Poetry Reading in the Dee Dee & Jon R. Stuart Classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Jonathan Stalling, Yibing Huang / Mai Mang, and Yunte Huang)

4-5pm – Book Club with Bei Dao in the Dee Dee & Jon R. Stuart Classroom, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

5-8pm – Opening reception for “Hung Liu: Now and Then,” Sandy Bell Gallery, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, www.ou.edu/fjjma

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

Puterbaugh Symposium, Union Ballroom, 9am–noon

9:00-10:30am – Panel Three: Bei Dao & Contemporary Literature, David Clark, WLT, moderator

• Dian Li, "Bei Dao’s Poetic Image: A Way of Experiencing the World Paradoxically," University of Arizona
• Yibing Huang, “‘Green, how I love you green’: Lorca, Bei Dao’s Waves, and Sleepwalking in History,” Connecticut College
• Jonathan Stalling, “June’s August Sleepwalker: Bei Dao’s Early Works in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People,” University of Oklahoma

Keynote lecture by Bei Dao
11am-noon | Union Ballroom
The 2008 Puterbaugh fellow reads from his work

2:00-4:00pm – Lecture by Hung Liu (Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California), the 2008 Jerome M. & Wanda Otey Westheimer Distinguished Visiting Artist, Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, www.ou.edu/fjjma

Other Spring 2008 Events at the Fred Jones Art Museum

“Three Cinemas of China”
Thursdays at 7pm (January 17 - May 29)
Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium
www.ou.edu/fjjma

“China: Insights”
April 17–July 17 (Opening reception Friday, April 18, 7-9pm)
Seven photographers from mainland China
www.ou.edu/fjjma