Taking The Assemblage Brain to China!

Place: Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Time: Oct. 27 to 28, 2018

Since 2013, Beijing Normal University hosts an international conference addressing a theme central to humanistic inquiry.  Interdisciplinary in scope, method, and perspective, the conference seeks to provide a forum for exchanging ideas in the Humanities that will be of significance and interest to academic communities in both China and beyond.  Toward that end in keeping with its established practice, this year’s conference brings together sixteen scholars whose work, ranging from media studies, philosophy, cognitive science, and literary and critical theories, promises to help expand the tradition this conference has established.  The possible topics to be explored include: media, technologies and epistemics, media and philosophers, neuroscience, humanism, non-humanism, and anti-humanism, elements and environment, politics of remediation, and others.

Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mary Ann Doane, University of California, Berkeley

Weigui Fang, Beijing Normal University

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

Orit Halpern, Concordia University

Yi Jiang, Beijing Normal University

Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University

Sybille Krämer, Free University of Berlin

Chao Liu, Beijing Normal University

Yuejia Luo, Shenzhen University

Tony D Sampson, University of East London

Peter Szendy, Brown University

Christian Vagt, University of California, Santa Barbara

Joseph Vogl, Humboldt University of Berlin

Yingjin Xu, Fudan University

Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo

Siegfried Zielinski, Berlin University of the Arts