Posthuman Fabulations

Sinotheory Seminar Series-Workshop A

Panel 1-Flora & Fauna

11:00 AM—12:30 PM (EDT)

Astrid Moller-Olsen, “Growing Together: Plant-human Chimeras in Contemporary Fiction"

Zhange Ni, "The Mushroom beyond the End of the World: Posthumanism and the Sci-fi Romance The Little Mushroom"

Corey Brynes, “The Limits of Posthumanism and the Sempiternal Animal”

(Chair and Discussant, Carlos Rojas) 

Panel 2-Humanism & Posthumanism

2:00-3:30 PM (EDT)

Carlos Rojas, “Dung Kai-Cheung’s Beloved Wife and Fungible Consciousness"

Nathaniel Isaacson, “Symbiosis and Synesthesia in the Fiction of Chi Ta-wei"

Hua Li, “Affirmation of Humanism amidst Posthuman Episodes in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide and Balin”

(Chair and Discussant, Mingwei Song)