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• “Serving the People with Art and Propaganda in Socialist and Post-Socialist China,” Chairing and commenting on three presentations in a pre-recorded session with live Q&A, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference, March 26, 2021 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 26 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The White Snake as Activist Projects: Three Snapshots,” 2021 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, January 15-17, 2021 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jan 15 2021 → Jan 17 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “White Snake the Disenchantress,” presented at the interdisciplinary seminar “Retelling Fantastic Tales in East Asian and Global Popular Cultures,” organized by myself for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual conference, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, March 18-19, 2016.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 18 2016 → Mar 19 2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Joris Ivens, Left-wing Cosmopolitanism, and Visualizing Modern China,” presented at “Visual Representations, World Literature and the Left-wing Cosmopolitanism in Modern China and East Asia” international conference, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 22-23, 2015 (Read by Ms. Fan Yilun of CUHK on my behalf due to travel restrictions).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  May 22 2015 → May 23 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The White Snake and the Metamorphosis of Contemporary Sinophone Culture,” presented at “Global Sinophonia,” the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 17-19, 2012.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Dec 17 2012 → Dec 19 2012

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Five Faces of Salome: Theatrical Metamorphoses from Tokyo, Shanghai, to Beijing, 1920s-1950s,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, California, April 6, 2006.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 6 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Dislocated Selves, Urban Forms, and the (Re)formation of Modern Consciousness—Tian Han’s Tokyo vs. Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Shanghai,” presented at the Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese Studies, Cambridge, MA, March 16, 2002.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 16 2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Some Investigations into a January 1937 Letter from Yuan Muzhi to Helen van Dongen,” SEUSS-FLIC “China and the World” Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 12, 2022 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Feb 12 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “A Sinophone Documentary by a Dutch Filmmaker on the Great Leap Forward?” 2021 Society of Sinophone Studies (SSS) Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, LA, April 23, 2021 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 23 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Airing the States: Hunan and Sichuan Dialects in Chinese Revolutions,” presented at Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) biannual conference, held in Changsha, Hunan, July 17 to 19, 2019 (in Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jul 17 2019 → Jul 19 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Chinese White Snake in Postwar Japanese and Korean Cinema,” presented at the University of Kentucky Asia Research Forum organized by Prof. Doug Slaymaker, Lexington, KY, April 19, 2019.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 19 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Poetry, Photography, Fashion: Things Lost and Found in Digitally Performing The White Snake,” paper for the panel “Digital China: Decenter and Deconstruction,” presented at the 2018 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Washington D.C., March 24, 2018.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 24 2018

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Humanity of the Nonhuman at the Height of the Cold War: Remembering Lost Voices in the Inter-Asian Cinematic Adaptations of a Chinese Legend,” presented in the panel “Lost and Found in Mediation: Past and Future Voices from East Asian Margins,” at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) 2019 International Symposium held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 23 to 25, 2019.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jul 23 2019 → Jul 25 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “A Punch at the Postmodern Lives in Contemporary East Asia,” paper for the panel “Disability and Human (In)Dignity in East Asian Literature and Film,” presented at the 2018 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, New York City, NY, January 6, 2018.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jan 6 2018

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Reincarnation of the White Snake in the Shadow of the Cold War,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asian Scholars joint conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 31 2011 → Apr 3 2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “International Avant-garde and Modern China,” presented at Modernist Studies Association 12th Annual Conference, Victoria, Canada, November 11-14, 2010.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Nov 11 2010 → Nov 14 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Making Virgin and Vampire: The Modern Girl Discourses from Taishō Tokyo to Communist Beijing,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2008.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 3 2008 → Apr 6 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Humanity of the Nonhuman: Cold War Intermediations of the White Snake in East Asia,” paper for the panel “Intermediality in Chinese Cinema,” presented at the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) biennial conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 21-23, 2017.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 21 2017 → Jun 23 2017

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Finding a Voice for China: Soundtracks of the Everyday in War and Revolution,” presented at the “Excavating Sounds for an Archive of the Everyday” panel organized by myself and moderated by Andrew F. Jones (University of California, Berkeley) at the “Sound, Noise and the Everyday—Soundscapes in Contemporary China” conference, Aarhus University, Denmark, August 21-24, 2014.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Aug 21 2014 → Aug 24 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Digital Classicism of the Cantonese Opera Film White Snake,” Borders and Borderless: Technological Revolution, Visual Language, and Communal Imagination, the 2022 international conference at Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China, November 26-27, 2022 (online, in Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Nov 26 2022 → Nov 27 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Socialist Avant-garde and Left-wing Cosmopolitanism in Interwar China,” presented at “Left-wing Cosmopolitanism in Modern China,” a conference co-organized by the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Hong Kong, May 27-28, 2013.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  May 27 2013 → May 28 2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Hospitable White Snake,” the 2022 Modern Language Association International Symposium (MLAIS), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2-4, 2022.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 2 2022 → Jun 4 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Animals, Machines, and Humans: The White Snake in Global Popular Cultures,” presented at the “Interdisciplinary Animal Studies Workshop” organized by Prof. Huaiyu Chen of Arizona State University, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China, June 23-25, 2019 (in Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 23 2019 → Jun 25 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Legacies of Joris Ivens in Mid-Twentieth-Century China and Beyond,” presented at the 2019 KFLC: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures conference, Lexington, KY, April 11-13, 2019.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 11 2019 → Apr 13 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “’Not Fate, But Scientific Certainty’: Enlightenment Logic in Service of the Uncanny— Centered on The Legend of the White Snake (1953-1955),” presented at the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) biannual conference, International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 18-20, 2015 (in Mandarin Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 18 2015 → Jun 20 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “From East Berlin, Paris, to Beijing: Joris Ivens and the Postwar Transformation of the Interwar International Avant-garde,” presented at the “Tracing Arches of Relational Comparison and Literary Capitals” seminar co-organized by Professors Doug Slaymaker, Shu-mei Shih, and Keijiro Suga, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual conference, New York University, New York, March 20- 23, 2014.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 20 2014 → Mar 23 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Folk and the Avant-garde in Wartime China,” presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, March 25, 2007.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 25 2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Radicalism as a Way of Life in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia,” presented at the First North America Conference on the Study of Radicalism, “Global Radicalisms: Beyond Left and Right?” Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, January 27, 2007.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jan 27 2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Metamorphosis of the White Snake and Tian Han’s Challenge to the Writing of Modern Chinese Cultural History,” presented at the Annual Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Denver, Colorado, September 30, 2005.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Sep 30 2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Cross-Dressed Chinese Modern Girl as Reality and Representation,” presented at “The Language of Clothes: Status, Gender, and Law in the History of Attire in Japan, China, and Great Britain, from Ancient through Modern Times,” an international conference organized by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 10, 2007.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Sep 10 2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Reality Supplements Fantasy—Imagining Paris in a Shanghai Salon,” presented at the 17th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Hong Kong, August 10, 2004.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Aug 10 2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “From Revolutionary Icons to Youth Idols: Consuming the Red Legacy in When We Were Young (Qia tongxue shaonian) and National Anthem (Guoge),” presented at the 64th Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 14-16, 2010.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Oct 14 2010 → Oct 16 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Lyric Poet and Social Realist in One: Tian Han, Joris Ivens, and the Post-WWI International Avant-garde,” presented at American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1-4, 2010.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 1 2010 → Apr 4 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Relational Creativities and Digital Activist Transformations of a Chinese Legend,” 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biannual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, July 26-29, 2022.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jul 26 2022 → Jul 29 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Queering an Icon, Becoming a Demon: A Preliminary Discussion of the 2019 White Snake Animation,” the inaugural conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies (ACAS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, April 20, 2021 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 20 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Joris Ivens, Tian Han, the International Avant-Garde and Chinese Socialist Cultural Productions,” in “Multiple Temporalities of the Chinese Avant-Garde,” organized by me for the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, Toronto, Canada, January 7-10, 2021 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jan 7 2021 → Jan 10 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Profound Propaganda: Joris Ivens, Paul Robeson, and Modern China,” presented at the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China biannual conference, August 16, 2020 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Aug 16 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Global White Snake,” New Books Roundtable, Southeast Conference for the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS), University of Louisville, Louisville KY, January 16, 2022 (online).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jan 16 2022

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Global White Snake,” the 13th Chinese Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) Annual Conference, Guangxi University, China, July 25, 2021 (online, in Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jul 25 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Humanity of the Non-human in the Japanese “White Snake” Film Ugetsu (1953),” presented in the panel “Non-human, Transhuman, and Posthuman: Narratives of Transgressing the Human and the Non-Human Boundary in China and Japan”at the Association of Asian Studies annual conference, Denver, CO, March 21-24, 2019.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 21 2019 → Mar 24 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Chinese White Snake in Postwar Japanese Animation,” presented at the 70th Annual KFLC: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, Lexington KY, April 20-22, 2017.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 20 2017 → Apr 22 2017

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Lust beyond Redemption? —Metamorphoses of the White Snake in Contemporary Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Chinese Diaspora,” presented at the 66th Annual KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 18-20, 2013.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 18 2013 → Apr 20 2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Opera Question in Modern Chinese Revolution,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 25, 2006.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 25 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “The Politics of Traditional Opera in Modern China,” presented at the Annual Harvard East Asian Society Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 18, 2006.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Feb 18 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Imagining Paris in Shanghai—Zhang Ruogu and a Francophile Salon in the late 1920s,” presented at the Annual Harvard East Asian Society Conference, Cambridge, MA, March 6, 2001.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Mar 6 2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “International Avant-garde and the Making of the National Anthem,” presented at “Diverse Paradigms of Asian Experiences and Cultural Studies” international conference, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 29-July 3, 2012 (in Mandarin Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 29 2012 → Jul 3 2012

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Rethinking the Avant-garde and the Popular in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia,” presented at the 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 14-16, 2011.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Apr 14 2011 → Apr 16 2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “White Snake, Wind Rose, and Cultures of the Cold War in China and East Germany, presented at “Cold War Cultures,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, September 30-October 3, 2010.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Sep 30 2010 → Oct 3 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “March of the Volunteers in Wartime China,” presented at “Cultures of Emergency: Cultural Production at the Time of Turmoil, 1937-1957,” National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 14-16, 2009.

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Aug 14 2009 → Aug 16 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Tian Han, the White Snake, and the Hybrid Nature of Modern Chinese Culture,” presented at the Biannual Conference of the International Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, June 24, 2005 (in Chinese).

  Luo, L. (Speaker)

  Jun 24 2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation