ICS Graduate Forum (2016):
China and the International Mediasphere
Welcome to the Institute for Chinese Studies' sixth year of hosting the ICS Graduate Forum! This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required, and everyone is welcome! Come out to support our graduate students! Attend some or all the sessions!
Flyer: 
2016 ICS Grad Forum Flyer.pdf
Program: See program schedule below
The ICS Graduate Forum, which is held each spring, provides OSU graduate students in China-related fields a venue for presenting their research. It gives students whose abstracts have been accepted for presentation at a regional, national or international conference an opportunity to rehearse their presentation. Topics for presentation may deal with any aspect of China or the Chinese language; and can come from any discipline: humanities, social sciences, STEM, historical or modern, etc., etc. Also welcomed are presentations by graduate students who are completing their dissertation as well as those who wish to practice delivering a conference-style presentation. This year, ten students are presenting, representing six units across the OSU campus: School of Music, Department of History, Department of History of Art, Department of Linguistics, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL).
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Note: Unless indicated otherwise, all presentations are 20 minutes in duration (15 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes for Q&A's.)
Event: ICS Graduate Forum (2016): China and the International Mediasphere
Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Time: 3:50 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Venue: Mendenhall Laboratory, Room 173 (125 S Oval Mall)
3:50-4:00 Refreshments
4:00-4:05 Welcoming Remarks -- Professor Mark Bender (Chair, Dept. of E. Asian Langs. & Lits.)
4:05-4:45 Session A. Hui Markets and Lolo-Burmese Animal Metaphors
Chair: Professor Mark Bender (DEALL)
- Yuanhao Zhao (NELC). An ordered mess: Sensing the folk in a Hui market in Shandong
- Wenyuan Shao (DEALL). Animal metaphors in Lolo-Burmese manuscripts from the Yungui Plateau
4:50-5:30 Session B. Chengyu Usage and Nomenclatures
Chair: Professor Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL)
- Xin Zhang (DEALL). Towards negotiating intentions: Natives' perceptions of chengyu usage by NS and NNS of Chinese
- Tsz-Him Tsui (Linguistics). That which we call "Chinese": Socio-cultural meanings associated with language names
5:35-5:55 Break - pizza
5:55-6:40 Session C. On the Shanghai Mint and Sesshu Toyo Exhibitions
Chair: Professor Julia F. Andrews (Dept. of History of Art)
- Austin Dean (History). The history of the Shanghai Mint, 1920-1933
- Yanfei Yin (History of Art). Agendas of two countries: Exhibitions of Sesshu Toyo in Japan and China in 1956 [20 min. + 5 min. Q&A]
6:45-7:25 Session D. Fang and Lin's Lyrics and Jay Chou's Singing Styles
Chair: Professor Udo Will (School of Music)
- Yun Wang (School of Music). Tonal mismatches in the lyrics of Fang Wenshan and Lin Xi
- Yuhan Lin (Linguistics) and Marjorie K.M. Chan (DEALL). Changing places, changing voices: Jay Chou’s singing style in his regular and Chinese-style ballads
7:30-8:10 Session E. Dialect Evaluation and Language Vitality
Chair: Professor Zhiguo Xie (DEALL)
- Qingyang Yan. (Linguistics). The relationship between ideological and speech-based dialect evaluations: The case of Enshi Prefecture in Hubei
- Litong Chen (DEALL). On the vitality of the Dapeng dialect in Guangdong Province
8:10-8:15 Closing Remarks -- Professor Marjorie Chan (Director, Institute for Chinese Studies)
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Co-sponsors:
Department of Linguistics
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL)
