Online Schedule
Tuesday, June 7 (New York) | Wednesday, June 8 (China)
8:30 AM – 10 AM EDT | 8:30 PM – 10 PM June 7 CST
Panel #1: Women of Shanghai - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Jin Chen, City University of Hong Kong
“Pu Shunqing and Her Screenwriting Practice in the Early Film Industry”
- Jin Chen, City University of Hong Kong
“The Star Image of Yang Naimei in Her Time”
- April Gailan Wei, Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College
“Usherettes of Early Chinese Cinema: The Exception for Lower-Class Women”
- Jingrui Yan, Peking University
10 AM – 10:15 AM EDT | 10 PM – 10:15 PM June 8 CST
Show-and-Tell #1: “First Ladies of Shanghai Cinema, 1922–1929” - WATCH ONLINE
S. Louisa Wei, City University of Hong Kong
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT | 10:15 PM – 10:30 PM June 8 CST Screening: First Ladies of Shanghai (14 min)
10:30 AM – 11 AM EDT | 10:30 PM – 11 PM June 7 CST
Zoom Live Screening: Blue Sky Station: 8th Avenue, “New York’s 3rd Chinatown” (Qin Li, 2000, 30 min)
Watch on your own:
- Vimeo: Blue Sky Station: 8th Avenue, “New York’s 3rd Chinatown” (Qin Li, 2000, 30 min)
- CathayPlay: Golden Gate Girls (S. Louisa Wei, 2013, 106 min) and Havana Divas (S. Louisa Wei, 2018, 91 min).
Registered participants will receive links for access to the films. Available to view until June 15, 2022.
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT | 11:00 PM June 7 – 12:30 AM June 8 CST
Roundtable Interview: Women in Film – Contemporary and Historical Comparison — Female Filmmaker and Scholar in Film Industry and Beyond - WATCH ONLINE
Interviewer: Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
Speakers:
S. Louisa Wei (Golden Gate Girls and Havana Divas), City University of Hong Kong
Qin Li (Blue Sky Station: 8th Avenue, “New York’s 3rd Chinatown”), Renmin University of China
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT | 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM June 8 CST
Panel #2: Shanghai Early Cinema - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Rongyi Lin, Northwestern University
“Shanghai Silent Cinema and the Melodrama of Feminist Film Historiography”
- Rongyi Lin, Northwestern University
“Claiming Modernity: Class-based Female Moviegoing in 1920s and 1930s Shanghai”
- Yumo Yan, University of Washington
“Disguised or Exposed Female Identity: Cross-dressing in Early Chinese Cinema”
- Ailin Zhou, Columbia University
7:30 PM – 7:45 PM EDT | 7:30 AM – 7:45 AM June 8 CST
Show-and-Tell #2: “My Great Grandmother: Chinese-American Marion E. Wong” - WATCH ONLINE
Chris Kumaradjaja, Columbia University
7:45 PM – 8 PM EDT | 7:45 AM – 8 AM June 8 CST
Show-and-Tell #3: “Women on the Chinese silent screen: A free online film repository” - WATCH ONLINE
Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia
8 PM – 9:30 PM EDT I 8 AM – 9:30 AM June 8 CST
Zoom Live Screening: Daughter of Shanghai (Michelle Miao Chen, 2019, 90 min)
Or watch on your own: Vimeo or Baidu Netdisk. Registered participants will receive a link for access to the film. Available to view until June 15, 2022.
9:30 PM – 10 PM EDT | 9:30 AM – 10 AM June 8 CST
Interview: Women in Film – Contemporary and Historical Comparison — “I was Born in the Trunk”: Daughter of Shanghai - WATCH ONLINE
Interviewer: Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
Speaker: Michelle Miao Chen, Ohio University MFA, Beijing Film Academy Department of Directing BFA
Wednesday, June 8 (New York) | Thursday June 9 (China)
10:30 AM – 12 PM EDT | 10:30PM – 12 AM June 8 CST
Panel #3: To Be the First - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Enrique Moreno Ceballos, Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“Mrs. Gardner’s Travels or Mexico’s First Women Exhibitor”
- Enrique Moreno Ceballos, Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“The Artful Masquerade of ‘First Chinese Star Lady Tsen Mei”
- Ramona Curry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“She’s Speaking: Multilingual Women as Media in Chinese Documentary”
- Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
12 PM – 12:15 PM EDT | 12 AM – 12:15 AM June 9 CST
Show-and-Tell #4: “How Does Tradition Play Its Colorful Role in Omitting First Iranian Actresses from Cinema?” - WATCH ONLINE
Nasim Ghazizadeh, Iranian Association of Film Critics and Writers
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT | 4:15 AM– 4:30 AM June 9 CST
Show-and-Tell #5: “Women’s March to the Japanese Screen” - WATCH ONLINE
Timothy Amatulli, Columbia University
4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT | 4:30 AM – 6 AM June 9 CST
Panel #4: Japanese Actresses - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Yuki Irikura, Waseda University
“Universal Actresses in Japan: Grace Cunard and Mary MacLaren”
- Yuki Irikura, Waseda University
“Female Actors Who Were Born in Japan”
- Daisuke Miyao, University of California San Diego
“Migrating Fashions, Mobile Bodies: ‘Modern Girls’ in Japanese Silent Cinema”
- Kerstin Fooken, University of Hamburg
6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT | 6 AM – 7:30 AM June 9 CST
Panel #5: The Orient and the West - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Yiman Wang, University of California Santa Cruz
“When ‘Orientals’ Became ‘Indians’: Gender, Race, Masquerade in ‘Indian Westerns’”
- Yiman Wang, University of California Santa Cruz
“The Romance of Orientalism and the Passions of Pearl White”
- Jennifer M. Bean, University of Washington-Seattle
“Unsung Melodrama: Staging the Aural in Indian Silent Film”
- Anupama Prabhala, Loyola Marymount University
7:30 PM – 9 PM EDT | 7:30 AM – 9 AM June 9 CST
Panel #6: Cross-cultural Discoveries of the Silent Screen - WATCH ONLINE
Panel Chair: Kristine Harris, SUNY New Paltz
“Circuits of Mobility in Love and Duty”
- Kristine Harris, SUNY New Paltz
“Ita Rina: Searching for the Yugoslav Star of the Silent Screen”
- Mina Radovic, Goldsmiths, University of London
Online conference co-sponsors:
Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation
Columbia University
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute
- Dragon Summit Culture Endowment Fund for C. V. Starr East Asian Library
