Women & Silent Screen XI – Online China Time
June 7 - 8 EDT (New York time) / June 7 - 9 CST (China time)
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 / Wednesday June 8, 2022
8:30 – 10:00 AM EDT / 8:30 – 10:00 PM June 7 CST
Panel 1. Women of Shanghai
Panel Chair: 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
“Pu Shunqing and Her Screenwriting Practice in the Early Film Industry”
Jin Chen, City University of Hong Kong
“Usherettes of Early Chinese Cinema: The Exception for Lower-Class Women”
Jingrui Yan, Peking University
10:00 – 10:15 AM EDT / 10:00 – 10:15 PM June 7 CST
Show-and-Tell #1: “First Ladies of Shanghai Cinema, 1922–1929”
S. Louisa Wei, City University of Hong Kong
10:15 – 10:30 AM EDT / 10:15 – 10:30 PM June 7 CST
Zoom Live Screening: First Ladies of Shanghai (S. Louisa Wei, 2022, 14 min)
10:30 – 11:00 AM EDT / 10:30 – 11:00 PM June 7 CST
Zoom Live Screening: Blue Sky Station: 8th Avenue, “New York’s 3rd Chinatown” (Qin Li, 2000, 30 min)
Or watch on your own on Vimeo: Registered participants will receive a link for access to the film. (Available to view until June 15.)
11:00 – 11:30 AM EDT / 11:00 – 11:30 PM June 7 CST
Interview: Women in Film – Contemporary and Historical Comparison — Female Filmmaker and Scholar in Film Industry and Beyond
Interviewer: Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
Speaker: Qin Li (Blue Sky Station: 8th Avenue, “New York’s 3rd Chinatown”), Renmin University of China
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT / 11:30 PM June 7 – 12:30 AM June 8 CST
Interview: Women in Film – Contemporary and Historical Comparison — Female Filmmaker and Scholar in Film Industry and Beyond
Interviewer: Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
Speaker: S. Louisa Wei (Golden Gate Girls and Havana Divas), City University of Hong Kong
Watch on your own on 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.)
12:30 – 2:00 PM EDT / 12:30 – 2:00 AM CST
Panel 2. Shanghai Early Cinema
Panel Chair: Rita Rongyi Lin, Northwestern University
“Shanghai Silent Cinema and the Melodrama of Feminist Film Historiography”
Rita 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 – 7:45 PM EDT / 7:30 – 7:45 AM June 8 CST
Show-and-Tell #2: “My Great Grandmother: Chinese-American Marion E. Wong”
Chris Kumaradjaja, Columbia University
7:45 – 8:00 PM EDT / 7:45 – 8:00 AM June 8 CST
Show-and-Tell #3: “Women on the Chinese silent screen: A free online film repository”
Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia
8:00 – 9:30 PM EDT / 8:00 – 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 link. Registered participants will receive a link for access to the film. (Available to view until June 15.)
9:30 – 10:00 PM EDT / 9:30 – 10:00 AM June 8 CST
Interview: Women in Film – Contemporary and Historical Comparison — “I was Born in the Trunk": Daughter of Shanghai
Interviewer: Xiaoyang Pan, Columbia University
Speaker: Michelle Miao Chen, Ohio University MFA, Beijing Film Academy Department of Directing BFA
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 / Thursday June 9, 2022
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT / 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM June 9 CST
Panel 3. To Be the First
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
12:00 – 12:15 PM EDT / 12:00 – 12:15 AM June 9 CST
Show-and-Tell #4: "How Does Tradition Play Its Colorful Role In Omitting First Iranian Actresses From Cinema?”
Somayeh (Nasim) Ghazizadeh, Iranian Association of Film Critics and Writers
4:15 – 4:30 PM EDT / 4:15 – 4:30 AM June 9 CST
Show-and-Tell #5: “Women’s March to the Japanese Screen”
Timothy Amatulli, Columbia University
4:30 – 6:00 PM EDT / 4:30 – 6:00 AM June 9 CST
Panel 4. Japanese Actresses
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
6:00 – 7:30 PM EDT / 6:00 – 7:30 AM June 9 CST
Panel 5. The Orient and the West
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 – 9:00 PM EDT / 7:30 – 9:00 AM June 9 CST
Panel 6. Cross-cultural Discoveries of the Silent Screen
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