Séminaire | Taïwan et ses fantômes : histoire, art et religion

10h

Alice BIANCHI (Université Paris Cité)

« Fantômes et démons d’ici-bas : promenade avec les mendiants et bateleurs, de la peinture chinoise aux rues de Taïwan »

Bio

Alice Bianchi est maître de conférences en histoire des arts et histoire de la Chine à l’université Paris Cité, et membre du Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO). Ses recherches portent sur la peinture de genre ainsi que sur la représentation de la catastrophe et des secours dans les arts visuels chinois. Parmi ses publications figurent “Picturing Disaster in Late Imperial China: The Liumin tu Tradition and its Transformations,” (Journal of Oriental Studies, 2021), “Ghost-Like Beggars in Chinese Painting: The Case of Zhou Chen,” in Vincent Durand-Dastès, Marie Laureillard (eds.), Fantômes dans l’Extrême-Orient d’hier et d’aujourd’hui (2017, Presses de l’Inalco, Paris) et « Mendiants et personnages de rue dans la peinture chinoise : un ensemble de quatre rouleaux des Ming et des Qing » (Arts Asiatiques, 2014). Elle a également codirigé le volume collectif The Social Life of Chinese Objects, à paraître chez Brill en 2022.

14h

CHANG Ti-han (University of Central Lancashire)

“Supernatural Beings and Indigenous Environmentalism: Eco-ghosts in Contemporary Taiwan Literature”

Bio :

Ti-han Chang is a lecturer (assistant professor) in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focusses on the contemporary eco-literature in Taiwan and its implication in the Asia Pacific region. Ti-han is particularly interested in postcolonial ecocriticism, which draws her attention to topics such as nonhuman agency, borders and nations, climate change and migration. Since 2019, she is engaged with multiple research projects which investigate the Pacific climate migrants and the narratives of the displaced. Her recent publications include: “Shaping Taiwan’s History through Non-human Agents” (2020), “New Zealand’s Political Responses to Climate Change and Migration in the Pacific: A Perspective from the South” (2022), and “Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature” (forthcoming 2023). Apart from her academic publications, she also contributes online articles on more general environmental and literature topics for The Conversation and Taiwan Insights. Currently, she is preparing her monograph on contemporary eco-writings in Taiwan and an edited volume, “Identities on the Move: Exile, Migration, Diaspora and Representation”, with several colleagues from MIDEX.