中非文化沙龙：中非关系情感与记忆｜Emotions and memories of China-Africa relations
CASIN
中非文化研究沙龙
暨CA/AC研究网络上海见面会
China-Africa Shanghai International Network Meeting
Emotions and memories of China -Africa relations
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活动时间｜2024年5月25日（周六） 14:00-17:00（北京时间）
地点｜上海纽约大学当代艺术中心活动空间（上海市浦东新区杨思西路和高青西路交叉口东南角）
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上海中非关系研究网络（China-Africa Shanghai International Network，以下简称CASIN）。
上海中非关系研究网络（CASIN）是中国人在非洲/非洲人在中国研究网络（Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network，简称CA/AC）的地方网络分会。后者是目前全球最大的独立、跨学科、致力于中非交往的研究网络，成立于2007年，旨在以批判性、建设性的方式推动关于中非的全球对话，发展一个重视对话、公平和包容的跨国学者和从业人员社区。目前，CA/AC研究网络在世界各地已拥有超过1000名成员，涵盖来自学术界、外交界、媒体和通信、艺术和人文学科以及国际发展领域的专家。
上海中非关系研究网络（CASIN）将主要促进上海当地社区对于中非关系的研究和认识，旨在为两个目标群体提供研究和专业方面的对话空间：在长三角地区生活和工作的非洲学生和专业人士；从事非洲相关工作的中国研究者和专业人士。我们将推出丰富的交流活动，包括3个系列：1）中非关系研究系列讲座；2）非洲文化日；3）以中非关系为主题的年度创意作品大赛。
推动全球对话，讲好中非故事。
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主持: 施东来Flair
✦14:00-14:10 开场介绍
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施东来Flair，上海交通大学
✦ 14:10-15:40 嘉宾主题演讲
第一场
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题目：全球南部的情感与团结：对熟悉、共鸣与怀旧的考察
演讲者：Lina Benabdallah，维克森林大学政治与国际事务系副教授
Lina Benabdallah是维克森林大学政治与国际事务系副教授。她的著作Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations一书于 2020年由密歇根大学出版社出版。
Lina Benabdallah副教授（图源维克森林大学官网）
本文探讨了全球南方国家交往中普遍存在的突出情感话语，研究了情感建构的方式、情感传播的途径，以及情感如何围绕团结、友谊、相互尊重等积极属性为全球南方国家政治提供政治声援。本文旨在说明，在熟悉和共鸣的基础上，利用情感共鸣和诱因来扩大中国在全球南部的影响力，既可以源于有机的亲缘关系（反殖民主义的共同历史），也可以由国家通过创建纪念馆、传播旨在激活这些共同情感的叙事，有时还可以在旧历史、怀旧记忆、想象或重新想象的过去的基础上构建新的叙事来培养。为了说明这一点，我研究了古代丝绸之路和十四世纪中国航海家与非洲-印度洋社区的相遇，将 "一带一路 "倡议描述为新丝绸之路，它可以重振欧洲帝国和殖民势力到来之前非洲-印度洋地区的商业繁荣。本研究为探讨全球南部政治中的一系列怀旧和其他情感叙事记忆的学术研究做出了贡献。
第二场
14:40-15:10
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题目：邮票的故事：中国援非工程的当地见证
演讲者：刘烨，清华人文与社会科学高等研究所博士后研究员
刘烨，现为清华大学人文与社会科学高等研究所“水木学者”博后研究员，曾在中山大学与伦敦政经学院求学，后于纽约社会研究新学院（New School for Social Research）获博士学位，亦拥有建筑学背景。他的研究关注第三世界、殖民与帝国、中非关系、革命与现代性理论、建筑与设计的认识论政治等方面。
邮票不仅是邮资的凭证，更是现代世界中宣誓主权的流动印刷符号。我的报告将与大家分享搜集的三款由几内亚和刚果（布）发行的毛泽东时代中国援建工程的邮票：它们分别关于几内亚科纳克里的人民宫（建于1965-1967），刚果布拉柴维尔金松迪联合纺织厂（1966-1969）和刚果布昂扎水电站（1975-1979）。我将在其他影像和档案文字资料的配合下，解读邮票票面中的建筑、人物和景观的意象，并简要说明其承载的更广阔的发生在中非之间的故事。
一位援建职工在刚落成的水电站前合影（图源：https://www.takungpao.com/news/232111/2020/0415/437702.html）
部分作者收集邮票
第三场
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题目：东方歌舞团与身体情感的塑造
演讲者：郝宇骢，上海纽约大学助理教授
郝宇骢于美国密歇根大学取得文学博士，目前任教于上海纽约大学。拥有来自比较文学、媒介史和表演研究的跨学科学术背景，研究主要关注中国现代文学与媒介文化中的跨国连结、后殖民意识与种族想象。
东方歌舞团（图源：https://www.sohu.com/a/257029209_99951631）
在东方歌舞团的资深舞者赵世中的回忆中，这个以表演第三世界文艺而蜚声国际的国家剧团，是中国在万隆时代文化外交上的一个无与伦比的对外窗口。在这篇报告中，我将视角由宏观的文化外交转向微观身体情感的塑造。通过追溯东方歌舞团从万隆时代至1980年代初的非洲舞蹈和音乐表演，着重考察了这些表演在艺术家身上刻下的情感与身体的双重印记、演出剧目更迭和修订的过程、以及这些表演在中国文艺舞台上所召唤想象的别样的艺术视野。
✦15:40-16:00 中场休息
✦16:00-17:00 交流与讨论
*活动语言为中英双语，演讲者将用英语发言，幻灯片为中文，问答环节可能采取中英双语
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Event Details
Date: 14:00-17:00, 25 May 2024, Saturday
Venue: Events space, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai
Address: Southeast corner of West Yangsi Road and West Gaoqing Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200124, China
About the Organizer
China-Africa Shanghai International Network (CASIN) is a local network chapter (LNC) of the world's largest independent, interdisciplinary China-Africa research network, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network (CA/AC). The CA/AC Research Network was established in 2007, which currently hosts over 1,000 members around the world and includes experts in academia, diplomacy, media & communications, the arts & humanities, and international development. Our mission is to help move the global conversation about China-Africa forward in a critical and constructive way while developing a transnational community of scholars and practitioners who value dialogue, equity, and inclusiveness.
CASIN focuses on promoting research and knowledges about Africa and China in the local communities of Shanghai, aiming to laise between two target groups: African students and professionals who live and work in the Yangtze River Delta & Chinese researchers and professionals whose work engage with Africa or Africans. We will provide various events including: 1) Public Engagement Series that allow participants to exchange first-hand experiences; 2) African Cultural Day when a selected group of local members conduct site-seeing activities; 3) An annual creative work competition with China-Africa themes.
Topics & Speakers
Host: Flair
14:00-14:10
Opening remark
Flair Donglai Shi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
14:10-15:40
Panel discussion
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Topic 1:
Emotions and Solidarity in the Global South: Examining Familiarity, Resonance, and Nostalgia
Speaker:
Lina Benabdallah, Associate Professor for the Politics & International Affairs Department at Wake Forest University
Lina Benabdallah is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Reviews, The Journal of International Relations and Development, Third World Quarterly, African Studies Quarterly, Project on Middle East Political Science, as well as in public facing outlets such as Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and Foreign Policy. Dr. Benabdallah spent Spring 2023 as a visiting fellow at the Center for African Studies at Harvard University and is currently serving as a co-editor of PS: Political Science and Politics.
This paper examines the salient emotional discourses prevalent in Global South encounters, and investigates the means through which emotions are constructed, how they are diffused, and how they lend a political solidarity to Global South politics centering around positive attributes including solidarity, friendship, mutual respect, and so on. The paper aims to demonstrate that tapping into emotional resonance and triggers for expanding China’s influence in the Global South based on familiarity and resonance can both grow out of organic affinities (anti-colonial shared history) and also be cultivated by the state through creating memorials, diffusing narratives that aim at activating these shared emotions, and sometimes also constructing new narratives on the back of old histories, nostalgic remembering, and imagined or reimagined pasts. To illustrate this point, I examine the utilization of the Ancient Silk Roads and the fourteenth century encounter between Chinese maritime navigators and Afro-Indian Ocean communities to present the Belt and Road Initiative as the new Silk Road which can revive the commercial prosperity of the Afro-Indian Ocean known to the area prior to the arrival of European imperial and colonial powers. The study contributes to scholarship that explores an array of nostalgic and other affectively charged narrative-memories in Global South politics.
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2) 14:40-15:10
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The Stories in the Stamps: The Local Presentation of China-constructed Projects
Speaker:
Ye Liu, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences
LIU Ye is currently a Shuimu postdoctoral researcher at the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS). He studied at Sun Yat-sen University and the London School of Economics, and later received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also has a background in architecture. Liu’s research focuses on the Third World, colonialism and empire, Sino-African relations, socialist revolution and modernity, modern archiectural and design politics, among others.
Stamps are not only a proof of postage, but also a mobile printed symbol of the declaration of sovereignty in the modern world. In my presentation, I will share my collection of three stamps issued by Guinea and Congo (Brazzaville) on China-aided construction projects during the Maoist era. They are the People's Palace in Conakry, Guinea (built during 1965-1967), the Kinsoundi Union Textile Factory in Brazzaville, Congo (1966-1969), and the Moukoukoulou Dam, Congo (1975-1979). I will interpret the imagery of the architecture, figures, and landscapes in the stamps with the help of other images and archival materials, and then briefly explain the broader story of what happened between China and Africa that they carry.
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Topic 3:
Embodying Afro-Asia: Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble and the Making of Affective Bodyscapes
Speaker:
Yucong Hao, New York University Shanghai
Yucong Hao received her PhD from the University of Michigan, and currently teaches at NYU Shanghai. Working at the intersection of comparative literature, media history, and performance studies, she studies the global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media.
When Zhao Shizhong, a veteran dancer from the Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble, recollects the history of the state troupe known for its staging of Third World performing arts, he believes that the ensemble was as an unparalleled window for PRC’s cultural diplomacy in the Bandung era. In this talk, however, I move beyond the analytical lens of cultural diplomacy, and instead examine the affective bodyscapes that the ensemble cultivated. Tracing the repertoire of African dance and music that the ensemble developed in both the socialist and the ensuing post-socialist era, I explore the emotional and corporeal traces that such performance inscribed on individual performers, processes of iteration and revision, as well as alternative artistic vista that it helped to envisage.
15:40-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
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*The event will be in dual language: Chinese and English
*The event will be open for the public.
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