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Academic invitations received and contributions to seminars and conferences

2022

  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Chinese Dreams and Nightmares: The Genealogy of Utopia and Anti-Utopia in China’s Mediasphere” at the Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China Conference, Università Orientale di Napoli, June 22-23 2022.
  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling”. China-US Surge Spring Symposium, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, 15 April 2022.
  • Mirra, Federica & Berg, Daria. “The Chinese Dream and its nightmares: perspectives from visual arts” at the 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22-24 August 2022.
  • Mirra, Federica & Berg, Daria.“Visual narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative in western China” at the 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24-27 August 2022.

2021

  • Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS). Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. 26 November 2021.
  • Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. Conference “The technological Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Literature”. The University of Zurich, Switzerland, 22 January 2021.
  • Berg, Daria. „Chinas neue Stars im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Konsum und Kommunismus“. 8. Bergakademie der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Appenberg, Schweiz. 3 Oktober 2021.
  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 28 August 2021.
  • Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 26 August 2021.
  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling”. 12th International Convention Of Asia Scholars ICAS 12. Kyoto, Japan, 25 August 2021.
  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “China’s New Media Superstars.” 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 24 August 2021.
  • Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Borders, Marginality, and the Contemporary: Yang Zhichao’s Art at the Turn of the 21st Century”. 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 25 August 2021.
  • Berg, Daria. “Der Mann, der China erfand: Auf den Spuren von Xi Jinpings Macht”. Chinaforum Basel, 4 June 2021.
  • Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Rising from the Margins: Women Superstars in Superpower China”. Conference “China From The Margins: New Narratives Of The Past And Present”, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of China Studies, Suzhou (PRC), 10-11 April 2021.

 

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