Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia2026.5.2 {en}

You are welcome to TRADIASIA (Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia) lecture series. The event is free but registration needed. The event will take place at the University of Valencia but some of these lectures will be offered in hybrid format too, if you are interested in attending online please complete this application form and you will receive a zoom link to join. You can find the programme below:

Transculturality and Diversity in East Asia

Fridays 17-20.30h
13th March – 19TH June 2026

Venue: S06, Facultat Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València
Language: English and Spanish

13th March

Sho Konishi (University of Oxford). The History of Not: Symbiotic Modern in Japan after World War Zero.

27th March

Carles Prado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Translation and transnationality: memories of China’s reform and opening up
Nong Ru Cheng Lee (University of Valencia). From Political Icon to Transcultural Sign: Mao Zedong in Global Visual Culture

17th April

Olga Pirozhenko (University of Valencia). Sakhalin Island in the destiny of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov

24th April 

Joon-kon Chung (Eurasia Foundation (From Asia))

8th May

Victoria Yang (University of Cambridge). Decentering Japan: Approaches to and from Okinawan literature
Ester Torres-Simón (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Korean literary panorama, from webtoon to Nobel Prize

15th May March 

Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University). Technology, Indexicality, Memory: Japanese and Korean War Film Lineages as Prehistories of Current Media Loops
 Marcos Centeno (University of Valencia). Transnational Memories in Documentary Film: Haneda Sumiko’s The Japanese Settlers

22nd May 

Owen Miller (SOAS, University of London) Reconfiguring a company town in late 1950s North Korea: the role of the Deutsche Arbeitsgruppe at Hŭngnam and the problems of social reproduction
Rossella Ferrari (University of Viena). Performing Postsocialist Futurities: Chinese Theatre, Technology, and the Posthuman

29th May

Eunsook Yang  (Complutense University of Madrid). Silk Road heritage in Korea
Mario Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid). China in the Current International Order

5th June

Ignacio López Sako (University of Granada). Is Japanese hard to learn? Some considerations about the relationship between language, culture and communication, and their acquisition as a foreign language
Amparo Montaner (University of Valencia) The Role of Linguistic Models in the Contrastive and Applied Study of Spanish and Japanese

12th June

Elia dal Corso (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The Ainu language through the eyes of explorers and documenters
Blai Guarné (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Identity at stake: cultural reappropriation and Japanese social visibility in Spanish urban space

19th June

Loli Kim (University of Oxford). Interpreting Korean Popular Culture: How to Perform Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis
Sonia Dueñas (University Carlos III of Madrid) Transnational Connections in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

Further information at https://www.uv.es/tradiasia.

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