28th Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies

Turin – November 18-20th, 2021

PANEL TITLE (Italian):
Giovani virtuosi e dove trovarli: Percorsi formativi e rappresentazioni dell’età giovanile
nella tradizione pedagogica e letteraria cinese

Chairs: Giulia Falato, Renata Vinci

  • Arianna Magnani, Una sintesi di stratagemmi educativi: il capitolo Xuntong men 訓童門 nei Riyong leishu 日用類書
  • Laura Lettere, Quando l’enfant prodige diventa un maestro: il paradosso dell’insegnamento nella tradizione buddhista cinese
  • Giulia Falato, Spazi, ruoli e precetti dell’istruzione giovanile nella Cina del primo periodo imperiale
  • Renata Vinci, La stampa per ragazzi e le attività ludiche per giovani lettori nella Cina a cavallo tra XIX e XX secolo
  • Ornella De Nigris, La rappresentazione dell’infanzia nelle opere pittoriche e letterarie di Feng Zikai (1898 – 1975)
  • Giuseppe Rizzuto, Le trasformazioni degli approcci educativi cinesi di primo Novecento attraverso l’opera di Ye Shengtao (1894–1988)

Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies

Honolulu, Hawai’i – March 24-27, 2022

PANEL TITLE:
Virtuous Children and Where to Find Them: Education and Representations of Young People in Chinese Sources Between Tradition and Modernity

Discussant: Kazue Mino (Kyoto University)

  • Giulia Falato (University of Oxford), Governing the Family the Western Way: Children’s Moral Duties and Social Expectations in Jesuit Publications from the 17th Century
  • Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden), Un-learning the Stratagems: Qing Pedagogical Efforts against Poisonous Warring States Legacies
  • Renata Vinci (University of Palermo), Developing Creative Skills Through Interactive Content in Chinese Children’s Magazines Between the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Mariia Guleva (Charles University, Prague), Little Educators: Images of Children’s Exemplary: Behaviour in the Manhua 漫畫 Magazine (1950–1960)

Book presentation and lecture

Viterbo – “Tuscia” University – April 20th, 2023
Giovani virtuosi e dove trovarli

Speakers: Giulia Falato, Renata Vinci
Chair: Victoria Almonte


Milan – University of Milan – October 16th, 2023
Childhood in Chinese Sources Between Tradition and Modernity

Speakers: Giulia Falato, Renata Vinci
Organisers: Bettina Mottura, Chiara Bertulessi