Session 1

Shan Xiang’s research interests are Chinese language testing and assessment; task-based language teaching curriculum design; extensive reading strategy; and vocabulary learning. She is a member of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages and Chinese Language Teachers Associations Conference. Shan is Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University Chicago.

Among Haun Saussy’s books are The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford University Press, 1994), Great Walls of Discourse (Harvard University Asia Center, 2002), The Ethnography of Rhythm (Fordham Press, 2016), Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2017),

Robert L. Kendrick teaches courses on European music, 1500–1800, as well as on Latin American ethnomusicology. His research focuses on issues of the musically sacred in and out of Christian liturgy. His most recent book is Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Vienna (University of California Press, 2019). Kendrick is the William Colvin Professor in the Departments of Music and Romance Languages and Literatures and the College at the University of Chicago.

Kağan Arık has 25 years’ experience in language pedagogy for modern Turkish language and literature and is interested in the historical development of the Turkic languages. As an anthropologist of Central Asia since 1987, Arık has investigated pre-Islamic elements in the culture of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Turkey. He has published works about the culture of the Kazak nomads in China, the oral literature of the Kirghiz, and on traditional healing among the Turkic peoples.