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SUMMARY: “Decolonizing the Sensorium: Vulgarity\, Chineseness\, and Global 
 Film Stardom” with Dr. Mila Zuo
DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents De
 colonizing the Sensorium: Vulgarity\, Chineseness\, and Global Film Stardom
   by Dr. Mila Zuo WHEN & WHERE December 7th\, 12-1pm Buchanan Tower 1099 Pl
 ease RSVP below in advance Note: This is an in-person event that will not b
 e livestreamed. I propose an analytic of vulgarity in order to […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">The Social Ju
 stice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents</p><h1 style="text-align: ce
 nter\;"><span style="color: #993300\;">Decolonizing the Sensorium: Vulgarit
 y\, Chineseness\, and Global Film Stardom </span></h1><p style="text-align:
  center\;"><strong>by Dr. Mila Zuo</strong></p><p><img class="wp-image-2704
 5 aligncenter" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/4
 0/2022/11/Zuo_banner_event_KT-small-file-300x169.jpg" alt="Decorative Event
  Poster" width="655" height="369" /></p><hr /><p style="text-align: center\
 ;"><strong>WHEN & WHERE<br /></strong>December 7th\, 12-1pm<strong><br /></
 strong>Buchanan Tower 1099</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Please RSVP b
 elow in advance</p><p style="text-align: center\;">Note: This is an in-pers
 on event that will not be livestreamed.</p><p style="text-align: center\;">
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 r /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">I propose an analytic of vulgarity 
 in order to consider the matter of (and with) Chineseness. Through a decons
 tructive mode rooted in promiscuous encounters between traditional Chinese 
 epistemologies and post/continental philosophy\, I offer a new materialist 
 theory of flavor aesthetic-affects grounded in the lower sense-making of ta
 ste\, scent\, and touch. In particular\, I analyze the sexual-racialized ch
 arisma of global Chinese women film stars through the Chinese medicinal fla
 vors of bitter\, sweet\, pungent\, salty\, and sour. Drawing from my recent
  monograph </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Vulgar Beauty: Acting
  Chinese in the Global Sensorium </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;
 ">(Duke University Press\, 2022)\, I demonstrate how the vulgar has become 
 a way for disobedient women to adopt oppositional stances against white sup
 remacist racism\, Chinese colonialism\, heteropatriarchy\, gender and sexua
 l normativities\, and capitalist work. Finally\, I will discuss my filmmaki
 ng praxis with works such as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Car
 nal Orient </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">(2016) and </span><i
 ><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Kin </span></i><span style="font-weight: 
 400\;">(2021) through which similar themes are explored through experimenta
 l narrative cinema. </span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><i
 mg class=" wp-image-27046 alignleft" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-c
 ontent/uploads/sites/40/2022/11/Photo_Mila-Zuo-200x300.jpeg" alt="Head Shot
  Dr. Mila Zuo " width="161" height="242" /><strong>Mila Zuo</strong> is an 
 assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC. Her resea
 rch areas include transnational Asian cinemas\; film-philosophy\; abject ep
 istemologies\; star studies\; digital and new media\; and critical theories
  of gender\, sexuality\, and race and ethnicity.</span></p><p><span style="
 font-weight: 400\;">Her book <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/vulgar-bea
 uty"><i>Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium</i></a> (Duke
  University Press\, 2022) focuses on the affective racialization of Chinese
  women film stars\, demonstrating the ways which vulgar\, flavourful beauty
  disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Accompanying research can
  be found in <i>Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory</i>\, <i>
 Celebrity Studies Journal</i>\, <i>Journal of Chinese Cinemas</i>\,<i> Femi
 nist Media Histories </i>journal<i>\, </i>and in various anthologies. In ad
 dition to her scholarly work\, Zuo writes\, directs\, and produces narrativ
 e films\, visual essays\, documentaries\, and music videos. Her short films
  have screened in international film festivals and universities\, including
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYLVGQ4HU3M"><i>Carnal Orient</i>
 </a>(2016) which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival\, and her short narra
 tive film <i>Kin </i>(2021)\, which was the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Me
 dia Arts Fellowship\, and screened at HollyShorts Film Festival.<strong><br
  /></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px\;">Accessibility: Bu
 chanan Tower 1099 is accessible by elevator. There are gendered washrooms i
 n the stairwell and a gender-neutral\, accessible washroom on the 1st floor
 . </span></p>
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