Jessica Imbach, Dr.
- wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Sinologie
- Studienberatung und Mobilitätsberatung
- Raumbezeichnung
- ZUB 4-407
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| 09/2020 – 02/2021 | Research fellow at the European Institute of Chinese Studies, Paris |
| 11/2015 – 10/2016 | PhD studies with a research grant from the University of Zurich |
| 04/2012 – 10/2015 | PhD studies with a Marie Heim-Vögtlin fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 01/2014 – 05/2014 | Visiting scholar, Shanghai University |
| 02/2011 – 03/2012 | Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Zurich |
| 09/2008 – 01/2009 | Student Assistant, University of Zurich |
| 2020 | GRC-Grant (UZH) for the Workshop: Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture |
| 2018 | Annual dissertation award of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich |
| 11/2015 – 10/2016 | Forschungskredit, University of Zurich |
| 04/2012 – 10/2015 | Marie Heim-Vögtlin fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 2014 | travel and conference grant, University of Queensland, Brisbane |
| 2009 | 1st prize in the Goethe Institute Shanghai literary translation contest |
| 09/2004 – 08/2005 | CRUS scholarship, Beijing Language and Culture University |
| FS 2021 | Narratives of Illness and Disease in Modern Chinese Literature (MA-Seminar) Kosmos Shanghai 1930-1949: Die literarische Landschaft einer semikolonialen Stadt (BA-Course) |
| FS 2020 | Socialism and Chinese Literature, 1949-1976 (BA-Seminar) |
| HS 2019 | Visions of the Future: Science Fiction from 1949 to 2185 (MA-Seminar: A seminar blog with translations of science fiction into both German and English can be found here: https://dlf.uzh.ch/sites/sinofutures/) Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies (BA-Course) |
| FS 2018 | Waste, Pollution and Environmental Aesthetics (BA-Seminar) |
| HS 2017 | Introduction to Contemporary China (BA-Course) |
| HS 2015 | Shanghai in Modern Chinese Literature (Lecture Series at the Volkshochschule Zürich) |
| HS 2013 | Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature (Lecture Series at the Volkshochschule Zürich) |
| FS 2012 | Changing Media in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan |
22.01.2021: “From Intelligent Dinosaurs to Singing Bats: Extinct, Engineered and Rewilded Animals in Chinese Science Fiction”. The Technological Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Zurich and Paris. [online, organizer]
14.12.2020: “Researching China in the Anthropocene: Debates and Perspectives”. Research Seminar: China in the Anthropocene, Paris. [online, invited]
27.11.2020: “Chinas paradoxer Umgang mit Zensur” (Paradoxes of Chinese Cenorship). Interview for Echo der Zeit on Swiss National Radio.
27.11.2020: “The Digital Brain in Cyberpunk Fiction”. Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture, Zurich, 27.-28.11.2020. [online, organizer]
22.09.2020: “Current Debates in Chinese Studies”. Podium discussion organized by the Institut des Étude Avancée, Paris. [invited]
20.12.2019: “Architektur in der goldenen Mitte”. Podium discussion organized by the Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Architects and Artist, Zurich. [invited]
24.11.2019: “Echt – Falsch. Stadt und architektonische Identität”. Podium discussion at the Architecture Film Festival Zurich, 20.-24.11.2019. [invited]
02.11.2019: “Planetary destruction as environmentalism? Reading solar violence in Liu Cixin’s novels”. Decentering the Anthopocene: Approaches to the Anthropocene in Chinese and Japanese literature and film, University of Vienna, 01.-02.11.2019. [invited]
18.07.2019: “A Touch of Toxicty: Eco-dystopianism in post-Mao science fiction”. ICAS 2019, University of Leiden, 15.-19.07.2019. [panel convenor]
03.10.2018-06.10.2018: “To Arcadia and Beyond: Ecology in Chinese Science Fiction”. Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China, University of Zurich, October 3-6, 2018. [in writing]
14.05.2017: “China mit Gespenstern lesen”. Ringvorlesung: Zugänge zur Sinologie, Universität Zürich, FS 2017.
16.05.2016: “Zeit mit Gespenstern denken. Ringvorlesung: Zugänge zur Sinologie», Universität Zürich, FS 2016.
18.06.2015: “Repetition with a Difference: Female Ghosts in Shanghai Fiction pre 1949”. ACCL 2015, Shanghai, 18.-20.06.2015.
27.04.2015: “Zeit mit Gespenstern denken”. Ringvorlesung: Zugänge zur Sinologie, Universität Zürich, FS 2015
23.07.2014: “'... as if I was playing world': Phantoms, Cross-dressing and Revolutionary Identity in Xu Xu's Ghost Love. EACS conference 2014, Braga/Coimbra, 23.-26.07.2014.
19.07.2014: “Not afraid of ghosts: Critical appropriations of the spectral in Modern Chinese fiction”, Symposium: The Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics”: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture in Literary Icons of Socialism and their Contemporary Remakes, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 18.-20.07.2014 [invited]
28.04.2014: “Gespenstische Moderne: Rachegeister,weisshaarige Mädchen und gescheiterteReinkarnationen im Spannungsfeld chinesischer Literatur und (Kultur-)Politik”. Ringvorlesung: Zugänge zur Sinologie, Universität Zürich, FS 2014.
19.03.2014: 开门揖鬼：试论二十世纪中国文学与文化政治中的鬼现象 [Unwillingly invited: Ghosts in 20th century Chinese fiction and culture politics]. Shanghai University. [invited]
04.10.2012: “Fictions of Mulian ghosts in Lu Xun and Jia Pingwa's writings”. Workshop: Ghost-Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences, Göttingen, 03.- 06.10.2012. [invited]
14.07.2012:“’Ich habe kein Amt und kein Geld, aber ich bin ein Müssiggänger (xianren)’:EineAnalyse der literarischen Figur desxianrenin Jia Pingwas Weiss|Nacht”.Tagung: KleineLiteraturen:Der Rand schreibt zurück, Erlangen, 13.-14.07.2012. [invited]
31.03.2012: “Ghost politics and the politics of ghosts: A reading of Su Tong's ‘The Completion of the Ritual’”. Graduate Student Workshop: Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies, Zurich, 30.-31.03.2012.
5.11.2011: “Chinese theatricality and the spectre of the Cultural Revolution in Yu Xiaoyang’s The Shore of Mist”. International Workshop: Ghosts in Asian Cinemas, Zurich, 4.-5.11.2011.