[Commlist] Daoism, Cinema and Wellbeing Research workshop

Tianqi Yu is pleased to invite you to the first research workshop of the 
AHRC-funded project /Daoism, Cinema and Wellbeing: Meditative 
Cinema/ (_www.daoismandcinema.com <http://www.daoismandcinema.com/>_), 
which will take place 10am-6pm, Wednesday *22 April at BLOC, Queen Mary 
University of London*.

This full-day workshop, titled /“Daoism’s Global and Transhistorical 
Resonances,”/ brings together eight speakers from a range of disciplines 
to present their ongoing research, including:

  * David Chai (Associate Professor in Philosophy, The Chinese
    University of Hong Kong) – Keynote speaker
  * Victor Fan (Professor of Film and Media Philosophy, King’s College
    London)
  * David Fleming (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Stirling)
  * Paul Gladston (UNSW Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary
    Art, Sydney)
  * Yuehan Liu (Lecturer in Film, Chengdu Technology University)
  * Anat Pick (Professor of Film, Queen Mary University of London)
  * Rob Stone (Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, University of 
Birmingham)
  * Kiki Tianqi Yu (Reader in Cinematic Art, Queen Mary University of
    London)

The interdisciplinary project, /Daoism, Cinema, and Wellbeing,/ aims to 
reshape contemporary debates on ecological crisis and collective 
wellbeing, while contributing to the decolonisation of knowledge 
production. By bringing Daoism—an ancient yet still vital non-Western 
philosophy—into dialogue with cinema, the project situates Daoist 
thought within broader transcultural philosophical and aesthetic 
exchanges, to reshape how we understand cinema and its impact on ecology 
and wellbeing of all.
This first workshop foregrounds the transcultural and transhistorical 
philosophical resonances and aesthetic exchanges between Daoist thought 
and broader philosophical traditions across Asia, the West, and beyond. 
Eight scholars from various disciplines will examine the historical and 
contemporary networks and connections through which ideas, artistic 
practices, and cultural forms circulate, so to rethink film ontology, 
aesthetics, and ethics as inherently transcultural and transhistorical 
projects rather than traditions bounded by geography or nation.
In addition, the workshop addresses key methodological questions in 
comparative film philosophy, including how to engage cultural 
specificity without falling into essentialism, and how to build 
meaningful conceptual bridges across traditions. It further examines the 
decolonial potential of such approaches in challenging dominant Western 
paradigms and expanding alternative aesthetic genealogies.
The full programme will be released shortly. Please stay tuned for 
further information, and visit www.daoismandcinema.com 
<http://www.daoismandcinema.com>


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