Keni Li

Email: 2827091L@student.gla.ac.uk

Instagram: cornelialikeni

Twitter: @Corneliakeni

Website: https://likeni.cargo.site/

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0002-0226-6841

Research title: Senior Lecturer in Spanish (Hispanic Studies)

Research Summary

Ph.D. candidate/ Photographer/ Visual Artist

(b.1996) China-born  Photographer,  based in Glasgow, now doing her Ph.D. study at the University of Glasgow.Previously, she has received two master’s degrees in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Critism and Comparative Literature and World Literature in the University of Edinburgh and East China Normal University respectively. 

The project for her Ph. D. is about photography, literature and memory writing. By examining three writers' works and relevant archives, the intention is to investigate how complex cultural discourse systems (including politics, emotion, power, cultural identities, and post-colonialism) behind these text-image narrations. She also plans to launch online exhibitions to present her research results.

 

Research Interests 

  • Photo-Text, intermediality.
  • Photography, visual studies.
  • Women artists, women photographers.
  • Cultural memory.

Supervisors

Grants

  • Erasmus Civis Travelling Fund for Course: "In-Transitive Modernities: Dis-continuities and Culture Transformation"

        £550                                                        Apr. 2023

  • University of Glasgow, College of Art: funding for organizing  workshop (Walk, Photography and Storytelling) of Photography Reading Group

        £340                                                        Dec. 2023

  • University of Glasgow, College of Art: funding for organizing workshop (International Women's Day: Photography & Memory Craft Workshop) 

         IWD 2024 workshop

        £350                                                        Mar. 2024

  • Research Support Award 2024

        £500                                                        Apr. 2024

  • Erasmus Civis Travelling Fund for Course: Democratic Memories in Global Perspective

    £550                                                        Mar. 2024

  • Chinese National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

        ¥20000                                                    Nov. 2020

  • Chinese National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students

    ¥8000                                                      Nov. 2017

Conference

Conference Presentation:

  • The 36th CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art)  Congress  (Accepted)  Lyon, France. Jun. 2024.

    Paper Title: Reinventing Contemporary Exhibition Spaces: Novels, Domestic Space and Cinematic Cartography. 

     CIHA conference 

  • The International Symposium "The Lost & Found"                          Warsaw, Poland. Mar. 2024

     lost and found Warsaw-event

  • London Arts-Based Research Centre:Ecopoetics and Environmental Artivism transdisciplinary conference London, UK.  Jul.2024

     Paper Title:Eco-magical Realism Landscapes: Visual art, Novel and Depressed Memory of Juan Rulfo.

  • Scotland/France British Council Springboard Workshop.                 Glasgow, UK. May. 2024.
  • The History of Memory and Emotions Workshop of University of Cambridge.   Cambridge, UK. Jun. 2024.

   Paper Title:Reinventing Contemporary Exhibition Spaces: Novels, Domestic Space and Cinematic Cartography. 

  • College of Arts & Humanities of University of Glasgow PGR Conference 2024: Space[s] 

    Glasgow, UK. Jun. 2024.

    Paper Title: Intermediality of Contemporary Exhibition Space: novels, domestic space and Cinematic Cartography.

  • Traversing beyond Borders: Intermediality and Cross-Cultural Communication Conference. London, UK. Jun. 2024.

   Paper Title: Intermediality of Contemporary Exhibition Space: novels, domestic space and Cinematic Cartography.

  • "Object" and "Literature"                                                            Qingdao, China Apr. 2019.

  Paper Title: Turkish “Memory film”: Choosing, Construction and Meaning.

Summer School

  • Erasmus Civis: Democratic Memories in Global Perspective  Tübingen, Germany 24 Mar.  to 28 Mar. 2024
  • Erasmus Civis: In-Transitive Modernities: Dis-continuities and Culture Transformation         24 Athens, Greece                       24 Apr. to 28 Apr. 2023

Teaching

  • Glasgow Kelvin College Chinese School

         Level 9 Chinese Teacher

  • University of Glasgow, School of Modern Language and Culture

         Chinese Language for International Mobility 2 

 

Additional Information

  • Committee member of college of arts PG conference "Encounters: Memory, Community, Futurity." (Glasgow) encounters conference

    Publicity and social media.           Dec. 2022 to Jun. 2023

  • Greek Feminist Autonomous Center (Athens)

        Intern curator.                              Jan. 2022 – Apr. 2022

  • Powerlong Museum (Shanghai)

        Intern curator                              July. 2020 – Aug. 2020

  • Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (Academic Journal in China)

        Intern editor                                Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2019