Keni Li
Email: 2827091L@student.gla.ac.uk
Instagram: cornelialikeni
Twitter: @Corneliakeni
Website: https://likeni.cargo.site/
https://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.
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)
£350 Mar. 2024
- Research Support Award 2024
£500 Apr. 2024
- Erasmus Civis Travelling Fund for Course: Democratic Memories in Global Perspective
£550 Mar. 2024
- Academic visiting to "Université Grenoble-Alpes", funded by "The British Council UK France Horizon project" Sep. 2024
- Chinese National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students
¥20000 Nov. 2020
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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.
- The International Symposium "The Lost & Found" Warsaw, Poland. Mar. 2024
- 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
- University of Glasgow, School of Modern Language and Culture
Chinese Language for International Mobility 1
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Chinese Language for International Mobility 2
Chinese Level 1
- Glasgow Kelvin College Chinese School
Level 9 Chinese Teacher
Level 5 Chinese Teacher
Additional Information
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Committee member of college of arts PG conference "Encounters: Memory, Community, Futurity." (Glasgow) encounters conference
Publicity and social media. Dec. 2022 to Jun. 2023
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Greek Feminist Autonomous Center (Athens)
Intern curator. Jan. 2022 – Apr. 2022
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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