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 their 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.

Grants

  • Travelling Fund for Civis 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

  • 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

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

  • The International Symposium "The Lost&Found"  (Accepted)         Warsaw, Poland  
  • "Object" and "Literature"                                              Qingdao, China

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

Summer School

  • Democratic Memories in Global Perspective (Accepted)  Tübingen, Germany 24 Mar.  to 28 Mar. 2024
  • 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)

    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