The Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), set up in 1999 under the joint directorship of Professor Ackbar Abbas and Professor Benjamin Lee, is an interdisciplinary center based in the Department of Comparative Literature. The focus of its work is on issues of culture and globalization with special reference to Asia, China and Hong Kong. Major research themes include: the cultures of capitalism; global flows of culture, media and technology; cities and globalization; new communities, publics, and identities; and postcolonialism and neo-liberalism. It is now under the joint directorship of Professor Daniel Elam and Professor Alvin K. Wong. Its activities are structured around a series of lectures, workshops and seminars with distinguished international scholars on short- or medium term visits working in collaboration with our own faculty members.
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UPCOMING EVENT
In and Out of Time at the Hong Kong International Airport
Speaker: Carlo Tuason, PhD candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: 23 November 2026 (Monday)
Time: 4:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=110165
All are welcome. Registration is required.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Entwined Roots, Repeated Routes – Literary History(es) Unbound between Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Taiwan: Problems of Method
Speaker: Wayne CF Yeung, Assistant Professor, University of Denver
Discussant: Nicholas Y. H. Wong, Assistant Professor, School of Chinese, HKU
Date: Thursday, 19 November 2026
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 10.69, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=110027
All are welcome. Registration is required.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Thai Literature in Conversation with Veeraporn Nitiprapha and Ranwarat Kobsirithiwara
Speakers:
Ranwarat Kobsirithiwara, Associate Professor, Department of Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Veeraporn Nitiprapha, Novelist
Moderator:
Arnika Fuhrmann, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Faculty Lounge (430), 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=110207
