2010

Fall Semester 2010

Sep 22, 2010
Public Forum All About Love with Filmmaker Ann Hui
Ann Hui (film director), Sandra Ng (actor), Elsa Yang Yee-shan (scriptwriter), and Dr. Esther Cheung (moderator, HKU)

Oct 6, 2010
Tram and Hong Kong Literature
Stuart Lau (poet)

Oct 12, 2010 
Reflections on Experimental Men’s Study Groups
Dr. Yun-chung Chen (HKUST)

Oct 15, 2010
Book launch of In Pursuit of Independent Visions in Hong Kong Cinema and discussion 
Guest of honour: Stanley Kwan (film director), Law Kar (film scholar), Machi Ma (film director), Vincent Chui (film director), and Dr. Esther Cheung (author and editor)

Oct 22, 2010
HKIndieFF Preview of Cure and Sharing Session 
Mr. Bill Yip (film director), Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU), Dr. Arnika Furmann (HKU), and Dr. Eileen Chan (HKU)

Oct 26, 2010 
Male Sex Workers in Taiwan and Thailand 
Chen Xue (writer)

Nov 3, 2010
Screening of Vincent Chui’s Three Narrow Gates and
Book Talk: In Pursuit of Independent Visions in Hong Kong Cinema 
Dr. Esther Cheung (author and editor), Vincent Chui (film director), Fung Ka Ming (film critic), and Shu Kei (film scholar)

Nov 9, 2010 
Screening of “Chubby Can Kill” (肥仔成龍), followed by a sharing session with the filmmakers
Kevin Ung (filmmaker) and Mona Chu (producer)

Nov 16, 2010
HKIndieFF Special Screening of Zhu Wen’s Thomas Mao and Sharing Session
Zhu Wen (film director), Dr. Gina Marchetti (HKU), and Dr. Fiona Law (moderator)

Nov 19, 2010 
Deimperialization and the Oceanic Turn in English Studies 
Dr. John Eperjesi (Seoul national University)

Dec 9-22, 2010
Urban Representations in Hong Kong: Local and Comparative Perspectives 
(co-organized with Centre for Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST; Northwestern University; Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University)
Prof. Carolyn Cartier (University of Technology Sydney), Dr. James Farrer (Sophia University), Prof. Wendy Griswold (Northwestern University), Prof. Sharon Zukin (City University of New York), Dr. Chen Yun Chung (HKUST), Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU), Dr. Travis Kong (HKU), Dr. Agnes Ku (HKUST), Dr. Law Wing Sang (LU), Prof. Eric Ma (CUHK), Prof. Gordon Mathews (CUHK), Dr. Mirana Szeto (HKU), Dr. Tang Wing Shing (BU), et al.

Spring Semester 2010

Jan 12, 2010 
The Japanese Connection: Globalizing Hong Kong Cinema in the 1950s and 60s 
Prof. David Desser (University of Illinois)

Feb 1, 2010
Chinese Literature and Faith Traditions
Dr. Qi Hongwei (Nanjing Normal University)

Feb 2, 2010
Euro-American Literature and Faith Traditions 
Dr. Qi Hongwei (Nanjing Normal University)

March 30, 2010
Two lectures:
-Feeling Maladies, Imagining Ailments: Cinematic Illnesses in Hong Kong Cinema
-Un-masking Shanghai: History, Memory and Melancholy in Wang Anyi’s Moonstruck 
Dr. Fiona Law (HKU) and Dr. Winnie Yee (HKU)

May 31, 2010
What is a Dispositif? Deleuze and Cinema
(co-organized with Department of Philosophy)
Prof. John Rajchman (Columbia University) 

June 11- Aug 13, 2010
Seeing with Youthful Eyes: Multimedia Creative Exhibition 2010
(co-organized with Summer Institute in the Art & Humanities—- Faculty of Arts, HKU)
The exhibition features students’ creative works published in the Department’s bilingual bog “Writing the City” http://writingthecity.blogspot.com since 2008 and also from the following courses 2009-2010:

  • CLIT2028 The City as a Cultural Text (Instructor: Dr. Esther Cheung);
  • CLIT2065 Hong Kong Culture: Representations of Identity in Literature and Film (Instructor: Dr. Fiona Law);
  • CLIT2066 Postmodernism (Instructor: Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren); and
  • CLIT2085 Hong Kong: Community and Cultural Policy in the Global Context (Instructor: Dr. Mirana Szeto)

2009

Fall Semester 2009

Oct 6, 2009
Nationalism, Homosociality, and Commercialization: Reading Masculinities in Chinese Television 
Dr. Song Geng (HKU)

Oct 7, 2009
Class visit by Ann Hui: Negotiating the Art/Industry Divide in Hong Kong Cinema
Ann Hui (filmmaker) and Dr. Gina Marchetti (HKU)

Oct 8, 2009
Thinking and Seeing through Films: Dialogue with Film-makers Ann Hui and Peter Ho-sun Chan
Ann Hui (filmmaker), Peter Ho-sun Chan (filmmaker), and Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU)

Oct 15, 2009
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival @HKU: Meeting Tian Zhuangzhuang and Park Chan-wook
(co-organized with the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival Society)
Tian Zhuangzhuang (filmmaker), Park Chan-wook (filmmaker), and Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU)

Oct 27, 2009 
Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death 
Prof. Thomas Dutoit (University of Lille 3, France)

Nov 10, 2009
Static: Ghost-Writing and Globalization 
Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (Fullbright Scholar and Visiting Faculty, HKU)

Nov 25, 2009
Asian/American Women, the Documentary Form, and the Public Sphere: Gender, Identity, and the Body Politic 
Dr. Gina Marchetti (HKU), Dr. Esther Yau (HKU), and Staci Ford (CU)

Spring Semester 2009

Jan 20, 2009
The Dalai Lama, War, and Social Justice
Dr. Barry Sautman (HKUST)

Feb 26, 2009
Thinking about Identity in a Global Context
Prof. Meaghan Morris (Lingnan U and U of Sydney)

Mar 17, 2009
Comparative Literature in the Context of Globalization 
Prof. Stephen Chu (HKBU)

Dec 6, 2008
Transnational East Asian Cinema since 1997 – Teleconference
(Organizers: Department of Comparative Literature, CSGC, Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Goldsmiths University of London.)
Prof. Tim Bergfelder, Dr. Esther Cheung, Dr. Gina Marchetti, Prof. Chris Berry, Dr. Julian Stringer, Dr. Mark Morris, Dr. Isolde Standish, Dr. Rayna Denison

Feb 27 and Mar 9, 2009
American Film Institute Project 20/20 Film Festival
Screening of Two Films about Africa, Visit by Filmmakers and AFI Programmer, and Panel Discussion at HKU.
Anthony Fabian (filmmaker), Siatta Scott Johnson (filmmaker), Stacey Marbrey (AFI), Drs Adams Bodomo, Esther Yau and Staci Ford (HKU)

Mar 13 and 20, 2009
Transnational East Asian Cinema since 1997 – Teleconference
(Organizers: Department of Comparative Literature, CSGC, Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Goldsmiths University of London.)
Postgraduate students from HKU, University of Southampton, Goldsmith College and University of Bristol

Apr 15, 2009
The Crisis of the Humanities and the Redefinition of Hispanism
Prof. Eduardo Subirats (NYU)

China and Global Modernity Series
(co-sponsored with the Centre for East Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the School of English and China-West Studies Research Theme Initiative, Faculty of Arts, HKU)

Apr 15, 2009
Institutionalising Confucius: One More Try to Modernise and Globalise Kong Qiu
Prof. Kam Louie (HKU)

May 13, 2009 
Decolonizing Global Modernity: Urban Cultural Movement in Hong Kong
Dr. Mirana Szeto (HKU)

June 3, 2009
Chinese Cinemas and Global Modernity
Drs. Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti and Esther Yau (HKU)

2008

Fall Semester 2008

Globalization and Cultures Speaker Series 2008-09
(co-organized with the School of Humanities, HKU)

Oct 28, 2008
China in Theory: The Orientalist Production of Knowledge in the Global Economy
Dr. Dan Vukovich (HKU)

Nov 11, 2008
Democratic Modernism: Rethinking the Politics of Early 20th Century Fiction in China and Europe 
Dr. Sebastian Veg (CEFC)

Nov 27, 2008
Global Modernity
Prof. Arif Dirlik (CUHK)

2007

Spring Semester 2007

Mar 22, 2007
Hong Kong Poetry Workshop Series: Hong Kong Poetry since the 1970s
Lau Wai-shing (劉偉成)

Mar 29, 2007
Brokeback: The Asian Side of the Mountain
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

Apr 2, 2007
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You: Genre and Emotion in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

Apr 4, 2007
Theorizing “Queer Asian Cinema”
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

May 15, 2007
Postcolonial Nostalgias
Prof. Dennis Walder {Open University (UK))