2016
Feb 24, 2016
Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens: The Horror Movies of Fruit Chan
Moderators: Prof Gina Marchetti & Dr Fiona Law (Department of Comparative Literature)
Mar 3, 2016
Outward Signs and Inward Graces: Women and Popular Belief in the Age of Empire
Speakers: Dr. Sarah Williams
Moderator: Prof. Maureen Sabine
April 6, 2016
Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens: Creativity and Politics
(This event is held as part of the University of Hong Kong’s University Artists Scheme supported by Dr Alice Lam)
Speaker: John Sham Kin Fun (Hong Kong Film Industry Pioneer)
April 19, 2016
John Sham & Herman Yau In Dialogue
Speaker: John Sham (Hong Kong Film Industry Pioneer), Herman Yau (Award-winning Film Director)
Moderator: Dr. Mirana M Szeto (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, HKU)
May 27-28 2016
Contextualizing Asian Eco-Cinema: Past and Future
(sponsored by The China-West SRT in the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong)
Keynote: Prof. Scott Slovic (University of Idaho)
Moderator: Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (HKU)
Panel 1: Animals on Screen
Speakers: Prof. Lily Hong Chen (Shanghai Normal University), Dr Fiona Law (HKU), Dr. Anthony Siu (HKUST)
Panel 2: Eco-Aesthetics and Chinese Independent Cinema
Speakers: Dr. Chia-Ju Chang (Brooklyn College, City University of New York), Dr. Esther Yau (HKU), Dr. Judith Pernin (CEFC-Hong Kong)
Panel 3: Water Stories
Moderator: Prof. Stephen Chu (HKU)
Screening of Flowing Stories (Dir. Jessey Tang, 2014) and a post-screening talk with Jessey Tang, Teresa Kong, Dr Winnie L M Yee, HKU)
Panel 4: Cross-cultural Dialogue in South Korean and Japanese Eco-cinema
Speakers: Prof. Shin Yamashiro (University of The Ryukus, Okinawa), Dr Sung-Ae Lee (Macquairie University)
Panel 5: Catastrophe and Green Politics
Speakers: Prof. Mitshiro Yoshimoto (Waseda University), Dr. Rajesh Kumar (PPN College, India), Dr. Kiu-Wai Chu (HKU)
June 2-3, 2016
The Cultural Revolution Today: Literature, Film, and Cultural Debates
(co-organized with The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC))
June 29-30
Asian Cultures in Dialogue: Politics and the Arts
(co-organzied with the School of Humanities and the Taiwan Humanities Society)
Organizers: Ang Sze Wei, Mirana May Szeto
Keynote speaker: Ien Ang
Participants: Kandice Chuh, Jow Jiun Gong, Li-Chun Hsiao, Mayumo Inoue, Kao Jun-honn, Sanjay Krishnan, Lee Chun Fung, Hung-chiung Li, Lo Lok Him, Kaori Nakasone, Desmond Hok-Man Sham, Mirana May Szeto, Neferti Tadiar
2015
Fall Semester 2015
Sept 15, 2015
Transcultural Encounters, Transnational Feminisms: Women Media Activists and the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Gina Marchetti
Oct 27, 2015
Loving Revolutions: Reading Mixed Race at Mid-Century
Speaker: Dr. Nadine Attewell (Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University)
Nov 4, 2015
The Current State of Hong Kong Cinema in Relation to Global Trends
Speaker: John Sham Kin Fun (Hong Kong Film Industry Pioneer)
Nov 17, 2015
New Media/New Asia: Dominant and Residual Geographies of Emerging Media Arts
Speaker: Dr Stephanie DeBoer (Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington)
Spring Semester 2015
Feb 9, 2015
A Producer’s view: In Conversation with John Sham
Speaker: John Sham Kin Fun (Hong Kong Film Industry Pioneer)
Feb 17, 2015
Through the Tunnel with Fruit Chan
Speaker: Fruit Chan (Independent Hong Kong Filmmaker)
Moderators: Dr Mirana M Szeto & Dr Winnie Yee (Department of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Mar 6, 2015
Hong Kong Women Filmmakers Website Launch Party
(co-organized with the Women’s Research Studies Centre and the University Grants Committee)
Mar 19, 2015
The Art and Craft of Hollywood Screenwriting
Speaker: Bill Bleich (Northwestern University)
April 13, 2015
Dialogue with Fruit Chan: The Future of Independent Film in Hong Kong
Speaker: Fruit Chan (Hong Kong Filmmaker)
Moderator: Dr Miranda M Szeto
Pre-dialogue Film Screening of Made in Hong Kong (1997)
2014
Fall Semester 2014
Sept 2, 2014
Cultural Extraterritoriality: Intra-Regional Politics in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Victor Fan (Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London)
Seminars by Prof. Naoki Sakai
Oct 13, 2014
Bordering
Text to-be discussed: “The Figure of Translation – translation as a filter?” in European-East Asian Borders in Translation, Joyce C. H. Liu and Nick Vaughan–Williams ed., Routledge, 2014
Oct 15, 2014
Asian Humanity and Theory
Text to-be discussed: “Asian Theory and European Humanity – On the Question of Anthropological Difference”
Spring Semester 2014
Feb 12, 2014
From Photography to Music to Poetry – A Creative Farewell
(co-organized with the School of Humanities)
Speakers: Prof. David Clarke (Department of Fine Arts), Dr. Chan Hing-yan (Department of Music)
Feb 13, 2014
Film Screening and Q&A with the Director: Cheung King-Wai
Sharing in class CLIT2097: Independent Documentaries: Theory & Practice
Screening of One Nation Two Cities
Mar 5, 2014
Girl Power in a Man’s World
(co-organized with the Common Core Curriculum, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Education, Women’s Studies Research Centre, Consulate General of the United States)
Speaker: Martha Adams
Moderator: Professor Nirmala Rao (Faculty of Education, HKU)
Film Screening of Girl Rising (dir. Richard Robbins)
Mar 31, 2014
Rambling Show-and-Tell from Creative Film Editing to iPhoto iDiaries
Speaker: Mary Stephen
Moderator: Dr Aaron Magnan-Park
April 1, 2014
In Conversation with Director Louisa Wei and Screening of Golden Gate Girls
Speaker: Louisa Wei
Moderator: Dr. Stacilee Ford
April 1, 2014
Chinese Film Festival Studies Conference
(sponsored by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council)
April 10, 2014
Ephemeral Abundance: Film Culture Between the Cyberlocker and the Festival
Speaker: Prof. Dina Iordonova
Moderator: Dr. Aaron Magnan-Park
2013
Fall Semester 2013
Sep 11, 2013
Films of Furie: Hong Kong Cinema’s Wondrous Women Warriors
Mr. Bey Logan (CEO, Film Producer, and Company Founder @ B&E Productions)
Oct 2, 2013
Writing Hong Kong Otherwise
(co-organized with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Hong Kong Studies Programme))
Dr. Esther Cheung (Chairperson, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Prof. Chu Yiu-Wai (Director, Hong Kong Studies Programme, SMLC, HKU)
Moderator: Dr. Jason Ho (Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature)
Respondent: Dr. Jass Leung, cultural critic
Oct 3, 2013
Making Films My Way In Conversation with Director Kang Je-gyu
(co-organized with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Korean Studies Programme) and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Hong Kong)
Screening of My Way (2011) followed by a Q&A with the director
Moderator: Dr Aaron Han Joob Magnan-Park (Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Nov 14, 2013
American Dreams in China: Q&A Session with Director Peter Chan Ho-Sun
Speaker: Director Peter Chan Ho-Sun
Moderators: Dr Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park (Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU), Ms Nichol Chau Ka Yan (Tutor & MPhil Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature)
Nov 18, 2013
Public Lecture: Mediterranean Encounters: Migration and Revolution in the Global Millennium
Dr. Alessandra di Maio (University of Palermo, Italy)
Nov 27, 2013
Revisioning Global Modernity through the Prism of China
Speaker: Professor Sheldon Lu (University of California at Davis)
Talk by Prof. Lu
Workshop on Global Modernity
Dec 3, 2013
Research Seminar: A Public Showcase for the British Film Institute: TheMuseum of the Moving Image and Film Culture
Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Blakemore (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Centre for World Cinemas, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds)
2012
Spring Semester 2012
Feb 28, 2012
The History of Jump Cut, an Independent Film Journal
Prof. Julia Lesage (visiting scholar, HKU)
Mar 16-20, 2012
Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference
A dynamic program of panels, workshop, screenings, and other events on films from across Asia and the Asian diaspora
(co-organized with Asian Cinema Studies Society)
Conference coordinating committee: John A. Lent (Chair, ACSS), Tan See-kam (Macau), Natalie Wong (HKU), Staci Ford (HKU), Mirana Szeto (HKU), Winnie Yee (HKU), Gina Marchetti (HKU)
Mar 20, 2012
Reparations and the Human
(co-organized with School of English)
Prof. David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania)
Mar 29, 2012
Screening of The Other Half (另一半) and Q&A session
Ying Liang (filmmaker)
April 16, 2012
A Journey with Filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan (陳可辛): Reflections on his Filmmaking Career
– Film Screening of Perhaps Love
– Sharing session
(co-organized with Faculty of Arts, and supported by Joint Publishing)
Mr. Peter Ho-sun Chan (filmmaker), Mr. Shum Longtin (film and cultural critic), and Dr. Esther Cheung (moderator, HKU)
Apr 17, 2012
Sex, Zen, and Finance Capitalism
Prof. James A. Steintrager (Department Chair, English Department, University of California, Irvine)
May 8, 2012
Digitally Engaged: Aesthetic of Affect and Chinese Activist Documentary
Prof. Zhang Zhen (Cinema Studies and History, New York University)
May 15, 2012
Not “Chinese Montage” Exactly, but not Deleuze’s Either: Deleuze’s Cinema Books and the Recollection-image in Chinese Martial Arts Movies
Dr. David Martin-Jones (Film Studies, University of St Andrews, Scotland)
2011
Fall Semester 2011
Sep 30, 2011
Meeting Filmmaker Peter Chan and Wu Xia Film Screening (武俠改變武俠?—與陳可辛導演談武俠)
Screening of Wu Xia (武俠), followed by public forum
Speakers: Peter Ho-sun Chan (filmmaker), Dr. Ma Ka Fai (Chinese Civilization Centre, City University of Hong Kong); Moderator: Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU)
Oct 26, 2011
Meeting the Filmmaker Mr. Herman Yau (邱禮濤): Globalization and the Rising China Film Market and Industry: Impact on Hong Kong Film
Mr. Herman Yau (filmmaker), Dr. Mirana May Szeto (HKU)
Oct 27, 2011
The Re-emergence of Cultural of Revolution Imagery in Post-2003 Hong Kong
Dr. Natalie Siu-Lam Wong (HKU)
Oct 31, 2011
“The Future of the Humanities and China: From Critical to Poor Theory”—Public Routable Forum with International Scholars
(co-organized with the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures; the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China; The Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities; School of Humanities of the University of Hong Kong; and The Strategic Research Theme (SRT) in China-West Studies, of HKU Strategies Research Area in China Studies)
Chair: Prof. David Goldberg (Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute); Speakers: Prof. Ackbar Abbas (University of California, Irvine), Prof. Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley), Prof. Kuan-hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Prof. Gabriele Schwab( University of California, Irvine), and Prof. Yiman Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Nov 7, 2011
Panel talk: Meeting Mainland Chinese Filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai (蛻變中的中國: 王小帥與他的電影世界)
Screening of Chongqing Blues《日照重慶》, followed by a dialogue with Wang Xiaoshuai
(co-present by the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival)
Speaker: Wang Xiaoshuai; moderator: Dr. Esther Yau (HKU)
Nov 8, 2011
The Dynamics of Independent Filmmaking in China
(co-organized with Department of History)
Prof. Paul G. Pickowicz (Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego; inaugural holder of the UC San Diego Modern Chinese History Chair)
Nov 11, 2011
Cinematic Landscapes of the Real in a Globalizing China
Prof. Zhang Yingjin (University of California, San Diego)
Nov 14-15, 2011
Poetry and Image: Yu Jian in HKU:
Nov 14: Screening of Jade-Green Station《碧色車站》, followed by Q&A with the director
Nov 15: Screening of Hometown《故鄉》, followed by lecture by Yu Jian, “Poetry and Image—the visual world”(詩與圖像——看見的世界), and panel discussion
Speaker: Yu Jian (poet and documentary filmmaker); Panelists: Prof. P.K. Leung (Lingnan University), Dr. Sebastian Veg (CEFC), and Dr. Winnie Yee (HKU)
Nov 24, 2011
From Refugees to Citizens, From Asian Americans to Hollywood Actors: The Visible, invisible Hmong in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino
Prof. Monica Chiu (English and American Studies, University of New Hampshire)
Dec 13, 2011
Women’s Realism in Taiwan
Dr. Petrus Liu (Cornell University)
Spring Semester 2011
Jan 18, 2011
Liberal Fictions: The Political Rhetoric of Carol Schmit
Dr. Cissie Fu (Leiden University)
Jan 31, 2011
Book Launch of Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier
Dr. Esther Cheung, Dr. Gina Marchetti, and Dr. Tan See-kam (authors and editors)
March 10, 2011
Meeting-the-Writer: Deborah Baker
Deborah Baker (biographer and essayist)
March 15, 2011
World Cinema: A Dog’s Eye View
Prof. James Steintrager (English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine)
March 21-25, 2011
Amidst Interpretation: Multimedia Creative Exhibition 2011
Featuring students’ creative works from Comparative Literature courses 2010-2011, including:
- CLIT1009 Questioning Difference: Gender, Postcolonialism and Culture (Instructor: Dr. Esther Yau);
- CLIT2028 The City as Cultural text (Instructor: Dr. Esther Cheung); and
- CLIT2069 The Making of Modern Masculinities (Instructor: Dr. Mirana Szeto)
April 6 & 7, 2011
April 6: Film Screening of City of Glass
April 7: Public Forum- Echoes of Memory: Days of Apprenticeship
Mabel Cheung (filmmaker), Alex Law (filmmaker), Dr. Esther Cheung (HKU), and Gina Marchetti (HKU)
April 12, 2011
My Dream: “New China” in Performance
Prof. Yan Haiping (Theatre Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Studies in Cornell University)
April 15, 2011
The “Chinese threat” in the Russian Far East: obstacle to Sino-Russian hegemonic succession?
Dr. John L. Glick (Sociology, Hanyang University, South Korea)
April 19, 2011
The Production of Spectacle/The Spectacle of Production
Dr. Sylvia J. Martin (Babson College)