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The People I’ve Slept With: A Film Screening and Q&A

Speaker:  Quentin Lee
Moderator: Dr Alvin Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

“The People I’ve Slept With” (2009) is a sexy romantic comedy about a young promiscuous woman who must find her baby daddy. The movie features an all star Asian American cast such as Karin Anna Cheung (Better Luck Tomorrow), Wilson Cruz (My So-called Life), Archie Kao (Zhou Xun’s ex-husband, CSI), Lynn Chen (Saving Face), Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) and the legendary James Shigeta (Flower Drum Sung) in his last feature.

About the director:
“The People I’ve Slept With” is Los Angeles based Hong Kong born filmmaker Quentin Lee’s fifth feature that initially played high profile film festivals such as Hawaii, Golden Horse and Sao Paolo before being released theatrically in North America and on Netflix. “The People I’ve Slept With” Is now streaming worldwide via Amazon and Tubi.TV.

Date: Wednesday 22 May 2019

Time: 4-6 PM

Venue: 2.42, 2/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

All are welcome.

For general enquiries, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk

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Finding Kukan: A Film Screening, Commentary and Audience Q&A with Dir. Robin Lung

In the award-winning documentary Finding KUKAN, director Robin Lung investigates the compelling story of Hawaiʻi born Li Ling-Ai, the uncredited producer of KUKAN. KUKAN is a landmark color documentary about World War II China that received an Academy Award in 1942 before becoming “lost” for decades. In Finding KUKAN, Lung discovers a badly damaged print of KUKAN and pieces together the inspirational tale behind Li and her cameraman Rey Scott. Robin Lung will present the full 75-minute documentary Finding KUKAN (in English with Chinese subtitles), speak about her 8-year-long filmmaking journey, and answer questions from the audience.

About Robin Lung:

Robin Lung is a 4th generation Chinese American from Hawaiʻi with an 18-year history of bringing untold minority and womenʻs stories to film. A Stanford University and Hunter College graduate, she became a filmmaker after successful careers in book publishing and higher education. Lung made her directorial debut with Washington Place: Hawai‘i’s First Home, a 30-minute documentary for PBS Hawai‘i about the legacy of Hawaiʻi’s Queen Lili‘uokalani and her personal home. She was the associate producer for the national PBS documentary Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, and producer/director of the feature documentary FindingKUKAN, which was selected to be broadcasted nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed series and has won multiple awards at film festivals across America.

Date: Monday 20 May 2019

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

Venue: 2.42, 2/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

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#WontBeErased: Protecting LGBTQ Youth from Conversion Therapy

In this fire-chat series, nuclear scientist Sam Brinton from the US will share his personal journey in undergoing gay conversion therapy when he was young.  He will discuss the challenges he faced and how homophobia has impacted him.  He has now transformed that traumatic experience into a positive experience and influences other people to combat homophobia.  Sam has been an important voice in the LGBTQ movement in US and will also share his experience in activism.

About Sam:

Sam is currently the Head of Advocacy and Government Affairs of the Trevor Project, an organisation providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people under 25. Being a nuclear scientist and queer activist and from helping people to understand the differences in advanced nuclear reactors to the dangerous practices of anti-gay conversion therapy, Sam has the passion to change the world.  This brings him to speak before the United Nations and the US Congress etc.  He has also been featured in interviews with TIME, The Guardian and many others. 

More about IDAHOT:

Held every year on May 17, IDAHOT draws the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movers and shakers, the general public and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people globally.

The theme of IDAHOT 2019 is “Biphobia”. From now until May 17, Pink Alliance will be organizing a series of events to help educate the public and increase their understanding of this issue. By distributing pamphlets, we wish to promote the understanding of “Bi+Pan” sexuality. By conducting other outreach activities, including talks on gay conversion therapy by the U.S. queer activist Sam Brinton, a theatre workshop entitled “The Same, Not The Same?”, a photography / art exhibition by local Bi artists, and school talks on IDAHOT, we hope to further raise awareness of the prejudice faced by bisexuals in both the general and queer communities.

Moderators: Dr Alvin Wong and Dr Brenda Alegre

Date: Monday 6 May 2019

Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Venue: 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

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The Flavors and Feelings of China’s New Youth: Capitalist Soft Power and the Rise of a Global Technological Society

This talk examines from a post-Marxist perspective the tremendous generation gap that has opened in China with the start of the 90’s generation and which now includes the 00’s as well. After detailing a number of associated phenomena, it examines the likely causes of these developments, including especially market reforms and soft power. It discusses the concerns and responses these changes have provoked among policymakers, educators and parents. It concludes by focusing on growing tensions between sometimes conflicting policies and reactions to them, and speculates on longer-term implications.

About the speaker:

Josef Gregory Mahoney, PhD, is Professor of Politics at East China Normal University (ECNU); Executive Director of the International Center for Advanced Political Studies (ECNU); Founder and Director of the International Graduate Program in Politics (ECNU); and Associate Editor of the US-based Journal of Chinese Political Science (SSCI). In addition to scholarly publications, he’s a regular contributor to ICS, ShenzhenTV, CCTV, CGTN, BBC and CRI news programs. He was a member of the Chinese team that translated Jiang Zemin’s Selected Works into English and a Senior Researcher with the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau (中共中央编译局).

Date: Thursday 2 May 2019

Time: 4-6pm

Venue: 7.58, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

All are welcome.

For enquiries, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk