Month: November 2022

Speaker:
Professor Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Date: Monday, November 28, 2022
Time: 8:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: On Zoom

View the talk recording here.

About the speaker:
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written extensively in major publications and peer-reviewed journals on a variety of topics including religion, literature, cinema and philosophy. His latest books include The Future of Two Illusions: Islam after the West (2022); The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021); Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (2020), and The Emperor is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State (2020). His books and essays have been translated into many languages.

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張愛玲香港敘事中的戰時聲景

Speaker: 郭詩詠 博士  Dr. KWOK Sze Wing 
Moderator: 黃心村 教授  Prof. Nicole HUANG
Date:November 23, 2022 (Wed)
Time: 16:30-18:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: CPD-1.21, Level 1, Central Podium, Centennial Campus, HKU & Zoom

摘要：張愛玲筆下的戰爭經驗和戰爭意象一直受到學者關注。在張愛玲筆下，淪陷中的香港雖為非常時期，但仍有不變的人性和日常。戰時香港，白日時時有飛機轟炸，晚上的醫院裏有病人哀鳴，還有難堪的寂靜，在在都是深入骨髓的生命記憶。張愛玲對二戰時期香港聲音景觀的書寫，不但呈現了她對香港這個南方小城的觀感，更洩露了作者或人物的內心真實。是次講座將首先回顧張愛玲對二戰時期的香港聲音景觀的描述，集中分析作者如何通過聽覺重構其戰爭經驗，並進一步探討其中所隱含的歷史記憶、身分認同、心理創傷等多方面的問題。

Eileen Chang’s war experience and war images have always attracted the attention of scholars. In the works of Chang, although wartime Hong Kong is an exceptional period, human nature in everyday life remains unchanged. In wartime Hong Kong, there are aircrafts bombing during the day, patients crying in the hospital at night, and the embarrassing silence. They are all unforgettable life memories. Chang’s soundscape writing of Hong Kong during World War II not only presents her perception of this small southern city, but also reveals the inner reality of the writer or characters. This talk first reviews Chang’s description of Hong Kong soundscape during World War II, focusing on how the writer reconstructs her war experience through acoustics. It then further discusses Chang’s historical memory, identity, and psychological trauma.

簡介：郭詩詠     香港中文大學中國語言及文學系哲學博士，現為香港恒生大學中文系副教授。研究興趣集中在一九三零年代上海現代派、文學電影改編和後九七香港文學，發表論文多篇。目前正進行有關聽覺文化與一九三零至五零年代上海和香港文學的研究計劃。

Dr. Kwok Sze Wing received her PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an associate professor at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. She has published various journal articles on 1930s Shanghai modernists, film adaptation, and post-97 Hong Kong literature. She is currently working on a research project about auditory culture in Shanghai and Hong Kong literature in the 1930s-1950s.

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1) The seminar will be conducted face-to-face and broadcast by video conferencing (via Zoom) at the same time.
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4) In light of the limited venue capacity, participants whose online registration is on the waiting list may have to join the event via Zoom. 
5) Walk-in or late-comers will not be allowed entry to the seminar venue unless the situation allows.

This event is held as part of the New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series |
張愛玲研究新方向講座系列 
Co-hosted by School of Chinese and Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-sponsored by Louis Cha Fund for Chinese studies & East/West studies in the Faculty
& Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC)

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Panelists:

Omid Azadibougar
Professor of Comparative Literature, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University

Trisilpa Boonkhachorn
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Chulalongkorn University

Jose Mari Cuartero
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines-Diliman

Lee Hyung-jin
Professor, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature, Sookmyung Women’s University

Mrinmoy Pramanick
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta

Moderators:

Daniel Elam
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU

Alvin K. Wong
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU

Date: Monday, November 14, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: On Zoom

This roundtable is part of an ongoing conversation that highlights the histories, methods, interventions, and futures of comparative literature in Asia. This conversation will focus on comparative literature in India, China, South Korea, Thailand. and the Philippines – with the hope of opening up more transnational conversations and collaboration across Asia. We hope you’ll join in!

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Speaker:
Professor Ying Zhu, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University

Moderator:
Alvin K. Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: On Zoom and F2F
All are welcome. Registration is required.
https://bit.ly/CSGCNov10

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Hollywood in China unravels the century-long relationship between Hollywood and China. Blending cultural history, business, and international relations, the book charts multiple power dynamics and teases out how competing political and economic interests as well as cultural values are manifested in the art and artifice of filmmaking on a global scale, and with global ramifications. The book is an inside look at the intense business and political maneuvering that is shaping the movies and the U.S.-China relationship itself—revealing a headlines-grabbing conflict that is playing out not only on the high seas, but on the silver screen.

Ying Zhu is the founder and chief editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is the author of four books including Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television, and co-editor of six books including Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds. Previously on the faculty at the City University of New York, she is now a professor in the Academy of Film at the Hong Kong Baptist University and an adjunct professor in the School of Arts at the Columbia University.

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