Month: December 2023

MAY 16 | THU | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Affective Cosmopolitanism: Comparison Methodology and a Case Study
Speaker: Sijia Yao, Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Soka University of America
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

MAY 6 | MON | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
紀曉嵐在烏魯木齊
Ji Xiaolan in Urumqi
講者 Speaker: 羅新 教授 Professor Luo Xin, Peking University
主持人 Moderator: 徐國琦 教授 Professor Xu Guoqi, The University of Hong Kong

MAY 2 | THU | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Writing a Material History of ‘Society’ in Modern China
Speaker: Tani Barlow, George & Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities, Department of History, Rice University
Moderators:
Su Yun Kim, Associate Professor, Korean Studies, SMLC, The University of Hong Kong
Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong

APR 15 | MON | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Form Follows Fever: Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849
Speaker: Chris Cowell, London South Bank University
Introduction: John Carroll, Department of History, HKU
Respondents:
Jenny Chak, MPhil Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Lory Wong, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

APR 8 | MON | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters
Speaker: Angie Chau, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, University of Victoria
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

APR 2 | TUE | 4:45 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Extremely Public Private Eros: Documentary Filmmaking and Feminist Movements in 1970s Japan
Speaker: Chika Kinoshita, Professor of Film Studies, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

MAR 11 | MON | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Leo Africanus Decolonised?
Speaker: Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Lecturer in English Literature, UCL
Moderator: Beth Harper, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

MAR 7 | THU | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
Speaker: Mingwei Song, Professor of Chinese Literature, Wellesley College
Moderator: Pei-yin Lin, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, HKU

FEB 28 | WED | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Analyzing Gendered Presence in Woman’s Films with Cinemetrics: A Case Study on 1980s’ Turkish Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Serkan Şavk, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, Izmir University of Economics
Moderator: Dr. Peter J. Cobb, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, HKU

FEB 26 | MON | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan’s High-Speed Growth
Speaker: Tomoyuki Sasaki, Professor of Japanese Studies, College of William & Mary
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

FEB 22 | THU | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Foreign Languages Press and Littérature Chinoise: Paris as a Hub of Socialist Literary Networks during the Global Sixties
Speaker: Mélanie Shi, EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), Paris
Moderator: Professor Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

FEB 19 | MON | 5:30 PM (HKT) | SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Screening of Ilm Ka Shehar (City of Knowledge) and Q&A with C. Yamini Krishna
Speaker: C. Yamini Krishna, FLAME University, India
Moderator: Professor Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

FEB 6 | TUE | 4:45 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
(Inter)(in)animation, Apparatus, Archive: Onyeka Igwe and A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)
Speaker: Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

FEB 2 | FRI | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SCREENING & DISCUSSION
A Life in Six Chapters (2022): Screening and Discussion with the Director S. Louisa Wei
Moderator: Nicole Huang, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

JAN 30 | TUE | 10:30 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
The Iron Flood and its Manchurian Followers: Rethinking the “Northeastern Writers Group” in a Global Context
Speaker: Professor Liu Dong, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong
Moderator: Professor Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

JAN 29 | MON | 7:00 PM (HKT) | BOOK LAUNCH
How It Feels: On Depression in Comics
Book Talk by Kaitlin Chan

JAN 26 | FRI | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China
Speaker: Professor Shih-Diing Liu, Department of Communication, University of Macau
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Vukovich, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

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Date: Friday, December 22, 2023
Time: 9:00 am to 6:15 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
The Conference is in face-to-face mode only.

Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature and Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong, and cosponsored by the Louis Cha Fund for Chinese Studies and East/West Studies, the Center for Taiwan Studies and the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowment, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University.

Registration (9:00-9:15am)
Welcome speech (Daniel Vukovich, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature) (9:15-9:20am)
Opening remarks by co-organizers (Ari Heinrich, Howard Chiang, and Alvin K. Wong) (9:20-9:30am)

Panel 1 (9:30-11:00am) | Queer Sinophone Geopolitics and Critique
— Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara): “The Moving Grounds of Queer Sinophone Taiwan”
— Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (Lancaster University): “The Geopolitics of Queer Archives: Contested Chineseness and Queer Sinophone Affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan”
— Pip Freestone (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): “Deconstructing ‘Chinese’ Queer Sinophone Identity Performance through a 老外 (Laowai) Immigrant Lens”
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong

Coffee break (11:00am-11:10am)

Panel 2 (11:10am-12:40pm) | Queer Sinophone Visuality
— Ari Heinrich (Australian National University): “Biohazards at the Biennale: Jes Fan and Decolonial Thinking at the 2020 Sydney Biennale”
— EK Tan (Stony Brook University): “Queer Detours and Affective Labor: Transpacific Archiving of Esther Eng’s Life and Work”
— Kai Hang Cheang (Portland State University): “Thinking Trans with Queer Sinophone Television: A Case Study from 21st Century Hong Kong”
Moderator: Jean Ma

Lunch break (12:50pm-2:20pm)

Panel 3 (2:30-4:00pm) | Queer Sinophone Fandom and the Digital Turn
— Chloe Yap (Monash University): “Queer Digital Sinophone Malaysia: Exploring Internet-mediated Reconfigurations of Queer Malaysian Chinese Subjectivity at the Millennial Turn”
— Ella Mei Ting Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Towards a Queer Affective Community in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Shipping Fandom of Mirror”
— Lucetta Kam (Hong Kong Baptist University): “Fandom, Migration and Sinophone Queer Studies”
Moderator: Jason Coe

Coffee break (4:00pm-4:10pm)

Panel 4 (4:10-5:40pm) | Queer Migration and Affective Labor across the Sinophone World
— Xu Hangping (University of California, Santa Barbara): “Toward a Queer-Crip Ethic of Care: I (and We) Don’t Want to Sleep Alone”
— Alvin K. Wong (The University of Hong Kong): “Queer Sinophone Intimacies”
— Tze-lan Sang (Michigan State University): “The Diasporic Queer Subject in Hebei Taipei”
Moderator: Nicholas Y. H. Wong

Roundtable and Concluding Remarks (5:40-6:15pm)

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