DEC 10 | TUE | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements
Speaker: Fan Yang (杨帆), Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Respondent: Nianshen Song (宋念申), Professor at the Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University
Moderator: Daniel Vukovich, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 28 | THU | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
In Praise of the Criminal Imagination
Speaker: Haiyan Lee, Walter A. Haas Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Respondent: Marco Wan, Professor and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, Faculty of Law, HKU
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 26 | TUE | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
The Afro-Asian International: Black Left Feminists and China in the Age of Bandung
Speaker: Zifeng Liu, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
Respondents:
Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Alicia Le, MPhil Candidate, Department of History, HKU
NOV 13 | WED | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
The Return of the Third World
Speaker: Zhun Xu, Lingnan College, Sun Yat Sen University
Discussant & Moderator: Daniel Vukovich, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 12 | TUE | 6:30 PM (HKT) | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Henry Steiner’s Hong Kong
Speakers:
Christopher DeWolf, Managing Editor, Zolima CityMag
Billy Potts, Writer and Designer
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 12 | TUE | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker: James Marcus, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 5 | TUE | 9:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Disturbing Proximities: Encounters with Animals in the Short Stories of Pu Songling and Edgar Allan Poe
Speaker: Jenny Chak, MPhil Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondent: Caroline Levine, David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities, Cornell University
Moderator: Beth Harper, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
OCT 29 | TUE | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Jing-you: The Genius of Lam Nin-tung’s Film Philosophy
Speaker: Victor Fan, Reader in Film and Media Philosophy, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
OCT 22 | TUE | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Examining the Eurocentric Portrayals of the Chinese in Osbert Chadwick’s 1882 Reports on the Sanitary Condition of Hong Kong and Alternative Framings of Hong Kong’s Sanitation
Speaker: Lory Wong, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondent: Cecilia L. Chu, School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Moderator: Dan Vukovich, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
OCT 4 | FRI | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
The Neighborhood: Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
Speaker: Nianshen Song (宋念申), Professor at the Tsinghua Institute of Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University
Respondents:
Loretta Kim, Associate Professor and Head, School of Modern Languages and Culture, HKU
Ji Li, Associate Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU
Moderator: Daniel Vukovich, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 30 | MON | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Screening and Discussion of Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM with Director Zhang Mengqi
章夢奇《自畫像：47公里之死》放映暨映後談
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-moderator: Yiping Lin, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 23 | MON | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985
Speaker: Jennifer Dorothy Lee, Associate Professor of East Asian Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Respondent: Angie C. Baecker, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 16 | MON | 6:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
What remains?
Presentation and Discussion of the Performance-Lecture (untitled) by Kai Tuchmann
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 10 | TUE | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Loves that Cannot be Named: Symbolic Subversions in Priya Sen’s Yeh Freedom Life
Speaker: Ani Maitra, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Colgate University
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 9 | MON | 6:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow magazines and Book publishing in Post-Independence India
Speaker: Aakriti Mandhwani, Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
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