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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