APR 16 | WED | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
I Came for a Reason – On the Importance and Significance of Sexual Positions in 北京故事 (1996)
Speaker: Frederico Vidal, Visiting PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondent: Hongwei Bao, Associate Professor in Media Studies, University of Nottingham
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
APR 11 | FRI | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Screen Time Dilemmas: Screens and the Governance of Productivity in China
Speaker: Chenshu Zhou, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Zoe Meng Jiang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
MAR 28 | FRI | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building
Speaker: Kwai-Cheung Lo, Professor and Department Chair of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
MAR 20 | THU | 5:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Metaphor, Energy and Material Narratives on the Ocean (1982-present)
Speaker: Laia Ventayol, Visiting PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondent: Winnie Yee, MALCS Programme Coordinator, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
MAR 6 | THU | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
Speaker: Suzy Kim, Professor of Korean History, Rutgers University
Moderator: Su Yun Kim, Associate Professor, Korean Studies, HKU
MAR 3 | MON | 5:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Meiji Graves in Happy Valley: Stories of Early Japanese Residents in Hong Kong
Speakers:
Yoshiko Nakano, Professor, Department of International Design Management, Tokyo University of Science
Georgina Challen, CSGC Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondent: John M. Carroll, Principal Lecturer, Department of History, HKU
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
FEB 21 | FRI | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
The Politics of Art in Contemporary Korean Fiction
Speaker: Chris Hanscom, Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Moderator: Su Yun Kim, Associate Professor, Korean Studies, The University of Hong Kong
FEB 17 | MON | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
On The Promise of Beauty
Speaker: Mimi Thi Nguyen, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
FEB 13 | THU | 5:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Varieties of Exceptionalism: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Transnational History
Speaker: Cai Yuqian, Predoctoral Fellow, Centre on Contemporary China and the World, HKU
Respondent: John Carroll, Principal Lecturer, Department of History, HKU
Moderator: Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
FEB 7 | FRI | 10:00 AM (HKT) | BOOK LAUNCH
Book Launch: Transpacific, Undisciplined
Speakers and Editors of Transpacific, Undisciplined:
Lily Wong, American University
Christopher B. Patterson, University of British Columbia
Chien-ting Lin, National Central University in Taiwan
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
JAN 17 | FRI | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Writing Desire in Times of Crisis: A Comparative Study of Xu Dishan and Gendün Chöpel
Speaker: Yang Qu, PhD Candidate in South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Respondents:
Nicole Huang, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
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