Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone
Speakers: Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of English, Rice University Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time (9:00 pm/29 Sep/Houston) Venue: On Zoom
Why is it so difficult to account for the role of identity in literary studies? Why do both writers and scholars of Indian English literature express resistance to India and Indianness? What does this reveal about how non-Western literatures are read, taught, and understood? Drawing on years of experiences in classrooms and on U.S. university campuses, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan’s Overdetermined explores how writers, critics, teachers, and students of Indian English literatures negotiate and resist the categories through which the field is defined: ethnic, postcolonial, and Anglophone.
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan is an assistant professor of English at Rice University. She is a co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (2023), author of Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone (2025), and co-author of The End Doesn’t Happen All at Once: A Pandemic Memoir (2025). Her book of essays on collectivity, What is We?, is forthcoming.
Daniel Elam is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in transnational Asian and African literatures in the twentieth century, modernism, postcolonial theory, and global intellectual history. He is the author of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (Fordham University Press, 2020) and Impossible and Necessary (Orient BlackSwan, 2020).
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Jack Halberstam, David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and coeditor of the Perverse Modernities book series at Duke University Press, will share with us his experience of publishing with academic presses. For early-career academics, navigating the process from establishing initial contact with an editor, responding to reviewer reports, and revising the manuscript can be daunting. This workshop will demystify the process of book publication by sharing insights and strategies. Target participants are PhDs who just completed their dissertations and faculty members in the process of writing their first book.
Participants are strongly encouraged to submit a 2-page single-spaced prospectus of their book, including the book’s main argument, intervention, and potential audience and market. For further questions, please email Professor Alvin K. Wong at akhwong@hku.hk
Please submit your prospectus to Professor Wong by September 17, 2025, before 5:00pm.
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 (postponed to Friday, September 26, 2025) Time: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
This event is co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.
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Speaker: Jack Halberstam The David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025 Time: 4:00 to 6:00 pm Hong Kong Time New Venue: Room 3.04, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
In this talk, Halberstam will explore the meaning of trans embodiment using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called ‘anarchitecture’. The work of Gordon Matta-Clark represents the spirit and the intentions of this group. Halberstam believes one should use the language of anarchitecture to describe trans embodiment for a few reasons: First, trans bodies should not become legible within the system of gender that was constructed around its exclusion. In other words, if trans bodies violate binary gender, then they cannot seek to become ‘real’ through that same binary. Instead, they must and do threaten to unbuild the binary, and take apart the version of trans that the binary produces. Second, because anarchitecture delivers a version of transness that does not seek to become a new vehicle for capital, it offers an alternative to the process by which once excluded groups become new markets. Rather than becoming a new platform for neoliberal marketing, the unbuilding of the body opens onto a critique of capital, real estate, and the realities that subtend them. And finally, trans bodies, like the buildings that Gordon Matt-Clark opened up, represent an unworld within which representational systems can and do come apart. The trans body that can be glimpsed through Matta-Clark’s anarchitectural experiments is not figure but ground, not body but landscape, not building but demolition site.
Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012), and a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a book titled Anarchitecture After Everything, which will be published by MIT Press in 2026. Halberstam was the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton in 2022 and he was named a 2024/2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
This event is co-organised by the Faculty of Arts, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity (CGED), and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong.
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Speaker: Professor Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University
Moderators: Christine Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History, HKU Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Friday, September 5, 2025 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time Venue: Faculty Lounge (Room 430) 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower Language: English. The legal texts discussed during the seminar are available in Chinese only. In-person event for HKU students.
During this interactive seminar, Professor Sommer will introduce three texts that illustrate different aspects of the Qing judicial system. The texts will be shared prior to the event to encourage questions and discussion.
Matthew H. Sommer (BA Swarthmore, MA U. of Washington, PHD UCLA) is the Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University. A social and legal historian of Qing dynasty China (1644–1912), his research uses original legal case records from local and central archives to explore gender, sexuality, and family. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Stanford 2000) and Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China (California 2015), which was the inaugural winner of the American Society for Legal History’s Peter Gonville Stein Book Award. His latest book, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia 2024) won the John Boswell Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association.
This seminar is co-organised by the Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law in the Faculty of Law, and the Department of History and Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.
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Speaker:Professor Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University
Discussant: Professor Bin Bin Yang, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, HKU
Chair: Professor Weilin Xiao, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, HKU
Date & Time: September 4, 2025 (Thursday) 16:00-18:00 Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong Language: English (In-person event)
Matthew Sommer’s new book The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China(Columbia UP 2024)considers a range of transgender experiences in Ming-Qing China, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular contexts and penalized in others. This talk focuses on the crime of “a male masquerading in female attire” (男扮女裝), which was prosecuted by applying the statute against “using deviant ways and heterodox principles to incite and deceive the common people” (左道異端煽惑人民). Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit — yet, suspected of sexual predation, they risked death if they came to official attention, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for years.
Matthew H. Sommer (BA Swarthmore, MA U. of Washington, PHD UCLA) is the Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University. A social and legal historian of Qing dynasty China (1644-1912), his research uses original legal case records from local and central archives to explore gender, sexuality, and family. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Stanford 2000) and Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China (California 2015), which was the inaugural winner of the American Society for Legal History’s Peter Gonville Stein Book Award. His latest book, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia 2024) won the Boswell Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association.
This seminar is co-organised by the Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law in the Faculty of Law, and the Department of History and Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.
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Speaker: Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Respondents: Lucetta Kam, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University Travis Kong, Professor, Department of Sociology, HKU Marco Wan, Professor of Law and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, HKU Harmony Yuen, Assistant Curator, M+ Jamie Zhao, Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Creative Media, CityU
Moderator:Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
In “Unruly Comparison,” Alvin K. Wong examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist, colonial, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy, Chinese rule, or global capital. By foregrounding the friction, asymmetry, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies.
Alvin K. Wong is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC). His research spans across the fields of queer theory, Hong Kong literature and cinema, Chinese literary and cultural studies, Sinophone studies, transnational feminism, and the environmental humanities. His book “Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone” was published by Duke University Press in Spring 2025.
DEC 4 | THU | 4:00 PM (HKT) | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Diasporic Thought and the Problem of Asia Speakers: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Professor, NYU Kandice Chuh, Professor, CUNY Graduate Centre Nadine Attewell, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University Moderator:Feng-Mei Heberer, Associate Professor, HKU and NYU
NOV 26 | WED | 4:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR Testing the Canon: Digital Scholarship and Early Cinema in Hong Kong Speaker:Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Lam Wong Yiu Wah Chair Professor of Visual Studies, Lingnan University Moderator:Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
NOV 14 | FRI | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair Speaker:Summer Kim Lee, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles Moderator:Alvin K. Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
OCT 22 | WED | 10:00 AM (HKT) | ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Rose Casey in conversation with Leila Neti, Shane Chalmers, and Daniel Elam Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style Speakers: Rose Casey, Associate Professor of English, West Virginia University Leila Neti, Irma M. and Jay F. Price Professor in English, Occidental College Shane Chalmers, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, HKU Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 26 | FRI | 11:00 AM (HKT) | WORKSHOP Book Publishing Workshop with Jack Halberstam Speaker:Jack Halberstam, The David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 25 | THU | 4:00 PM (HKT) | LECTURE Anarchitecture After Everything Speaker:Jack Halberstam, The David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 5 | FRI | 2:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR What Three Cases tell us about the Qing Judicial System Speaker: Professor Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University Moderators: Christine Walker, Associate Professor, Department of History, HKU Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
SEP 4 | THU | 4:00 PM (HKT) | LECTURE The Prosecution of Transgender as Heterodoxy in Qing Dynasty China Speaker:Professor Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University Discussant: Professor Bin Bin Yang, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, HKU Chair: Professor Weilin Xiao, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, HKU
SEP 2 | TUE | 5:00 PM (HKT) | BOOK TALK Unruly Comparison — Queerness, Hong Kong and the Sinophone Speaker: Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU Respondents: Lucetta Kam, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University Travis Kong, Professor, Department of Sociology, HKU Marco Wan, Professor of Law and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, HKU Harmony Yuen, Assistant Curator, M+ Jamie Zhao, Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Creative Media, CityU Moderator:Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
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August 4, 5, 6, 2025 Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
This summer school is co-sponsored by the China, Humanities, and Global Studies research hub at the University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Arts) and the Graduate Program of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University.
It features lecture-discussions and a roundtable spread over three afternoons and led by Professors Daniel Vukovich (胡德) and Daniel Elam from HKU, and Li Haimo (李海默), Li Yin (李寅), Yin Peiqiu (银培萩), Yin Zhiguang (殷之光), and Zhang Xueying (张雪滢) from Fudan. Together we will examine some of the history, problems, current prospects, and intellectual questions subtending the global south, modernization, development, Bandung, colonialism or empire, and political economy. This HKU event also forms part of the Fudan Graduate School’s ten-year project “China and the World under Great Changes.”
Dates: August 4, 5, 6, 2025 Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU Language: English
Registration is open to all HKU Research Postgraduate students. Please note that this is a non-credit-bearing program. It is simply an opportunity to enhance one’s learning and exchange views about the global south, the current conjuncture (and older, colonial ones), and related theoretical and empirical issues. Readings are available here. All are welcome but space is very limited so please register only if you will actually attend all three days.
Day 1, August 4: 1:45 pm Introduction | coffee and snacks 2:00-3:00 pm Professor Yin Zhiguang (殷之光) Theorising the Future, Global South and the Historical Continuum of World Order Making 3:30-4:30 pm Professor Dan Vukovich (胡德) The New Global Conjuncture?: Problems of Method & Interpretation 4:30-5:30 pm Professor Li Haimo (李海默) The Global South from a Burkean Perspective
Day 2, August 5: 1:45 pm Coffee and snacks 2:00-3:00 pm Professor Zhang Xueying (张雪滢) Will China Take the Leadership Vacuum? 3:30-4:30 pm Professor Yin Peiqiu (银培萩) The Evolution and Constraints of Congressional Power in U.S.–China Tech Competition: Insights from the TikTok Act
Day 3, August 6: 1:45 pm Coffee and snacks 2:00-3:00 pm Professor Daniel Elam Tristes-Tropiques or Global South: Nation-Building, World-Making, and Post-Independence Anticolonial Thought 3:30-4:30 pm Professor Li Yin (李寅) China’s Innovation and Development: Phenomenon, Consequences, and Implications for the Global South 5:00-5:30 pm Discussion
Prof. Dan Vukovich (胡德), HKU, School of Humanities
Dan Vukovich (胡德) is an inter-disciplinary scholar who works on issues of colonialism/imperialism and critical theory in relation to the intellectual and political history of the “China-West” relationship. He has worked in Hong Kong since 2006, after earlier stints at Hocking College and UC Santa Cruz before and after his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently Chair of the Comp Lit Program at HKU and has been an Advisory Research Fellow at Southeast University (东南大学) in Nanjing and a Visiting Professor of Politics at East China Normal University (华东师范大学). He is the author of three monographs, including China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC (Routledge 2012), Illiberal China: The Ideological Challenge of the P.R.C. (Palgrave 2019) and most recently After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). In these three books and in numerous articles he is concerned with the age-old problems of representation, the politics of knowledge (and ‘real’ politics), and the dialectics of difference and universality.
Prof. Daniel Elam, HKU, School of Humanities
Daniel Elam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in transnational Asian and African literatures in the twentieth century, modernism, postcolonial theory, and global intellectual history. He is the author of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth (Fordham University Press, 2020) and Impossible and Necessary (Orient BlackSwan, 2020).
Prof. Li Haimo (李海默), Fudan University
Li Haimo is currently assistant professor in political science at Fudan University, Shanghai. His major research area is American political thought and Contemporary American Politics. His academic works in English have been formally published in top-tier journals such as History of Political Thought (A&HCI, Q1), Law and History Review (SSCI, A&HCI Q1), The European Legacy (A&HCI, Q2), Journal of British Studies (SSCI and A&HCI, Q1), and European Journal of International Law (SSCI, Q1).
Prof. Li Yin (李寅), Fudan University
Li Yin is an Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and Associate Director of the Shanghai Center for Innovation and Governance at Fudan University. His research focuses on innovation, industrial policy and economic development. He is the author of China’s Drive for the Technology Frontier: Indigenous Innovation in the High-Tech Industry (Routledge, 2023). His research has been published in journals, such as Research Policy, Technovation, and Issues in Science and Technology. He also writes frequently for Wenhua Zongheng (Beijing Cultural Review).
Prof. Yin Peiqiu (银培萩), Fudan University
Yin Peiqiu is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. Her research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, philanthropy, and the intersection of technology, religion, and international relations, with particular emphasis on the role of elite networks—such as philanthropic foundations and think tanks—in shaping global power dynamics. Her work appeared on CSSCI journals such as Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies, Foreign Affairs Review, and Contemporary World & Socialism, among others. Her book, Dark Money Politics: Philanthropic Foundations and American Hegemony (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2022), examines the influence of private foundations on U.S. hegemony. Dr. Yin holds a Ph.D. in International Politics from Fudan University and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
Prof. Yin Zhiguang (殷之光), Fudan University
Yin Zhiguang is a Professor in international politics at the Fudan University. His research interest lies mainly in the area of Chinese modern intellectual and legal history, ethnic minority policy, 19-20 century history of international relations, imperial history, and Sino-Middle Eastern relations. His research and teaching centre on a theoretical interests in understanding the making of the modern world order through the dynamic tension between domination and resistance. His current projects include studies of liberal imperialism and Afro-Asian solidarity movements with a particular interests in Sino-African, Sino-Middle Eastern relations and pan-Africanism. His most recent monographs include: A New World: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the PRC’s Imagination of Global Order (Chinese, 2022), and Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (Brill, 2014). His articles appear in English and Chinese academic journals such as European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, History, Turkish Journal of Sociology, Shehui Kexue (Social Sciences), and Kaifang Shidai (Open Times).
Prof. Zhang Xueying (张雪滢), Fudan University
Zhang Xueying is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and a Research Fellow at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. Her research focuses on international institutions and the foreign policies of the United States and China, with particular emphasis on China’s engagement with the UN system and emerging multilateral frameworks such as the AIIB, BRICS, and SCO. Her work has appeared in The Review of International Organizations, Global Policy, and The Pacific Review, among other journals. Her forthcoming book, The Exit of Hegemony? The Logic of U.S. Withdrawals from Postwar International Institutions, will be published by Shanghai People’s Publishing House in 2025.
The Modern Girl had a ubiquitous presence in early-twentieth-century Chinese literature and visual culture. From popular fiction to revolutionary literature, from movie fanzines to more serious varieties of newspapers and magazines, from advertising images to leftist cinema, the Modern Girl appeared as an iconic figure in a wide range of representations from the late 1920s through the 1940s. Generally speaking, she was depicted as glamorous, alluring, and sexually liberated. She was envied and emulated as much as chastised. She symbolized the contradictions of modernity—its inordinate attraction as well as its threat. Frequently, she was a key character in the modern heteronormative narratives that gained increasing dominance in urban public discourse in Republican China, narratives that promoted the liberalization of cross-sex courtship as a progressive, humane practice that radically departed from restrictive Confucian ritual. At the same time, her reputed promiscuity and materialism provoked criticisms in the media.
What happens when the Modern Girl meets Eileen Chang? How does Chang see the Modern Girl? What literary molds does Chang borrow and what public interventions does she make? What insights can we gain into the Modern Girl by deploying Eileen Chang as a method?
講者簡介 About the Speaker: 桑梓蘭 美國加州大學柏克萊校區比較文學博士，曾任奧勒岡大學東亞語文系系主任，現任密西根州立大學語言學與語言文化系教授。學術著作有專書 The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (芝加哥大學出版社)（台大出版中心中譯本名《浮現中的女同性戀：現代中國的女同情欲》) 以及學術論文多篇。編有 Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge)。目前研究重點包括民國時期摩登女郎話語、當代台灣紀錄片、華語女性電影。著有中文現代詩集《時光膠囊》（秀威出版社）。
Prof. SANG Tze-lan received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She was Department Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Oregon before joining the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. Author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same Sex Desire in Modern China (University of Chicago Press), she has also published numerous articles and book chapters and the coedited volume Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge). Her current research focuses on the Modern Girl in Republican China, contemporary Taiwanese documentaries, and Sinophone women’s cinema. In 2021, she published a collection of her poetry under the title Time Capsules (Showwe Press).
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)
14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025) What is Asian Cinema? The University of Hong Kong Website: https://www.acssconference2025.com
Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS) Department of Comparative Literature
1 Keynote 3 Feature Film Screenings 3 Short Film Screenings 3 Workshops 46 Panels on Asian Cinema
Dates: May 22 (Thu), May 23 (Fri), May 24 (Sat) Time: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm Registration venue: 3/F, Run Run Shaw Tower All HKU staff and students are welcome.
Keynote address – May 23, 11:00 am – 12.45 pm Professor Thomas Lamarre Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago The Anime World: How Infrastructures Affect Sovereignty
The Conference is supported by the Louis Cha Fund for Chinese Studies and East/West Studies.
Please note that access to individual sessions is on a first come, first served basis, with priority given to conference presenters.
