DEC 11 | THU | 2:30 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Grounds of Comparison in East-West Literary Studies: Continuity and Innovation
Speaker: Sheldon Lu, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
Moderator: Beth Harper, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
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
NOV 12 | WED | 4:00 PM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara
Speaker: Samia Henni, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University
Respondent: Alexandre Mecattaf, COLLECTIVE Studio
Moderator: Daniel Elam, 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 30 | TUE | 10:00 AM (HKT) | SEMINAR
Daniel Elam in Conversation with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
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
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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