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Call for Papers: Queer Theory in the Age of Global Asias: An International Conference

December 11-12, 2026 | University of Hong Kong

In the last two decades, queer theory has shifted from theoretical focuses on shame, performativity, and identification to questions of transnationalism, diaspora, queer liberalism, homonormativity, and homonationalism. Simultaneously, when US-based queer theorists (Eng, Ferguson, Gopinath, Munoz, etc.) devised new models such as queer of color critique and queer diaspora to name the alternative subjectivities and telos of modernity beyond queer liberalism, the AsiaPacifiQueer (APQ) network based in Australia collaborated with queer scholars in Asia to organize the First International Conference of Asian Queer Studies in Bangkok in July 2005. The intellectual work of queer Asian studies can be summarized by the statement by Fran Martin, Peter A. Jackson, Mark McLelland, and Audrey Yue in their coedited volume, AsiaPacifiQueer: “Since it was established in 2000, the aim of APQ has been to…inscribe queer studies within Asian studies and equally importantly to locate Asia, and the non-West, within queer studies.” Scholars affiliated with queer Asian studies have subsequently expanded this call in several directions. On the one hand, Petrus Liu theorizes queer Marxism in the two Chinas as offering a non-liberal critique of Western queer theory. Liu thinks through the difference that it makes to theorize queerness in relation to a history of communist struggle in China. If materialist approaches to the past have tended to ignore gender, sexuality, and race, he proposes, then queer theory is often guilty of skirting the subject of class. Together they form a “polarity,” Liu notes, “between the old class politics and the new identity politics.” And where queer theory does examine class, it tends to do so with a guilty conscience, substituting “a moralizing language against privilege or discrimination” in place of systematic materialist analysis. This difference is so important to casting “Asia” as not a territorial difference but an actual ideological shift that changes the kinds of questions we might ask.

Meanwhile, scholars of queer Sinophone studies such as Howard Chiang, Alvin K. Wong, Lily Wong, and others have engaged with the Transpacific, the Sinophone, and queer regionalism as powerful analytical frames to disrupt China-centric models of area studies. More recently, critics such as Ying-Chao Kao and Wen Liu have demonstrated how an uncritical exporting of US-based concepts of homonationalism and homonormativity in fact reproduces the coloniality of queer theory in its refusal to recognize bottom-up struggles in LGBTQ+ civil rights in contemporary Taiwan. Similarly, Audrey Yue and Jun Zubillaga-Pow have urged queer Asian scholars to understand the illiberal pragmatism in “postcolonial” and capitalist countries and states such as Singapore, in which political illiberalism works in tandem with the emergence of vibrant queer public cultures. The recent scholarship on queer Asian media and platforms by Jamie J. Zhao, Liang Ge, Tan Jia, Shana Ye, and others demonstrate that queer Asian mediality can thrive in national spaces that are deemed as non-liberal, if not authoritarian. The heterogenous modes in which queerness thrives in non-metropolitan, non-liberal, and Asian regional contexts recalls Evelyn Blackwood’s keen observation that second and third-tier regions like Padang might be the most interesting place to study how the global flow of LGBTQ knowledge meets with translocal articulations of genders and sexualities in Indonesia. Recent journals’ special issues on the concept of “queer Asias” also invoke border-crossing at both topical and conceptual levels. Michelle Ho and Evelyn Blackwood write, “In using the term ‘Queer Asias,’ we refer to such multidirectional crossing—both the acts of crossing over and crossing back—that transpinays, joso individuals, and tomboy migrant domestic workers constantly engage in.”

This conference expands the groundbreaking scholarship on queer Asias by inviting participants to present works that further shake up the field.  Presenters might consider (but should not limit themselves to) the following topics and questions:

  • How do models of queer genders, sexualities, and embodiments in Central, East, Southeast, and South Asias challenge Western hegemonic articulations of LGBTQ? (Examples: lesbi, cewek, and cowok in Indonesia, TB and TGB in Hong Kong, etc).
  • How have queer activists and critical legal studies scholars based in Asia devised creative frameworks to unpack the tensions between global LGBTQ human rights, colonial legal legacies, and the state’s alliance with religious and heteronormative family rights groups? What does a decolonial queer legal imaginary look like from the vantage point of global Asias? 
  • How might new queer Asian studies offer deep queer temporality and historicism without regurgitating the idioms of loss and archival recovery?
  • How do new queer media, the moving image, and digital platforms enable alternative queer subjectivity and embodiment in global Asias?
  • How might the recent convergence of Asian American Studies and Asian Studies under the rubric of global Asias engender new disciplinary alliance and solidarity with queer studies?

Deadline: submit an abstract of 200 words and a 2-page CV by July 31, 2026 at csgc@hku.hk 

Travel and accommodation: we will do our best to provide partial accommodation for conference participants (subject to budgetary consideration). We are unable to cover airfare. Registration is free for all conference participants. Lunch and dinner will be provided for presenters.

Acceptance and notification: acceptance of conference papers will be notified by August 31, 2026.

Conference organizers: Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) and Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong).

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New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series

張愛玲研究新方向講座系列 

張愛玲研究新方向講座系列 New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series
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)

《秧歌》與二十世紀中國小説
The Rice Sprout Song and 20th Century Chinese Fiction
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #1
分享嘉賓Speaker: 許子東 教授  Prof. XU Zidong 
主持人Moderator: 林姵吟 博士  Dr. LIN Pei-yin
Date: September 21, 2022 (Wed)
Time: 17:30-19:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: CPD-2.58, Level 2, Central Podium, Centennial Campus, HKU & Zoom

Special book talk in celebration of the 90th anniversary of FPS Library and Eileen Chang’s 102nd birthday:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Eileen Chang at the University of Hong Kong
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #2
Speaker: Prof. Nicole HUANG 
Date: September 30, 2022 (Fri)
Time: 18:00-19:30pm
Language: English
Venue: Multi-purpose Area, 2/F, Main Library & Zoom

Scholar Seminar:
如金粉深埋：《小團圓》背後的閨秀生命
Like Buried Gold Sand: Women’s Life Histories Behind Little Reunions
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #3
Speaker: 崔文東 博士  Dr. CUI Wendong (City U)
Moderator: 黃心村 教授  Prof. Nicole HUANG
Date: October 26, 2022 (Wed)
Time: 16:30-18:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: CPD-1.21, Level 1, Central Podium, Centennial Campus, HKU & Zoom

Scholar Seminar:
張愛玲筆下的香港戰時聲景
Wartime Soundscape in Eileen Chang’s Hong Kong Narratives
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #4
Speaker: 郭詩詠  博士  Dr. KWOK Sze Wing (HSUHK)
Moderator: 黃心村 教授  Prof. Nicole HUANG
Date: November 23, 2022 (Wed) 
Time: 16:30-18:00pm
Venue: CPD-1.21, Level 1, Central Podium, Centennial Campus, HKU
Language: Putonghua

Roundtable Discussion:
世界的張愛玲與張愛玲的世界
Worlding Eileen Chang and Eileen Chang’s World
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #5
Speakers: 
何杏楓 教授  Prof. HOYAN Hang Fung Carole (CUHK)
黃念欣 教授  Prof. WONG Nim Yan (CUHK)
Moderator: 林姵吟 博士  Dr. LIN Pei-yin
Date: February 7, 2023 (Tue) 
Time: 16:30-18:30pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: Level 2 Multi-Purpose Area (Ingenium), Main Library, Main Campus, HKU

Scholar Seminar
上海和台灣報刊中的「張愛玲」想像
The Imagination of “Eileen Chang” by Newspapers in Shanghai and Taiwan
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #6
Speaker: 梁慕靈博士  Dr. LEUNG Mo-Ling, Rebecca (HKMU)
Moderator: 黃心村 教授  Prof. Nicole HUANG
Date & Time: March 8, 2023 (Wed) 16:30-18:00
Venue: CPD-1.21
Language: Putonghua

影像、衣飾和邊界——張愛玲的《對照記》及其他
Images, Clothing, and Boundaries: Eileen Chang’s An Album of Mutual Reflections and Others
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #7
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 黃子平 教授  Prof. HUANG Ziping
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 Prof. Nicole HUANG
Date & Time: April 18, 2023 (Tue) 16:30-18:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: CPD-2.19, Level 2, Central Podium, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Self-translation and the Notion of Filiality in Eileen Chang’s Fiction
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #8
Speakers: Prof. Christopher LUPKE (University of Alberta) & Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan LI (York University) 
Commentators: Dr. LIN Pei-yin & Prof. Nicole HUANG (HKU)
Date & Time: July 3, 2023 (Mon) 16:00-18:00pm
Language: English
Venue: Level 2 Multi-Purpose Area (Ingenium), Main Library, Main Campus, HKU

在樓窗的燈光裡：張愛玲的家居剪影──從《傳奇》增訂本展開
In the Light of the Window: Eileen Chang’s Interior Silhouette from the Revised Edition of Romances
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #9
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 蘇偉貞 教授 Prof. SU Wei-chen
主持人 Moderator: 林姵吟 博士 Dr. LIN Pei-yin
Date & Time: September 27, 2023 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm
Language: Putonghua
Venue: CBC, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU

倒掉的塔，凋萎的花：張愛玲文學中的愛情形式
Fallen Pagoda, Withered Flower: Forms of Love in Eileen Chang’s Literature
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #10
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 濱田麻矢 教授 Prof. Maya HAMADA
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 教授 Prof. Nicole HUANG
日期時間 Date & Time: October 25, 2023 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: Putonghua
地點 Venue (UPDATED): CPD-3.28, Central Podium Level 3, Centennial Campus, HKU

彼岸花：1950年代後張愛玲的跨界文藝實踐
Flower of the Other Shore: Eileen Chang’s Border-crossing Literary Practice after the 1950s
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #11
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 趙家琦 博士 Dr. CHAO Chia-chi 
主持人 Moderator: 林姵吟 博士 Dr. LIN Pei-yin
日期時間 Date & Time: November 30, 2023 (Thu) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: Putonghua
地點 Venue: CPD-LG.07, Central Podium LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU

張愛玲與中國寫作傳統
Eileen Chang and Chinese Narrative Traditions
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #12
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 王風 教授 Prof. WANG Feng (Peking U)
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 教授 Prof. Nicole HUANG (HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: February 7, 2024 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: CBA, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU

不可能三角與不現身的說書人：張愛玲《傳奇》的讀寫攻略
Impossible Trinity & Invisible Story Teller: A Creative Writing Approach to Eileen Chang’s Romances
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #13
分享嘉賓 Speaker:  邵棟 博士 Dr. Shawn SHAO (HKMU)
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 教授 Prof. Nicole HUANG (HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: March 26, 2024 (Tue) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: KK101, K.K. Leung Building, Main Campus, HKU

“輕微的騷動”: 張愛玲小說裡的細節與女性
“Subtle Stirrings”: Xijie and Women in Eileen Chang’s Fiction
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #14
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Prof. Jiwei XIAO (Fairfield University) 
主持人 Moderator: Prof. LIN Pei-yin (HKU) 
日期時間 Date & Time: April 18, 2024 (Thu) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: English
地點 Venue: CPD-7.30, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

《異鄉記》中的多維風景
Layered Landscapes in Chronicle of a Strange Land
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #15
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 吳曉東 教授 Prof. WU Xiaodong (Peking U) 
主持人 Moderator: 林姵吟 教授 Prof. LIN Pei-yin (HKU) 
日期時間 Date & Time: April 25, 2024 (Thu) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: KK102, K.K. Leung Building, Main Campus, HKU

何以還魂：將張愛玲譯歸中文的經驗反思
Impersonating Eileen Chang: A Translator’s (Im)possible Task of Bringing Home Her English Works
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #16
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 鄭遠濤 先生 Mr. Silvano ZHENG
主持人 Moderator: 黃心村 教授 Prof. Nicole HUANG (HKU) 
日期時間 Date & Time: May 13, 2024 (Mon) 16:30-18:00pm
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: CBA, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU

Affective Cosmopolitanism: Comparison Methodology and a Case Study
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #17
Speaker: Sijia Yao, Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Soka University of America
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024
Time: 4:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: CRT-7.30, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU

現在海枯石爛也很快
——劇場導演林奕華談張愛玲與時間（的消失）
Edward Lam on Eileen Chang and (the Disappearance of) Time
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #18
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Mr. Edward LAM 林奕華
主持人 Moderator: Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村 (Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
與談人Respondent: Prof. Pei-yin LIN 林姵吟 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: September 21, 2024 (Sat) 15:00-17:00pm
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話 
地點 Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU 香港大學黃麗松講堂

娜拉做母親後怎樣？——缺位的“新母親”
How would Nora be a Mother?: The Absent “New Mother” in May Fourth China
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #19
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Prof. LIN Zheng 林崢 (Sun Yat-sen University)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村(Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: March 6, 2025 (Thu) 14:30-16:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話 
地點 Venue: CRT-4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 
香港大學百周年校園逸夫教學樓4樓436室（文學院會議室）

同學少年都不見——鉤續張愛玲閨蜜的傳奇
Whatever Happened to Fatima? An Eileen Chang’s “Character” in Search of a Closure
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #20
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Mr. LIM Fong Wei 林方偉  (Senior Correspondent at Lianhe Zaobao)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村 (Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: March 26, 2025 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話 
地點 Venue: CPD-1.24, Central Podium Level 1, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

雪泥鴻爪：五〇年代張愛玲的香港生涯
Traces of a Wild Swan: Eileen Chang in 1950s Hong Kong
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #21
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Mr. XIE Youkun 謝有坤 先生 (「張迷客廳」博主)
與談人 Discussants:
Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村 教授 (Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Prof. LEUNG Mo Ling 梁慕靈 教授 (School of Arts and Social Sciences, HKMU)
日期時間 Date & Time: April 23, 2025 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話 
地點 Venue: CPD-1.24, Central Podium Level 1, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

私人浴室：張愛玲小說中自我、性別與身體的對話空間
Private Washrooms: Dialogic Spaces of Self, Gender, and Body in Eileen Chang’s Fiction
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #22
分享嘉賓 Speaker: 楊佳嫻 教授 Prof. YANG Chia-Hsien (Dept. of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University)
主持人 Moderator: 林姵吟 教授 Prof. LIN Pei-yin (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: April 24, 2025 (Thu) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: 普通話/國語 Mandarin
地點 Venue: CPD-3.28, Central Podium Level 3, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

當摩登女郎遇上張愛玲
When the Modern Girl Meets Eileen Chang
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #23
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Prof. SANG Tze-lan 桑梓蘭 教授 (Dept. of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: May 28, 2025 (Wed) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: 普通話/國語 Mandarin
地點 Venue: CPD-1.24, Central Podium Level 1, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

手稿年談張愛玲
Eileen Chang Studies in the Year of Manuscripts
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #24
分享嘉賓 Speakers:
Prof. Carole HF HOYAN 何杏楓 教授 (Department of Chinese Language & Literature, CUHK)
Prof. WONG Nim Yan 黃念欣 教授 (Department of Chinese Language & Literature, CUHK)
Prof. Rebecca LEUNG 梁慕靈 教授（School of Arts & Social Sciences, HKMU)
主持兼與談人 Moderators & Discussants:
Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村 教授 (Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: October 10, 2025 (Fri) 16:00-18:00pm (HKT)
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話
地點 Venue: Level 2 Multi-purpose Area, Main Library, Main Campus, HKU

讀照片的人：張愛玲小說的照片、情感交際與記憶
The Reader of Photographs: Photographs, Emotional Exchanges, and Memory in Eileen Chang’s Fiction
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #25
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Prof. HUANG Hsuan-chang 黃璿璋教授 (Department of Chinese Literature, CCU)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: November 4, 2025 (Tue) 17:00-18:30pm (HKT)
語言 Language: 普通話/國語 Mandarin
地點 Venue: KK201, 2/F, K. K. Leung Building, Main Campus, HKU

蒼涼自然，女性悲歌：張愛玲的生態女性視野
Bleak Nature, Women’s Sorrow: Eileen Chang’s Ecofeminist View
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #26
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Ms. CHENG Jiaoyang 程皎暘 女士 (Writer)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: November 19, 2025 (Wed) 17:00-18:30pm (HKT)
語言 Language: Putonghua 普通話
地點 Venue: CPD-2.42, Central Podium Level 2, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

《愛玲說》：以音樂和光影致敬張愛玲
Eileen’s Discourse: A Musical and Cinematic Tribute to Eileen Chang
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #27
分享嘉賓 Speakers:
陳慶恩 教授 Chan Hing-yan – Composer 作曲家
成博民 Oliver Shing – Director 導演
黃心村 教授 Nicole Huang – Literary Consultant 文學顧問
張吟晶 Samantha Chong – mezzo-soprano 女中音
黃歷琛 Alexander Wong – piano 鋼琴
日期 Date: November 22, 2025 (Sat)
時間 Time: 3:00 pm Hong Kong Time
地點 Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU 香港大學黃麗松講堂

「你們看了笑，我真高興極了」：張愛玲與喜劇片
“I’m so glad you laughed at it”: Eileen Chang and the Comedy Films
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #28
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Dr. Miki KAWAMOTO 河本美紀 (華語電影史研究者)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: March 31, 2026 (Tue) 17:00-18:30pm (HKT)
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: CBA, G/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU

蹦蹦戲花旦：張愛玲的「女明星學」
Stars as Texts: Eileen Chang and Celebrity Culture
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #29
分享嘉賓 Speaker: Ms. LI Qing 李青 (專欄作家)
主持人 Moderator: Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村教授 (Department of Comparative Literature, HKU)
日期時間 Date & Time: April 23, 2026 (Thu) 17:00-18:30pm (HKT)
語言 Language: 普通話 Putonghua
地點 Venue: CBA, G/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU

Measuring the Times: The Life and Writing of Eileen Chang
張愛玲傳：時代的度量
New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #30
分享嘉賓Speaker:  Prof. Karen S. Kingsbury 金凱筠 教授 (Chatham University)
與談人 Discussant: Mr. Silvano Zheng  鄭遠濤 先生
主持人 Moderators: 
Prof. Nicole Huang 黃心村 教授 (Dept. of Comparative Literature, HKU)
Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授 (School of Chinese, HKU)
日期 Date: May 21, 2026 (Thu)
時間 Time: 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time
地點 Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
語言 Language: English and Chinese

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