Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures @csgchku

“A Life in Six Chapters” 蕭軍六記 (2022) – Screening and Discussion with the Director S. Louisa Wei Date: Friday, February 2, 2024 Screening: 4:30 pm (HK Time) Discussion: 6:10 pm Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU Details: bit.ly/CSGC2Feb2024

Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China  Speaker: Professor Shih-Diing Liu, Department of Communication, University of Macau Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time) Room 1069, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU, & on Zoom bit.ly/CSGCJan26

Asians on Demand: A Book Launch with Dr. Feng-Mei Heberer Speaker: Feng-Mei Heberer, Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Thursday, November 30, 2023 9 am Hong Kong Time (8 pm/Nov 29, NYC) On Zoom hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdet…

Queer Sinophone Cultures: A 10th Anniversary Conference   Date: Friday, December 22, 2023 Time: 9:00 am to 6:15 pm (Hong Kong Time) Venue: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU The Conference is in F2F mode only. For details: bit.ly/QSC10

One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty Speaker: Pang Laikwan, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:00 pm HK Time Venue: CBC, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU Details: bit.ly/CSGC15Nov

Formal Objects in the Anthropocene: Shell and Spiral Speaker: Robert Hariman, Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023 5:00 pm (HK Time) Venue: Room 1069, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU & on Zoom Details: bit.ly/CSGC25Oct

Screening War in Russian and Chinese Nationalist Blockbusters  Speaker: Dr. Tatu-Ilari Laukkanen, Tampere University, Finland Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Time: 5:00 pm (HK Time) Venue: Room 1069, 10/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU & on Zoom Details: bit.ly/CSGC1Nov

The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in ‘Pax Americana’ Speaker: Jon Solomon, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Thursday, November 9, 2023 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time (10 am Paris) On Zoom Details: bit.ly/CSGC9Nov

Screening of “Shadowlands” and Discussion with Producer Nida Kirmani Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Time: 5:00 pm Hong Kong Time (2:00 pm Lahore) Venue: On Zoom All are welcome. Registration is required. bit.ly/CSGC27Sep

Creative Self-Referencing: writing crafts for our many selves Speaker: Christopher B. Patterson (aka Kawika Guillermo), Associate Professor, Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia Wed, Sep 20, 2023 10:00 am HK Time on Zoom Register: bit.ly/CSGC20Sep

What Should The Method of Postcolonial Studies Be?   A conversation between: Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Columbia University Daniel Elam, HKU Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University Preeti Singh, Dartmouth College   June 27, 2023 7:00 pm (HK Time) / Zoom Details: bit.ly/CGED27June2023

Love Boat: Taiwan – Screening and Discussion with the Director Valerie Soe Date: Monday, July 3, 2023 Screening: 4:00 pm (Hong Kong Time) Discussion: 5:10 pm (Hong Kong Time) Venue: Room CPD3.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU and ON ZOOM Registration: bit.ly/CSGC3July2023n…

Panel Discussion How to do things with words when publishing on performance? Kai Tuchmann Anuja Ghosalkar Amitesh Grover Nishant Shah Arushi Vats Zhao Chuan Moderator: Daniel Elam Tuesday, June 20, 2023 5:00-6:30 pm (Hong Kong Time) on Zoom Details: bit.ly/CSGC20Jun2023

Wu Jianren’s Hybrid Modernity: The Late Qing Intellectual Crisis as Reflected in “The New Story of the Stone” Speaker: Professor Theodore Huters, Professor Emeritus of Chinese, UCLA Thursday, June 8, 2023 4:00 pm (HK Time) on Zoom & F2F Registration: bit.ly/CSGC8June2023

Roundtable Discussion After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019 Speaker: Dan Vukovich, Associate Professor and Chair, Comparative Literature, HKU Tuesday, May 9, 2023 4:00-5:30 pm (Hong Kong) on Zoom & F2F Details: bit.ly/CSGC9May2023

To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation Speaker: Annie Pfeifer, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages, Columbia University Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:00 am Hong Kong Time on Zoom Registration details: bit.ly/CSGC11May2023

Genre, History, and Transfer Speaker: Kedar A. Kulkarni, Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, FLAME University, Pune, India Monday, April 24, 2023 1:00 pm Hong Kong Time (10:30 am India) on Zoom. Registration details: bit.ly/CSGC24April2023

From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The Ethnography of a School in Nationalist Taiwan  Speaker: Professor Allen Chun, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:30 pm (Hong Kong Time) on Zoom & F2F Details: bit.ly/CSGC6April2023

Conceptualizing Queer TV China in the Post-2020 Years Speaker: Dr. Jamie J. Zhao, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Date: Monday, April 17, 2023 Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time) on Zoom and F2F Registration details: bit.ly/CSGC17April2023

Intellectuals in Colonial Hong Kong: The Example of the Debate Around Hong Kong’s (and China’s) Future (1979-1984) Professor Sebastian Veg, Centre for Historical Research, EHESS, Paris Monday, March 13, 2023 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time) on Zoom and F2F bit.ly/CSGC13Mar2023