Contacts, Collisions, Conjunctions

International Conference: Contacts, Collisions, Conjunctions: May 9-10, 2018, HKU

The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong invites you to their Inaugural Annual Conference: Contacts, Collisions, Conjunctions, to be held on May 9-10, 2018. We are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers: Joseph Auner (Tufts University), Rey Chow (Duke University), François Cusset (University of Nanterre) andLeela Gandhi (Brown University)​.

Please join us in Room 4.36, Faculty of Arts, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU. All are  welcome.

Please register using the following link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=55707

Conference program (https://sofhku.com/2018/04/13/annual-conference-program-contacts-collisions-conjunctions-may-9-10/):

Wednesday May 9

8:30 am ​Registration and Coffee

9:00 am ​Welcome: ​Derek Collins, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong

9:15 am ​Keynote: ​Leela Gandhi (Brown University):
Utonal Life: Postcolonial Thought and the Ethics of Relationality

10:30 Break

10:45 am ​Panel 1 (Chair: Yu Zhang, The University of Hong Kong)

Haruka Nomura (Centre of Chinese Studies in Taiwan)
“Global Awareness in an Age of Empire: The Shenbao and a Crisis at the Suez Canal, 1872-85”

Selda Altan (Swarthmore College)
“The Yunnan-Indochina Railway and Nation-Building Across the China-Vietnam Borders, 1898-1910”

Emily MacGregor (Harvard University)
“A Train Ride through Kurt Weill’s American Imaginary: Technological Spectacle, Nation Building, and Émigré Experience at the 1939-40 World’s Fair”

12:15 pm​ Lunchtime

2:00 pm ​Panel 2 (Chair: Nathanel Amar, The University of Hong Kong)

Yeon-Kyoung Lim (City University of Hong Kong)
“Reinventing Feminist and Queer Intimacies: The Movement of the Self-Publishing Collective in South Korea”

Gina Marchetti (The University of Hong Kong)
“Intersectional Activism and Sexual Citizenship in the HKSAR: Evans Chan’s Raise the Umbrellas (2016)”

Chenying Pi (Heidelberg University)
“Pop-up Feminisms: Social Media, Transnationalism, and Grassroot Activism in Shanghai”

3:30 pm ​Coffee Break

4:00 pm ​Keynote:​ ​​François Cusset (Nanterre University):
Globalized Violence: Collisions, Reverberations, and ​​​​Contemporary Disseminations

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Thursday May 10

8:30 am​ Coffee

9:00 amKeynote: ​Rey Chow (Duke University):
Foucault, Race, and Racism

10:30 amPanel 3 (Chair: John Gabriel, The University of Hong Kong)

Kenneth Kai-chung Yung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
“Reshaping Cold War Currents in a Chinese Context: A Study on the Chinese Émigré Intellectuals in Hong Kong in the 1950s”

Sara Pugach (California State University, Los Angeles)
“Crossing Boundaries, Changing Lives: African Student Travels to the Soviet Bloc in the 1960s”

Yejun (Erica) Zou (King’s College London and the Humboldt University of Berlin)
“Women’s Liberation in Collision: Comparative Literary Analysis of Ding Ling and Christa Wolf ”

12:00 pm ​Lunchtime

2:00 pm Panel 4 (Chair: Robert Kramm, The University of Hong Kong)

Joshua Lok (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
“Of Contacts, Collisions and Conjunctions: An Aesthetic Study of Food and Colonialism”

Helga Müllneritsch (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
“Uncovering Chocolate: Manuscript Studies Collide with Conventional Wisdom”

Jason Petrulis (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona and The University of Hong Kong)
“From Temple Tonsure to Women’s Wig: Selling Racialized Indian Hair in the 1960s-70s”

3:30 pm ​Coffee Break

3:45 pmPanel 5 (Chair: Harriet Hulme, The University of Hong Kong)

Yang Hua (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
“Dream of the Red Capital: Qu Qiubai and the Promise of Left-Wing Melancholia in Modern China”

Marina Kaneti (Grand Valley State University)
“Silk Road Memories and Visions for the Future”

Ahmed Gamal (Ain Shams University)
“Retranslating Sufism in Leila Aboulela and Elif Shafak”

5:30 pm Keynote:​Joseph Auner (Tufts University):
Post/Human/Feedback

6:45 pm ​Closing Reception (Faculty Lounge)

Free registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=55707

Posted by: Nathanel Amar <namar@hku.hk>

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