Global Storytelling
28 – 30 January 2020 Hong Kong Baptist University
CVA1022 Communication & Visual Arts Building
HKBU 5 Hereford Road
Kowloon Tong HK
The symposium explores the affect and effect of storytelling across regional borders, platforms, and genres including narrative features and documentaries, serial and series dramas on network TV, Netflix, & HBO, narratives on podcast and radio programs, long narrative video journalism and short format video/personal essays on Youtube, and other online platforms. The symposium serves as a platform for the launch a new academic journal: Global Storytelling: Journal of Film and Moving Image. Housed in the School of Communication at the Hong Kong Baptist University with Professor Ying Zhu serving as the founding editor, the journal will be published by the University of Michigan Press.
Symposium Chair
Professor Ying Zhu
Director, Centre for Film and Moving Image Research Academy of Film School of Communication HKBU Professor of Media Culture, the City University of New York
Symposium Organizing Committee at the Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Timmy Chen
Dr. Dorothy Lau
Dr. Kenny Ng
January 28
Opening Remarks: Professor Yu Huang, Dean of School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University
Panel 1 (9:30am -12:00pm) STORYTELLING, SERIALITY AND TRANSMEDIA
Martha Bayles (columnist for The American Interest and film and TV critic for the Claremont Review of Books)
John Connor (Associate Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, USC)
Mary Ann Doane (Professor of Film & Media, University of California-Berkeley)
Sean O’Sullivan (Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University)
Greg Steirer (Assistant Professor of English & Film & Media Studies, Dickenson College)
Chaired by Eva Man (Director, Academy of Film, School of Communication, HKBU)
Lunch Break 12noon – 2pm
Panel 2 (2pm – 5pm) STORYTELLING AND THE POLITICS OF NON- FICTION
Peter Hitchcock (Professor of English and Film, CUNY Baruch College and the Graduate Center)
Alexandra Juhasz Chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Reece Peck ((Assistant Professor, Department of Media Culture College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Paola Voci (Associate Professor, Head of Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago)
Zhang Yingjin (Distinguished Professor, Chair, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego)
Chaired by Edith Terry (Managing Director, Cotton Tree Advisors)
January 29
Panel 3 (9am -11:30pm) NATION BUILDING AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF STORYTELLING
Richard Allen (Chair-Professor, Film and New Media, Dean, School of Creative Media, City University of HK)
Lisa Dombrowski (Associate Professor, College of Film and the Moving Image, Wesleyan University)
Jonathan Haynes (Professor of English, Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York)
Stanley Rosen (Professor of Political Science at University of Southern California)
Michael Walsh (Associate Professor of Cinema Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Hartford)
Chaired by Robert Kapp (President, Robert A. Kapp & Associates Inc.)
Lunch Break 11:30 – 1pm
Panel 4 (1pm – 5pm) STORYTELLING AND THE ARCHIVES, FESTIVALS,MUSEUMS AND CRITICAL APPRAISALS
Caroline Frick (Associate Professor, Radio-TV-Film, University of Taxes-Austin ) Susan Jakes (Editor, ChinaFile, The Asia Society, New York)
Gina Marchetti (Professor, School of Humanities, Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong)
Marije Meerman (Documentary Film Maker, the Netherlands) Richard Peña (Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University)
Chaired by Sam Ho (Curator, Researcher, Teacher, Writer and Critic)
7pm: screening and discussion of Infernal Affairs in 35mm at Tai Kwun’s JC Cube: “An Undercover Cop Story Goes Global: From Infernal Affairs to The Departed”
January 30
Panel 5 (9-11:30am): STORYTELLING, MEMORY AND AFFECT
Peggy Chiao (Taiwan-based filmmaker producer, distributor, educator, juror, critic and author)
Max Howard (created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles)
Carl Plantinga (Professor of film and media, Calvin College)
Andrea Riemenschnitter (Professor and Chair of Modern China Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich)
Louisa Wei (Associate Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
Chaired by Mette Hjort (Chair Professor of Humanities, Dean of Arts, HKBU)
Lunch Break 11:30 – 1pm
ROUNDTABLE: STORYTELLING AND HONG KONG DEMONSTEATION (1-3pm)
EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING (3-5pm)
Official Dinner
SPEAKERS’ BIOS and ABSTRACTS will be posted online.