Prof. Katrien Jacobs was a speaker of AAS-in-ASIA conference “Asia in Motion: Horizons of Hope” at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan from 25 to 27 June 2016. Prof. Jacobs presented a paper entitled “Perversion and Impotence as Resistance in the Chinese Pornosphere” in the panel of “Border Crossing Sexualities in East…
Prof. Chung Peichi has been invited to attend an international symposium on Culture and Communication in Anatolia: Past, Present and Future from 15 to 17 June 2016 at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey. Prof. Chung presented a paper entitled “Regionalisation as Praxis: Multiculturalism and Diversity in Asia’s Cultural Integration” in the…
Dr. Christopher Patterson presented a paper ‘An Erotics of Playing: Using Barthes’ “Texts of Pleasure” to Read Games’ in the panel of “Text(?) Reading(?) Literature(?)” at International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2016 in Hong Kong on 21 May 2016. More information of the conference can be found at http://isea2016.isea-international.org/.
Dr. Christopher Patterson has been invited to speak at Association for Asian American Studies 2016 Conference in Miami, Florida, USA from 28 to 30 April 2016. Dr. Patterson presented a paper entitled : “Defaulting on Sisterhood: Filipina Domestic Workers in the Plural” in the panel of “The Subject(s) of Human…
胡嘉明教授與黃宗儀教授獲邀出席於2016年3月12日假台灣中興大學舉行的文化研究學會年會「跨／界：再訪文化研究的方法與實踐」。胡嘉明教授與黃宗儀教授於「圓桌論壇：跨界的文化研究教學現場：香港案例分享」發言，分享教學經驗；胡教授談「旅遊的教與學：立足本土香港社會」，黃教授論「 空間的文化研究教學：（後）雨傘運動的教學現場觀察」，兩位老師反思在地的文化研究教學方法。關於會議資訊，請瀏覽http://emjccs.wix.com/2016csatw。
Dr. Christopher Patterson has been invited to speak at the 2016 National Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference from 22nd to 25th March 2016 in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Patterson will present a paper entitled “Heroes of the Open World: Killing as Militouristic Pleasure in Ubisoft’s Far Cry Series”…
Dr. Christopher Patterson has been invited by English Society of the University of Hong Kong to give a talk from 12:30nn to 2:00pm on 6 April 2016 at HKU campus. Dr. Patterson will share his research on Filipino Diasporic culture. For details, please visit https://www.facebook.com/HKU.English/ .
Prof. Lim Song Hwee has been invited by the Centre for China Studies to give a talk ‘Desiring Taiwan: “Little Freshness” as Soft Power’ at CUHK on 17 March 2016. Prof. Lim will explore a cultural term, “little freshness” (小清新), that has been coined to describe a variety of cultural…
Prof. Katrien Jacobs has been invited to be a keynote speaker of symposium on “East Asian Popular Culture: Looking Back, Looking Forward” on 12 January 2016 at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Prof. Jacobs will give a keynote speech entitled “Chinese Women’s Pornography and Its Afterglow” at the conference….
Prof. Wong Wai Ching Angela has organized an international forum on “Gender and Religion in China: A Dialogue between Texts and Contexts” on 18-19 December 2015 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The forum explores various issues of gender and religion in China, including but not limited to “State,…