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,…
Prof. Lim Song Hwee and Prof. Pang Laikwan have been invited to speak on a conference on “Digital Culture in Contemporary China, Taiwan and Hong Kong” on 17-19 December 2015 at University of Oxford. Prof. Lim will present a paper entitled “Can Poetics Break Bricks?” and Prof. Pang will present…
Prof. Wong Wai Ching Angela has been invited to speak at a conference on “Chinese Muslim (Hui) in Diaspora: Culture, Gender, Identity, and Religious Traditions” on 3-4 December 2015. Prof. Wong Wai Ching Angela and Dr. Zhou Shuyan will present a paper entitled “Nomads between Religion and Culture: Re-Invention of…
Prof. Ka-ming Wu was invited to attend annual meeting of American Anthropological Association in Denver, Colorado, USA from 18 to 22 November 2015. Prof. Wu has presented a paper entitled “Picking New Urbanity from Recyclable Waste in Beijing, China” in the session of “Living Through Waste and Waste as Lively:…
Prof. Katrien Jacobs has been invited to be a keynote speaker at III European Geographies of Sexualities Conference with theme of “Crossing Boundaries: Sexualities, Media and (Urban) Spaces” from 16 to 18 September 2015 at Sapienza University in Rome. Prof. Jacobs gave a keynote speech entitled “from Square the Square: Sex…
CALL FOR PAPER Masterclass on East Asian Cinemas 27-28 November 2015 Organized by Centre for Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong In order to nurture young scholars and explore future research directions in the field of East Asian Cinemas studies, the Centre for Cultural Studies will organize…
Prof. Lim Song hwee has been invited to attend an International Conference on New Angles on Chinese Film History from 13 August to 15 August 2015. As the editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Prof. Lim has served as a moderator of roundtable discussion on “The State and Stakes of…
Prof. Chung Peichi will attend the Annual Meeting of International Association for Media and Communication Research at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Montreal, Canada on 12-16 July 2015. Prof. Chung has presented a paper entitled “Theorising New Media and Cultural Regionalisation in Asia on a panel of…
Prof. Ho Hing Kay Oscar has been invited to be a speaker of Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange at the Mori Art Centre, Tokyo on 26-27 June 2015. Prof. Ho has presented a paper entitled “Deity, Pop and Umbrella Movement” which explores the cultural dimension of creative expression at the umbrella…
Prof. Chung Peichi has been invited to be a keynote speaker of the Second Annual Conference of Chinese Digital Game Research Association on 11-12 July 2015 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Prof. Chung has given the keynote speech entitled “Mapping Game Studies in Asia: Trajectory toward the Sustainable Chinese Game Industry”….