Date: 16 Jan 2015(Fri)
Venue: Lecture Theatre 4, Esther Lee Building, CUHK
Parallel Texts:
Speakers:
Prof. Stephen CHU (The University of Hong Kong)
Prof. LIEW Kai Khiun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Discussant:
Prof. Anthony FUNG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator:
Prof. WU Kaming (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
All are welcome. First-come, first-served.
Online registration is required by 14 Jan 2015.
Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/eXflcI2bX8
Website: www.cuhk.edu.hk/crs/ccs
About Speakers and Discussant
Stephen CHU received his PhD in Comparative Literature from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. He worked for twenty years in the Department of Chinese and Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the founding Head of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of Hong Kong Baptist University before becoming the Director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme. Prof. Chu has published more than twenty books, including the most recent Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China (2013). He has also published widely in journals of different academic disciplines such as literature, film, popular music, cultural policy, anthropology, sociology and legal studies. His research interests focus on Hong Kong culture, postcolonialism and globalization. A big fan of Cantonese popular songs, he is completing a manuscript on the history of Hong Kong Cantopop. He is also working on a sequel to Lost in Transition, trying to explore the new possibilities of Hong Kong culture.
LIEW Kai Khiun is Assistant Professor in Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He obtained his B.A and M.A. at the National University of Singapore and was awarded his doctorate from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London in 2007. Prior to his graduate training, Kai Khiun worked as a civilian officer at the Ministry of Defense (Singapore) as well as the Singapore International Foundation (an NGO) between 1997 and 2000. Upon completing his doctorate, he served in the National University of Singapore between 2007 and 2009 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cultural Studies Cluster of the Asia Research Institute, and a Visiting Fellow teaching Popular Culture at the Department of Sociology. His research interests includes: Transnational Asian popular Culture, Medical Humanities, Singapore Studies, Heritage and Social Media.
Anthony Y.H. FUNG is Director and Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. His research interests and teaching focus on popular culture and cultural studies, gender and youth identity, cultural industries and policy, and new media studies. He is the subject specialist of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications for the field of Journalism and Communication. He authored and edited more than 10 Chinese and English books. His recent books are Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media Corporations in China (2008), Riding a Melodic Tide: The Development of Cantopop in Hong Kong(2009) (in Chinese), Policies for the Sustainable Development of the Hong Kong Film Industry (2009),Imagining Chinese Communication Studies (2012), Melodic Memories: The Historical Development of Music Industry in Hong Kong (2012) (in Chinese) and Asian Popular Culture: the Global (Dis) continuity(forthcoming).
About “Parallel Texts, Intersecting Conversations” Series
“Parallel Texts, Intersecting Conversations” is an innovative research event organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It employs a new format of inviting two key scholars to engage in conversation with each other via recently published texts on a related topic. It hopes to generate intersecting conversations between speakers and audience, participants and texts, and scholarly traditions in different languages. In the spirit of Hong Kong’s unique linguistic environment, the event will be conducted in a combination of English, Putonghua and Cantonese.