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…
文化研究學部博士生高俊傑為《明報》撰文〈中國的香港 香港的中國 大時代裏兩地的文學史書寫〉，報導2016年1月15日舉行的「重寫文學史」座談會，從重寫文學史談開去，談到文學與當下這個時代的關係，也談到中國與香港之間的關係。詳情請瀏覽http://news.mingpao.com/pns/dailynews/web_tc/article/20160219/s00018/1455816709639。
Prof. Lim Song Hwee has been invited to act as a member of the steering committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)-funded International Research Network on “Soft Power, Cinema and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). The network will investigate the relationship between non-state actors in…
The Centre for Cultural Studies is pleased to welcome a new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Christopher Patterson. Dr. Patterson’s research and teaching spans the breadth of cultural studies, including Asian diasporic literatures, Postcolonial and diaspora studies, digital humanities, queer and gender studies, critical theory, and video games. To date, his publications…
Call for Abstracts Deadline: 31st January 2016 (Conference) BEYOND THE BIG NINE – RETHINKING THE FUTURE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN HONG KONG Organized by MA in Cultural Management Programme, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong; In Collaboration with Centre for 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. Ho Hing Kay Oscar and Prof. Lim Kok Wai Benny have been invited to speak in an arts management form and masterclass series on “In Between Arts” on 19-20 December at Renmin University of China. Prof. Ho Hing Kay Oscar will present a paper entitled “Art Path & Social…
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,…