New Directions in Cultural Studies: Public Lecture Series

Day 1: 7 April 2022, Thursday, Hong Kong Time

9:30 – 10:20 am | Relocating Technology, Relocating Archives | Dr. Xuenan Cao

10:30 – 11:20am | Southern Clairaudience: Mapping Sounds of Global Sugar Trade from Taiwan | Dr. Junting Huang

Moderator:
Prof. Ka-ming Wu

11:30am – 12:20pm | Urbanizing Migrant Women: Affective Labour, Entrepreneurship, and Leftover Women in the Shanghai Beauty Parlour Industry | Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip

Moderator:

Prof. Elmo Gonzaga

Day 2: 8 April 2022, Friday, Hong Kong Time

9:30 – 10:20am | Imagining the Computerized Future: Computer Education for Children, Post-Socialist Reforms, and Futural Machines in the PRC, the 1970s-1990s | Bo An

10:30 – 11:20am | Birth Control: A Technology of Capture and Calculation? | Dr. Shoan Yin Cheung

Moderator:
Prof. Jia Tan

11:30am-12:20pm | Microorganisms and Algorithms: Alternative Configurations of Life, From Animated Cyborgs to Genderless Robots | Dr. Mateja Kovacic

Moderator:
Prof. Elmo Gonzaga

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Venue: ZOOM (Online meeting links will be sent upon registration)

Registration:
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13647991

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Speakers’ bios and abstracts:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L8SPDfFK_O-R32BZSvN0AfrUNbN3zTYMN-Ee9YR5zxI/edit?usp=sharing

Conducted in English. All are welcome.

Website: www.cuhk.edu.hk/crs/ccs
Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk

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This event is organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK