Faculty Research Seminar
Term 2, 2023-24
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| 5 April 2024 | Topic 1: Imagery as Method: The Rhetoric of Intellectual Practice as Embodied Labor in Early China Speaker: Profesor GU Yixin (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: The Evolution of Virtual Reality in K-pop AI Idols Speaker: Professor PARK Jinhee (Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Moderator: Professor Andrew John SEWELL (Associate Professor, Department of English)
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Term 1, 2023-24
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| 9 Oct 2023 | Topic 1 : Hybridizing Nationalism and Entertainment in an Unanticipated Fashion: A Longitudinal Study of Hong Kong’s Film Production in China since the 2010s. Speaker: Professor Victor SHIN (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Topic 2: Eileen Chang as “Global Modernist” and the Politics of World Literature Speaker: Professor Julia CHAN (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Moderator: Professor Lisa LEUNG (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Stduies)
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Term 2, 2022-23
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| 26 April 2023 | Topic 1: Surrealism as World Literature in Colonial Taiwan Speaker: Professor CHEN Fangdai (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: Disorders of Self-Experience Speaker: Professor Adam BRADLEY (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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| 1 March 2023 | Topic 1: Chelsia, Jackie, A Better Tomorrow, and the Hong Kong Syndrome in South Korea Speaker: Profesor LEE Sangjoon (Associate Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Topic 2: Global China Meets Digital Africa: Technology Translation as a Framework Speaker: Professor LU Miao (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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Term 1, 2022-23
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| 29 Nov 2022 | Topic 1 : Is Epistocracy Irrational? Speaker: Professor Adam GIBBONS (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Translation and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence Speaker: Professor Florin-Stefan MORAR (Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor Darrell ROWBOTTOM (Professor, Department of Philosophy)
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| 3 Oct 2022 | Topic 1 : Spatialization of Hong Kong Women’s Life Stories of Domesticity and Disjunctive Modern Hong Kong Womanhood Speaker: Professor CHOI Wing Yee Kimburley (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Topic 2: Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China Speaker: Professor WANG Yuanfei (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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Term 2, 2021-22
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| 11 Apr 2022 | Topic 1 : The Contributions of Nongovernmental Agencies to Squatter Resettlement in Hong Kong Speaker: Professor TSUI Chung Man Carmen (Associate Professor, Department of History)
Topic 2: Transadvertising of Western Pharmaceutical Products in The Chinese Mail (1895–1910) Speaker: Professor LI Bo (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 7 March 2022 | Topic 1 : Rejecting Dirty Hands: Wang Fuzhi’s Commentary on History Speaker: Professor CHAN Wing Ching Elton (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization Speaker: Professor Peter HAMILTON (Assistant Professor, Department of History)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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Term 1, 2021-22
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| 30 Nov 2021 | Topic 1 : A Portrait of Pain: Cold War Prosthetic Memory and Family Histories Speaker: Professor TAN Li Wen Jessica (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: To Serve and Protect: Sino-French Film Industry Connections from 1978-1993 Speaker: Professor JACKS Wesley (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 5 Oct 2021 | Topic 1 : Transparency and the Foundations of Two-Component Semantics Speaker: Professor HAWKE Peter (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in 20th Century Literature Speaker: Professor STEVIC Aleksandar (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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