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Schedule of Panel Sessions
Day 1
7 June 2024
Panel One
Panel Two
Registration
9:00 am to 9:15 am
Introduction
9:15 am to 9:30 am
Session 1
9:30 am to 11:00 am
Sites of Convergence I: Hong Kong as a Cultural Hub
Sites of Convergence II: Transformations in Urban Public Space
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.36
Moderator: Nicole HUANG
‘Bilbao Effect 2.0: Franchising Art Museums in the 21st Century’
Anqi LI
‘Studying Cultural Heritage in Hong Kong: an Advertising Discourse Analysis’
Darius R. WONG
‘What’s After? An Exploration of the Sustainability of Community Art Practices in Hong Kong’
Zhuoran LIU
‘Collaborate, Contact, and Compete: The Afong Studio in Hong Kong’
Bing WANG
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.35
Moderator: John CARROLL
‘Disappearance, nostalgia, and Hong Kong’s neon signs’
Ge SONG
‘Convergence Vs. Homogeneity: Exploring Hong Kong’s Identity in Transition’
Xin LIU and Yimu ZHANG
‘Lost in Translation: A Cross-Cultural Biography of Modern Swimming Pool in Shanghai, 1894-1937’
Jimmy Ho Yan NGAI
‘Localization of Coffee and Transformation of Chinese Traditional Thoughts: A Study of Cafés in Shanghai, 1920—1949’
Mansha TANG
Session 2
11:15 am to 12:45 pm
Convergences of Gender, Nation, and War: Remapping Hong Kong Cinema in the Cold War
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.36
Moderator: Kwok-kwan Kenny NG
‘Refuge and Unity: Chen Dieyi’s Alternative War Narratives in 1950s Hong Kong’
Junlin MA
‘The Melodrama of Transnational Affinity, 1958-1972’
Jing PENG
‘“Talents and Beauties” in War: Gender Construction and National Narratives in Sun, Moon, and Star (1961)’
Huiyan ZHANG
‘Chor Yuen’s Martial Arts Films and the Studio Work of Hong Kong Cinema during the 1970s’
Danqi LU
Sites of Convergence III: Memory, Identity and Mobility
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.35
Moderator: Loretta KIM
‘Who am I? Exploring identity formation in 20th century Hong Kong through life writing’
Shan Hei Anna TING
‘Convergent Selves: Propagation and Complicity in Asian-American Memoirs’ Jeremy Ekberg
‘A German-U.S.-East Asian Nexus of the 1930s: Verse-cum-Theatre for Materialist Dialectic’
Inhye HAN
‘Rural Labor Intimacy: Socialist Collaboration in Land Reform Fictions of the 1950s China’
Yuzhe LI
Session 3
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Globalizing Hong Kong: Transnational Movements of People and Ideas, 1950s to 1980s
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.36
Moderator: John D. WONG
‘Globalizing Traditional Chinese Medicine: Medical Companies between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, 1950s to 1980s’
Kelvin CHAN
‘The Melodrama of Transnational Affinity, 1958-1972’
Jing PENG
‘Populist Colonial Statecraft and Regulation of Cross-border Mobility: The Exclusion of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong during the 1970s’
Charles Chi Keung FUNG
‘The Circulation of Chinese Education Knowledge and Teachers in Hong Kong and British Southeast Asia, 1950s to early 1960s’
Doris CHAN
Transnational Movement: Cross-cultural Communication
Run Run Shaw Tower 4.35
Moderator: Sharon Shiao Ying CHU
‘“Translating” Le Petit Prince to Hong Kong: Another potential approach to world literature’
Bilin LIU
‘“An Inspiration to All”: Foreign Letters as the Voice of Hoxhaist Internationalism, 1969–1978’
Qingyun ZHAO
‘A German-U.S.-East Asian Nexus of the 1930s: Verse-cum-Theatre for Materialist Dialectic’
Inhye HAN
‘An arhat Marco Polo: Guangzhou, Venice, and transcultural (re)productions of a history in between’
Tingcong LIN
Session 4
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Keynote talk by Professor Wang Fan-sen
Day 2
8 June 2024