Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Time: 9:00 am to 6:15 pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Face-to-face mode only. All are welcome. Registration is required.
https://bit.ly/CAGS21May

Workshop hosted by the Faculty of Arts, and cosponsored by the Louis Cha Fund and the  Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong

For a brief overview of the Workshop and speaker bios, click here.

Opening Session: Welcome and Introduction (9:10–9:20am)
Prof. David Pomfret, Dean of Arts Faculty, HKU
Prof. Dan Vukovich (胡德), HKU, School of Humanities [organizer]

Panel 1 (9:20–10:25am) Keynote — Chair: Dan Vukovich
Prof. Lu Xinyu (吕新雨), East China Normal University
“Revolution, Worker-Peasant Alliance, and ‘Chinese-style Modernization’: A Global South Perspective”

Panel 2 (10:30–11:45am): Theory/Ideology/Discourse
Prof. Liu Kang (刘 康), Duke University & Visiting Prof., School of Chinese, HKU
“De-territorialization, or Tribalization?—Traveling Theory”
Prof. Zhiguang Yin (殷之光), Fudan University
“Theorizing the Global South: Solidarity of the Oppressed and Diversification of Globalization”
Prof. Dan Vukovich (胡德), HKU, School of Humanities
“Beyond Liberalism and Illiberalism: On the Conjuncture”

Coffee break (11:45–11:50am)

Panel 3 (11:50am–1:10pm) Back to the Future: Traditions & the Contemporary
Prof. Daniel Bell (貝淡寧), HKU, Faculty of Law
“Towards an East Asian Order Inspired by Traditional Culture”
Prof. Wang Pei (汪沛), HKU, School of Chinese
“Filial Piety for Modern China”
Prof. Lili Yang (杨力苈), HKU, Faculty of Education
“Global Ambitions of Chinese Universities: Towards a World-Centred Tianxia System of Higher Education?”

Lunch break (1:10–2:30pm)

Panel 4 (2:30–3:45pm):  Borders, “Ethnics,” Diasporas, Citizens
Prof. Enze Han (韓恩澤), HKU, Department of Politics
“Chinese Migration and Diaspora Politics”
Prof. Zhengxu Wang, (王正绪), Zhejiang University
“Minben Meritocracy: A Take on the Regime Type Question”
Prof. Loretta Kim [金由美], HKU, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
“Evolving Expressions of Ethnic Identity and Regional History: Going Beyond the ‘Nationality’ (minzu 民族) Framework”

Coffee break (3.45-4:00pm)

Panel 5 (4.00 pm-5.15 ) Culture in Globalization: Ways of Seeing, Feeling, & Being
Prof. Alvin K. Wong (黃家軒), HKU, Comparative Literature
“Gendering China and the Anthropocene”
Prof. Geng Song (宋耕), HKU, School of Chinese
“Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity in a Global China”
Prof. Wei Yan Vivien (魏艷), HKU, School of Chinese
“From Radio to Podcast: Toward a New Culture of Sound in Modern China”

Panel 6 (5:20–6:15pm) Roundtable Discussion What difference does the current conjuncture make? What forms could, and should “global studies” take in China, Hong Kong, and for the theoretical or interpretive humanities? Ways forward for the hub and SAR?

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