Dr. Kathe Geist in conversation with Dr. Woojeong JooDate: Tuesday, February 28, 2023Time: 9:00 am (Hong Kong Time)Venue: On Zoom This seminar presentation of a new book on famed Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu will feature an interactive discussion by the author, Dr. Kathe Geist, and Dr. Woojeong Joo, who has himself written extensively on the … Continue reading Presenting Ozu: A Closer Look, A New Book by Kathe Geist
Before Religion: An Introduction to the Underlying Logic of Islamic Reformism
Speaker:Abolfazl Ahangari, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU Respondent:Arash Davari, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota Date: Friday, February 24, 2023Time: 10:30 am Hong Kong TimeVenue: On Zoom This seminar discusses the history of reformism in Islam and argues that the reform project is aimed at providing an answer … Continue reading Before Religion: An Introduction to the Underlying Logic of Islamic Reformism
The Sentimental Life of International Law: A Conversation
Speaker:Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School, London School of EconomicsCommentators:Marco Wan, Professor and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong KongDaniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong KongDate: Monday, February 20, 2023Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)Venue: … Continue reading The Sentimental Life of International Law: A Conversation
Hamlet at the Himalayan Frontier
Speaker:Dr. Jason E. H. Lee, Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University Moderator:Dr. Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU Date: Monday, February 13, 2023Time: 4:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)Venue: On Zoom This talk situates two cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet across overlapping local, regional and (inter)national imaginaries of Tibet and … Continue reading Hamlet at the Himalayan Frontier
Worlding Eileen Chang and Eileen Chang’s World
世界的張愛玲與張愛玲的世界 Speakers: 何杏楓 教授 Prof. HOYAN Hang Fung Carole & 黃念欣 教授 Prof. WONG Nim Yan Moderator & Discussant: 林姵吟 Dr. LIN Pei-yinDate: February 7, 2023 (Tuesday)Time: 16:30-18:30pmLanguage: PutonghuaVenue: Level 2 Multi-Purpose Area (Ingenium), Main Library, Main Campus, HKU 講題一：「把我包括在外」： 張愛玲作為世界作家Topic #1: “Include Me Out”: Reading Eileen Chang as a World Literature Author 摘要：張愛玲早年曾熱切走向世界，對成為文化中介充滿嚮往，並表示出名要趁早。然而其在晚年卻離群獨居，希望把自己「包括在外」。我們可以如何理解其於中國現代文學的「超經典」地位與其於世界文學版圖的朦朧位置?本講以「世界作家」的概念重探「文化譯介者」張愛玲的個案，以期為張愛玲研究以至華語語系文學研究帶來新方向。 Eileen Chang was enthusiastic to go into the world and to become a cultural mediator in … Continue reading Worlding Eileen Chang and Eileen Chang’s World
Archipelagic Capitalism in Monsoon Marketplace
Speaker:Professor Elmo Gonzaga, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Discussant:Dr. Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU Date: Monday, February 6, 2023Time: 5:00 pm (Hong Kong Time)Venue: On Zoom and F2F Writing about the vernacular emergence of a “cultural imaginary” of modernity in the Asian … Continue reading Archipelagic Capitalism in Monsoon Marketplace
“She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Displacement of Boasian Cultural Integration in Her Novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Speaker:Simon Whitaker, PhD Candidate in the School of English, HKU Respondent:Beth Harper, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU Date: Thursday, February 2, 2023Time: 12:30 pm Hong Kong TimeVenue: On Zoom This presentation compares Franz Boas’s conception of culture as an integrated “whole”, with Zora Neale Hurston’s approach to representing Black life … Continue reading “She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Displacement of Boasian Cultural Integration in Her Novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
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