Workshop on Materiality and Materialism
Ideas related to materiality and materialism have attracted a lot of academic attentions in recent years across disciplines, largely due to the surging ecological concerns across disciplines, as well as the vitality and resilience of the material in taking part in human history. There are also renewed interests in dialectic materialism, particularly under the gradual impoverishment of neoliberalism and globalization, and the general failure of the state in answering people’s want. This workshop invites local and international scholars to share their recent research related to the “material” in the full richness of the term, with the aim of exploring how our understanding of and engagement with the world might be benefited by a “material/materialist” point of view.
Date and Time:
7 May 2021 and 8 May 2021, 7-10pm (Hong Kong Time) |
8-11pm (Korean Standard Time, Japan Standard Time) |
12-3pm (British Summer Time) |
7-10am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Venue: Online (ZOOM)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=12794252
Conducted in English. All are welcome.
Please register by 5 May 2021
Website: www.cuhk.edu.hk/crs/ccs
Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk
Convener: PANG Laikwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organizer: The Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Programme Schedule
Day 1
7 May 2021
7-10pm (Hong Kong Time) |
8-11pm (Korean Standard Time, Japan Standard Time) |
12-3pm (British Summer Time) |
7-10am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Panel 1: Commodity Chain and Infrastructure in Contemporary Capitalism* 7-8pm (HKT)
Ecological uncertainty and the politics of modeling: A ludic perspective
Rolien HOYNG
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The World of Commodities and East Asian Labour: Transnational Labour Regimes and Uneven Development in East Asia
Dae-oup CHANG
Sogang University, Seoul
Panel 2: Environmental Media and Culture* 8-9pm (HKT)
Drinking Tea: A Materialist Performance of Single-use Plastic
Ka-ming WU
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Materializing the Filmic Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Fantasy Cinema
Jia TAN
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Panel 3: Chinese Materialist Culture and Subjectivity Formation* 9-10pm (HKT)
The Trouble with Naming: From the Middle-Class Culture to New Petty-Bourgeois Sensibility
Calvin HUI
College of William and Mary
Modern Chinese intellectuals and the problem of “Long”
LI Siyi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Day 2
8 May 2021
7-10pm (Hong Kong Time) |
8-11pm (Korean Standard Time, Japan Standard Time) |
12-3pm (British Summer Time) |
7-10am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Panel 4: Materialism and the Body * 7-8pm (HKT)
Asia’s Corporeal Materialism? How Body Matters to Maoism and Gandhism
Kwai-Cheung LO
Hong Kong Baptist University
Scientism in a New Bottle?New Materialism in the Age of Performance Metrics, Algorithms and Surveillance
Wai Kit CHOI
California State University, Los Angeles
Panel 5: Japanese Theorization of Non-Western Experiences* 8-9pm (HKT)
Rethinking Materialism and Asia: Miki Kiyoshi (1897-1945) and Hiromatsu Wataru (1933-1994)
Viren MURTHY
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Materialist Theory of Politics: Reexamination of Japanese Debates in the Mid-20th century
Nobutaka OTOBE
Osaka University
Panel 6: Materialist Aesthetics in the Chinese Context* 9-10pm (HKT)
Cruel Gazing: Migrant Workers and Avant-Garde Performance Art in China
Margaret HILLENBRAND
University of Oxford
Is Dialectic Materialism Method or Truth? The Great Aesthetic Debates (1956-1962) in the PRC
PANG Laikwan
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
*Each session lasts for 60 minutes, including Q&A.
Abstracts:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hae3dbb7lwefueh-JS2lyC2MOHL7Vzyw/view?usp=sharing