Date: 16 September 2025 (Tue)
Time: 6:45-8:30 pm
Venue: Chen Kuo Ban Building (CKB) 123
The talk will be conducted in English.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=3646330
Drawing on her new book Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore (MIT Press, 2024) and ongoing research, Jamie Wang examines the multifaceted and contested stories of urban imaginaries and environmental issues. In this lecture, Wang looks at how diverse biotic and abiotic elements such as urban greenery and infrastructures are shaped by, and in turn themselves shaping of, the urban, nation and its economy and politics. What kinds of sustainable futures are we calling forth, and at what and whose expense?
As the lecture highlights the disconnection and illogic of some taken-for-granted urban sustainability solutions, it asks what it might mean to reconfigure contemporary practices and ethics toward more multiplicitous ways of living in an increasingly urbanized environment.
Ultimately, Wang argues urban imaginings must create space for a more relational understanding of urban environments, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.
Speaker’s bio
Jamie Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is an urban environmental humanities scholar and cultural theorist. Jamie is author of Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore.
Moderator:
Prof. Elmo GONZAGA (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Organized by the MA in Intercultural Studies Programme, CUHK
Enquiry: helenachung@cuhk.edu.hk