Date: 17 April 2015 (Fri)
Time: 12:00nn – 1:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Language: Putonghua
Speakers:
Prof. Huang Tsung-yi, Michelle (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)
Prof. Lim Song Hwee (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)
Moderator:
Dr. Li Tiecheng (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)
Tsung-yi Michelle HUANGis Professor in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University and currently Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research over the last 10 years has been concerned with identifying, investigating, and creatively revealing newly-emergent urban phenomena that have radically transformed the urban landscape and everyday life in East Asian metropolises through an interdisciplinary approach and critical perspective. Her books include Walking Between Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai, (Hong Kong University Press, 2004) and Articulating New Cultural Identities: Self-Writing of East Asian Global City-regions(2008 – in Chinese).
Song Hwee LIMis Associate Professor of Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching interests encompass many areas of cultural studies, including film studies, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies, as well as questions of transnationalism, time, and space.His publications have mainly focused on transnational Chinese cinemas, including two monographs, Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (2006) and Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014). He is also founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and co-editor of The Chinese Cinema Book (2011) and Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film(2006). He is currently working on a new research project on Taiwan New Cinema and Beyond.
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