Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Diaspora and Adaptation
Date: November 18, 2024 (Monday) – November 19, 2024 (Tuesday)
Venue: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto
Address: 8th Floor, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, 130 St George St., Toronto
The symposium is open to the public. Please email chk.library@utoronto.ca to register.
Keynote
Graduate students colloquium
diaspora and the arts
Identify and diaspora
Film adaptation
diaspora in and out
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Diaspora and Adaptation
Date: November 18, 2024 (Monday) – November 19, 2024 (Tuesday)
Venue: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto
Address: 8th Floor, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, 130 St George St., Toronto
The symposium is open to the public. Please email chk.library@utoronto.ca to register.
November 18, 2024 (Monday)
10:20–10:30
Welcoming Address
▞ Maria Lau (Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto)
▞ Chris Song (University of Toronto)
10:30–12:00 | Keynote
Moderator: Chris Song (University of Toronto)
Hong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographies
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal)
12:15 | Lunch
2:00–3:00 | Diaspora and the Arts
Moderator: Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)
▞ Tiffany Sia’s Wet Ontology: Of Dampness, Tears, and Liquidity
Abel Song Han (Cornell University)
▞ Dragon Boys and the Tail of “Hongcouver”: Tracing Hong Kong-Canada Migration, Community Connection and Cultural Co-production
Winnie Yanjing Wu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
3:30–5:30 | Graduate Students Colloquium
3:30–4:30 | First Half
Discussion: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University)
▞ Protean Temporality in a Hong Kong Science Fiction Adaptation: From Ni Kuang’s 1000 Years Cat to Massified Slime Peril
Tif Fan (University of Toronto)
▞ The Complexities of Adaptation: A Study on Christ of Nanjing
Allison Feng (University of Toronto)
▞ Celluloid Spectres in Rouge: Adapting Cinematic Haunting, from Lilian Lee’s Phantom Stardom to Stanley Kwan’s Theatrical Ghosts
Wenying Wu (University of Toronto)
4:30–5:30 | Second Half
Discussion: Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)
▞ Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon: Historical Texts, Transcultural Games Content and Exotic Spaces
Guanxi Wu (University of Toronto)
▞ Identity, Technology, Imagination:Revisiting Tsui Hark’s Multigenre Animated film, A Chinese Ghost Story
Tingying Li (University of Toronto)
▞ The Ashes of Jianghu: Reimagining Jin Yong’s Legend of the Condor Heroes in Wong Kar-Wai’s The Ashes of Time
Samuel Minden (University of Toronto)
November 19, 2024 (Tuesday)
10:00–12:00 | IDENTITY AND DIASPORA
Moderator: Mitchell Ma (University of Toronto)
▞ Cultural Retention and Identity Negotiation through Systematic Cantonese Language Education in the Diasporas
Zoe Lam and Raymond Pai (University of British Columbia)
▞ Here / There and No-where: Three Cases of Identity Disjuncture
Ellie Au (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Rick Sin (York University), and Miu Chung Yan (University of British Columbia)
▞ Estrangement, Resettlement & Community: A Qualitative Study of Post-2019 HK Young Adults Diaspora at a Chinese Canadian Church
Christie Chan (Independent scholar)
▞ From Democracy Wall to Lennon Wall: A Global Symbol of Resistance in the Hong Kong Diaspora
Derek Liu (Toronto Metropolitan University)
12:15 | LUNCH
2:00–3:30 | FILM ADAPTATION
Moderator: Bernice Cheung (University of Toronto)
▞ Hear What We Saw, Feel What We Sing: Lyrical Explorations of Hong Kong Cinema in The State and Denki 皇都電姬
Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)
▞ Illicit Love and Spaces of Adaptation in Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love
Chak-kwan Ng (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
▞ The Precarious Diaspora: From Song of the Exile to Fly Me to the Moon
Zou Hong (University of Hong Kong)
4:00–5:30 | DIASPORA IN AND OUT
Moderator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University)
▞ Nativity Without Nativism: Towards a Discourse on Hong Kong’s Imagined Indigeneity (1980s-2010s)
Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)
▞ Being Otherwise: Diasporic Figurations of Hong Kong in Xu Xi’s This Fish is Fowl
Christopher N. Payne (University of Toronto)
▞ Joy is Here: Romancing the “New” Overseas Filipino Worker in Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019)
Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
6:30 | CONFERENCE DINNER
acknowledgement
The symposium is supported by the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Hong Kong-Canada Connections.
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