The 2019 “Backreading Hong Kong” symposium, co-run by the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University and the literary journal Cha, will take place on Saturday 19 January 2019. The theme of the symposium is “Hong Kong Dystopia” {Facebook registration}
Venue: HKBU Phonology Lab,
OEM 708, OEN Hall Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus
- 10:00 – 10:15 Tammy Lai-Ming HO and Chris SONG
Opening Remarks - 10:15 – 10:45 Danny Weng-kit CHAN {abstract & bio}
Mapping Dystopian Hong Kong: Border and Horror in Port of Call (2015) - 10:45 – 11:15 Emily Shun Man CHOW {abstract & bio}
“A People is Missing”: Dystopia in Lost on a Red Mini-Bus to Tai Po (2013) -
11:15 – 11:45 GUO Ting {abstract & bio}
Capitalist Dystopia and Everyday Sacralisation in Hong Kong: Occupy Movement, Religions, and the Making of Identity - 11:45 – 12:15 Edmund CHENG {abstract & bio}
Loyalist, Dissenter, and Cosmopolite: The Cultural Origins of a Counter Public Sphere in Colonial Hong Kong
(for speakers of the symposium)
12:30 – 1:45
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2:00 – 2:30 Mariko NAGAI {abstract & bio}
Utopia Hong Kong: Japanese Prostitutes at the Edge of the Empire - 2:30 – 3:00 Eddie TAY {abstract & bio}
Reading Back Utopia—A Practice - 3:00 – 3:30 Lian-Hee WEE {abstract & bio}
Hong Kong as a D[y]s-communicative Utopia
3:30 – 4:00
- 4:00 – 4:30 Lucas KLEIN {abstract & bio}
Rednaxela Terrace: Hong Kong as Topos of Translation - 4:30 – 5:00 Michael O’SULLIVAN {abstract & bio}
Beyond Dystopia: Losing Control of our Narrative
5:00 – 6:30
Chair: Jason Y. NG
Speakers: Kris CHENG, Marshall MOORE,
Gordon POON and Elizabeth SOLOMON
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Jason S Polley, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Chris Song
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