EVENT ARCHIVE

Cultural Studies Seminar

 

2006-2007

Schedule for Seminars in Term 1 (06-07)

No.
Date
Speaker
Chair
Commentator
Title
1 16 Oct. 06 Mr. Ip Iam Chong Dr. Chan Shun-hing Dr. Lau Kin-chi
2

23 Oct 06

Ms. Luk Kit Ling
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"Powerless or perilous? Ageing women as an emerging social force in Hong Kong"

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3 13 Nov. 06 Dr. Chan Shun Hing Dr. Leung Yuk-ming, Lisa
Dr. Leung Yuk-ming, Lisa

“ 女性主義與文化研究在香港的交匯﹕以日常生活政治為例 ” “   Interfacing Feminism and Cultural Studies in Hong Kong: A Case of Everyday Life Politics”

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4 27 Nov. 06 Dr. Yau Ching Dr. Law Wing Sang Dr. Law Wing Sang

“ 書寫自我作為文化介入的戰術 ” “Narrating the Selves as a Tactic for Cultural Intervention”

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Seminar 3 <Please click the poster for the details>:

 

 

Seminar 2 <Please click the poster for the details>:

 

Seminar 1 <Please click the poster for the details>:

 

Schedule for Seminars in Term 2 (06-07)

No.
Date
Speaker
Chair
Title
Time
Venue
1
 22 Jan 07
Mr. Cheng Wai-pang
Dr. Chan Shun-hing
Modernity of Construction of Ferminist Discourse in Contemporary Women's Studies in Chinese Mainland (1980-2000)
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
GE 101
2
 12 Feb 07
Mr. Robert Iolini
Prof. Meaghan Morris
 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
GE 101
3
 16 Mar 07
Prof. Dai Jinhua
Prof. Stephen Chan Ching-kiu

The Role of the Intellectuals and the Social Function of Popular Culture in Contemporary China

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 11:00a.m. -12:30 p.m.
GE 321

4
16 April 07
Dr. Nihal Perera (Dept. of Urban Planning, Ball State U., Indiana, USA)
Dr. Hui Po-keung
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
GE 101
5
 14 May 07
Ms. Kimburley Choi
Dr. Li Siu-leung
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
GE 101
6
 4 July 07 Ms Liang Xiao Dao Dr. Li Siu-leung

The Formation of Chinese Mainland Independent Films and Urban Youth Culture Practice since 1990s'

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 3:15p.m.-5:00p.m. GE 101
7
 4 July 07 Ms Chan Wai Yin Dr. Li Siu-leung

The Politics of Tobacco Control in Hong Kong and Its Implications for New Public Health

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 5:00-6:00 p.m. GE 101

 

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2005-2006:

Spectres of Culture [with a capital C]
Dr LAW Wing-sang, Department of Cultural Studies

Chairperson: Prof Meaghan Morris
17:30 - 19:00; 15 May 2006
GE101, 1/F, B.Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University

Abstract:

The fortunes of the word ‘culture’ have been taking a bumpy ride over the past centuries ever since it surged to its prominence. By making itself distinctive from ‘nature’ and ‘reason’, ‘culture’ always carries mission(s) impossible in different local or national contexts exciting intellectual, aesthetic and political energies in various tasks including, most spectacularly, the redemption of human souls from the relentlessly advancing mechanical and materialistic civilization – which, in Weber’s view, has resulted only in the disenchantment of the human world. However, such heroic endeavors are not without their problems. Recent emergence of cultural studies, by stressing ‘the cultural’, is another attempt to redress the problematic notion of ‘culture’. In our pedagogical context, cultural studies is sometimes received as defined by juxtaposing two approaches: one adheres to ‘Culture’ (with a capital C) and another to ‘culture’ (in small letters). A tendency is to augment their differences by implicitly exorcising the former in favor of the latter. The presentation is a reflection upon the usefulness of such a distinction by drawing upon my experiences of encountering as well as teaching ‘culture/cultural studies’ in Hong Kong over the past decades. The discussion will focus on the danger of disenchanting ‘culture’ and, perhaps, the necessity of ‘re-enchanting’ the teaching of cultural studies in the present circumstances.

Bio

Dr. Law Wing-sang is Assistant Professor of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. Having earned his first and second degree in sociology from CUHK, he finished his doctoral work in cultural studies at University of Technology, Sydney in 2002. His research interests range from historical cultural studies of colonialism, comparative social thought, Hong Kong cultural formation to cultural and social theory. His doctoral dissertation Collaborative Colonialism: A Genealogy of Competing Chineseness in Hong Kong is going to be published by Hong Kong University Press next year. He also published articles in journals such as Positions. East Asian Culture Critique, Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. He is also the editor of a number of cultural studies collection and translation works.

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Stepping Outside the Self - Criticism and Change
Dr LAU Kin-chi, Department of Cultural Studies

Chairperson: Prof Meaghan Morris
17:30-19:00; 24th April 2006
GE101, 1/F, B. Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University

Abstract:

The invocation of platitudes as war cries in the pursuit of reform is not simply an exercise in revitalizing old truths. Rather, it often betrays the anxieties of self-preservation in the face of the force of crisis. The buzzing of educational reform in Hong Kong is a case in point. “Life-long learning” and “learning how to learn” are certainly old truths about making the effort to become a better person. However, the force of crisis that reminds us that we have forgotten about them does not necessarily mean that they are old truths about transforming oneself. Rather, they can be a sign of our fear of losing the ground the “self” once occupied, the fear that we are falling behind the times, that our selves are at stake. That is, the experience of the force of crisis in this case does not bring about a fundamental critique of the times that constitute the selves peculiar to it.

Through her involvement in the movement of people’s initiatives in rural reconstruction in China, Dr Lau Kin Chi seeks to raise a more fundamental critique demanded by the force of crisis. Rural reconstruction in the 1920s in China was a response to the crisis China was then facing. It is thus always about the making of a new people for the actualization of autonomy. Notwithstanding the celebration of the so-called success of China’s reform, China continues to be a crisis-ridden country: crisis of the society, crisis of the self, and crisis of the environment. In fact, the three areas are so intertwined in everyday life that it calls for no less a critique than a fundamental critique of our times. As a movement in the making of a new people, the rural reconstruction movement is certainly a pedagogical movement. This presentation will focus on the opening of spaces for such a pedagogical movement through a critique of modern education and development and the modern self peculiar to the times they constitute.

BIO
Dr Lau Kin Chi teaches Cultural Studies in Lingnan University. She has been involved in pedagogical initiatives such as Alternative Asian Regional School on Local Governance, James Yen Rural Reconstruction Institute, 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, and Cultural and Social Studies (Translation Series).
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The Life of A Feminist Cultural Studies Practitioner - A Reflection on Research, Teaching and Community Building in Hong Kong

              Speaker: Dr CHAN Shun-hing
              Chairperson: Prof Meaghan Morris
              17:30; 3 April 2006 (MON)
              GE 101; General Education Building, Lingnan University 

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Dr HUI Po-keung discussed
In Search of a Politics of Hope in the Context of Education Reform - From Cultural Crtiques to Critical Pramatics
Monday, 20 Feb 2006; 17:30 - 19:00; GE321, General Education Building, Lingnan University
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Dr Lisa Leung Yuk-ming discussed
Finning (through buzz word) in the Korean Wave -- (alias) locating the use of (foreign) popular culture in transnational media studies
Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005; 17:30 - 19:00; GE321, General Education Building, Lingnan University
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Dr Helen Grace


  • Dr. Helen Grace discussed
    Humanism and Superhumanism [in Eng]
    Monday, 26th Sept 2005; 17:30-19:00; GE101, 1/F, Genderal Education Building

 

2004-2005

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Dr. Chris Healy discussed:

Cultural Studies in Australia: Some Paradoxes of Institutional Successes and Cultural Deficits [in English]

Online Video

Chair: Prof. Meaghan Morris (Coordinator, KFCRD; Chair Professor, Dept. of Cultural Studies, LU)

4 JAN 2005; 3:30pm-5:00pm; GE322

Abstract

This talk will reflect on some current institutional and disciplinary predicaments for cultural studies in Australia. On the one hand, over the last ten years, cultural studies has gained considerable institutional authority in the Australian higher-education sector. Yet at the same time, cultural studies as a collective project seems fractured, and the capacity and authority of cultural studies to 'speak' on matters of cultural significance seems diminished. This paradox suggests that cultural studies could be thought of as disaggregating, as become different projects with distinctive educational, research and public cultural forms. My aim in discussing these national peculiarities is to explore the transnational relevance of such emerging tendencies.

BIO

Chris Healy is Convenor of the Cultural Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. His books include The Lifeblood of Footscray: working lives at the Angliss Meatworks (1986) and Beasts of Suburbia:? reinterpreting cultures in Australia in Suburbs (1994) and From the Ruins of Colonialism: history as social memory (1997). His current research is concerned with memory at the intersections of cultural studies and cultural history. He is co-editor, with Stephen Muecke, of Cultural Studies Review www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au and a member of the Australian Cultural Research Network.

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