About the Series
The East Asian Media and Creative Industries Webinar Series II is a collaborative effort among four different centers and departments from prestigious universities: the Centre for Film and Creative Industries (CFCI) at Lingnan University, the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Visual Culture Research Center at National Central University, Taiwan. It features a diverse range of topics related to the media and creative industries in East Asia. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from leading scholars in the field, engage in thought-provoking discussions, and network with fellow researchers from around the world.
Speakers
Katherine Hui-ling Chou
Distinguished Professor of English Department, National Central University, and Project Director of the Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, National Central University.
Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu
Stephen Yiu-Wai CHU is Professor of Hong Kong Studies, The University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on postcolonialism, globalization and Hong Kong culture.
Peichi Chung
Peichi Chung is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is interested in various impacts of digital technology on Asian popular culture.
Dongjoon Lee
Dongjoon Lee (PhD., JD., BBA.) is a Korea Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Joshua Neves
Joshua Neves is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Global Emergent Media Lab at Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). His research focuses on global and digital media, cultural and political theory, and questions of development and legitimacy.
Jinhee Park
Jinhee Park is a media scholar who specializes in Korean cinema and visual culture. She received her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California.
Organizing Committee
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Centre for Film and Creative Industries
Lingnan University
Sangjoon Lee
Centre for Film and Creative Industries
Lingnan University
Jinhee Park
Centre for Film and Creative Industries
Lingnan University
Wesley Jacks
Centre for Film and Creative Industries
Lingnan University
Michael Berry
Center for Chinese Studies
The University of California, Los Angeles
Peichi Chung
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wenchi Lin
Visual Culture Research Center
National Central University, Taiwan
Schedule
22 September 2023, 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Reimagining Koreanness in the Age of Netflix: Cultural Nationalism, Neoliberalism, and Hallyu in the Contemporary Korean Society
Dongjoon Lee
While the role of the nation-state is often either ignored or celebrated, both perspectives underestimate the centrality of local dynamics of the global phenomenon. It is important to recognise that global neoliberalism is shaped by local contexts, influenced by social, cultural and historical factors. Abstract
- Moderator: Jinhee Park
17 November 2023, 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Data Society, Digital Labor and the Data Analytics Industry in Hong Kong
Peichi Chung
This paper examines the changing industry network in the emerging new media field of data analytics. The paper looks into the dimension of human-machine integration to examine new data-driven working environments in the global esports entertainment industry. Focusing on the idea of “player-led innovation”, the paper characterizes new developments in automated media to present today’s digital labor conditions. Abstract
- Moderator: Wesley Jacks Register Now
26 January 2024, 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Main Melody Films: Hong Kong Directors in Mainland China
Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu
While the need for Chinese culture to acquire soft power was escalated in the new millennium, main melody films, which were largely propaganda works that pay tribute to the nation, the party and the army, were "blockbusterized" and became the main genre of Chinese cinema. Its rapid growth is arguably one of the most important phenomena of Chinese film industry in the 2010s. As an increasing number of Hong Kong directors are commissioned to direct these main melody blockbusters, this webinar examines their contributions to this genre, which may also shed light on the development of cross-border cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong film industries. Abstract
- Moderator: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
23 February 2024, 11:00 - 11:50 AM
The Data Pharmacy: Notes on Smartness, Mood Conditioning, and Contemporary Self-Making
Joshua Neves
TBC
- Moderator: Michael Berry
22 March 2024, 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Digital Media by North Korean Defectors in South Korea
Jinhee Park
TBC
- Moderator: Peichi Chung
26 April 2024, 2:30 - 3:20 PM
Liveness Redefined: The Digital Turn of the Post Pandemic Theatre Practice & Theory
Katherine Hui-ling Chou
TBC
- Moderator: Wenchi Lin
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Centre for Film and Creative Industries (CFCI)
- Lingnan University, Hong Kong
- CFCI@ln.edu.hk
- ln.edu.hk/CFCI
- (852) 2616-7459
Center for Chinese Studies
- The University of California
- china@international.ucla.edu
- international.ucla.edu/china
- (310) 825-8683
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- cresdept@cuhk.edu.hk
- crs.cuhk.edu.hk
- (852) 3943-1269
Visual Culture Research Center
- National Central University, Taiwan
- ncuvisual@gmail.com
- ncuvisual.ncu.edu.hk
- (+886)3-4227151 ext. 33209
@ Centre for Film and Creative Industries, Lingnan University 2023