Faculty Research Seminar Series
Term 2, 2025-26
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| 1 Apr 2026 | Topic 1: Readers’ Letters, Film Puzzles, and Caricatures: Rediscovering Cinephilia in Post-Mao Print Culture Speaker: Professor HOU Yiyang (Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Topic 2: Creativity in an Age of Intelligent Machines: What literature does better than AI Speaker: Professor Jason HARDING (Professor and Head of the Department of English)
Moderator: Professor WANG Binhua (Professor, Department of Translation; Head of the Centre for English and Additional Languages)
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Term 1, 2025-26
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| 12 Nov 2025 | Topic 1: Texts as Technologies: Cognitive and Stylistic Insights from Tang Poetry to the Modern Novel Speaker: Professor KURZYNSKI Maciej (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: How Effective is ChatGPT in Providing Translation Feedback? Speaker: Professor SU Yanfang (Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor Jason HARDING (Professor, Department of English)
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Term 2, 2024-25
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| 9 Apr 2025 | Topic 1: Between “Self-Expression and Social Conformity”: Multimodal Writing in Mental Health Art Speaker: Professor HUANG Fanglei Corey (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Topic 2: Collaborative Feminist English Translation of Chinese Anthropomorphic Animal Novels Speaker: Professor CHEN Xuemei (Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor ZHOU Feifei (Associate Professor, Department of English)
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| 18 Oct 2024 | Topic 1: Romantic networks and sexual content in Chinese boys' love webnovels, 2003-2023: Advancing the debate on danmei popular culture and feminism Speaker: Professor Matthew CHEW (Associate Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Topic 2: Push-Car Railways, Camphor, and Coal in The Imperial Hinterland: Environment and Capitalism in Colonial Taiwan 1895-1930 Speaker: Professor LI Youjia (Assistant Professor, Department of History)
Moderator: Professor WANG Yuanfei (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 5 April 2024 | Topic 1: Imagery as Method: The Rhetoric of Intellectual Practice as Embodied Labor in Early China Speaker: Professor GU Yixin (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: The Evolution of Virtual Reality in K-pop AI Idols Speaker: Professor PARK Jinhee (Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Moderator: Professor Andrew John SEWELL (Associate Professor, Department of English)
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| 9 Oct 2023 | Topic 1 : Hybridizing Nationalism and Entertainment in an Unanticipated Fashion: A Longitudinal Study of Hong Kong’s Film Production in China since the 2010s. Speaker: Professor Victor SHIN (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Topic 2: Eileen Chang as “Global Modernist” and the Politics of World Literature Speaker: Professor Julia CHAN (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Moderator: Professor Lisa LEUNG (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Stduies)
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| 26 April 2023 | Topic 1: Surrealism as World Literature in Colonial Taiwan Speaker: Professor CHEN Fangdai (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: Disorders of Self-Experience Speaker: Professor Adam BRADLEY (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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| 1 March 2023 | Topic 1: Chelsia, Jackie, A Better Tomorrow, and the Hong Kong Syndrome in South Korea Speaker: Profesor LEE Sangjoon (Associate Professor, Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries)
Topic 2: Global China Meets Digital Africa: Technology Translation as a Framework Speaker: Professor LU Miao (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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| 29 Nov 2022 | Topic 1 : Is Epistocracy Irrational? Speaker: Professor Adam GIBBONS (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Translation and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence Speaker: Professor Florin-Stefan MORAR (Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor Darrell ROWBOTTOM (Professor, Department of Philosophy)
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| 3 Oct 2022 | Topic 1 : Spatialization of Hong Kong Women’s Life Stories of Domesticity and Disjunctive Modern Hong Kong Womanhood Speaker: Professor CHOI Wing Yee Kimburley (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Topic 2: Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China Speaker: Professor WANG Yuanfei (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
Moderator: Professor Isaac HUI (Associate Professor, Department of Translation)
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| 11 Apr 2022 | Topic 1 : The Contributions of Nongovernmental Agencies to Squatter Resettlement in Hong Kong Speaker: Professor TSUI Chung Man Carmen (Associate Professor, Department of History)
Topic 2: Transadvertising of Western Pharmaceutical Products in The Chinese Mail (1895–1910) Speaker: Professor LI Bo (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Translation)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 7 March 2022 | Topic 1 : Rejecting Dirty Hands: Wang Fuzhi’s Commentary on History Speaker: Professor CHAN Wing Ching Elton (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization Speaker: Professor Peter HAMILTON (Assistant Professor, Department of History)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 30 Nov 2021 | Topic 1 : A Portrait of Pain: Cold War Prosthetic Memory and Family Histories Speaker: Professor TAN Li Wen Jessica (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese)
Topic 2: To Serve and Protect: Sino-French Film Industry Connections from 1978-1993 Speaker: Professor JACKS Wesley (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 5 Oct 2021 | Topic 1 : Transparency and the Foundations of Two-Component Semantics Speaker: Professor HAWKE Peter (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy)
Topic 2: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in 20th Century Literature Speaker: Professor STEVIC Aleksandar (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Moderator: Professor GONG Haomin (Associate Professor, Department of Chinese)
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| 1 Mar 2021 | Topic 1 : Marilynne Robinson's Waterlines Speaker: Professor KIRA Rose (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Topic 2: Robert Rauschenberg and the Politics of Appropriation: Revisiting ROCI Beijing in 1985 Speaker: Professor Yu-chieh LI (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)
Moderator: Professor DU Chunmei (Associate Professor, Department of History)
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| 26 Apr 2021 | Topic 1 : No Gain Without Pain? Discursive Representation of Foreign Domestic Helpers in Online Discourse Speaker: Professor Janet Ho (Assistant Professor, Department of English)
Topic 2: Narratives of Truth: Painting the Past in post-Tridentine Rome Speaker: Professor Alessandra DI CROCE (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)
Moderator: Professor DU Chunmei (Associate Professor, Department of History)
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| 28 Sep 2020 | Topic 1 : Everyday Erotics in Density: An Urban Ethnography of Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong Speaker: Professor TANG Tse Shang Denise (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)
Topic 2: Modern Women or Parasitic Whores: The Jeep Girls Debate in Post-World War II China Speaker: Professor DU Chunmei (Associate Professor, Department of History)
Moderator: Professor Andrea SAUCHELLI (Associate Dean of Arts)
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