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Dear Friends of HKSI,
We look forward to hosting a talk by Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung in the theme of “Minority Tactical ‘Be-longing’: Conviviality through Participation among South Asian Youths in Hong Kong” on Thursday, 16 February 2023, 17:00 PST. As part of our “City Rebegins” series, this featured February event will address the community building strategies and challenges of the diverse ethnic minority population in postmillennial Hong Kong. We hope you will be able to join us, online or offline.
Moreover, we would like to extend our gratitude to our campus and community partners for the successful organization of the Canada premiere of Keep Rolling 動態 Rolling at UBC last month. The screening+conversation was joined by a full house of audience. We are also very pleased to be able to have a meaningful conversation with the filmmakers and the producer.
Once again, thank you for your continued support for the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI).
Dr. Helena Wu
Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Talk
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 17:00-18:00 PST / Friday, 17 February 2023, 9:00-10:00 HKT
Minority Tactical ‘Be-longing’: Conviviality through Participation among South Asian Youths in Hong Kong
Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung (Lingnan University Hong Kong)
Via Zoom
Live-streaming at UBC: BUCH B211, Buchanan Building, 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z1
A City Rebegins event.
Registration required: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-minority-tactical-belonging/
About the talk:
Second and third generation South Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being subjected to different forms of marginalization, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to Hong Kong. In this talk, I hope to discuss the tactical agency of these minority youths in their complex and diverse engagement in social, cultural and political realms in the territory. Citing various cases from my years of research, I discuss how they engage in arts and social media as creative (mediated) tactics to assert their identity against the Chinese majority, while desiring their recognition as ‘Hong Konger’, also through committing to struggles for democracy and cultural diversity. I will also address the community building strategies and challenges of the diverse ethnic minority population in postmillennial Hong Kong.
About the speaker:
Lisa Y.M. Leung is Associate Professor of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University Hong Kong. She has researched and published extensively in the area of transnational media circulation. Her recent research focuses on minority, migration and race. She is co-author of the book Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (HKU Press, 2014). Her second book, Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation: Creative Belonging in Hong Kong, examines the diverse participation of migrant / minority youths to struggle for recognition, while desiring to belong (Routledge, 2021). Her latest research explores the added precarities facing racial minority workers in the age of digitized capitalism.
This talk is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, and generously co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Department of Theatre and Film, Public Humanities Hub, and the School of Social Work.
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HKSI faculty associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan (Social Work) is conducting a Survey Study on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada. The goal is to better inform public policy and support the newly arrived Hong Kong residents who have returned as Canadian citizens or who moved to Canada through various channels including the Permanent Residence Pathways introduced by the Canadian government in 2021.
You are invited to participate in this survey if
a. You returned/moved to Canada on or after January 1, 2015, and
b. You are 19 years old or above, and
c. 10 years before your recent return/move to Canada, you resided in Hong Kong consecutively for at least five years, and
d. At this time, you have lived in Canada consecutively for at least six months, and
e. You are currently living in Canada.
To access the survey please click this link:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_broeCvL0iJ2DDZc
Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/research-survey-study-on-hong-kong-residents-recently-arrived-in-canada
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Symposium
Doing Hong Kong History: New Generation, New Direction
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 17:00 PST
Via Zoom
// Hosted by Angelina Chin, historians Florence Mok, Gary Luk, and Vivian Kong will discuss their research projects on Hong Kong history, each of their challenges and significance, as well as future visions. //
This event is organized by Global Hong Kong Studies at University of California.
Details: https://www.globalhks-uc.org/symposium-doing-hong-kong-history
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Film Series
Hong Kong Lost or Found?
10, 17, 23 February, and 3 March 2023
Online
//This film series features the extraordinary works of two documentary film makers – Evans Chan and Chan Tze-woon -- who have chronicled Hong Kong’s two transitions (1997 and 2020) and major social protests in between. The four films are free and accessible to all online for a 24-hour period every Friday from 2/10 to 3/3. //
This film series is co-organized by Global Hong Kong Studies at University of California, Hong Kong on Screen, and Melnitz Movies.
Details: https://www.globalhks-uc.org/film-series-hong-kong-lost-or-found
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Seminar
Catchwater Colonialism: Reshaping Hong Kong’s Hydrology, Infrastructure, and Landscape, 1937 to 1983
Thursday, 16 February 2023, 16:30 – 18:00 SGT
Dr. Jack Greatrex, Nanyang Technological University
Online and in person
// An extensive network of reservoirs, catchwaters, pipes, and pumping stations developed in Hong Kong between the late 1930s and the early 1980s. Driven by the colony’s geological impermeability and a desperate socio-economic need for water, these networks extended far and deep into Hong Kong’s hinterland. In the process, this paper, argues, infrastructural extension transformed the urban-rural relationship in Hong Kong, turning the countryside into an ‘operational landscape’ for the urban-industrial centre. At the same time, this catchwater-reservoir assemblage helped reshape the colony’s carceral system and conservation practices, and drew the late-colonial state into deep engagement with rural society. Building Hong Kong’s reservoirs entailed moving its prisoners, planting trees, regulating joss-sticks, and linking its remotest hillsides with its most urbanised core. In examining these processes, this paper helps reframe a burgeoning literature on histories of water in Hong Kong and wider discussions of urban political ecology. //
This event is organized by the Hong Kong Research Hub at Nanyang Technological University.
Details: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/events/detail/2023/02/16/research-events/catchwater-colonialism-reshaping-hong-kong-s-hydrology-infrastructure-and-landscape-1937-to-1983
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Book Talk
Rethinking Territory Along the Northern Border
Friday, 10 February 2023, 21:00 – 22:00 HKT
Justin Hui
Via Zoom
// Artist and architect Justin Hui will be sharing his new photobook “New Territories”, published by Asia One. The series of images from the title explores the changing landscape of Hong Kong's northern frontier, caught between its past and ongoing integration with mainland China. It is a journey across the ruins of fading memories of what once was to discover the meaning of home in a city that is ever changing. //
This book talk is organized by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
Details: https://hkstudies.org/events/book-talk-series-new-directions-in-hk-studies/
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January 26: The Canada premiere of Keep Rolling / 動態 Rolling (2022), a collection of four indie short films made by four Hong Kong directors about the pandemic, has attracted a full house of audience. The screening was followed by a lively conversation between the filmmakers and the audience [photos].
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