Dear Friends of HKSI,
As we approach the end of another semester as well as of another calendar year, and as we come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, my colleagues and I are certainly thankful that we are able to continue our teaching and research in our part of the world with relative freedom and autonomy.
We are of course mindful that this state of affairs must not be taken for granted. Given the uncertainties still around us and the continual turmoil in many parts of the world, we will continue to do what we can to maintain this necessary space for informed and meaningful dialogues.
With very best wishes,
Leo K. Shin 單國鉞
Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Webinar
Friday, 10 December 2021, 17:00–18:30 PST
Voice After Exit: How Transnational Ties Shape Hong Kong Americans’ Political Engagement and Voting Behavior
Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame
via Zoom
A City Reassembled event
Registration: hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-voice-after-exit/
Dr. Maggie Shum and Prof. Victoria Hui will introduce their on-going project “Hong Kong Voices in the U.S.” that examines how diaspora’s transnational ties with their homeland shape their political attitude and behavior in the host country. Against the backdrop of the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong and the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., their study aims to gauge the tug and pull dynamics that Hong Kong Americans have to navigate between prioritizing their domestic interests in the U.S. and concerns with the well-being and status of Hong Kong. Shum and Hui will present preliminary findings from their original survey on where Hong Kong Americans stand on the issue of dual loyalty (between Hong Kong and the U.S.), as well as how cultural, relational, and political aspect of transnational ties afford the Hong Kong diasporas to play critical roles in contentious politics and social change for their home, and thus gaining back their “voice after exit.”
Maggie Shum is a Postdoctoral Research and Program Associate of the Global Policy Initiative in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on contentious-electoral politics, transnational network, and diaspora political behavior. She also studies party politics and participatory mechanisms in Latin America. Shum is a co-investigator on the “Hong Kong Voices in the U.S.” project that explores the role of transnational ties and identity in shaping Hong Kong Americans’ political attitude and engagement in the U.S. Her article, “ When Voting Turnout Becomes Contentious Repertoire: How Anti-ELAB Protest Overtook the District Council Election in Hong Kong 2019,” is forthcoming in the Japanese Journal of Political Science. She has also written for The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Diplomat, and Mischiefs of Faction.
Victoria Tin-bor Hui is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Hui studies contentious politics and Hong Kong’s democracy movement. She has testified at Congress and written for Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Diplomat, and other channels. Hui also examines the centrality of war in Chinese history. She has published on state formation, constitutional rights, Confucian pacifism or Confucian confusion, coercive cultural homogenization and genocide in Chinese history. She is a Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs fellow with the Congressional Executive Commission on China in 2021–22. Before her academic career, Hui worked as the press officer for the then United Democrats of Hong Kong and its chair, Martin Lee.
This webinar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Migration Studies, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, Public Humanities Hub, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster.
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Symposium
4 December 2021 HKT
Teaching Hong Kong, Hong Kong Teaching
// How do we teach Hong Kong in Hong Kong, and how do we teach Hong Kong in the world? What considerations are taken? Which Hong Kong? What aspects of Hong Kong can be taught? Can Hong Kong teach the world something? Can Hong Kong be taught something from elsewhere in the world? //
This symposium is organized by the journal Hong Kong Studies.
Details: bit.ly/36JpniA
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9–10 December 2021 HKT
Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference
// Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference aims at bringing together the Hong Kong studies research community and promoting exchange, sharing and collaboration of Hong Kong-focused research. We also wish to make best use of this annual occasion for honoring outstanding papers in different disciplines of Hong Kong studies. //
This annual event is organized by the Academy of Hong Kong Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Details: eduhk.hk/ahks/view.php?secid=52889
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Backreading Hong Kong Symposium
11 December 2021 HKT
Translating Hong Kong
via Zoom
// Co-created by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Chris Song (The University of Toronto Scarborough), “Backreading Hong Kong” is an annual symposium which brings together scholars—emerging and established—to share their cross-disciplinary research and findings on the city that we call home: Hong Kong, and to ignite stimulating and rigorous discussion. //
Details: backreading.wordpress.com/2021-translating-hong-kong/
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Workshop
17 December 2021 HKT
Doing Research in Challenging Times
// As Hong Kong is transitioning into a new phase of its history, the Society for Hong Kong Studies is hosting a workshop to help scholars better orientate themselves in this unfamiliar and sometimes challenging environment.
The workshop is divided into two sessions where senior scholars in the field will share their insights on how to do research in the new Hong Kong. Panel 1 will share their opinions on conducting academic research under the National Security Law. Panel 2 will discuss the impact of the new Hong Kong environment on public opinion research. //
Details: forms.gle/QvktL7MYx1523xXHA
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Postdoctoral Research Fellows (3 positions)
The School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore is looking to appoint three postdoctoral research fellows to work on a project led by Dr. Florence Mok on the history of environmental crises and epidemics in colonial Hong Kong.
// This study will make an original contribution to the political, social and environmental history of modern Asia, British colonialism and the Cold War by exploring how the colonial government and the Chinese society in Hong Kong mitigated environmental crises from 1945 to 1980, a period with growing policy initiatives, increased economic affluence and rising political and social consciousness. //
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2021
Details:
Research Fellow (Social Science)
Research Fellow (History)
Research Fellow (Geography/Anthropology)
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Please kindly consider a tax-deductible donation to HKSI (hksi.ubc.ca/support-us). Thank you, as always, for your support of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
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