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Dear Friends of HKSI,
Please kindly take note of the many Hong Kong–related events and academic initiatives organized by colleagues both within UBC and beyond.
We trust you would find at least some of them of interest.
With very best wishes,
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Leo K. Shin
Associate Professor
History and Asian Studies
Co-Convenor, HKSI
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Helena Wu
Canada Research Chair, Hong Kong Studies
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Co-Convenor, HKSI
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Asian Independent Cinema Showcase
North American Premiere of Drifting Petals 花果飄零 and Conversation with Director Clara Law 羅卓瑤
Saturday, 20 January 2024, 14:00–17:00 PST
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
3/F Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Join us for the North American premiere of Drifting Petals 花果飄零 as well as a virtual conversation with director Clara Law 羅卓瑤 and producer/writer Eddie Fong 方令正. Shot in Australia, Hong Kong, and Macau, Drifting Petals is the latest work by the critically-acclaimed director Clara Law, who won the Best Director Award in the Golden Horse International Film Festival 2021. Made over 5 years, the bold feature explores the possibility of alternate cinema and is referred to by the filmmaker as a "eulogy in memory of the City." Through the lens of Macau-born, Hong Kong-raised, and Melbourne-based Clara Law, the audience is invited to ponder on diaspora, home, and memory.
This is a spotlight event to inaugurate the Asian Independent Cinema Showcase.
The film is in Cantonese with English subtitles, and the conversation will be conducted in English.
This is a free and in-person event. Seats are limited, and registration is required.
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Deadline: December 15
“Hong Kong Inside Out,” an online conference organized by a global team of graduate students, is aimed at providing students from around the world and a variety of disciplines a platform as well as a community-building space to share their Hong Kong–related research. It particularly encourages graduate students to explore how their work intervenes in crucial debates concerning the scope, definition, or practices of the field as well as to examine how different scholarly disciplines and traditions have approached Hong Kong studies.
For more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJ_WYDKtSENFJ308XXhv4w07tmKS7Owr/view
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November 20
The Peter A. Allard School of Law to host a conversation with curator Catherine Clement and HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Henry Yu on the centennial anniversary of the enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act. HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Jie Cheng to moderate. |
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November 20
The Vancouver Public Library to host a conversation with journalists Shibani Mahtani (The Washington Post) and Timothy McLaughlin (The Atlantic) on their new book, Among the Braves, which documents the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong through the perspectives of four core activists. Journalist Joanna Chiu (Toronto Star) to moderate.
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November 24
The UBC Cantonese Language Program to host its 4th annual Cantonese Fun Night, which will feature a mini Cantonese fair as well as a talent show for students in the Program to demonstrate their hard-earned Cantonese-language skills.
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Deadline: December 5
Applications are now accepted for the summer global seminar “The Heritage of Asian Canadian Migrations” (ACAM 390A), which allows students to conduct interdisciplinary academic research while exploring the histories, cultures, foodways, heritage, and geographies of Asian migration around the Pacific, particularly Cantonese migration.
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Closing: November 28
The Hong Kong History Centre seeks two Research Associates to join its efforts in studying Hong Kong's history from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, with one specialising in oral history and the other in digital humanities, as part of a new initiative to elevate the city’s historical scholarship and public historical awareness.
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Deadline: December 20
The Society for Hong Kong Studies is accepting abstracts, on any subject within the realm of Hong Kong studies, for its 2024 Work-in-Progress Workshop. Submissions from graduate students are particularly welcome.
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October 27: The screening in front of a packed audience of the documentary The Grass is Greener on the Other Side 野草不盡 was followed by a discussion—on trauma, identity, and the notion of home—between director Crystal Wong and HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan (photos).
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November 9: In his talk, "Housing Unites, Housing Divides," HKSI Emeritus Associate Dr. David Ley explored the contrasting housing policies of Singapore and Hong Kong and highlighted how they could variously promote national unity and exacerbate social divisions(photos).
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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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