Dear Friends of HKSI,
Wherever you are, hope the new academic term has gone off to a (reasonably) smooth start. Despite all that is happening, we here at UBC have been keeping busy. Do join us whenever you can.
With very best wishes for the Year of the Ox!
Leo K. Shin 單國鉞
Associate Professor, History and Asian Studies
Convenor, Hong Kong Studies Initiative 共研香江
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Webinar
Friday, 5 February 2021, 19:30–21:00 PST
Language Archiving in the Digital Era
Dr. Andy Chin, Education University of Hong Kong
via Zoom
A City Archived event
Details: hksi.ubc.ca
Language documentation aims to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic features of a given language. The traditional ways of documenting languages include participant observation and fieldwork investigation. These approaches are labor intensive and the amount of data collected sometimes is scanty and selective. Nowadays, the use of computer technology drastically changes the ways how language data is processed. Digital language archiving has become a trend not only for language documentation, preservation, and revitalization but also for information management such as textual mining. In this talk, I will introduce the Cantonese digital archive developed at The Education University of Hong Kong: The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese 二十世紀中期香港粵語語料庫 (http://hkcc.eduhk.hk). I will share with the audience the rationale and the design of the archive, and how the archival data can benefit research in humanities.
Dr. Andy Chin is Head of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies as well as Associate Director of Centre for Research on Linguistics and Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. Andy’s research interest includes corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and Cantonese linguistics. He has published in: Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 《民族語文》, 《語言學論叢》, among other venues.
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Hong Kong Popular Culture: Imagining a Research Field
1 May 2021 (HKT)
The popular culture of Hong Kong has long been recognized as one of the city’s most distinctive and important features. Yet, despite—or perhaps because of—its ubiquity, it has also been understudied and undertheorized.
Our goals for this workshop are three-fold: first, we are interested in expanding the range of subject matters that could and should be examined under the umbrella of “popular culture”; in addition to films, TV shows, and pop music, we particularly look forward to thoughtful analyses of “less legitimate” popular cultural genres and practices.
Second, we would like to facilitate conversations that would lead to innovative ways of situating the distinction and/or importance of the popular culture of Hong Kong. We welcome the placing of Hong Kong’s popular culture in, among others, critical theoretical, comparative, feminist, historical, politico-economic, cultural-sociological, or Sinophone frameworks.
Third, we are especially interested in bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds as well as those who are at different stages of their academic careers. We believe inter-disciplinary as well as inter-generational conversations are particularly fruitful for the discussion of popular culture.
We have in mind a one-day, online, English-language event in which each speaker would provide a 20-minute presentation on a study that analyzes Hong Kong’s popular culture. Our goal is to create as much opportunity as possible for discussions and conversations.
Interested participants are invited to submit, by 15 February 2021, a 200-word abstract and a 1-page CV. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to: hongkong.pop.culture@gmail.com.
This workshop is jointly organized by: Hong Kong Studies Programme (The University of Hong Kong),Department of Sociology (Hong Kong Baptist University), and Hong Kong Studies Initiative (The University of British Columbia).
Further details: https://keywordsasia.wixsite.com/website
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Exporting Virtue? China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping
Dr. Pitman B. Potter, HKSI Associate and Professor of Law Emeritus, Peter A. Allard School of Law
"Exporting Virtue? examines human rights as an example of China’s international assertiveness and considers the implications of internationalizing PRC human rights policy and practice. Pitman B. Potter suggests that in the absence of clear and enforceable global human rights standards, China uses its international influence to promote its human rights policies on global governance, freedom of expression, trade and investment policy, and labour and environmental regulation. The PRC’s efforts to export its human rights principles and standards exemplify the rise of authoritarian governance models internationally. Couched in terms of virtue but manifested as authoritarianism, China’s international human rights activism invites scholars and policy makers around the world to engage critically with the issue.”
Details: https://www.ubcpress.ca/exporting-virtue
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Book Talk
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 17:00 PST
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Dr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, University of Missouri
Join author (and former UBC Ph.D. student) Dr. Dominic Yang and HKSI Associates Drs. Glen Peterson, Josephine Chiu-Duke, and Diana Lary for a conversation on one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia—the human exodus from China to Taiwan after the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s regime in 1949.
Details: https://ccr.ubc.ca/events/event/online-book-talk-event-the-great-exodus-from-china-trauma-memory-and-identity-in-modern-taiwan/?login
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February 6 & 13, 2021
Lunar New Year in Canto
Practice New Year greetings in Cantonese with HKSI Associate Dr. Zoe Lam!
Lunar New Year in Canto is offered by Youth Collaborative for Chinatown and the UBC Cantonese Language Program through the UBC Partnership Recognition Fund.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunar-new-year-in-canto-tickets-138189938827
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One Wish, One Dish: 2021 Lunar New Year Celebration
Celebrate the Year of the Ox with the UBC Chinese Language Program!
Details: https://chinese.arts.ubc.ca/online-lunar-new-year-celebration-2021/
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Year of the Ox: Let's Make Lunar New Year's Cards
And celebrate the lunar new year with the staff of the UBC Asian Library!
Details: https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3593609
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Life Across the Sea – stories of international students and immigrants
Dialogue
6 February 2021, 18:00 (PST)
via Zoom
In this special “Human Library x Dialogue” event, the audience will hear from speakers who have studied abroad. The invited speakers will present themselves as “open books” and share the joys and sorrows of living in a foreign land.
This event is co-hosted by the UBC Hua Dialogue and the Taiwan International Student Movement.
Details: https://bit.ly/3cs2VON
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Webinar
Friday, 5 March 2021
Recording Hong Kong
Amelia Allsop, The Hong Kong Heritage Project
via Zoom
Oral history is a powerful tool that can empower those marginalised in both history and historiography. But what can it tell us about Hong Kong? In this presentation, Amelia Allsop discusses the creation of one of the largest oral history collections in Hong Kong. Part corporate archive and part community heritage hub, The Hong Kong Heritage Project holds over 500 filmed interviews with individuals from all walks of life. This presentation will take us on a journey from the capture and recording of interviews to their use in exhibitions, museums and online. Amelia will discuss how the Project confronts “difficult histories” and the ways in which interviews can reveal diverse understandings about Hong Kong’s past. In the process, Amelia will describe the Project’s methodology and share tips about how to create a successful oral history programme.
Details: hksi.ubc.ca
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Jan 6: HKSI Associate Dr. Hedy Law of the School of Music spoke with celebrated composer Leon Ko 高世章 on musical composition (webcast).
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Jan 8: Joseph Gregory Yu, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford and Honorary Curator of the Queen’s College History Museum, shared his insights on the surge of non-state museums in Hong Kong (photo | webcast).
Jan 19 and 26: HKSI Associates Drs. Miu Chung Yan and Leo K. Shin spoke at “When Local Meets Transnational,” a two-day symposium on the transnational experience of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada.
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ACAM Tote Bag Design Contest
The deadline for submissions is Monday 5 April, 2021. Check out contest details on https://acam.arts.ubc.ca/.
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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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