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REVIEW OF SEMINARS / WORKSHOP SERIES OFFERED BY CSGC

From 1999 - 2004

Mar 30, 1999
Panel on Hong Kong Cinema with Leslie Cheung & Brigitte Lin
Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Prof. Ackbar Abbas

June 3 – 14, 2002
Summer Institute: Public Criticism and Visual Culture
Organizers: CSGC, The University of Hong Kong, The Centre for Transcultural Studies, Chicago & The Hong Kong Institute of Cultural Criticism (HKICC)
Prof. Gayatri Spivak, Professor Leo Lee, Prof. Wu Hung, Prof. Liao Pinghui, Prof. Stephen Chan, Prof. Meaghan Morris, Prof. Ackbar Abbas, Prof. Benjamin Lee, Dr. Esther Cheung

Dec 1, 2003
HK Culture Workshop Series 2003-04: Ann Hui and Memory in Her Films
Ann Hui

New Chinese Film Festival: The Independent Cinema of “Sixth Generation” Directors

Feb 6, 2004
What is the Sixth Generation Chinese Cinema?
Bono Lee & Long Tin (Hong Kong Film Critics Society)

Feb 18, 2004
The Sixth and the Post-Sixth Generation Chinese Independent Cinema: Underground or above the Ground
Shu Kei (HKAPA) & Ou Ning (Guangzhou Yuanyinghui)

Feb 20, 2004
The Sixth Generation Cinema as/and the Chinese City
Wong Ain-Ling (Hong Kong Film Archive) & Linda Lai Chiu-han (City University of Hong Kong)

Feb 27, 2004
On Crazy English
Professor Ackbar Abbas

Mar 25, 2004
HK Culture Workshop Series 2003-04: Stanley Kwan and the City in His Films
Stanley Kwan

Nov 10, 2004
The Global Sublime: Dialogues on 2046 / 2046
Prof. Jeremy Tambling, Dr. Esther Cheung, Mathias Woo (Zuni Icosahedron) & Jason Lau

Nov 15, 2004
The Xin Lu Project: Autobiography, Nomadism, and Experimental Media
Dr. Ma Ming-yuen S (Pitzer College in Claremont, US)

Dec 3, 2004
HK Culture Workshop Series 2003-04: Meeting Hong Kong Filmmaker Vincent Chui
Vincent Chui

From 2005 - 2007

Feb 1, 2005
Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema
Evans Chan Yiu-shing (陳耀成導演)

Oct 3, 2006
Looking for Global Suburbias
Prof. Gary McDonogh (Bryn Mawr College)

Oct 17, 2006
‘Young Rebels’ in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Zhou Xuelin (University of Auckland)

Oct 19, 2006
Engendering Democracy in China: Chinese Feminist Activism Today
Prof. Wang Zheng (University of Michigan)

Dec 6, 2006
On Evans Chan: Screening of Map of Sex and Love and Open Discussion
Evans Chan Yiu-shing (陳耀成導演)

Dec 7, 2006
On Evans Chan: The Chinese Action Image and Postmodernity
Evans Chan Yiu-shing (陳耀成導演)

Mar 22, 2007
Hong Kong Poetry Workshop Series: Hong Kong Poetry since the 1970s
Lau Wai-shing (劉偉成)

Mar 29, 2007
Brokeback: The Asian Side of the Mountain
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

Apr 2, 2007
A Queer Feeling When I Look at You: Genre and Emotion in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

Apr 4, 2007
Theorizing “Queer Asian Cinema”
Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)

May 15, 2007
Postcolonial Nostalgias
Prof. Dennis Walder {Open University (UK))

From 2008 - 2009

Globalization and Cultures Speaker Series 2008-09
(co-organized with the School of Humanities, HKU)

Oct 28, 2008
China in Theory: The Orientalist Production of Knowledge in the Global Economy
Dr. Dan Vukovich (HKU)

Nov 11, 2008
Democratic Modernism: Rethinking the Politics of Early 20th Century Fiction in China and Europe
Dr. Sebastian Veg (CEFC)

Nov 27, 2008
Global Modernity
Prof. Arif Dirlik (CUHK)

Jan 20, 2009
The Dalai Lama, War, and Social Justice
Dr. Barry Sautman (HKUST)

Feb 26, 2009
Thinking about Identity in a Global Context
Prof. Meaghan Morris (Lingnan U and U of Sydney)

Mar 17, 2009
Comparative Literature in the Context of Globalization
Prof. Stephen Chu (HKBU)

Dec 6, 2008
Transnational East Asian Cinema since 1997 – Teleconference
(Organizers: Department of Comparative Literature, CSGC, Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Goldsmiths University of London.)
Prof. Tim Bergfelder, Dr. Esther Cheung, Dr. Gina Marchetti, Prof. Chris Berry, Dr. Julian Stringer, Dr. Mark Morris, Dr. Isolde Standish, Dr. Rayna Denison

Feb 27 and Mar 9, 2009
American Film Institute Project 20/20 Film Festival
Screening of Two Films about Africa, Visit by Filmmakers and AFI Programmer, and Panel Discussion at HKU.
Anthony Fabian (filmmaker), Siatta Scott Johnson (filmmaker), Stacey Marbrey (AFI), Drs Adams Bodomo, Esther Yau and Staci Ford (HKU)

Mar 13 and 20, 2009
Transnational East Asian Cinema since 1997 – Teleconference
(Organizers: Department of Comparative Literature, CSGC, Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Goldsmiths University of London.)
Postgraduate students from HKU, University of Southampton, Goldsmith College and University of Bristol

Apr 15, 2009
The Crisis of the Humanities and the Redefinition of Hispanism
Prof. Eduardo Subirats (NYU)

China and Global Modernity Series
(co-sponsored with the Centre for East Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the School of English and China-West Studies Research Theme Initiative, Faculty of Arts, HKU)

Apr 15, 2009
Institutionalising Confucius: One More Try to Modernise and Globalise Kong Qiu
Prof. Kam Louie (HKU)

May 13, 2009
Decolonizing Global Modernity: Urban Cultural Movement in Hong Kong
Dr. Mirana Szeto (HKU)

June 3, 2009
Chinese Cinemas and Global Modernity
Drs. Esther M.K. Cheung, Gina Marchetti and Esther Yau (HKU)