Schedule

Academic Panels, Screenings, and Post-screening Discussions

ACADEMIC PANELS

Mar

15

2024
Time:
8:30am-12:30pm
Venue:
RRST CPD 2.19

8:30am-9:00am

Opening Remarks & Welcome



Academic Panel 1 and Discussion
9:00am-10:30am

Chair: DR. MARY WONG (Lingnan University)
Discussant: DR. KENNY NG (HKBU)


The Artist’s Precarity: Analogy and Metaphor in A New Old Play

PROF. VALERIE SOE

San Francisco State University


Make it New-New: Qiu Jiongjiong’s Southwest Narrative and A New Old Play

PROF. JANNIS JIZHOU CHEN

CUHK


The Clown in a Medieval Fairy Tale: A New Old Play and the World of Sichuan Opera

DR. ISHA TING

IIAS


Academic Panel 2 and Discussion
10:45am-12:15pm

Chair: DR. FIONA LAW (HKU)
Discussant: DR. WINNIE YEE (HKU)

Dark Humour in Qiu Jiongjiong’s Documentaries of the Past

DR. BRUCE LAI

King's College London


Queerness in Flux: Madame and the Internal Epistemological Transformation of Homosexual Ethics in Contemporary China

MR. ARTHUR CHENG XIANYE

HKU


Contemporary Dramaturgies of the Comical Grotesque and Qiu Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play

DR. ANNA STECHER

University of Naples, L'Orientale


Closing of Academic Panels: 12:15pm-12:30pm

Lunch: Mar 15, 2024 | 12:30pm-2:30pm

- Complimentary for all invited guests

SCREENINGS

Madame 姑奶奶

Mar

15

2024
Time:
2:45pm-5:45pm
Venue:
Studio 303 CYM Center

Post-screening discussion (4:45pm–5:45pm) with director Qiu Jiongjiong and
Dr. Timmy Chen (Metropolitan University)

* Conducted in Mandarin


Dinner: Mar 15, 2024 | 6:30pm-8:30pm

- Complimentary for all invited guests


A New Old Play 椒麻堂會

Mar

18

2024
Time:
2:00pm-5:00pm
Venue:
Studio 303 CYM Center

Post-screening discussion (5:00pm-5:45pm) with director Qiu Jiongjiong and
Dr. Yu Xuying (Metropolitan University)
Moderated by Miss Lin Yiping (HKU)

* Conducted in Mandarin



Mr. Zhang Believes 癡

Mar

19

2024
Time:
3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue:
Studio 303 CYM Center

Post-screening discussion (5:00pm-5:45pm) with director Qiu Jiongjiong and
Dr. Esther Yau (HKU)

* Conducted in Mandarin with English interpretation


Dinner: Mar 19, 2024 | 6:30pm- 8:30pm

- Complimentary for all invited guests