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Globalization and Cultures 2008-2009
A series of workshops and lectures on significant and exciting research from scholars working with the framing discourses of globalization, modernity and cultural politics.
October 28, 2008
Lecture: China in Theory: The Orientalist Production of Knowledge in the Global Context
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Vukovich, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, HKU
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm
Venue: MB205, Main Building, HKU
November 11, 2008
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm (Tuesday)
Venue: MB205, Main Building, HKU
Lecture: Democratic Modernism? Rethinking the Politics of Early 20th Century Fiction in China and Europe
Speaker: Dr. Sabastian Veg, researcher, French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
Author of Fictions of Chinese Power: Revolution, Norms and Public Space in the Era of Modernism (forthcoming, Routledge, 2008)
November 27, 2008
Time: 4:45pm-7:15pm (Thursday)
Venue: Convocation Room (MB218), Main Building, HKU
Theory Workshop: Global Modernity *
Prior to the workshop, participants will read “Conceptual Field(s) of Globality” and “Legacies: The Global and the Colonial,” Chapters 3 and 4 in Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism.
Speaker: Professor Arif Dirlik, Chair Professor of Chinese Studies, CUHK
Author of Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism (Paradigm, 2007), Postmodernity’s Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) among his many publications.
January 20, 2009
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm (Tuesday)
Venue: MB205, Main Building, HKU
Lecture: The Dalai Lama, War, and Social Justice
Speaker: Dr. Barry Sautman, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Author of Relations in Blood: China’s ‘Racial’ Nationalism (forthcoming, U of Washington Press, 2008), co-author of East Mountain Tiger, West Mountain Tiger: China, Africa, the West and ‘Colonialism’ (U of Maryland School of Law, 2007), and numerous articles on Sino-Tibet-West relations.
February 26, 2009
Time: 4:30pm-7:00pm (Thursday)
Venue: Convocation Room (MB218), Main Building, HKU
Lecture and Workshop: Thinking about Identity in the Context of Globalization *
Prior to the workshop, participants will read “Ecstasy and Economics” from Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture and “A Way of Inhabiting a Culture: Paul Willemen’s Looks and Frictions” from Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture
Speaker: Professor Meaghan Morris, Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, Hong Kong Lingnan University, and major figure in Cultural Studies.
Author of Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (SAGE, 2006) and Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (Indiana UP, 1998) among other books.
March 17, 2009
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm (Tuesday)
Venue: MB205, Main Building, HKU
Lecture: Comparative Literature in the Context of Globalization
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yiu-wai Chu, Department of Chinese, and Head of Humanities Programme, Hong Kong Baptist University
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*For workshops, registration is required by Nov 21 and Feb 23 in order to reserve a seating. Please email <semin@hku.hk>
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