Discussion followed by short break
15:15-15:55
Fu Daiwie, Institute of History, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu
New Bodies and New Sexual Discourses in New Taiwan of the 90's
15:55-16:35
Lisa Rofel, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
What's in a Kiss?: Transnational Embraces and the Emergence of a Gay Subjectivity in Mainland China
16:35-17:15
Discussion
TUESDAY 6 January 1998
Morning Session: Nationalist/Imperialist Projects
Chair: Fu Daiwie, Institute of History, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu
11:00-11:30
Law Wing-sang, School of General Education, Lingnan College
Hyper-nationalism: The (Un-)making of "Patriotic Citizenship" in Hong Kong
11:30-12:00
Discussion
Afternoon Session: Cultural Hybridity and Historical Imagination
Chair: Dilip Gaonkar, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, and Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago
14:30-15:00
Timothy Weiss, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postcolonial Confessions: From Gide's L'Immoraliste to Shirley Lim's Among the White Moon Faces
15:00-15:30
Yu Siu-wah, Department of Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong
On Tan Dun's Musical Composition for the Inauguration of the HKSAR
15:30-16:00
Discussion
WEDNESDAY 7 January 1998
Morning Session: Identity Movement in Time/Space
Chair: Tejaswini Niranjana, Department of English, University of Hyderabad
9:30-10:15
E. Valentine Daniel, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Between Claustrophobia and Agoraphobia: The Sri Lankan Tamil Asylum Seeker
10:15-11:00
Discussion followed by short break
11:00-11:45
Nilufer Gole, Department of Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Snapshots on Islamic Modernities
11:45-12:15
Discussion
Afternoon Session: Visual/Spatial Cultures
Chair: Eugene Eoyang, Department of English, Lingnan College
14:00-14:40
Wu Hung, Department of Art, University of Chicago
The Birth of "Ruins": Inventing a Modern Visual Culture in China
14:40-15:15
Discussion followed by short break
15:15-15:55
Miriam Hansen, Department of English, University of Chicago
Fallen Women, Rising Stars, and Hybrid Styles: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism
15:55-16:35
Wong Kin-yuen, Department of English, and Research Institute for the Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Urban Space and Media: Hong Kong as a Futuristic City
16:35-17:15
Discussion
THURSDAY 8 January 1998
Morning Session: Citizenship and the Culture of Human Rights (I)
Chair: Alberta Arthurs, MEM Associates
9:30-10:15
Charles Taylor, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
An International Consensus on Human Rights?
10:15-11:00
Discussion followed by short break
11:00-11:45
Meaghan Morris, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
History, Anachronism and Human Rights: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism in Australia
11:45-12:15
Discussion
Afternoon Session: Citizenship and the Culture of Human Rights (II)
Chair: Leo Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:15-15:55
Man Si-wai, Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Understanding Human Rights in the Context of Citizenship as Civility: The Case of Hong Kong
15:55-16:35
Chu Yiu-wai, Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist University; and Sin Wai-man, Department of Law, City University of Hong Kong
In the Name of Law: Legality and Morality in (Post)Colonial Hong Kong
16:35-17:15
Discussion
FRIDAY 9 January 1998
Morning Session: Chinese Urban Imaginary
9:30-10:15
Leo Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
A Tale of Two Super Cities: Shanghai and Hong Kong
10:15-11:00
Discussion followed by short break
11:00-11:45
Dai Jinhua, Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Beijing University
In the Guise of Global Spectacle and National Images
11:45-12:15
Discussion
Afternoon Session: Culture, Government and Institution
Chair: Benjamin Lee, Department of Anthropology, Rice University, and Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago
14:00-14:30
Alberta Arthurs, MEM Associates
From the Geo-Political to the Geo-Cultural: Culture as a Global Force in the New Century
14:30-15:00
Wang Hui, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing
Mainland Chinese Cultural Studies and Cultural Criticism in the 1990s
15:00-15:45
Discussion followed by short break
Roundtable Session: Contemporary Studies on Culture
Chair: Stephen Chan, Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, and Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong
16:00-16:15
Benjamin Lee, Department of Anthropology, Rice University, and Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago
16:15-16:30
Leo Lee, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
16:30-17:15
Discussion
Conference Program Committee
Stephen Chan, Director, Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Research Institute for the Humanities, and Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong (convener)
Benjamin Lee, Codirector, Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago, and Department of Anthropology, Rice University
Dilip Gaonkar, Codirector, Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago, and Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
Leo Lee, Director, Workshop on Chinese Cultural Studies, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Visiting Research Fellow, Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1998)
Conference Office
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