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📁 Archival Hong Kong: Places, Practices, and Public Culture Co-organiser
A Hong Kong Studies Symposium 2025, 11-12 December 2025
Website
Hong Kong Studies

📁 Poetry and Resistance in Hong Kong: Writing Against Erasure (Wednesday 26 November 2025)
Lecture
Poems| Website
Faculté de Philosophie et lettres, Département des sciences de l’antiquité Chine,The University of Liège

📁 Anglophone & Sinophone Co-organiser
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2025, 17-19 November 2025
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The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, & Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

📁 Ghosts in the City: Hong Kong Poems of Protest and Memory (Friday 24 October 2025)
Poetry reading and discussion
Lau China Institute, King’s College London

📁 Bodies of Control: Women, Reproduction, and State Power in Chinese Dystopias (Thursday 23 October 2025)
Talk
Lau China Institute, King’s College London

📁 Masterclass with Poet Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Saturday 5 July 2025)
International Writers Collective, Amsterdam

📁 Literary Activism and the Democratic Polycrisis in Post-2019 Hong Kong (Thursday 15 May 2025 Friday 16 May 2025)
International Workshop “New Social Movements and the Polycrisis of Democracy: Comparative Approaches Between Belgium/France and Taiwan/Hong Kong”
IRSS-PragmApolis– Institut de recherches en Sciences Sociales. PragmApolis – ULiège.

📁 Genres of Love: Poetry and Protest (Tuesday 6 May 2025)
Poetry reading and discussion
Poems| Website
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center, Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

📁 Voices in the City: Protest, Politics, and the Power of Words in Hong Kong (Tuesday 6 May 2025)
Lecture
Website
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center, Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

📁 Intensifying Sinophone Literature: The Editorial Mediation of Cha and the Concept of a Sino-Atmosphere (Friday 28 March 2025 – Saturday 29 March 2025)
The Sinophone and Translation Studies Symposium | Panel “Writing, Editorial, and Pedagogical Practices”—also panel moderator
PPT slides| Poster
Funded by the UTSC Departmental Research Fund, organised by the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and co-organised by the following units at the University of Toronto: the Department of East Asian Studies, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, & the Global Taiwan Studies Initiative and Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

📁 Dystopian Narratives, Feminism, & China (Monday 24 March 2025)
Lecture
Poster
Department of Modern Languages: Linguistics, Literature and Translation | Department of Modern English Literature and American Literature, The University of Liège.

📁 We Are What We’re Made Of: The Evolution and Translation in Hong Kong Poetry (Tuesday 18 March 2025)
Lecture
Handouts| Poster
Department of Interpretation and Translation, The University of Bologna.

📁At the Tip of Hong Kong’s Tongue (Friday 22 November 2024)
Translating the Multilingual Symposium | keynote
The Center for East Asian Studies, co-sponsored with & Translation Studies, the Arts and Politics of East Asa (APEA) Workshop, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and is supported with a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. University of Chicago.

📁A Cantonese Note of Cantonese Contempt (Friday 22 November 2024)
Translating the Multilingual Symposium | panel
Handouts
The Center for East Asian Studies, co-sponsored with & Translation Studies, the Arts and Politics of East Asa (APEA) Workshop, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and is supported with a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. University of Chicago.

📁 Are You Becoming Critically Endangered?: Poetry of Exile, Protest and Reparation (Thursday 21 November 2024)
Poetry reading and discussion
Poems | Poster
The Center for East Asian Studies, co-sponsored with & Translation Studies, the Arts and Politics of East Asa (APEA) Workshop, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and is supported with a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. University of Chicago.

📁 Antigone’s Right to Bury Her Brother: A Secular Reconsideration and Its Connection to the Hong Kong Protests (Thursday 21 November 2024)
Lecture on Philosophical Perspectives
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Chicago

📁 Hong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographies (18-19 November 2024)
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2024, “Hong Kong Diaspora & Adaptation” | keynote
Website | Poster
The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. With support provided by the Jackman Humanities Institute Workshop Group on Hong Kong-Canada Connections

📁 Hong Kong Diaspora & Adaptation Co-organiser
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2024, 18-19 November 2024
Website
The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. With support provided by the Jackman Humanities Institute Workshop Group on Hong Kong-Canada Connections

📁 Echoes of Hong Kong: Poetry and Politics (Thursday 4 July 2024)
Poetry reading and discussion
Website| Poster
Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation & the FrauenGenderBibliothek at Saarland University

📁 The Anxiety of Being (Mis-)Understood: Representation, Legibility, and Hong Kong Writing (Wednesday 12 June 2024)
Lecture
Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

📁 “Towards a Possible Reparative Reading of Incidental Images of Hong Kong in Western Media (Tuesday 7 May 2024)
Lecture
Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

📁 May 33: Codes, Creativity, and Censorship in China (Thursday 11 April 2024)
Lecture
Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

📁 Writing in the Sinophone: A Bilingual Reading (Thursday 19 October 2023) 
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Iowa City Public Library, the International Writing Program and the Center for Asian Pacific Studies, University of Iowa

📁 Transnational Hong Kong: Diaspora, Translation, and Editorial Stewardship in a Global Literary Landscape (Wednesday 18 October 2023) 

Hong Kong Lit Scene: Writing, Translating, & Publishing: A Conversation with Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Eva Wong, and Jennifer Feeley
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Chinese Humanities & Arts Workshop, the Obermann Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Asia & Pacific Studies, University of Iowa

📁 Thought Language: A Metalinguistic Inquiry into Hybridity, Self-Translation, and the Unhomed Subject

IWP Panel Discussion: Languages on the Fault Lines
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Iowa Public City Library and the International Writing Program,University of Iowa

📁 Translating Hong Kong (2) Co-organiser
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2023, 6-7 November 2023
Website
The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

📁 An Exile in Transit Destined to Stay: Xu Xu and Post-war Hong Kong Literature 流亡、過渡與留下:徐訏與戰後香港文學 (Friday 24 March 2023) 
文學香港 Hong Kong Studies Series: Literary Hong Kong panel discussion
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Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto & the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough