Recent activities

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๐Ÿ“ Everyday Life Reimagined โ€ Co-organiser
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026, 10-11 March 2026
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The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, theย UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative,ย UBC Asian Studies, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

๐Ÿ“ โ€œPoetics of Post-mobilization Activism: Literary Activism and the Democratic Polycrisis in Post-2019 Hong Kong”
New Social Movements and the Polycrisis Decrocray: Comparative Approaches Between Europe and East and Southeast Asiaโ€”International Workshop, 5-6 March 2026

Academia Sinica, Institute of Sociology, with the support of NSTC and FNRS
๐Ÿ“ โ€œLiterature of Obliquity: Hong Kong Fiction, Embodied Witness, and the Politics of Translationโ€ (Wednesday 25 February 2026)
Lecture | Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea

๐Ÿ“ โ€œGenres: Science Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, Tales of the Strange, Fantastique, Gendered Gothic, and Chinese Horror Fictionโ€ (Monday 23 February 2026)
Incontro e discussione su: Sinofagia a cura di Xueting C. Ni trd. Giulia Massellucci
Website | Poster
Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea; Laboratorio sulla Traduzione delle lingue orientali – LAB-OR

๐Ÿ“ โ€œOfficial Causes of Death: A Reading of Poetry on Hong Kong & Chinaโ€ (Wednesday 18 February 2026)
Poetry reading and discussion
Poems | Poster
Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea; Laboratorio sulla Traduzione delle lingue orientali – LAB-OR; in collaborazione con Bali – Biblioteca Area Linguistica; TerzaMissioneDSAAM

๐Ÿ“ โ€œWombs under Siege: Feminist Dystopias and the One-Child Policy in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literatureโ€ (Monday 16 February 2026)
Roundtable discussion on “Women’s Reproductive Health in Europe and China: Legal and Literary Perspectives”
Website | Poster
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Department of Economics, Archivio Scritture Scrittrici Migranti

๐Ÿ“ Archival Hong Kong: Places, Practices, and Public Culture โ€ Co-organiser
Hong Kong Studies Symposium 2025, 11-12 December 2025
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Hong Kong Studies

๐Ÿ“ โ€œPoetry and Resistance in Hong Kong: Writing Against Erasureโ€ (Wednesday 26 November 2025)
Lecture
Poems| Website
Facultรฉ de Philosophie et lettres, Dรฉpartement des sciences de l’antiquitรฉ Chine,The University of Liรจge

๐Ÿ“ Anglophone & Sinophone โ€ Co-organiser
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2025, 17-19 November 2025
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

๐Ÿ“ โ€œGhosts in the City: Hong Kong Poems of Protest and Memoryโ€ (Friday 24 October 2025)
Poetry reading and discussion
Lau China Institute, King’s College London

๐Ÿ“ โ€œBodies of Control: Women, Reproduction, and State Power in Chinese Dystopiasโ€ (Thursday 23 October 2025)
Talk
Lau China Institute, King’s College London

๐Ÿ“ Masterclass with Poet Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Saturday 5 July 2025)
International Writers Collective, Amsterdam

๐Ÿ“ โ€œLiterary Activism and the Democratic Polycrisis in Post-2019 Hong Kongโ€ (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 – ULiรจge.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œGenres of Love: Poetry and Protestโ€ (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.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œVoices in the City: Protest, Politics, and the Power of Words in Hong Kongโ€ (Tuesday 6 May 2025)
Lecture
Website
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center, Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œIntensifying Sinophone Literature: The Editorial Mediation of Cha and the Concept of a Sino-Atmosphereโ€ (Friday 28 March 2025 – Saturday 29 March 2025)
The Sinophone and Translation Studies Symposium | Panel “Writing, Editorial, and Pedagogical Practices”โ€”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.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œDystopian Narratives, Feminism, & Chinaโ€ (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 Liรจge.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œWe Are What We’re Made Of: The Evolution and Translation in Hong Kong Poetryโ€ (Tuesday 18 March 2025)
Lecture
Handouts| Poster
Department of Interpretation and Translation, The University of Bologna.

๐Ÿ“โ€œAt the Tip of Hong Kong’s Tongueโ€ (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.

๐Ÿ“โ€œA Cantonese Note of Cantonese Contemptโ€ (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.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œAre You Becoming Critically Endangered?: Poetry of Exile, Protest and Reparationโ€ (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.

๐Ÿ“ โ€œAntigoneโ€™s Right to Bury Her Brother: A Secular Reconsideration and Its Connection to the Hong Kong Protestsโ€ (Thursday 21 November 2024)
Lecture on Philosophical Perspectives
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Chicago

๐Ÿ“ โ€œHong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographiesโ€ (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

๐Ÿ“ Hong Kong Diaspora & Adaptation โ€ 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

๐Ÿ“ โ€œEchoes of Hong Kong: Poetry and Politicsโ€ (Thursday 4 July 2024)
Poetry reading and discussion
Website| Poster
Kรคte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation & the FrauenGenderBibliothek at Saarland University

๐Ÿ“ โ€œThe Anxiety of Being (Mis-)Understood: Representation, Legibility, and Hong Kong Writingโ€ (Wednesday 12 June 2024)
Lecture
Kรคte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

๐Ÿ“ โ€œTowards a Possible Reparative Reading of Incidental Images of Hong Kong in Western Mediaโ€ (Tuesday 7 May 2024)
Lecture
Kรคte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

๐Ÿ“ โ€œMay 33: Codes, Creativity, and Censorship in Chinaโ€ (Thursday 11 April 2024)
Lecture
Kรคte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation

๐Ÿ“ 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

๐Ÿ“ โ€œTransnational Hong Kong: Diaspora, Translation, and Editorial Stewardship in a Global Literary Landscapeโ€ (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

๐Ÿ“ โ€œThought Language: A Metalinguistic Inquiry into Hybridity, Self-Translation, and the Unhomed Subjectโ€

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

๐Ÿ“ Translating Hong Kong (2) โ€ 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.

๐Ÿ“ An Exile in Transit Destined to Stay: Xu Xu and Post-war Hong Kong Literature ๆตไบกใ€้Žๆธก่ˆ‡็•™ไธ‹๏ผšๅพ่จ่ˆ‡ๆˆฐๅพŒ้ฆ™ๆธฏๆ–‡ๅญธ (Friday 24 March 2023) 
ๆ–‡ๅญธ้ฆ™ๆธฏ 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

 

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