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^{.Tyehimba Jess in conversation with Tammy Lai-Ming Ho [}^more^]

^upcoming
“Hong Kong Women Writers’ ‘Minor’ Genres and the Affects of Translation” (tentative) ^Presentation
^{June 2027 (tbc) | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2027}

^upcoming
Hong Kong and the World ^Co-organiser
^{June 2027 (tbc) | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2027}

^upcoming
“Teaching Fiction in Translation: Lessons from Hong Kong’s Vernacular Voices” ^{Keynote address}
^{Friday 18 – Saturday 19 June 2027 | 2nd EATPA (The East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance) Symposium}
^Website
^{The East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance (EATPA) network and the University of Toronto Scarborough}

^upcoming
The Doorway Effect Retreat: A nine-day retreat for poets and musicians in Porto, Portugal ^{Publishing and editing consultation}

^{Saturday 12 – Sunday 20 June 2027}
^Website

^upcoming
“The City Others Invented: Hong Kong in the Western Imagination” ^Lecture
^{Friday 19 March 2027 | Lecture Series (Fall 2026—Spring 2027) @ Asian American / Asian Research Institute, City University of New York}
^Website
^{Asian American / Asian Research Institute, City University of New York}

^upcoming
Hong Kong Temporalities: Pasts, Presents, and Futures ^Co-organiser
^{Thursday 21 – Friday 22 January 2027 | Hong Kong Studies Symposium 2027}
^Website
^{Hong Kong Studies}

^Co-organiser
Hong Kong & Ireland: A Cha Workshop
^{Saturday 8 August 2026}
^Website
^{Cha: An Asian Literary Journal}

^Co-organiser
Everyday Life Reimagined
^{Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 March 2026 | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026}
^Website
^{The Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, UBC Asian Studies, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal}

^Presentation
“Poetics of Post-mobilization Activism: Literary Activism and the Democratic Polycrisis in Post-2019 Hong Kong”
^{Thursday 5 – Friday 6 March 2026 | New Social Movements and the Polycrisis Decrocray: Comparative Approaches Between Europe and East and Southeast Asia—International Workshop}

^{Academia Sinica, Institute of Sociology, with the support of NSTC and FNRS}

^Lecture
“Literature of Obliquity: Hong Kong Fiction, Embodied Witness, and the Politics of Translation”
^{Wednesday 25 February 2026 | Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature}
^{Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea}

^Presentation
“Genres: Science Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, Tales of the Strange, Fantastique, Gendered Gothic, and Chinese Horror Fiction”
^{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}

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
“Official Causes of Death: A Reading of Poetry on Hong Kong & China”
^{Wednesday 18 February 2026}
^{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}

^Presentation
“Wombs under Siege: Feminist Dystopias and the One-Child Policy in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature”
^{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}

^Co-organiser
Archival Hong Kong: Places, Practices, and Public Culture
^{Thursday 11 – Friday 12 December 2025 | Hong Kong Studies Symposium 2025}
^Website
^{Hong Kong Studies}

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

^Co-organiser
Anglophone & Sinophone
^{Monday 17 – Wednesday 19 November 2025 | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 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}

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
“Ghosts in the City: Hong Kong Poems of Protest and Memory”
^{Friday 24 October 2025}
^{Lau China Institute, King’s College London}

^Talk
“Bodies of Control: Women, Reproduction, and State Power in Chinese Dystopias”
^{Thursday 23 October 2025}
^{Lau China Institute, King’s College London}

^{Masterclass and discussion}
Masterclass with Poet Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
^{Saturday 5 July 2025 | International Writers Collective, Amsterdam}

^Presentation
“Literary Activism and the Democratic Polycrisis in Post-2019 Hong Kong”
^{Thursday 15 – 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.}

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

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

^Presentation
“Intensifying Sinophone Literature: The Editorial Mediation of Cha and the Concept of a Sino-Atmosphere”
^{Friday 28 – 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.}

^Lecture
“Dystopian Narratives, Feminism, & China”
^{Monday 24 March 2025}
^Poster
^{Department of Modern Languages: Linguistics, Literature and Translation | Department of Modern English Literature and American Literature, The University of Liège.}

^Lecture
“We Are What We’re Made Of: The Evolution and Translation in Hong Kong Poetry”
^{Tuesday 18 March 2025}
^{Handouts| Poster}
^{Department of Interpretation and Translation, The University of Bologna.}

^{Keynote address}
“At the Tip of Hong Kong’s Tongue”
^{Friday 22 November 2024 | Translating the Multilingual Symposium}
^{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.}

^Presentation
“A Cantonese Note of Cantonese Contempt”
^{Friday 22 November 2024 | Translating the Multilingual Symposium}
^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.}

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
“Are You Becoming Critically Endangered?: Poetry of Exile, Protest and Reparation”
^{Thursday 21 November 2024}
^{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.}

^Lecture
“Antigone’s Right to Bury Her Brother: A Secular Reconsideration and Its Connection to the Hong Kong Protests”
^{Thursday 21 November 2024}
^{Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Chicago}

^{Keynote address}
“Hong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographies”
^{Monday 18 – Tuesday 19 November 2024 | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2024}
^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}

^Co-organiser
Hong Kong Diaspora & Adaptation
^{Monday 18 – Tuesday 19 November 2024 | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 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}

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
Red Bean Reading and Conversation at Burley Fisher

^{Wednesday 9 October 2024}
^{Burley Fisher Books, Red Bean Poetry, and English @ CUHK}

^{Book launch reading}
New books by Claire Crowther and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
^{Tuesday 8 October 2024}
^Website
^{Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London. Shearsman} ^Books

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
Gathering Leaves—poetry reading: journeys
^{Saturday 5 October 2024}
^{Gathering Leaves Hong Kong, Red Bean Poetry, and English @ CUHK}

^{Poetry reading and discussion}
“Echoes of Hong Kong: Poetry and Politics”
^{Thursday 4 July 2024}
^Website| ^Poster
^{Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation & the FrauenGenderBibliothek at Saarland University}

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

^Lecture
“Towards a Possible Reparative Reading of Incidental Images of Hong Kong in Western Media”
^{Tuesday 7 May 2024}
^{Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation}

^Lecture
“May 33: Codes, Creativity, and Censorship in China”
^{Thursday 11 April 2024}
^{Käte Hamburger College for Cultural Practices of Reparation}

^Co-organiser
Translating Hong Kong (2)
^{Monday 6 – Tuesday 7 November 2023 | Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 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.}

^{Poetry reading}
Writing in the Sinophone: A Bilingual Reading
^{Thursday 19 October 2023}
^Website
^{Iowa City Public Library, the International Writing Program and the Center for Asian Pacific Studies, University of Iowa}

^Presentation
“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}
^Website
^{Chinese Humanities & Arts Workshop, the Obermann Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Asia & Pacific Studies, University of Iowa}

^{Poetry reading}
Global Voices: A Collaborative Performance with City of Asylum & The University of Iowa

^{Monday 10 October 2023 | LitFest 2023: Pittsburgh International Literary Festival}
^Website

^{Poetry reading with jazz}
Jazz Poetry Concert & Collaboration

^{Monday 9 October 2023 | LitFest 2023: Pittsburgh International Literary Festival}
^Website

^Presentation
“Thought Language: A Metalinguistic Inquiry into Hybridity, Self-Translation, and the Unhomed Subject”

^{Friday 1 September 2023 | IWP Panel Discussion Series: Living on Linguistic Fault Lines}
^Website
^{Iowa Public City Library and the International Writing Program,University of Iowa}

^Presentation
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
^{文 Friday 24 March 2023 | 文學香港 Hong Kong Studies Series: Literary Hong Kong panel discussion}
^Website
^{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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