Selected

“OFFICIAL CAUSES”—POEMS

(Wednesday 18 February 2026)

Everyday Life Reimagined ❀ Co-organiser
^{Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2026, 10-11 March 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)}

“Official Causes of Death: A Reading of Poetry on Hong Kong & China” (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}

Archival Hong Kong: Places, Practices, and Public Culture ❀ Co-organiser
^{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}
^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}

“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)
^Website
^{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}
^Website
^{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}
^Website
^{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}
^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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