*The post-screening discussion will be conducted in Cantonese

日期︰2019 年 2 月 18 日 (一）
Date: 18 Feb 2019 （Mon)

時間︰18:15-21:30
Time: 18:15-21:30

地點︰新界大埔露屏路十號香港教育大學田家炳演講廳（D1-LP-02）
Venue: Tin Ka Ping Lecture Theatre (D1-LP-02), The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong

嘉賓: 《傘上》監製舒琪
Speaker, Shu Kei, Producer, Umbrella Diaries

語言: (電影）粵語，中英文字幕；（分享會）粵語
Language:
(Film) Cantonese, with subtitles in Chinese and English; (Discussion) Cantonese

對象︰教大學生、教職員及公眾人士
Target: EdUHK Students and Staff & Public

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Limited seats only. Please register.

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簡介
《傘上：遍地開花》以第一身的角度紀錄了2014年「雨傘運動」中的每個細節，帶著觀眾進入了整場運動的動作核心，見證了香港民主如何遍地開花。影片入圍第 55 屆金馬獎最佳紀錄片。

梁思眾導演的作品曾獲多個影展選映，包括2013年的《烏坎》，以及2006年的紀錄長片《曙光球隊》，均在香港的華語紀錄片電影節中奪得最佳紀錄長片大獎。

Introduction

“Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella” records every detail of the Umbrella Movement happened in 2014 from the first-person perspective. It puts us at the heart of the action, allowing viewers to experience the highs and lows of that remarkable summer, when Hong Kong witnessed a “blossoming of democracy”. This documentary has been nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 55th Golden Horse Awards.

James Leong’s documentaries have screened at festivals such as “Wukan: The Flame of Democracy” filmed in 2013 and Homeless FC in 2006. They were both awarded Best Feature at the Freedom Film Festival at the Chinese Documentary Festival.

導演：梁思眾
Director: James Leong

The Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities at The Education University of Hong Kong is proud to announce that Hong Kong’s first ever One City, One Book initiative will be hosted during the 2018/2019 academic year.

One City One Book Hong Kong （我城我書）is a community reading programme which aims to encourage as many people as possible, to read and discuss a single book at around the same time. Each year students, scholars, and readers of all kinds will focus their attention on one single book. A series of activities related to the chosen book will be held around Hong Kong, including discussions of the book and its themes, along with exhibitions, film screenings, school events, book discussions, author visits, cultural performances, library events, and so forth. The goals of the initiative are to build a sense of community and promote reading, discussion, and civic engagement. To get started, see below for this year’s book!The book chosen for the first ever One City One Book initiative in Hong Kong is The Arrival (2006), a wordless graphic novel by the Chinese Australian graphic novelist Shaun Tan.

Please visit onecityonebook.hk for further details. Should you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at oncecityonebook@eduhk.hk.

We regret to inform you that the captioned talk is cancelled. Dr. Mallot was scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong over the weekend. He has had to cancel his ticket because of the approaching super typhoon.

“I Used to be Human Once”: Disability in Contemporary Indian Writing

Date: 19 September 2018 (Wednesday)

Time: 12:30 – 14:00

Venue: B3-P-04, Tai Po Campus, The Education University of Hong Kong

Abstract

How does disability studies impact postcolonial discourse? How do postcolonial writers address differently-abled subjects? This talk seeks to illuminate and interrogate the intersections – fruitful and fraught – between these fields, covering a wide range of texts but paying particular attention to Mahesh Dattani’s Tara (a play about conjoined twins) and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (a novel about the 1984 Bhopal disaster).  As South Asian disability rights advocates struggle to achieve more legal rights and more practical modes of accessibility, writers have repeatedly turned to differently-abled protagonists, with mixed intentions and varied results.  At the center of this hotly debated discourse lies a central, uncomfortable question:  what does it mean to be “normal”?  What, in some cases, does it mean to be “human”?

Bio

J. Edward Mallot is an Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Arizona State University. His book Memory, Nationalism, and Narrative in Contemporary South Asia was published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has published on a wide range of postcolonial and transnational authors, including Amitav Ghosh, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunesekera, Kamila Shamsie, Nathaniel Mackey, and Karen Tei Yamashita, among others.

All are welcome and no registration is required. Please send any enquiries to Mr. Manni Cheung at 2948 7360 or via email cheungml@eduhk.hk.

Date: 15-16 June 2018

Venue: The Education University of Hong Kong

This is the inaugural conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) network. This network was established in 2017 to provide a regional hub for scholars of modernist studies within Asia. A central aim of the network is to facilitate a gathering of international modernist scholars on an annual basis and in a variety of Asian universities and contexts. Our first conference is jointly supported by the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities (CPCH) at the Education University of Hong Kong.

Please visit the conference site for further details

Thinking-with Bark: Activating a postdevelopmental logic in early childhood education

Mindy Blaise, Professor, Early Childhood Education, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

15:30 – 17:00, 19th April 2018

B3-LP-04, Tai Po Campus EdUHK

This paper sets out to challenge the developmental logic that works hard to tame, simplify, and control young children’s learning. As a challenge to this kind of logic, I have been conducting a long term multisensory and affect-focused inquiry of children’s relations with place. Weekly I go walking with a group of children and their teachers to Stony Creek, located on the lands of the Kulin Nations people in Melbourne, Australia. By paying attention to children’s relations with Eucalyptus trees, we created the Bark Studio as a place for experimentations and provocations.

In the Bark Studio we have been wondering about bark movements and ask, “How does movement let knowing happen?” We are intrigued with this question because it challenges the idea that knowing presupposes what is to be known, or that knowing presupposes the subject.

By thinking with movement, movements of thought, and bark materiality, I show how bark movements put into motion the relational potential of the bark. Several encounters with bark, wind, and water will be explored. I will explore how teachers and young children are putting thinking into movement and movement into thinking and how this makes room for relational complexity. I argue that relational complexity activates a postdevelopmental logic that unleashes, complicates, and opens-up learning in early childhood education.

Professor Mindy Blaise’s interdisciplinary research involves bringing together the environmental humanities and early childhood education to generate postdevelopmental pedagogies for the Anthropocene. She provokes teachers to challenge human exceptionalism and ‘make room for the more’ to generate ethico-political practices for living well together in these uncertain times.