Speaker: Prof. Weihsin GUI (Associate Professor of English, University of California-Riverside, USA)
Date: 22 April 2022 (Friday)
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Zoom Link: https://eduhk.zoom.us/j/93297637413
Zoom Meeting ID: 932 9763 7413
Talk title: Everyday Life and Affordances in Koh Hong Teng’s Singaporean Comics
Abstract:
My talk examines the comics of Singaporean illustrator and artist Koh Hong Teng, who stands out in the Singaporean comics scene due to his meticulous attention to visual and physical details and his depictions of everyday lives of ordinary Singaporeans. I focus on a few of Koh’s shorter, anthologized comics as well as two of his longer collaborative works, Gone Case (2010) and Ten Sticks One Rice (2012). While none of Koh’s comics are explicitly engaged in socio-political critique, this does not mean that his comics shy away from commentary about such issues in contemporary Singapore. Drawing on Caroline Levine’s discussion of affordances in Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2017), I show how Koh’s comics create visual and narrative affordances for readers to think and raise questions about social life and power structures through his quotidian representations of common Singaporeans.
Speaker:
Weihsin Gui is Associate Professor of English and Director of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California-Riverside. He is the author of National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics (2013) and the editor of Common Lines and City Spaces (2014), an essay collection on Singaporean poet Arthur Yap. He also co-edited a 2016 journal special issue of Interventions about Singapore and neoliberalism (2016) and another 2020 special issue of Antipodes on literary and cultural connections between Southeast Asia and Australia-New Zealand. He has published several essays is various academic journals, among them an essay on “Contemporary Literature From Singapore” that appeared in the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Literature (2017), and a chapter on “Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora” that was published in Volume 10 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (2019).
Thanatic Ethics Winter Webinar Series – Talk 2
Date: 4 February 2022 (Friday)
Time: 10 -11 AM CET (5 -6 PM HKT)
Title: Death here and now: Intimacy and politics in an ethnobiographical and photographic film (in French and English)
Includes film clips from ‘Quel côté de l’absence?’ (with subtitles in English)
Speakers:
Valérie Cuzol (Max Weber Centre, France)
Frédéric Lecloux (Photographer and documentary maker)
To see the full abstract and bio of the speaker, please visit Thanatic Ethics’s website.
Thanatic Ethics Winter Webinar Series – Talk 1
Date: 14 January 2022 (Friday)
Time: 10-11 AM CET (5-6 PM HKT)
Speaker: Alessandro Corso (Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
Zoom Link: https://eduhk.zoom.us/j/98732685668
Zoom Meeting ID: 987 3268 5668
To see the full abstract and bio of the speaker, please visit Thanatic Ethics’s website.
題目：第二媒介時代的動漫文化：從二次元戀愛談起
講者：張歷君教授
日期：2021年12月9日 (星期四)
時間：下午15:30 – 17:00
語言：廣東話
形式：Zoom線上會議
會議連結：https://eduhk.zoom.us/j/98853601518
會議ID：988 5360 1518
講座簡介：
二次元戀愛和萌系女佛為何會與「社會的遊戲化」扯上關係？初音未來何以會是一種「生產性消費」（prosumption）的產物？社交媒體和網誌文化又如何影響香港漫畫家智海和江康泉的動漫創作？本講座將以波斯特（Mark Poster）的信息方式和第二媒介時代理論入手，探討2000年代以來東亞動漫文化與媒介環境之間複雜微妙的互動關係。
講者簡介：
張歷君，香港中文大學文化研究哲學博士。現為香港中文大學中國語言及文學系客座助理教授，亦為香港中文大學圖書館香港文學特藏顧問委員、《現代中文學刊》通訊編委、《方圓：文學及文化專刊》學術編輯、《字花》雜誌編委以及蘇州大學海外漢學（中國文學）研究中心的成員。研究專著《瞿秋白與跨文化現代性》於2020年由香港中文大學出版社出版。
Speakers: Oskar Valles, Aggie Lam and guests
Date: 10 December 2021 (Friday)
Time: 15:30 – 16:30
Zoom Link: https://eduhk.zoom.us/j/99541260267
Zoom Meeting ID: 995 4126 0267
This webinar is part of the event series Otherness and Belonging in Hong Kong.
Abstract:
Dear Hong Kong, is a photo book of 200 pages featuring inspiring people from different countries, all living in Hong Kong, and their contribution to our city. The final goal of the project is to show the cultural diversity of the city through personal stories that inspire, promote inclusivity, break existing stereotypes and widen horizons.
About the speakers:
Oskar Valles
After 9 years in Hong Kong Oskar wants to give back to the city doing a project to increase social awareness in diversity and inclusion. He deeply believes in the unity of all humans, regardless of race, occupation, religion, or any other excuses people sometimes use to separate themselves from others.
Aggie Lam
Aggie’s life mission is to collect and discover as many inspiring stories as possible. She’s driven to slowly influence people around her to be more compassionate in order to achieve mutual understanding and respect among people across different backgrounds. She currently works in a social enterprise focusing on cultural education.
