The symposium is open to the public. Please email chk.library@utoronto.ca to register.
November 18, 2024 (Monday)
10:20–10:30 | Welcoming Address
Maria Lau (Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto)
Chris Song (University of Toronto)
10:30–12:00 | Keynote
Moderator: Chris Song (University of Toronto)
Hong Kong Diasporic Writing’s Real and Hallucinated Geographies
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University)
2:00–3:00 | Diaspora and the Arts
Moderator: Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)
Tiffany Sia’s Wet Ontology: Of Dampness, Tears, and Liquidity
Abel Song Han (Cornell University)
Dragon Boys and the Tail of “Hongcouver”: Tracing Hong Kong-Canada Migration, Community Connection and Cultural Co-production
Winnie Yanjing Wu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
3:30–5:30 | Graduate Students Colloquium
3:30–4:30 | First Half
Discussion: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Cha | Saarland University)
Protean Temporality in a Hong Kong Science Fiction Adaptation: From Ni Kuang’s 1000 Years Cat to Massified Slime Peril
Tif Fan (University of Toronto)
The Complexities of Adaptation: A Study on Christ of Nanjing
Allison Feng (University of Toronto)
Celluloid Spectres in Rouge: Adapting Cinematic Haunting, from Lilian Lee’s Phantom Stardom to Stanley Kwan’s Theatrical Ghosts
Wenying Wu (University of Toronto)
4:30–5:30 | Second Half
Discussion: Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon: Historical Texts, Transcultural Games Content and Exotic Spaces
Guanxi Wu (University of Toronto)
Identity, Technology, Imagination: Revisiting Tsui Hark’s Multigenre Animated film, A Chinese Ghost Story
Tingying Li (University of Toronto)
The Ashes of Jianghu: Reimagining Jin Yong’s Legend of the Condor Heroes in Wong Kar-Wai’s The Ashes of Time
Samuel Minden (University of Toronto)
November 19, 2024 (Tuesday)
10:00–12:00 | Identity and Diaspora
Moderator: Mitchell Ma (University of Toronto)
Cultural Retention and Identity Negotiation through Systematic Cantonese Language
Education in the Diasporas
Zoe Lam and Raymond Pai (University of British Columbia)
Here/ There and No-where: Three Cases of Identity Disjuncture
Ellie Au (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), Rick Sin (York University), and Miu Chung Yan (University of British Columbia)
Estrangement, Resettlement & Community: A Qualitative Study of Post-2019 Hong Kong Young
Adults Diaspora at a Chinese Canadian Church
Christie Chan (Independent scholar)
From Democracy Wall to Lennon Wall: A Global Symbol of Resistance in the Hong Kong Diaspora
Derek Liu (Toronto Metropolitan University)
2:00–3:30 | Film Adaptation
Moderator: Bernice Cheung (University of Toronto)
Hear What We Saw, Feel What We Sing: Lyrical Explorations of Hong Kong Cinema in The State and Denki 皇都電姬
Cameron L. White (University of Michigan)
Illicit Love and Spaces of Adaptation in Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love
Chak-kwan Ng (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
The Precarious Diaspora: From Song of the Exile to Fly Me to the Moon
Hong Zou (University of Hong Kong)
4:00–5:30 | Diaspora in and out
Moderator: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Saarland University)
Nativity Without Nativism: Towards a Discourse on Hong Kong’s Imagined Indigeneity (1980s-2010s)
Wayne C.F. Yeung (University of Denver)
Being Otherwise: Diasporic Figurations of Hong Kong in Xu Xi’s This Fish is Fowl
Christopher N. Payne (University of Toronto)
Joy is Here: Romancing the “New” Overseas Filipino Worker in Hello, Love, Goodbye (2019)
Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
Organizers:
Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Support provided by the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Hong Kong-Canada Connections at the University of Toronto