Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Translating Hong Kong 2

Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Translating Hong Kong 2

The symposium is open to the public. Please email chk.library@utoronto.ca to register.

Venue: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto

Address: 8th Floor, Robarts Library, University of Toronto, 130 St George St., Toronto

Welcoming Address: 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Maria Lau (Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto)

Tammy Lai-ming Ho (Cha: An Asian Literary Journal)

Chris Song (University of Toronto)

Panel A: 10:45 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.
  • Lost in Translation? A Non-Linguistic Approach (and Its Limitations) to Rendering Heteroglossia in Western Language Translations of Contemporary Hong Kong Literature

     Joern Peter Grundmann (National Sun Yat-Sen University)

  • Elevating Western Taste – Foreignized Translation of Menus in Hong Kong Western Restaurants, 1930s–1960s

      Clement Tong (Trinity Western University)

  • Images of Hong Kong in English Translations of Hong Kong Literature: A Case Study of My City

      Zichen Zhao (RMIT University)

Panel B: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  • Translating Social Dreaming: Civil Society in Post-2014 Cantonese and Ukrainian Research

      Justin Tse (Singapore Management University) and Halyna Herasym (Dublin City University)

  • Translating Affect: Reading the Harcourt Village Scroll

      Jasmine Gui (York University)

Panel C: 3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
  • Lost in Translation: Displacement of Hong Kong Heritage in Metaverse

      Wendy S. Wong (York University)

  • Digitization as Translation: How Hong Kong Typographers Are Making Its Visual Culture More Identifiable, Legible and Accessible

      Jason Li (Independent Scholar)

Panel D: 4:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
  • The Problem of English in Translating Hong Kong

      Xu Xi (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts)

  • Playing with “Borders”: Saam Kap Dai Writing in Postwar Hong Kong

      Bauhinia Hill-tone Ho (University of Washington)

Organizers

Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough

Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal