Program
The symposium will be held at Room 7.45 & 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong. The symposium is generously supported by the Faculty of Arts and the School of English.
Thursday, December 6 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 14:30-16:00 |
|
Opening: welcome, introductions and orientations |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 16:00-17:00 |
|
Nina Nawalowalo (ONZM - Artistic Director The Conch Theatre Company,
Aotearoa New Zealand) with Tom McCrory (Executive Producer)
“Listening for the world that wants to emerge in the space between.” The search for a Kaupapa Pasifika space for creation in the Theatre making of The Conch |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 18:00 |
|
Dinner at Bijas (Vegetarian Restaurant, HKU Campus, G/F) |
|
| |
|
|
|
Friday, December 7 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 9:00-10:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Wilson Chik (HKU)
Looming Islands
- Dorita Hannah (University of Auckland; UTAS; Aalto, Finland)
Island Spacing and Oceanic Dramaturgy
- Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren (MICA, Baltimore; Hong Kong)
Heritage and Urban Island Studies: Towards an Afro-Asian Futurism
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 10:30-11:00 |
|
Coffee break (Room 7.58) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 11:00-12:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker & Kaipulaumakaniolono Baker (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa)
He ‘Ale Lau Loa: The Impact of Hawaiian-Medium Theatre
- Michelle Johansson (The Black Friars Theatre Company, Auckland)
Of Words, Warriors and War
- Frederick Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong & UH Mānoa)
Hong Kong’s Islandness
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 12:30-14:00 |
|
Lunch (Room 7.58) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 14:00-15:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Anjuli Gunaratne (HKU)
Maskarade Pathways: Sylvia Wynter’s Theatrical Maroonage
- Rashna Nicholson (HKU)
Future for Palestine: An Exegesis on the Triad of Development, Soft Power and Palestinian culture
- Neluka Silva (University of Colombo)
Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges: Exploring Conflict and Peace in Rwanda and Sri Lanka through theatre
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 15:30-16:00 |
|
Coffee break (Room 7.58) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 16:00-17:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Philip Hayward (University of Technology Sydney; Editor Shima)
Culture, Environment and Liminal Liquidity: Experiences of and lessons from the Chiloé aquapelago
- Monirul Huq (HKU)
Contested Space and Indigenous Arbitration: The Example of the Sundarbans
- Sei Kosugi (Osaka University)
Island-to-Island Imagination: Wu Ming-Yi, Eunice Andrada and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 20:00- |
|
Weird Pool Party, a new production of the HKU Black Box (LG.54)
Light dinner buffet outside the venue from 19:30; show starts at 20:00. |
|
| |
|
|
|
Saturday, December 8 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 9:30-10:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Cherie Chu (Victoria University Wellington)
Our lives as the Other Pacific: Appreciating these spaces
- Joanna Kidman (Victoria University Wellington)
Decolonising Island Time: Native Temporalities in the New Zealand Archipelago
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 10:30-11:00 |
|
Coffee break (Room 7.58) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 11:00-12:00 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
- Xiaojun Ding (University of Auckland)
“warmed with the breath of others”: Breathing in the Pacific and Taiwan
- Selina Tusitala Marsh (New Zealand Poet Laureate, University of Auckland)
Tokotoko: Bridging the Va, Telling Tales
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| 12:00-12:30 |
|
Box lunch (Room 7.58) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| 12:30-13:30 |
|
(Room 7.45) |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Closing: Reflections, Next Steps, and Following the Currents |
|
| |
|
|
