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Speaker Professor Pheng Cheah (Visiting Research Professor) Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Research Professor in the School of English, HKU. He has written extensively on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (2003), and the co-editor of Derrida and the Time of the Political (2009), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003) and Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (1998). He has recently completed a book on theories of the world and world literature from the postcolonial South in an era of global financialization. He is currently working on a book on Chinese world cinemas, focusing on the films of Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang and Fruit Chan. |