Dates:

Thursday June 25th, Friday June 26th and Saturday June 27th

Venue for all 3 days:

Arts Faculty Conference Room, Room 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Day 1, Thursday June 25th

8:30-9:00

Registration and Opening Remarks
Douglas Kerr, Dean, Faculty of Arts (The University of Hong Kong)
Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)

9:00-10:30

Opening Keynote
Robert J C Young (New York University)
“The Nomos of Postcoloniality”
Chair: Douglas Kerr (HKU)

10:40-12:20

Colonial Shadows
Chair: Douglas Kerr

10:40-11:20

Nicholas Harrison (King’s College, London)
“Colonial education and the postcolonial teacher”

11:20-12:00

Elleke Boehmer (Oxford University)
“Postcolonialism avant la lettre”

12:00-12:20

Discussion                         

2:00-3:40

Phenomenalities of Poverty and Suffering
Chair: Kendall Johnson (HKU)

2:00-2:40

Ankhi Mukherjee (Oxford University)
“Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny”

2:40-3:20

Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)
“World Heritage Preservation and the Unworlding of the Subaltern World”

3:20-3:40

Discussion

3:55-5:35

What is Indigenous?
Chair: Esther Yau (HKU)

3:55-4:35

Toral J. Gajarawala (NYU)
“The Encounter: Global Indigeneity and the Subaltern”

4:35-5:15

Elaine Yee Lin Ho (HKU)
“Locating Anglophone Writing in Sinophone Hong Kong”

5:15-5:35

Discussion

Day 2, Friday June 26th

9:30-12:00

Postcoloniality Right and Left
Chair: Marco Wan (HKU)

9:30-10:10

Wendy Larson (University of Oregon)
“The Chinese Gorky, Permanent Revolution, and the Postcolonial”

10:10-10:50

Jini Kim Watson (NYU)
“Good Dictator, Bad Dictator: Rethinking Postcolonial Studies in the Asia/ Pacific”

10:50-11:30

Caroline S. Hau (Kyoto University)
“Multiple Colonialism and its Philippine Legacies”

11:30-12:00

Discussion

1:30-4:00

World Literature and Contemporary Empires
Chair: Chris Hutton (HKU)

1:30-2:10

Shu-mei Shih (HKU)
“Empires of the Sinophone”

2:10-2:50

Otto Heim (HKU)
“From Unincorporated Territory: Craig Santos Perez’s resiting of postcoloniality in America’s Pacific Century”

2:50-3:30

Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University)
“Forum Shopping: World Literature, Global Modernism, and the Postcolonial”

3:30-4:00

Discussion

4:15-6:15

Keynote
Dai Jinhua (Peking University)
“Postcolonial Theory in the 21st century”
Chair: Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)

Day 3, Saturday June 27th

9:15-10:55

Taiwan’s (Post)Coloniality
Chair: John Wong (HKU)

9:15-9:55

Pei-yin Lin (HKU)
“The Slippage between Empires: The production of the Colonized Subject in Taiwan (1920-1945)”

9:55-10:35

Liang-ya Liou (National Taiwan University)
“Taiwan’s Postcoloniality and Postwar memories of Japan”

10:35-10:55

Discussion

11:10-12:50

From China to Hong Kong
Chair: Esther Yau

11:10-11:50

Lai-kwan Pang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
“De-Sovietization and the Modernity Project: PRC's Development of the National Form in the 1950s”

11:50-12:30

Daniel F. Vukovich (HKU)
“Hong Kong’s China and China’s Hong Kong: Politics Trapped in the Post-Colonial Enclave”

12:30-12:50

Discussion

2:40-4:20

Post/De-colonizing Hong Kong
Chair: Elaine Yee Lin Ho

2:40-3:20

Kwai-cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University)
“From Manchukuo to Hong Kong: Postcolonizing Asian Colonial Experiences”

3:20-4:00

Tai-Lok Lui (The Hong Kong Institute of Education)
“Decolonization? What Decolonization?”

4:00-4:20

Discussion

4:35-6:15

Imagining Postcolonial Hong Kong
Chair: Pheng Cheah

4:35-5:15

Agnes Shuk-mei Ku (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
“Post-Colonial Cultural Trends in Hong Kong – Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global”

5:15-5:55

Stephen Yiu-wai Chu (HKU)
“Between Postcolonialities: Hong Kong’s Postcolonial Self-writing Reconsidered”

5:55-6:15

Discussion

6:15-6:25

Concluding remarks (Pheng Cheah)