Hong Kong in Eight Walks: Talks given by presenters from Czechia, Finland, France, Sweden, and Taiwan

2025-05-22 - 2025-05-22

Room 201, Zhixing Building, Yangming Campus, NYCU & Hybrid event

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📌Event Details

Date & Time: 22/5/2025, 10:00-13:00

Venue: Room 201, Zhi Xing Building, Yangming Campus, NYCU

Online Access: Click Here

Organizer: National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS-NYCU)

 

📌Schedule

1000-1010: Introduction 

1010-1030: Louis Lo, An Introduction to Walking Hong Kong

1030-1045: Presentation 1

1045-1100: Presentation 2

1100-1115: Presentation 3

1115-1130: Presentation 4

1130-1135: Break

1135-1150: Presentation 5

1150-1205: Presentation 6

1205-1220: Presentation 7

1220-1235: Presentation 8

1235-1300: Responses and Questions

 

📌Presentation Topics and Speakers

🗨️Introducing Remarks: Walking Hong Kong

Dr Louis Lo, Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

A scholar, photographer, and curator, Louis Lo is Associate Professor at the Institute of Visual Studies, Director of Zhi Xing Art Space, and a Researcher at the International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong in 2006. His research interests include the history of ideas, the city in representation, and temporality in Asian cinemas. He is the author of Male Jealousy: Literature and Film (Continuum, 2008) and has published more than ten articles collected in academic journals or edited book volumes. His current research includes the idea of baroque revenge, the cinema of Edward Yang, and walking in Hong Kong.

 

🗨️Buildings and Housing

1. Ann Heijkenskjöld

Wrapped in Transition: Bamboo Scaffolding’s Engineering Intelligence and Cultural Significance 

2. Vojtěch Soukup

Square-Foot Souls: Understanding Hong Kong’s Housing Conditions through Poetry, Photography, and Cinema

 

🗨️Art and the Everyday Life

3. Max Hsu

Walking Yuen Long District: Reading the Everyday Life

4. Heloise ZiTi Yang 

Reading the Art Scenes: Art Central, The Art Centre, and M+ 

 

🗨️Eating and Beliefs 

5. Tamara Andreasyan 

Eat, Pray, Walk: Visiting the Sikh Temple in Hong Kong

6. Waldemar Valojärvi

Reading Dim Sum as a Cultural Practice: Food, Identity, and Ritual in Hong Kong

 

🗨️The Rhythm:

7. Nora Koski

Sensing the Rhythm: From Shek Tong Tsui to Victoria Peak Garden

8. Oskar Smeds

Let’s Walk to the Beach: A Rhythmanalysis from Tsim Sha Tsui to Big Wave Bay

 

📌Respondents

Dr. Ian Fong, intendent scholar based in Hong Kong

Dr. Vincenz Serrano, Associate Professor, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)

 

Ian Fong is an independent scholar teaching literary and cultural studies in various institutions in Hong Kong. He received his PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong. His latest contributed chapter can be found in Multidisciplinary Representation of Home and Homeland in Diaspora (New York: Routledge, 2024), and his forthcoming articles appear in Jacques Derrida and Film Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2025) and Shaping Global Culture through Screen Writing: Women Who Write Our Worlds (Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 2025). All of them are related to Hong Kong, walking, and the comparative studies of cultural texts.

 

A poet and scholar, Vincenz Serrano is an Associate Professor at the Literary and Cultural Studies Programme, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), and is the editor-in-chief of Kritika Kultura. His poetry book Now is a New No was published by Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2024. He was recently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.