Hong Kong in Eight Walks: Talks given by presenters from Finland, France, Sweden, and Taiwan
📌Event Details
Date & Time: 22/5/2025, 10:00-13:00
Venue: Room 201, Zhixing Building, Yangming Campus, NYCU
Online Access: https://meet.google.com/tkw-ab...
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
🗨️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 and Victoria Peak Garden
8. Oskar Smeds
Let’s Walk to the Beach: A Rhythmanalysis from Tsim Sha Tsui to Big Wave Bay
📌Respondents
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.
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.