Hong Kong Studies Association Annual Conference 2022

Date: 10-11 June 2022   

Location: University of Westminster and University of Surrey

Theme: Hong Kong 20 Years After the Handover: Changes, Trends and Reflections

Programme

[Day 1] 10 June at the University of Westminster

13:00-14:30 | Panel I: Why Hong Kong Studies: comparative knowledge and ways forward  

• Discussant: Professor Chris Hughes 

Hong Kong's human rights and democracy campaigns in comparative perspective: thinking through comparisons with the International Anti-Apartheid Movement and South African Liberation Struggle 

• Dan CONWAY  (Westminster University)  

Women activists’ quest of love and justice in post-colonial HK: From the Umbrella Movement to the Revolution of our times 

• Sui-Ting KONG; Petula Sik-Ying HO and Stevi JACKSON (Durham University, University of Hong Kong, and University of York)

Practice of post-handover conventional party interactions between Hong Kong and Taiwan: A three-level ontological security framework 

• Adrian CHIU (SOAS)  

14:45-16:15 | Panel II: PHD panel

Educational Reform in Post-handover Hong Kong: A critical analysis of the recast of Liberal Studies as Citizenship and Social Development 

• Adrian YAN Kin Cheung (UCL Institute of Education)  

An Analysis of Post-Handover Cantopop: Music as Cultural and Political Expression 

• Bernice Hoi Ching CHEUNG (University of Toronto)  

The Second Young Plan: Democratisation through the Urban Council 

• Will WU Wai Man (Chinese University of Hong Kong)  

Archiving Social Movement Memories amidst Autocratization: A Case Study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive

• Kin-long TONG (University College London)  

16:30-18:00 | Panel III: Hong Kong Diaspora: Culture, Community, and Identity 

• Discussant: Professor LAW Wing Sang  

Town Talk: A Substitute for Representative Democracy? Governance Strategies of the Colonial State in British Hong Kong, 1950s –1975  

• Florence MOK (Nanyang Technological University)  

Villains collude together: Rethinking Infernal Affairs at its 20th anniversary 

• Chris Y. H. TSUI and Regina T. Y. WONG (Leicester and Hong Kong University)

Re-shaping the "Rule of Law" Identity: Hong Kong under China's Securitisation 

• Eric LAI (Georgetown University Law Center)  

18:00  | Reception/Dinner 

[Day 2]  11 June at the University of Surrey

10:00-11:30 | Panel IV: Challenges and opportunities of Hong Kong studies  

• Discussant: Dr Chris CHAN  

Rule-Breakers as Expert Rule-follower: The Ethno-methods of Protesting on Camera in the Old LegCo Chamber

• Terry AU-YEUNG (Keele University)  

Affordances of sound in Hong Kong’s post-handover political struggles

• Lee CHENG (Anglia Ruskin University)  

Under the Shadow of the 1997 Deadline: Discussions on urban development in the leased New Territories of Hong Kong, 1950-65 

• Wing-kin Tony CHUI (National University of Singapore) 

12:00-13:00 | Best PhD Paper Award Ceremony  

10:45-11:45 | HKSA Keynote Address and Q&A

Hong Kong 1997-2022: The Rise and Fall of a Political Community 

• Speaker: Professor Jean-Philippe Béja (CNRS/CERI-Sciences-Po)   

13:15 | Lunch and Closing Remarks