Hong Kong Studies Association Annual Conference 2024

Date: 31 May – 1 June 2024 

Location: Sheffield University  

Theme: Co-producing Hong Kong in a Global Context: Continuity, Rupture, and Toward the Unknown 

Summary

Hong Kong has experienced drastic changes in the past decade. It morphed into a place, a community and a collective which irrevocably shatters the myth of its ‘political apathy’. We have seen an exodus of Hongkongers, the introduction of a new national security law and shifting relationality in the dynamic regional, national and international social-cultural-political landscape. In these complex contexts, Hong Kong has been reimagined, recreated, and repositioned by both established and emerging communities of Hongkongers, political actors, and academics across the world. Initiatives for making connections across communities and disciplines are an ongoing project for ‘co-producing Hong Kong’.  

This year’s Hong Kong Studies Association Annual Conference aims to provide the space for scholarly and practitioners’ communities to come together, to explore Hong Kong’s past, present and future. With all the political, policy, social and cultural changes that “Hong Kong” is experiencing, what has been continued, interrupted, and reinvented?  

Programme

[Day 1] 31 May

12:30-12:45 |Opening remarks 

12:45-14:15  | Panel I: Hong Kong History and Heritage in the Global World

• Chair: Terry AU-YEUNG  

The affordances of videogames for co-producing Hong Kong in a global context 

• Lee CHENG (Anglia Ruskin University) 

A culture of diaspora and of geopolitical entrapment: Reading Matthew Turner’s  ‘60’s/90’s 

• Nick CHU (Independent researcher) 

The Pitch and the Module: reimagining spatial histories of consumption in post-war Hong Kong 

• Vivien CHAN (University of Nottingham/Nottingham Trent University) 

Culture of Resurrection: A Way of Seeing, Reconnecting and Recalibrating post-2019 Hong Kong as a Continuum 

• Jesse NG (University of Cambridge) 

14:15-14:30 | Break 

14:30-16:15 | Panel II: PHD panel

• Chair: Malte KAEDING  

Through the lens of social identity: understanding public perceptions of police procedural justice and legitimacy in the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong 

• Angus CHAN (University College London) 

Money, Politics and the Future of Hong Kong: How Tycoons Secretly Influenced the Beginnings of Hong Kong’s Decolonisation 

• Matthew HURST (University of York) 

Digitalizing Disappearance: Virtual Curating, Cultural Preservation, and Collective Memory in a Post-Mobilization Society  

• Nathan TSANG (University of Southern California) 

The Discursive End of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protests 

• Paul KALETSCH (SOAS University of London) 

The Representation of Hong Kong in the Early 1960s’ Official Newspaper Supplement 

• Suk Man YIP (Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University) 

16:30-18:00 | Panel III: Hong Kong Society Reimagined

(a)

• Chair: Terry AU-YEUNG  

What is Hong Kong? Chan Koon-chung’s ‘Hong Kong as Method’ approach 

• Keenan MANNING (University of British Columbia) 

Rethinking the Meaning of Prosperity in Hong Kong: The Normativity of Urban Renewal and the Community Practices of Everyday Life 

• Maurizio MARINELLI (University College London) 

Tactical radicalization in the 2019 anti-ELAB movement 

• Sherman TAI (National Centre for Social Research) 

Hong Kong Reimagined: Professional Youth in Inclusive Education 

• Zhaojing YUAN and Yue ZHENG (Monash University) 

(b) 

• Chair: Wayne WONG  

Hong Kong pop music 

• Chun Yat Timothy LO (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) 

Performing the tale of Lo Ting, in the encounter with the emergence of ESEA identity in Britain 

• Clara CHEUNG (University of York) 

Jet-lagged Dialogue with a “Floating City” — a Study of Hon Lai Chu’s Coming-of-age Novels 

• Ng Sum LEUNG (University of Oxford) 

Reflecting on Hong Kong: The Visual Poetics of Ann Hui's Documentary Poetry 

• Shu Wei TU (National Taiwan University) 

Stitching Wounded Bonds: Trauma, Emigration, and Reconnection in Hon Lai-chu's Dystopian Narratives 

• Mung Ting CHUNG (University of Calgary) 

18:00 | Reception/Dinner

[Day 2]  1 June

9:00-9:30 | Registration

9:30 – 10:30 |  HKSA Keynote Address and Q&A 

• Chair: Siu Ting KONG (Durham University)   

Experiencing the coloniality of ‘Global Britain’ from below: Hong Kongers and the citizenship-migration-asylum nexus after Brexit 

• Professor Michaela BENSON (Lancaster University)  

10:30-10:45 | Break 

10:45-12:15 | Panel IV: Politics and Policy in the Global Hong Kong 

(a)

• Chair: Sui Ting KONG  

Announcing BN(O) Visa Route: Who are these people to the UK? 

• Terry AU-YEUNG (Cardiff University) 

Hong Kong’s coloniality and migration landscape 

• Yuk Wah CHAN (City University of Hong Kong) 

Hong Kong Christian migrants in the UK 

• Yvette TO (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 

Resettlement stress within the Hong Kong migrants in the UK 

• Ricci YUE (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) 

Diasporic connections and the making of “Global Britain”: Understanding Hongkonger diaspora politics in the UK through a relational lens 

• Catherine CRAVEN (University of Sheffield)

(b) 

• Chair: Malte KAEDING  

Build a localist community in the Global World: Public housing, government-aided housing, and government-aided homeownership in Hongkong, 1954–81 

• Luna LIU (University of Oxford) 

Hong Kong’s para-diplomacy  

• Iverson NG (Tallinn University) 

Metis diplomacy: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement  

• Zeng Ee LIEW (University of Surrey)

12:15-12:30 | Best PhD Paper Award Ceremony

12:30 | Lunch

12:45-15:30 | Community Forum 

Panel 1: Hongkonger Civil Society, Community Organising and their Future in the UK (45mins) 

• Chaired by Wing-sun CHAN Trafford Hongkongers CIC  

• Provocation: Video on community organising by Sui-Ting KONG (Durham University) 

• Wing-sun CHAN (Trafford Hongkongers CIC) 

• Marieshka BARTON (Durham University)

Panel 2: Systematic Employment Support for Hongkongers and other migrants  

• Chaired by Alex MAK (Trafford Hongkongers CIC) 

• Provocation: Focusing on employment by Trafford Hongkongers 

• Timothy JEFFREY (Growth Company) 

• Hei CHOW (UK Welcome Refugees)  

Panel 3: Services for Children, Young People and Elderly from an Intersectional Perspective  

• Chaired by Wing-sun CHAN (Trafford Hongkongers CIC) 

• Wing Kai FUNG (Liverpool Hope University) 

• Chris CHAN (Stockport Hongkongers Community Interest Group) 

• Sui-Ting KONG (Durham University) 

• (A short story of two elders in the UK - Snapshots of Hong Kong Blossoms 香港繁花掠影: Rootless Lotus and Sunflower) 

15:30-15:45 | Break

15:45-16:15 | Networking and the possibility of forming consortiums

16:15-16:30 | Closing and Feedback