Event Date
Program
10 October 2024
9:00–9:05 Welcome message
Eddy U, Director, UC Davis East Asian Studies
9:05–9:10 Opening remark
Ching Kwan Lee (Professor, UCLA)
9:10–10:30 Panel I Diasporic Politics in the Age of Globalization
Kennedy Wong (PhD candidate, University of Southern California), “Inter-Polar Framework: Mapping Hong Kongers’ Global Political Positionalities” (Discussant: Chia-Wei Lai)
Samuel Chan (Lecturer, Harvard University), “Diasporic Political Obligations” (Discussant: Wendy Cheng)
10:40–12:00 Panel II Diasporic Art and Poetry
Chia-wei Lai (PhD student, National Taiwan University), “Reimaging Connections with Chinese Diasporas through Art Publications: Ko Ling-Mei published “Chang Dai-Chien” after 1949” (Discussant: Chris Song)
Chia Cian Ko (Associate Professor, National Taiwan University), “Route of Poetry Across the Malacca Strait: Zhang Yunan and the Literature of Penang Island Port” (Discussant: Wayne Yeung)
1:10–3:10 Panel III Diaspora and Literature
Wayne Yeung (Assistant Professor, University of Denver), “Conceptualizing the Cantophone: Thinking Hong Kong literature as a trans-diasporic formation.” (Discussant: Ting Guo)
Shih-chang Chen (PhD, National Taiwan University), “The Stinks, Agency, and Metamorphoses of East-Asian Female Bodies in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” (Discussant: Justin Wu)
Chris Song (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Hong Kong Fiction on Diaspora and Its Enduring Discontent” (Discussant: Shih-Chang Chen)
3:20–4:40 Panel IV Diaspora and Advocacy
Ugyan Choedup (Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University), “Rethinking Exile Tibetan Democracy: Insights from Early Exile Political Manifestoes.” (Discussant: Tenzin Lhadon)
Wendy Cheng (Professor, Scripps College), “Locating Taiwanese Americans in Global History (Discussant: Tenzing Wangdak)
4:50–5:50 Keynote address I
Peter Baehr (Fellow, Center of Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida), “After the Uprising: Hong Kong Emigres Amid Loss, Solidarity, and Vengeance
11 October 2024
9:00–9:05 Opening remark
Michelle Yeh (Distinguished Professor, UC Davis)
9:05–10:25 Panel V Diasporic Art and Religion
Ting Guo (Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong), “From Sorcery Aunties with Love: Political Diasporas and the Enchanted Economy of Hope” (Discussant: Joseph Ho)
Joseph Ho (Associate Professor, Albion College), “Between Worlds, Within Frames: Transnational Visual Culture and Religious Diaspora in Cold War Taiwan” (Discussant: Quinton Huang)
10:35–11:55 Panel VI Diaspora and Nationalism
Tenzin Lhadon (Research Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute), “Gender and Nationalism: The Case of the Tibetan Diaspora” (Discussant: Ugyan Choedup)
Justin Wu (Assistant Professor, CSU Sacramento), “The Diasporic Politics of Imagining China: Rethinking Nationalism through the Writings of Liu Ta-jen” (Discussant: Chia Cian Ko)
1:10–2:30 Panel VII Diaspora and Citizenship
Quinton Huang (MA student, University of British Columbia), “Becoming ‘Local’ at the Margins of the Margins: Displacement, Identity, and Networks in Hong Kong’s Postwar Squatter Settlements” (Discussant: Kennedy Wong)
Tenzing Wangdak (PhD student, UC Irvine), “Paper Citizenship: The Materiality of Tibetan Identity in Exile” (Discussant: Samuel Chan)
2:40–3:40 Keynote address II
Howard Chiang (Professor, UCSB), “Taiwan Extra and the Future of Sinophone Studies.”