{"id":28500,"date":"2024-11-07T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/hlt\/?p=28500"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:38:01","slug":"narrating-love-and-care-international-conference-hosted-by-the-ass-at-hong-kong-metropolitan-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/hlt\/2024\/11\/07\/narrating-love-and-care-international-conference-hosted-by-the-ass-at-hong-kong-metropolitan-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrating Love and Care: International Conference Hosted by the A&SS at Hong Kong Metropolitan University"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To celebrate Hong Kong Metropolitan University's (HKMU) 35th anniversary, the School of Arts and Social Sciences (A&SS) at HKMU organized an international conference titled \u201cNarrating Love and Care in Global China of Our Time: Mobility, Materiality and Multiplicity\u201d between 11 and 13 October 2024. The President of HKMU, Professor Paul LAM Kwan-sing, delivered a heartwarming welcome speech, expressing how HKMU has transformed from the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong, founded 35 years ago, to the vibrant, all-around, comprehensive university.<\/h5>
The Vice President of HKMU, Professor Charles KWONG Che-leung, earnestly welcomed the guests and emphasized that the key to success is teamwork and collaboration. The Acting-dean of A&SS and the conference convenor, Professor Eva Kit Wah MAN, introduced the five themes, structured into five panels of the conference, to the audience: \u201cNarrating Chinese Diaspora,\u201d \u201cGender and Affects,\u201d \u201cNarrating Posthumanism in Chinese Science Fiction,\u201d \u201cCollective Chinese Cinephilia,\u201d and \u201cNarrative as Therapy.\u201d The organizing committee includes convenor Professor Eva Kit Wah MAN, co-convenor Professor Amy Wai-sum LEE, Dr. Xuying YU, Dr. Kaby Wing-Sze KUNG, Dr. Timmy Chih-Ting CHEN, and Dr. Penn Tsz Ting IP, all of whom also served as panel chairs at the conference.<\/h5>
Out of the 25 speakers at the conference, half of them are from the universities of Asia, Europe, and North America, including Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Nagoya University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Nottingham, the University of St. Andrews, the Uppsala University, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Montana State University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Vermont. The conference also invited\u00a0a\u00a0distinguished independent scholar and\u00a0a\u00a0renowned\u00a0filmmaker living in the\u00a0United Kingdom.<\/h5>
The conference also included scholars and researchers from local institutes, for instance, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, and HKMU scholars. Through interdisciplinary knowledge exchanges spanning the fields of cultural studies, film, literature, history, philosophy, and medical humanities, the conference deliberated the diverse faces of love and care in Global China across the past, present, and future.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Photo: Keynote speakers, panelists, and conference organizers<\/h5>
After the academic panels and deliberations, the conference organized a performance by the Encounter Playback Theatre Group. The theatre play was open to the public, which attracted a great number of audiences, some of whom shared their personal stories related to love and care, marking an artistic and touching closure of the international conference.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Photo: (left 1) Kiki Ng, Director of the Encounter Playback Theatre; (left 2) Professor Kin-yuen Wong, one of the keynote speakers of the conference, sharing his personal story at the playback theatre.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Photo: Encounter Playback Theatre and the conference organizers<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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For more details, please click here: https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/hlt\/conferences\/international-conference-2024\/<\/a><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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