Department of Comparative Literature

Archives as Sites of Memory & Resistance

Date: 19 April 2018 (Thurs)
Time: 5pm-6:30pm
Venue: Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Speaker: Mr. Daniel C. Tsang (Fulbright Research Scholar at Chinese University of Hong Kong Library)

Abstract:
In post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong, how are the street occupations remembered and what has happened to the artifacts generated? And what about earlier protests? U.S. Fulbright Research Scholar Dan Tsang, based in Hong Kong, presents his research into the preservation of historical memory of protest culture in Hong Kong, and what “archiving” means for activists as well as archivists. He asks: Will archives serve as a future site of resistance?

Bio:
Mr. Daniel C. Tsang is a visiting Fulbright Research Scholar at Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, researching how protest culture in Hong Kong is being preserved. He is also an honorary research fellow at HKU’s Public Opinion Programme. A Distinguished Emeritus Librarian at University of California, Irvine, he was there for over three decades, where he was also more recently in charge of web archiving political literature, including the 2014 Umbrella Movement. His research has interrogated social science data with sexual liberation movements, as well as media depictions of visible and invisible minorities. He has also researched diplomatic records on Hong Kong, including those on Vietnamese boat people and on the future of Hong Kong. He blogs at http://subversities.blogspot.com

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All are welcome

Co-organized by:

American Studies, The School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU;

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), HKU;

Department of Comparative Literature, HKU