Department of Comparative Literature

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Fall Semester 2022-2023 Seminar Series

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents

Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature

Seminar 1

Date: 19 October 2022 (Wed)

Time: 9:00 am–10:30 am (HKT)

Venue: On Zoom

Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures: Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Kazue Harada

Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of German, Russian, Asian, and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Miami University

Seminar 2

Date: 16 November 2022 (Wed)

Time: 10:30 am–12:00 pm (HKT)

Venue: On Zoom

Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

Jodi Kim

Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

Seminar 3

NEW DATE (rescheduled from Sep 21)

Date: 30 November 2022 (Wed)

Time: 10:30 am–12:00 pm (HKT)

Venue: On Zoom

Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literature

Erin Suzuki

Associate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

The series is coordinated by Dr. Su Yun Kim (suyunkim@hku.hk), Dr. Pei-yin Lin (pylin@hku.hk), and Dr. Alvin Wong (akhwong@hku.hk). Please visit our website, https://www.meal.hku.hk/research, for details or register through the following link https://linktr.ee/mealhku.

This series is supported by the School of Chinese, School of Humanities, and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.