International Symposium on Cloud, Heat, Sea, Wind in the Light of Ecological Civilization

Venue: Zoom (https://hkbu.zoom.us/j/94659950484)

Meeting ID: 946 5995 0484

Speakers' bio and abstracts: 

https://hkbuanthropocene.wixsite.com/anthropocenestudies/featured-project

Enquiry: anthropoceneccc@gmail.com

Program on 30 April (Saturday) Hong Kong Time

9 am Welcome and Introduction

Panel 1: Activism, Exoticism, and Multispecies Imaginations

Moderator: Kwai-cheung Lo

9:05 am (9:05 pm, Friday, East Coast Time) Carlos Rojas, “An Ecological Analysis of Environmental Activism in China”

9:25 am (8:25 pm, Friday, Central Time) Chuen-Fung Wong, “Rethinking the Nature in China’s ‘Minority’ Musical Exoticism”

9:45 am Emily Yu Zong, “Of Meat, Plant, and Soil: Multispecies Imaginations of Hong Kong”

10:05-10:35 am Discussion

Panel 2: Air, Wind-Water, Sound, and Space in Ecological Crisis

Moderator: Howard Yuen-fung Choy

11:00 am Winnie L.M. Yee, “Breathing and Singing in the Air: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Literary and Visual Narratives of Air in Post-socialist China”

11:20 am Kiu-wai Chu, “Feng Shui and the Civil Alternative Eco-civilisation: Geomancy and Ecology in Chinese Cinema”

11:40 am Enoch Yee-lok Tam, “The Sound Ecology in Hong Kong Ethnographic Documentaries”

12:00 noon Wai-ping Yau, “Chinese SF in the Anthropocene”

12:20 – 1: 00 pm Discussion

Panel 3: Governmentality and China’s Ecological Civilization

Moderator: Jessica Yeung

3:30 pm (9:30 am, Central Europe Time) Zimu Zhang, “Green Elegies: Ecofeminist Reading of Toxicity and Trauma in the Making of Chinese Ecological Civilization”

3:50 pm (8:50 am, UK Time) Victor Fan, “Ecology: From Governmentality to Interdependencies”

4:10 pm Kwai-Cheung Lo, “China’s Cloud Control in the Shadows of Ecological Civilization”

4:30-5:00 pm Discussion