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Cha Reading Series 2020 | ZOOM
Cha readings, moderated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, take place via Zoom at 7:30-9:00 p.m. (weekdays) and on Saturday mornings (Hong Kong time). Please send any suggestions and comments to Tammy ([email protected]).
* See a list of past and forthcoming scheduled online events here: https://bit.ly/2QSPrQv
* Visit the Cha Reading Series website to see our previous events (2017-2019): https://chajournal.blog/cha-reading-series/
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Topic
Speakers
Status & Comments
40
Race, Empire, and Solidarity in Asia
J Daniel Elam, Zifeng Liu, and Soo Ryon Yoon
Tuesday
21 July 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3hvNyou
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/30GmmNV
Meeting ID: 961 9352 5705
39
Utopia, Dystopia and Heterotopia of Today’s World
Mark Bahnisch, Andrea Lingenfelter
38
Ignorance and COVID-19
Aurelio Asiain
37
Literature of Video Games: Emerging Practices and Collaborations
Christopher Patterson
36
Black Lives Matter & Hong Kong
Emily Chow, Titus Levi, Wesley McLaughlin, and Sakina Abdus Shakur
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
30 June 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2BVv0Ob
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2UR0Oe2
Meeting ID: 913 6051 3210
35
Queering China
Hongwei Bao, Alvin Wong, and Jamie J. Zhao
{{COMPLETED}
Thursday
16 July 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/377kJdt
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2MwLnmr
Meeting ID: 942 3163 7789
34
Cantonese and Education
Lian-Hee Wee
33
Writing COVID-19 (in collaboration with the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University)
Howard Choy, Oliver Farry, Jason S Polley, and Emma Zhang
Thursday
30 July 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3eV6ivz
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2z8sMKn
Meeting ID: 916 7763 1711
32
Crevice of History: A Tiananmen Reading (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Andy Barker, Susan Blumberg-Kason, Ting Guo, Amy Hwkins, Lucas Klein, Gregory Lee, Louisa Lim, Andrea Lingenfelter, Timothy O’Leary, William Nee, Ilaria Maria Sala, Sara Tung, Albert Wan, and Emma Zhang
{{COMPLETED}
Wednesday
3 June 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2ZAsEhE
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2Zt8eap
Meeting ID: 970 6585 9714
31
Tanslators Speak: Translating Chinese Poetry
Nick Admussen, Lucas Klein, Andrea Lingenfelter, and Jami Proctor Xu
{{COMPLETED}
Saturday
13 June 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2SJuiJq
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2YHxitE
Meeting ID: 959 2591 8289
30
Translation Encounters
Jennifer Feeley, Wong Yi, Lucas Klein, Xi Chuan
29
Science, Indigeneity and Patriotism Amidst the COVID-19 Emergency
Harshana Rambukwella
28
Asian Operas
27
Poets in Isolation: Hong Kong & Ireland (co-hosted with Michael O’Sullivan)
(The list of writers will be revealed soon.)
{{COMPLETED}
Saturday
16 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2yHrV3j
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2LorIVl
Meeting ID: 994 4896 9253
26
Food & Society (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Kris Cheng, Paola Caronni
25
Animal Stories
Nazry Bahrawi, Eric Hodges, and Annu Jalais
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
7 July 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/30F0oLf
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3e1n3oX Meeting ID: 928 9988 7178
24
Hong Kong Now
Gina Marchett, Stephen Chu and Joyce Lau
{{COMPLETED}
Wednesday
6 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2KAlrp8
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2VD7lty
Meeting ID: 920 5501 9080
23
Voluntarism Amidst the Pandemic (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Edmund Cheng
22
Poets in Isolation: Hong Kong & Japan (co-hosted with Jordan Smith)
(The list of writers will be revealed soon.)
A date will be set for this panel.
21
Zooming on Hong Kong (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Antony Dapiran, Jason Y. Ng and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
{{COMPLETED}
Saturday
11 April 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3bIgfLB
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/39pHsku
Meeting ID: 226 036 170
20
International Poetic Collaborations
Joshua Ip, Andrea Lingenfelter, Paola Caronni
19
Writing and Self-Optimisation from Science Fiction to Self-Care
Emily Ridge, Christopher Patterson
18
Dwelling in History and Language
Chris Song, Jennifer Wong and Polly Ho
{{COMPLETED}
Wednesday
8 April 2020
FB: http://bit.ly/2wRaw6P
ZOOM:https://bit.ly/3dOW4gA
Meeting ID: 751 760 318
17
Creating Art in the Time of COVID-19
Jason Li, Eizabeth Briel, Rachel Smith and Tang Kwok Hin
{{COMPLETED}
Monday
4 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3cxtmQ7
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2VD68kx
Meeting ID: 914 5667 5578
16
COVID-19 and Us: A Reading (co-hosted with Xu Xi)
(The list of writers will be revealed soon.)
A date will be set for this panel.
15
Mysticism in Poetry
Louise Leung
13
Literary and Non-literary Forms
Alvin Pang, Jessica Valdez and James Shea
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
16 June 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3aiZDJQ
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2y56aJQ
Meeting ID: 960 096 125
14
National and Personal Creole English in the Age of Globalism
Sam Cheuk and Roger Bonair-Agard
A date will be set for this panel.
12
Education and Brainwashing (in collaboration with the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University)
Jennifer Eagleton, Guo Ting and Lian-Hee Wee
{{COMPLETED
Thursday
30 April 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2WEboX8
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2Uaw3R1
Meeting ID: 102 914 647
11
Virality
Jason Coe
10
Poetry and Localness
Felix Chow, Louise Leung,
9
Gendered Literatures
Jason Coe, Antony Huen and Grace Ting
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
19 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/3eVDXGC
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3apWozs
Meeting ID: 960 4031 4131
8
Boring Topics in Poetry (in collaboration with the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University)
Jason S Polley, Lian-Hee Wee and Joshua Ip
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
26 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2VIbbjR
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3cjDFqG
Meeting ID: 945 9263 3956
7
Plague Literature (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Ilaria Maria Sala, Guo Tin and Oliver Farry
{{COMPLETED}
Wednesday
1 April 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2WEboX8
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3aaOVF5
Meeting ID: 893 997 234
6
Internet Censorship and State Surveillance Systems (in collaboration with PEN Hong Kong)
Emma Zhang, Jeffrey Clap, William Nee and Kristen Han
{{COMPLETED}
Tuesday
12 May 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/34bzeeP
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/39B3Nvp
Meeting ID: 202 652 423
5
Poetic Sensuality
David Dernie
4
Suffrage Literature
Gina Marchetti, Guo Ting
3
Literature that Critiques Other Literature (in collaboration with the Department of English at Hong Kong Baptist University)
Jason S Polley
2
Translating Asian Languages:
Prejudices and Privileges
Lucas Klein, Grace Ting and Matt Turner
{{COMPLETED}}
Wednesday
15 April 2020
FB: https://bit.ly/2xuHtGo ZOOM: https://bit.ly/2JdMbLs
Meeting ID: 514 122 177
1
Booksellers Speak: Selling Books in Asia
Kristian Sendon Cordero, Albert Wan and Kristian Sendon Cordero
{{COMPLETED}}
Thursday
26 March 2020
FB: http://bit.ly/2w6x03N
ZOOM: http://bit.ly/2TJtqFM
Meeting ID: 873 320 481