A RIH-funded interdisciplinary research project

The advent of digital technology has drastically changed people’s lives in Asia, particularly with the significant emergence of digital feminisms in the arts, culture, and media. This project, Digital Feminisms in Asia, aims to unite established scholars and postgraduate students exploring the intersection of digital technology and feminism into a research network based in Hong Kong. While several scholars within the CUHK Arts Faculty and beyond work on related topics, the interdisciplinary nature of the research project requires a platform to showcase ongoing research, mentor research postgraduate students, develop pedagogy, and engage with the public.

Project team:

• TAN Jia (CRS, CUHK)
• Sealing CHENG (ANT, CUHK)
• Yu-Chieh LI (ART, CUHK)
• Lynne NAKANO (JAP, CUHK)
• GUO Ting (CRS, CUHK)
• CAO Xuenan (CRS, CUHK)
• Isaac LEUNG (CUMT, CUHK)
• Jacqueline Zhenru LIN (CCS, CUHK)

CUHK Other Faculties

• CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping (SOC)
• FANG Kecheng (COM)
• Han Ling (GDR)

CUHK RPG Students

• Cecilia Wong (Program Coordinator)
• Yumi Wong
• Clayton Lo

Non-CUHK faculty members

• Alvin Wong (HKU Comparative Literature)
• Yiu-fai Chow (HKBU Humanities)
• Denise Tang (Lingnan Cultural Studies)
• Iris Po Yee Lo (PolyU Sociology)

Precarious Ecologies in/of Queer Asian Cinemas
Speaker: Prof. Ani Maitra, Associate professor of film and media studies. Colgate University in Hamilton, NY
Moderator: Prof. Jia TAN, CUHK
Time: Sep 9, 2024, Monday, 7:30-9:00 pm
Location: ELB LT3, CUHK

This talk will introduce a book project in progress, tentatively titled, Precarious Ecologies in/of Queer Asian Cinemas. Examining films from East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian contexts, the project focuses on those representations of queer living and belonging that lie in the shadow of the now-global rhetoric of LGBTQIA+ identities. Drawing on contemporary decolonial feminist and queer thinking, the talk will lay out the project’s rationale for “Asia as method” as well as its cinematic focus on sexual and gendered marginalization beyond identity politics. Finally, as a case study, the talk will offer a reading of the representation of female sexual subalternity in working-class New Delhi in the experimental ethnography Yeh Freedom Life (dir. Priya Sen, 2018).

The event is organized by the MA in Intercultural Studies, and sponsored by the Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK.

Digital Feminism in China: Censorship and Expression
中國數字女性主義:審查與表達
Speaker: Prof. Jia TAN, CUHK
Date: 24 Oct 2024 (Thu)
Time: 4:30 pm  – 6:00 pm
Venue: G24, KKB, CUHK

Echoes from Tomorrow: Contemporary Women’s Digital Filmmaking in Cambodia
Speaker: Dr. Philippa Lovatt, University of St Andrews, UK
Moderator: Prof. Jia Tan, CUHK
Date: Wed., Dec 4, 2024
Time: 5-6:30pm
Venue: LT8 (2/F), Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
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