Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011
World-renowned Filmmaker, Feminist and Postcolonial Theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha to Lecture in HK and CUHK
Now Open for Public Registration
World-renowned filmmaker, feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha will visit Hong Kong in late October and early November as visiting scholar of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.
Born in Vietnam and currently Professor at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, Professor Trinh is a prolific and influential filmmaker, writer, composer, cultural critic and feminist. Her wide repertoire of works include scholastic publications (such as Woman, Native, Other: Post-coloniality and Feminism (1989)), poetry collections, large-scale multimedia installations in USA, Japan, France and China, and many films that have been honoured in more than forty-two retrospectives around the world. She has also lectured extensively in the States, Europe, Asia and Australia on film, art, feminism and cultural politics.
Professor Trinh will lecture twice in Hong Kong. The first lecture, titled “The Politics of Forms and Forces” and held at CUHK, will analyse power relations in light of forms and forces in cinema. In the second lecture, titled “Walking with the Unmourned”, Professor Trinh will connect the notion of walking with the struggles around the world, in particular the transnational struggles of women in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and China.
Apart from the two public lectures, Professor Trinh will also hold a workshop titled “D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion”, as well as a seminar on the idea of “The Boundary Event” from her latest book, Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event, published in 2010.
Members of the public are welcome to register for the two public lectures at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm. For enquiries, please call 2696 1026 or e-mail to genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk.
Event Memo:
31 OCT Public Lecture (CUHK)
The Politics of Forms and Forces
Date: Monday, 31 October 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Li Koon Chun Hall, 3/F Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chair: Gina Marchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Power relations lay at the core of normative representations. In the tuning in with the forces of a life event, one can say that form is attained only to address the formless. Reality in its social and historical dimension is not a material for artistic reflection or political commitment; it is what powerfully draws one to cinema and yet cannot be captured without dissolving itself in its fragile essence when one approaches it without subtlety and vulnerability.
2 NOV Public Lecture
Walking with the Unmourned
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Room 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong [Wan Chai MTR Exit A2]
Chair: Stella Kao, College Lecturer of Cultural and Media Studies/Creative Studies, HKU SPACE Community College
Abstract:
"What is it that makes both talks and silences stained with shame? Sometimes the mind freezes and the heart goes on fasting: name, nation, identity, citizenship disappear. With every step, the world comes to the walker, and all around, on the immense screen of life, every event speaks." In the dense jungle of events, doings, and happenings, history comes in interrelated fragments to be sniffed out, tracked, swallowed, held on, or vomited while walking for survival. The spirit of the walk has led the writer to a whole tradition of independent walkers in ancient Asia, at the same time as it provides her with a link to the struggles around the world, more specifically to the transnational struggles of women in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and China.
1 NOV Workshop
D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion
Date: Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Time: 3:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Night Passage (98 minutes, color, 2004, directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier) is a D-film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad (or Night Train to the Stars), the story revolves around the spiritual journey of two young women and a little boy, into a world of rich in-between realities. Their journey into the land of ‘awakened dream’ and out is experienced as a passage of appearances, from a death to a return in life that occurs during a long ride on a night train. At each stop of the train, the travelers set out in the dark and come across an inner space of longing, in which their ears and eyes meet with people and events at once too familiar and oddly strange. Every encounter opens a door into the transcultural, and every intervention offers an experience of non-illusory, two-dimensional time-space spectacles.
4 NOV Seminar
The Boundary Event
Date: Friday, 4 November 2011
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
The boundary event, which has been the focus of previous research published in my new book, Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event (2010), is here at once material and immaterial. On the one hand for example, the wall event: a scar in the environmental landscape, a visual statement of one’s relationship with one’s neighboring communities across the region. On the other hand, the boundary event needs not be material. It could be an event in time and in duration. Twilight, for example, figures prominently in my work as the fragile moment of a multiple encounter between day and night, between East and West. Realities change according to the shift of light, and meanings given to the same symbol may differ radically during daytime or nighttime. Between the diurnal and the nocturnal then, there is the third term.
Enquiries
Tel: (852) 2696 1026
Fax: (852) 2603 7223
Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk
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中大性別研究公開講座系列2011
著名電影創作人、女性主義及後殖民理論家Trinh T. Minh-ha（鄭明河）訪港演講
歡迎公眾報名參加
由香港中文大學（中大）性別研究課程主辦、利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2011將會於10-11月舉行壓軸項目，邀請著名電影創作人、女性主義及後殖民理論家Trinh T. Minh-ha（鄭明河）教授訪港，舉行一連串學術活動。
鄭明河教授生於越南，現在是美國柏克萊加州大學性別及女性研究學系及修辭學系教授。鄭教授集電影製作人、作家、文化評論家、女性主義者及後殖民理論學者於一身，著作豐富，除了學術書籍（例如《Woman, Native, Other: Post-coloniality and Feminism》(1989)），還出版詩集，拍攝電影（包括《Reassemblage》(40分鐘，1982)），在中國、美國、日本等地舉行大型媒體裝置展覽，並於各國演講，範圍包活電影、藝術、女性主義及文化政治。
是次訪問，鄭教授將作兩場公開演講。第一場題為 “The Politics of Forms and Forces”，鄭教授會探討電影形式的政治及權力關係。第二場演講題為 “Walking with the Unmourned”，鄭教授會把步行這一概念和世界各地女性的跨國抗爭結合。
除兩場演講外，鄭教授亦會舉行一場電影放映會，放映並討論其2004年的作品《Night Passage》，以及舉行一場題為 “The Boundary Event” 的研討會。
如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。
活動詳情：
公開講座（中文大學）
題目：The Politics of Forms and Forces
日期：2011年10月31日（星期一）
時間：下午6時30分 - 8時30分
地點：香港中文大學信和樓3樓李冠春堂
主持：Gina Marchetti 香港大學比較文學系副教授
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公開講座
題目：Walking with the Unmourned
日期：2011年11月2日（星期三）
時間：晚上7時30分 - 9時30分
地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈2樓202室（灣仔港鐵站A2出口）
主持：高靜衷 香港大學附屬學院媒體及文化研究/創意研究講師
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工作坊
題目：D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion
日期：2011年11月1日（星期二）
時間：下午3時30分 - 6時30分
地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）
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研討會
題目：The Boundary Event
日期：2011年11月4日（星期五）
時間：下午4時30分 - 6時30分
地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）
登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm
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