Invited Keynote Speeches, Academic Seminar Papers, Guest Lectures
19. ‘Dwelling and the Architectural Uncanny in the Cinema of Edward Yang.’ (Guest lecture). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies lecture series, 21 December 2022.
18. ‘Killing, Reading, and the City in the Cinema of Edward Yang’ (Guest lecture). Department of Filmmaking, National Taipei University of the Arts, 21 November 2022.
17. ‘Taiwan – Some “Roadside” Observations.’ (Pre-conference seminar talk.) Academic Prospects: On Surviving and Thriving as International Faculty in Taiwan. Chaired by Guy Beauregard; co-speakers: Lilith Acadia, Manuel Herrero-Puertas, Se Hoon Choi, Hannes Bergthaller, Amie Parry, Hsinya Huang. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (UCLA), National Taiwan Normal University, June 15-18, 2022 (online at 08:30 am–10:15 am Taipei Time. 16 June 2022).
16. ‘City of Passion: Killing in the Cinema of Edward Yang.’ (Guest lecture). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies lecture series, 6 December 2021.
15. ‘Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema: Aesthetics and Politics.’ (Guest lecture). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies lecture series, 1 December 2020.
14. ‘Eternal Return and Excess in Asian Cinema’ (Seminar talk). Suà: Theory Camp of Taiwan Humanities Society, 13 September 2020.
13. ‘Walking Kowloon, Reading Literature – To Kwa Wan土瓜灣’ (Co-guest walking lecture with Kathleen Kyma and Ian Fong for the course ‘Special Topics in Visual Cultural Studies: The City as a Mobile Classroom’). Department of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 28 Jan 2019.
12. ‘A Cinematic Guide to Asian Cities: Taipei, Seoul, and the Cinema of Destruction.’ (Seminar talk). Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK. 5 Nov 2018.
11. ‘Reading the Contagious City: Walter Benjamin, the River, and Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema.’ (Guest lecture for the postgraduate seminar ‘Urban Literature’). Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. 17 Oct 2018.
10. ‘Issue of Researching and Teaching English and American Literature in Taiwan’ (Discussant), Ministry of Science and Technology Forum. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung-hsing University, Taichung. 12 Oct 2018. (Forthcoming.)
9. ‘Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Reading Hong Kong as a Staircase City’ (Seminar talk). Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 9 Feb 2018.
8. ‘The Grandmaster (一代宗師) (2017): A Wong Kar-wai Wuxia film?’ (Guest lecture for the course ‘Hong Kong Cinema’). Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 7 Feb 2018.
7. ‘Walking the Folding Landscape’ (Guest lecutre for the cousre ‘Special Topics in Visual Cultural Studies: The City as a Mobile Classroom’). Department of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 22 Jan 2018.
6. ‘Enduring the Long Take: Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs郊遊 and the Dialectical Image’ (Seminar talk). Taiwan Studies Group, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 5 Feb 2018.
5. ‘Taiwanese Cinematic Images’ (Seminar talk). Seminar of Aesthetics. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway. 26 Apr 2017.
4. ‘Traversing the Islands: Setouchi as a Case Study’ (Keynote speech, with Grace Cheng). Nordland Film og Kunstfagskole (Nordland College of Art and Film) 20th Anniversary Symposium: The Infrastructure of Life: Media, Milieu, Ethics. Nordland kunst-og filmfagskole. Kabelvåg, Lofoton, Norway. 20-21 Apr 2017.
3. ‘Revenge and Forgiveness in Hamlet and other Shakespeare’s Revenge Plays’ (Seminar talk). Division of Applied Translation Studies, United International College (Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University), Zhuhai, China. 18 Oct 2013.
2. ‘“Some things you have to do yourself”: Measure for Measure and Dogville’ (Seminar talk). Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. 23 Mar 2009.
1. ‘Jealousy in The Dream of the Red Chamber’ (Seminar talk). Contemporary China Research Centre, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. 4 Dec 2008.
18. ‘Killing, Reading, and the City in the Cinema of Edward Yang’ (Guest lecture). Department of Filmmaking, National Taipei University of the Arts, 21 November 2022.
17. ‘Taiwan – Some “Roadside” Observations.’ (Pre-conference seminar talk.) Academic Prospects: On Surviving and Thriving as International Faculty in Taiwan. Chaired by Guy Beauregard; co-speakers: Lilith Acadia, Manuel Herrero-Puertas, Se Hoon Choi, Hannes Bergthaller, Amie Parry, Hsinya Huang. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (UCLA), National Taiwan Normal University, June 15-18, 2022 (online at 08:30 am–10:15 am Taipei Time. 16 June 2022).
16. ‘City of Passion: Killing in the Cinema of Edward Yang.’ (Guest lecture). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies lecture series, 6 December 2021.
15. ‘Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema: Aesthetics and Politics.’ (Guest lecture). Inter-Asia Cultural Studies lecture series, 1 December 2020.
14. ‘Eternal Return and Excess in Asian Cinema’ (Seminar talk). Suà: Theory Camp of Taiwan Humanities Society, 13 September 2020.
13. ‘Walking Kowloon, Reading Literature – To Kwa Wan土瓜灣’ (Co-guest walking lecture with Kathleen Kyma and Ian Fong for the course ‘Special Topics in Visual Cultural Studies: The City as a Mobile Classroom’). Department of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 28 Jan 2019.
12. ‘A Cinematic Guide to Asian Cities: Taipei, Seoul, and the Cinema of Destruction.’ (Seminar talk). Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK. 5 Nov 2018.
11. ‘Reading the Contagious City: Walter Benjamin, the River, and Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema.’ (Guest lecture for the postgraduate seminar ‘Urban Literature’). Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. 17 Oct 2018.
10. ‘Issue of Researching and Teaching English and American Literature in Taiwan’ (Discussant), Ministry of Science and Technology Forum. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung-hsing University, Taichung. 12 Oct 2018. (Forthcoming.)
9. ‘Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Reading Hong Kong as a Staircase City’ (Seminar talk). Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 9 Feb 2018.
8. ‘The Grandmaster (一代宗師) (2017): A Wong Kar-wai Wuxia film?’ (Guest lecture for the course ‘Hong Kong Cinema’). Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 7 Feb 2018.
7. ‘Walking the Folding Landscape’ (Guest lecutre for the cousre ‘Special Topics in Visual Cultural Studies: The City as a Mobile Classroom’). Department of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 22 Jan 2018.
6. ‘Enduring the Long Take: Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs郊遊 and the Dialectical Image’ (Seminar talk). Taiwan Studies Group, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 5 Feb 2018.
5. ‘Taiwanese Cinematic Images’ (Seminar talk). Seminar of Aesthetics. Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway. 26 Apr 2017.
4. ‘Traversing the Islands: Setouchi as a Case Study’ (Keynote speech, with Grace Cheng). Nordland Film og Kunstfagskole (Nordland College of Art and Film) 20th Anniversary Symposium: The Infrastructure of Life: Media, Milieu, Ethics. Nordland kunst-og filmfagskole. Kabelvåg, Lofoton, Norway. 20-21 Apr 2017.
3. ‘Revenge and Forgiveness in Hamlet and other Shakespeare’s Revenge Plays’ (Seminar talk). Division of Applied Translation Studies, United International College (Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University), Zhuhai, China. 18 Oct 2013.
2. ‘“Some things you have to do yourself”: Measure for Measure and Dogville’ (Seminar talk). Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. 23 Mar 2009.
1. ‘Jealousy in The Dream of the Red Chamber’ (Seminar talk). Contemporary China Research Centre, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. 4 Dec 2008.
International Conferences
2022
‘Anachronistic Thoughts: Memory and History in Too Many Ways to be No.1.” Memory: The Figurative and the Captive. Taipei Tech International Conference, organized by the Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, 21-22 October 2022.
2019
‘Questoning Cinematic Time in the Real Time Slow Motion Sequence in Johnnie To’s Three 三人行 (2016).’ ‘Technically Yours’: Technicity, Mediality, and the Stakes of Experience, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 18-20 Oct 2019.
2017
‘Ways of Adapting: Logic of Revenge in Wild Tales.’ 2017 International Conference on Cross-Cultural Studies: Intercultural Adaptation, Globalization, and Risk, Fu Jen Catholic University, 6-7 Oct 2017.
2016
‘Contemporaneity in Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema as Video Installation.’ The 3rd ISAT: Collision, Collaboration and the Future of Artsci, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 14-17 Nov 2016.
‘Under the Impression: Henry James’s The Ambassadors and Balzac’s Louis Lambert.’ Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, 27-28 May 2016.
‘Island Imaginary in Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha.’ Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos 2016, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7-12 Mar 2016.
2015
‘Cinema Stripped Bare: The Aesthetics of Vulgar Literalness in Hong Sangsoo's Oki's Movie.’ Film-Philosophy Conference 2015: The Evaluation of Form, University of Oxford, UK, 20-22 Jul 2015.
2014
‘Revenge Comedy: The Strict Joke and the Intriguer in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night.’ 4th International Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies: Comedy, from the Arts to Cultural Industry. National Taipei University of Technology, 28-29 Nov 2014.
‘The Justice of Deconstruction and the Deconstruction of ‘Justice’: Billy Budd Before the Law.’ 4th Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University. New York, USA, 28-31 May 2014.
‘The Theatricality of Revenge: Acting, Being, and Performing in Hamlet.’ Shakespearean Journeys: The Inaugural Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association, organized by Asian Shakespeare Association, Taiwan Shakespeare Association, National Taiwan University, and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 15-18 May 2014.
2013
'Demolition and Deconstruction: Jia Zhang-Ke’s 24 City (2008).' ‘City Peripheries / Peripheral Cities’ Conference: The First International Conference of the Helsinki Literature and the City Network (HLCN), Helsinki, Finland, 29-30 August 2013.
'When Freud Meets Park Chan-wook: Revenge and Psychoanalysis in The Vengeance Trilogy.' Affect, Politics, Psychoanalysis International Conference, National Taiwan University, 21-23 June 2013.
'Beyond Ressentiment: "Feminine" Revenge in The Wings of the Dove.' International Henry James Conference. Baskent University, Ankara, 9-10 May, 2013.
2012
'The Passion of Art: The Aesthetics of Henry James' Suffering Women.' The Aesthetics of Suffering, Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology. 23-34 Nov 2012.
‘What’s Wrong with People of the Same Blood Playing Games Together?’: Queering Revenge in Park Chan-wook’s J.S.A.: Joint Security Area.’ Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong. 18-20 Mar 2012.
2011
‘Taking Revenge as Resistance?: Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas.’ The 1st Macau Philosophy Conference: Rethinking Resistance. Department of Philosophy, University of Macau. 16-18 Dec 2011.
2010
‘A Tale of Three Cities: Ann Hui’s The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2007)’. Hong Kong: Urban Imagination & Cultural Memory Conference. Organised by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinolog, Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. 17-18 December 2010.
2009
‘The Psychoanalysis of Revenge’. The 26th International Literature and Psychology Conference. University of Viterbo, Italy. 1-6 Jul 2009.
‘Baroque Macao: The City in History and Photography’. First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Macau Studies: Intercultural Exchanges between East and West. History Department, University of Macau. 25-27 May 2009.
2008
‘Taking Robotic Vengeance: Apathy and the Technvisual in Park Chan-wook’s I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK (2006).’ Technovisuality and Cultural Reenchantment Conference. Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. 20-22 Nov 2008.
‘Reading Dickens, Photographing London.’ Literary London: Representations of London in Literature. Brunel University, Kingston University, and University of Northampton. 2-4 Jul 2008.
‘Folding Architecture, Reading Henry James’ The Aspern Papers’. Interpreting Architecture: 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium. Charles University, Prague. 14-15 Jun 2008.
2007
‘Calvino’s and Dickens’s Invisible Cities.’ Dickens, Victorian Culture, Italy. Universities of Genova and Milan, Italy. 13-17 Jun 2007.
2006
‘Fragmenting Sexuality, Queering National Identity: Reading Selvadurai’s Funny Boy.’ Journal of South Asian Popular Culture: 3rd International Conference. University of Manchester, UK. 27-28 Jun 2006.
‘Ethics of Incest: Revenge in Park Chan-wook’s OldBoy.’ The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change. Organized by the Film Culture Project of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and the Centre of Asian Studies, HKU. 21-22 Apr 2006.
2005
‘“Your Life Didn’t Belong to You”: Jealousy in Almodóvar’s Carne Trémula.’ Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics. Organized by the Flemish Research Council, and Ghent University, Belgium, 21-23 Apr 2005.
2004
‘Gilda and Jealousy.’ Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders: Alternative Perspectives, Alternative Cinemas. Organized by HK Fulbright Program, the Hong Kong-American Center, the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Center for Asian Studies, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU, 2-5 Apr 2004.
2003
‘Jealousy and its Vicissitudes: Cervantes and Othello.’ Comparative Literature Departmental Seminars. HKU, 20 Feb 2003.
2016
‘Contemporaneity in Tsai Ming-liang’s Cinema as Video Installation.’ The 3rd ISAT: Collision, Collaboration and the Future of Artsci, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 14-17 Nov 2016.
‘Under the Impression: Henry James’s The Ambassadors and Balzac’s Louis Lambert.’ Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, 27-28 May 2016.
‘Island Imaginary in Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha.’ Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos 2016, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7-12 Mar 2016.
2015
‘Cinema Stripped Bare: The Aesthetics of Vulgar Literalness in Hong Sangsoo's Oki's Movie.’ Film-Philosophy Conference 2015: The Evaluation of Form, University of Oxford, UK, 20-22 Jul 2015.
2014
‘Revenge Comedy: The Strict Joke and the Intriguer in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night.’ 4th International Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies: Comedy, from the Arts to Cultural Industry. National Taipei University of Technology, 28-29 Nov 2014.
‘The Justice of Deconstruction and the Deconstruction of ‘Justice’: Billy Budd Before the Law.’ 4th Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University. New York, USA, 28-31 May 2014.
‘The Theatricality of Revenge: Acting, Being, and Performing in Hamlet.’ Shakespearean Journeys: The Inaugural Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association, organized by Asian Shakespeare Association, Taiwan Shakespeare Association, National Taiwan University, and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 15-18 May 2014.
2013
'Demolition and Deconstruction: Jia Zhang-Ke’s 24 City (2008).' ‘City Peripheries / Peripheral Cities’ Conference: The First International Conference of the Helsinki Literature and the City Network (HLCN), Helsinki, Finland, 29-30 August 2013.
'When Freud Meets Park Chan-wook: Revenge and Psychoanalysis in The Vengeance Trilogy.' Affect, Politics, Psychoanalysis International Conference, National Taiwan University, 21-23 June 2013.
'Beyond Ressentiment: "Feminine" Revenge in The Wings of the Dove.' International Henry James Conference. Baskent University, Ankara, 9-10 May, 2013.
2012
'The Passion of Art: The Aesthetics of Henry James' Suffering Women.' The Aesthetics of Suffering, Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology. 23-34 Nov 2012.
‘What’s Wrong with People of the Same Blood Playing Games Together?’: Queering Revenge in Park Chan-wook’s J.S.A.: Joint Security Area.’ Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong. 18-20 Mar 2012.
2011
‘Taking Revenge as Resistance?: Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas.’ The 1st Macau Philosophy Conference: Rethinking Resistance. Department of Philosophy, University of Macau. 16-18 Dec 2011.
2010
‘A Tale of Three Cities: Ann Hui’s The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2007)’. Hong Kong: Urban Imagination & Cultural Memory Conference. Organised by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinolog, Hong Kong Institute of Education, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. 17-18 December 2010.
2009
‘The Psychoanalysis of Revenge’. The 26th International Literature and Psychology Conference. University of Viterbo, Italy. 1-6 Jul 2009.
‘Baroque Macao: The City in History and Photography’. First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Macau Studies: Intercultural Exchanges between East and West. History Department, University of Macau. 25-27 May 2009.
2008
‘Taking Robotic Vengeance: Apathy and the Technvisual in Park Chan-wook’s I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK (2006).’ Technovisuality and Cultural Reenchantment Conference. Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. 20-22 Nov 2008.
‘Reading Dickens, Photographing London.’ Literary London: Representations of London in Literature. Brunel University, Kingston University, and University of Northampton. 2-4 Jul 2008.
‘Folding Architecture, Reading Henry James’ The Aspern Papers’. Interpreting Architecture: 7th Prague Interpretation Colloquium. Charles University, Prague. 14-15 Jun 2008.
2007
‘Calvino’s and Dickens’s Invisible Cities.’ Dickens, Victorian Culture, Italy. Universities of Genova and Milan, Italy. 13-17 Jun 2007.
2006
‘Fragmenting Sexuality, Queering National Identity: Reading Selvadurai’s Funny Boy.’ Journal of South Asian Popular Culture: 3rd International Conference. University of Manchester, UK. 27-28 Jun 2006.
‘Ethics of Incest: Revenge in Park Chan-wook’s OldBoy.’ The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change. Organized by the Film Culture Project of the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and the Centre of Asian Studies, HKU. 21-22 Apr 2006.
2005
‘“Your Life Didn’t Belong to You”: Jealousy in Almodóvar’s Carne Trémula.’ Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics. Organized by the Flemish Research Council, and Ghent University, Belgium, 21-23 Apr 2005.
2004
‘Gilda and Jealousy.’ Hong Kong/Hollywood at the Borders: Alternative Perspectives, Alternative Cinemas. Organized by HK Fulbright Program, the Hong Kong-American Center, the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Center for Asian Studies, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Comparative Literature, HKU, 2-5 Apr 2004.
2003
‘Jealousy and its Vicissitudes: Cervantes and Othello.’ Comparative Literature Departmental Seminars. HKU, 20 Feb 2003.