Schedule

Thu, 22 May

9:00 am - 10:45 am
A1: Queering Asian Screens
CPD 3.01
A1
9:00 am - 10:45 am
A2: AI and New Media: Imagining Human and Non-human Equity in Asia
CPD 3.04
A2
9:00 am - 10:45 am
A3: Asian Genres I: Categories Reconsidered
CPD 3.07
A3
9:00 am - 10:45 am
A4: Reinvesting Spectral Themes, Icons, and Affects: Demons, Devils, and Non-humans
CPD 3.15
A4
9:00 am - 10:45 am
A5: Thinking from the Regional
CPD 3.16
A5
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
B1: Asian Gender Representations
CPD 3.01
B1
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
B2: What are Asian Video Games?: Culture, Philosophy, and Buddhism
CPD 3.04
B2
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
B3: Asian Genres II: Horror and the Supernatural
CPD 3.07
B3
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
B4: Geopolitical Imagination in Popular Media: Entertainment films, Reality shows, and Pop Songs in China and beyond
CPD 3.15
B4
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
B5: Rethinking National Cinemas: South/Southeast Asia and the Himalayan Region
CPD 3.16
B5
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C1: Gender-based Violence and Oppression in South Asian Cinema
CPD 3.01
C1
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C2: Revisiting Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
CPD 3.04
C2
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C3: Asian Genres III: Laughing at/with Chinese cinemas
CPD 3.07
C3
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C4: New Media Tools, Techniques, and Platforms
CPD 3.15
C4
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C5: Cinema, Politics, and the Philippines I: Memories
CPD 3.16
C5
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
C7: Film Shorts: Programme I — HK/China
RRST 7.58
C7
Film Shorts
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
D1: Trans-spatial Junctures: Gender and Creative Labor
CPD 3.01
D1
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
D2: Land, Water, and Climate: Ecological Aesthetics and Representations
CPD 3.04
D2
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
D3: Asian Genres IV: Political Films and the Politics of Film
CPD 3.07
D3
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
D4: Workshop: From Manuscripts to Global Audiences: The Journey of Bilingual Publishing at Hong Kong University Press
CPD 3.15
D4
Workshop
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
D5: Cinema, Politics, and the Philippines II: Historiographies
CPD 3.16
D5
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
E2: Screening: Cinema Strada (2024)
CPD 3.04
Cinema Strada
E2
Screening

Fri, 23 May

9:00 am - 10:45 am
F1: Sounding Love and Loving Sounds: Auditory Media, Magic Lantern Commentators, and Transmedial Storytelling in Chinese
CPD 3.01
F1
9:00 am - 10:45 am
F2: What is Asian Cinema?: Philosophy and History
CPD 3.04
F2
9:00 am - 10:45 am
F3: Inter-Asian Emergence I: Spatialities and Temporalities
CPD 3.07
F3
9:00 am - 10:45 am
F4: Asian Cinema in Flux: Interrogating Representations of Identities, Violence, Labor, and Desires
CPD 3.15
F4
9:00 am - 10:45 am
F5: Anime and Animation in Asia
CPD 3.16
F5
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
G2: Keynote Address: The Anime World: How Infrastructures Affect Sovereignty
CPD 3.04
G2
Keynote Address
Thomas Lamarre
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H1: Cinematic Experiments in Asian Embodiment
CPD 3.01
H1
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H2: Surviving Crisis in Asian Cinema
CPD 3.04
H2
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H3: Inter-Asian Emergence II: Methods and Aesthetics
CPD 3.07
H3
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H4: Material environments of disappearance in regional Chinese cinemas
CPD 3.15
H4
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H5: Decompressing South Korean Cinema: Reversibility, Sterility, and Revival
CPD 3.16
H5
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
H7: Film Shorts Programme II — Race and Cultural Identity
RRST 7.58
Film Shorts
H7
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
I1: Postsocialism and Chinese Film and Media
CPD 3.01
I1
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
I2: Workshop: Decolonising and Deterritorialising Methods of Film and Media Philosophy
CPD 3.04
I2
Workshop
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
I3: Inter-Asian Emergence III: Media Ecologies
CPD 3.07
I3
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
I4: Rethinking Asian-ness in Border Crossing: Contemporary Asian Cinema in the Contexts of Extremity, Diaspora and the P
CPD 3.15
I4
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
I7: Film Shorts Programme III — Colonialism, Experimental, and the Body
RRST 7.58
Film Shorts
I7
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
J2: Screening: Hunter Brothers 獵人兄弟 (2024)
CPD 3.04
Hunter Brothers
J2
Screening

Sat, 24 May

9:00 am - 10:45 am
K1: Transnational and Transmedial Chinese Cinematic Imaginations: Digital Gaming, Pirated DVDs, Diasporic Spectatorship,
CPD 3.01
K1
9:00 am - 10:45 am
K2: Theorizing East Asian Eco-documentaries: Women and Animals in the Affective and Materialist World
CPD 3.04
K2
9:00 am - 10:45 am
K4: Othering and Curating Inter-Asia on Cinema - Mediating Postcolonial and Transnational Identities
CPD 3.15
K4
9:00 am - 10:45 am
K5: Pema Tseden and Beyond: On Ethnic Minority Cinemas in China
CPD 3.16
K5
9:00 am - 10:45 am
K6: Asian Documentary Cinema
RRST 4.36
K6
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
L1: From Digital to Material: Renegotiating Time, Body, Space, and Identity through Cross-Media Practices in Hong Kong a
CPD 3.01
L1
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
L2: Theorizing East Asian Ecocinema: Between Nation and Planet
CPD 3.04
L2
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
L4: The Cinematic Substance of Diasporic Life: 21st Century Asian Americans and Film
CPD 3.15
L4
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
L5: Regions and Margins: Perspectives from Indian Film and Media
CPD 3.16
L5
11:00 am - 12:45 pm
L6: The Politics of Exhibition: Navigating Asian Cinema in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan
RRST 4.36
L6
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
M2: ACSS Executive Meeting (Lunch) - (Registration required)
CPD 3.04
ACSS Executive Meeting
M2
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
N1: Cinematic Intersections with Japan
CPD 3.01
N1
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
N2: Workshop: Getting Published – Intellect Books & Journals
CPD 3.04
Intellect Books & Journals
N2
Workshop
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
N4: Global Ties, Local Stories: Diasporic Filmmaking in Contemporary East Asian Cinema
CPD 3.15
N4
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
N5: Film Festival Ecology and Asian Cinemas
CPD 3.16
N5
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm
N6: Chinese and Taiwanese Film Historiographies
RRST 4.36
N6
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
O8: Happy Hour Reception hosted by ACSS and HKU
Hotel Jen, 1/F Lobby Bar, 508
Happy Hour
O8
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
P8: Screening: Girls on Wire 想飞的女孩 (2025) - (Registration required)
Golden Scene Cinema 高先電影院 2 Ca
Girls on Wire
P8
Screening

Thu, 22 May

A1: Queering Asian Screens

A2: AI and New Media: Imagining Human and Non-human Equity in Asia

A3: Asian Genres I: Categories Reconsidered

A4: Reinvesting Spectral Themes, Icons, and Affects: Demons, Devils, and Non-humans

A5: Thinking from the Regional

B1: Asian Gender Representations

B2: What are Asian Video Games?: Culture, Philosophy, and Buddhism

B3: Asian Genres II: Horror and the Supernatural

B4: Geopolitical Imagination in Popular Media: Entertainment films, Reality shows, and Pop Songs in China and beyond

B5: Rethinking National Cinemas: South/Southeast Asia and the Himalayan Region

C1: Gender-based Violence and Oppression in South Asian Cinema

C2: Revisiting Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema

C3: Asian Genres III: Laughing at/with Chinese cinemas

C4: New Media Tools, Techniques, and Platforms

C5: Cinema, Politics, and the Philippines I: Memories

C7: Film Shorts: Programme I — HK/China

D1: Trans-spatial Junctures: Gender and Creative Labor

D2: Land, Water, and Climate: Ecological Aesthetics and Representations

D3: Asian Genres IV: Political Films and the Politics of Film

D4: Workshop: From Manuscripts to Global Audiences: The Journey of Bilingual Publishing at Hong Kong University Press

D5: Cinema, Politics, and the Philippines II: Historiographies

E2: Screening: Cinema Strada (2024)

Fri, 23 May

F1: Sounding Love and Loving Sounds: Auditory Media, Magic Lantern Commentators, and Transmedial Storytelling in Chinese

F2: What is Asian Cinema?: Philosophy and History

F3: Inter-Asian Emergence I: Spatialities and Temporalities

F4: Asian Cinema in Flux: Interrogating Representations of Identities, Violence, Labor, and Desires

F5: Anime and Animation in Asia

G2: Keynote Address: The Anime World: How Infrastructures Affect Sovereignty

H1: Cinematic Experiments in Asian Embodiment

H2: Surviving Crisis in Asian Cinema

H3: Inter-Asian Emergence II: Methods and Aesthetics

H4: Material environments of disappearance in regional Chinese cinemas

H5: Decompressing South Korean Cinema: Reversibility, Sterility, and Revival

H7: Film Shorts Programme II — Race and Cultural Identity

I1: Postsocialism and Chinese Film and Media

I2: Workshop: Decolonising and Deterritorialising Methods of Film and Media Philosophy

I3: Inter-Asian Emergence III: Media Ecologies

I4: Rethinking Asian-ness in Border Crossing: Contemporary Asian Cinema in the Contexts of Extremity, Diaspora and the P

I7: Film Shorts Programme III — Colonialism, Experimental, and the Body

J2: Screening: Hunter Brothers 獵人兄弟 (2024)

Sat, 24 May

K1: Transnational and Transmedial Chinese Cinematic Imaginations: Digital Gaming, Pirated DVDs, Diasporic Spectatorship,

K2: Theorizing East Asian Eco-documentaries: Women and Animals in the Affective and Materialist World

K4: Othering and Curating Inter-Asia on Cinema - Mediating Postcolonial and Transnational Identities

K5: Pema Tseden and Beyond: On Ethnic Minority Cinemas in China

K6: Asian Documentary Cinema

L1: From Digital to Material: Renegotiating Time, Body, Space, and Identity through Cross-Media Practices in Hong Kong a

L2: Theorizing East Asian Ecocinema: Between Nation and Planet

L4: The Cinematic Substance of Diasporic Life: 21st Century Asian Americans and Film

L5: Regions and Margins: Perspectives from Indian Film and Media

L6: The Politics of Exhibition: Navigating Asian Cinema in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan

M2: ACSS Executive Meeting (Lunch) - (Registration required)

N1: Cinematic Intersections with Japan

N2: Workshop: Getting Published – Intellect Books & Journals

N4: Global Ties, Local Stories: Diasporic Filmmaking in Contemporary East Asian Cinema

N5: Film Festival Ecology and Asian Cinemas

N6: Chinese and Taiwanese Film Historiographies

O8: Happy Hour Reception hosted by ACSS and HKU

P8: Screening: Girls on Wire 想飞的女孩 (2025) - (Registration required)