HKCAL Workshop
Panel 1 – Cantonese Language and Cultural Expression
- Creativity in Cantonese Characters
- The Phenomenon of “Muddy Chinese” in Hong Kong Drama in the 1970s and its Relationship with the Trend of Localization in Contemporary Theatre
- The Paradox of Pride and Insecurity in Hong Kong Cantonese
Panel 3 – Exploration of Arts Forms in Hong Kong
- Language, Culture and Identity in Cantopop: An Exploratory Study of English Lyrics in Hong Kong
- Fluidity, Mobility, and Boundlessness: An Archipelagic Reading of Island of Silence
- Relationship Between Objects, People and Society: Study the Pictorial Interpretation of “Made in Hong Kong” Objects by Local Young People.
Panel 4 – Gender(ed) Politics and Hong Kong Identity
- Sublime with Love: Jouissance in Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together
- Forbidden Love and Fluid Identities: Computational and Stylistic Approaches to Cantopop in 1980s Hong Kong
Panel 5 – The Politics of Becoming: The Development of Cantonese Opera from the Perspectives of Musical, Linguistic, and Institutional Changes in Hong Kong
- The Becoming of “Cantonese” Opera in 20th Century Hong Kong
- In the Name of Heritage: The Institutionalized Nationalism Strategy of Government-Funded Hong Kong Cantonese Opera in Post-1997
- “Learning History Through Theater”: Propaganda, Identities, and Agency in Post-2010 Hong Kong Cantonese Opera
Panel 6 – Transcultural Representations of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Poetry: Experiments in Staged Code-Switching
- Some Observations on the Representation of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Culture in Japanese Popular Media
- Creativity as Memory: Preserving Place and Experience in New Music
Panel 7 – Collective Memory in Popular Media
- Sing What You Can’t Say: Parody Songs the Voice of Public Sphere and Cultural Identity in Hong Kong
- Headless Run in a Haunted Island: Jeffrey Lau’s Nonsensical Horror Comedies in Colonial Hong Kong
- Hong Kong as a Site of Memory: Nostalgia in Graphic Memoirs
Panel 8 – Cultural Policies and the Politics of Identity