talks

The Sensational Proletarian: Affect and Leftist Cultures in Colonial Korea

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature Speaker: Kimberly Chung Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies | McGill University Moderator: Su Yun Kim Associate Professor in Korean Studies | The University of Hong Kong DATE: 30 JAN 2026 (FRI) 10:00–11:30 am (HKT) VENUE: ON ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=104269 Visceral sensati

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Dec 16, 2025

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941 Speaker: James Reichert Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures | Stanford University Moderator: Daniel Poch Associate Professor | Japanese Studies | The University of Hong Kong DATE: 6 NOV 2025 (THU) 12:00–1:30 pm (HKT) VENUE: ON ZOOM REGISTRAT

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Oct 16, 2025

The Politics of Art in Contemporary Korean Fiction

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature The Politics of Art in...

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Jan 17, 2025

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature Speaker : Xiaolu Ma Assistant...

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Aug 30, 2024

States of Disconnect

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature Speaker: Adhira Mangalagiri...

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Jan 1, 2024

NEW DATE: Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literature

Speaker: Erin Suzuki Associate Professor Department of Literature | University of California, San Diego Moderator: Alvin Wong Assistant...

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Nov 22, 2022

The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature The Values in Numbers: Reading...

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Mar 17, 2022

The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster presents Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature The Translatability of...

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Mar 15, 2022

Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form

Speaker: Christopher Hill (Associate Professor | Asian Languages and Cultures | University of Michigan) Moderator: Daniel Poch (Associate...

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Oct 29, 2021

Nov 6, 2021: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation

MEAL members to be featured in HK International Literary Festival on Nov 6! Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative...

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Oct 12, 2021

How (Not) To Find Yu Dafu: Refractions across the Transpacific

Speaker: Clara Iwasaki (Assistant Professor | Department of East Asian Studies | University of Alberta) Moderator: Dylan Suher...

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Oct 7, 2021

Global Healing and the Covid Era: Literature, Advocacy, Care

Emerging Research on Modern East Asian Literature Inaugural Lecture Global Healing and the Covid Era: Literature, Advocacy, Care Speaker:...

Sep 18, 2021