[Upcoming Seminar] Cultivating Empowerment in Contemporary Japanese Mountain Asceticism

Cultivating Empowerment in Contemporary Japanese Mountain Asceticism

Speaker: Bryan RILL
(Assistant Professor, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, 28 February 2014
Venue: Room 401 Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

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This talk will center on contemporary Shugendo practice and local constructs of meaningful being and empowerment within Japanese culture. It will argue that, within the worldview of practitioners, ascetic training contributes to overall personal and societal health.

The seminar will be conducted in English

ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME 

[Upcoming Seminar] Desiring the iPhone and Worker Suicide

Desiring the iPhone and Worker Suicide

Speaker: PUN Ngai
(Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, 21 February 2014
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Mong Man Wai Building, CUHK

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This talk is about Apple, Foxconn and workers’ struggles in China. It looks into Apple’s iPhone philosophy, Foxconn expansion and its impact on frontline workers’ lives in China. It also provides an account of the role of the state that facilitates Foxconn’s production regime and use of labor. Foxconn stands out in a new phenomenon of capital expansion because of its speed and scale of capital accumulation in all regions of China that is incomparable to other enterprises. As the world’s largest electronic factory, we explore how the Foxconn workers were subjected to work pressure and desperation that might lead to suicides on the one hand but also open up daily and collective resistances on the other hand.

The seminar will be conducted in English

ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME 

[Upcoming Seminar] Peranakan Music and Multiculturalism in Singapore

Peranakan Music and Multiculturalism in Singapore

Speaker: LEE Tong Soon

(Chair and Professor, Department of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, 14 February 2014

Venue: Room 401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

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ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME

Feel free to bring your box lunch or sandwich to eat during the talk

Anthropologists on the Road Series(1): A Story of Hakka Coiling Dragon House

Anthropologists always have their particular insights and stories to tell about their fields. For that matter, students and teachers of our Department have been writing down their observations and reflections of the fields of contemporary China on Hong Kong Discovery. From now on, we will start posting their articles on our blog to let more people hear about their stories. 

[Anthropologists on the Road] series:

Forward by Professor Sidney Cheung

This week we will start with our former MPhil student Luo Jiting's article "A Story of Hakka Coiling Dragon House."（天方还是地方？）from the Anthropologists On The Road series on Hong Kong Discovery Vol.75. Luo Jiting took her fieldtrip in Meizhou, Guangdong province in 2010. In her article, she shared with us her academic insights on the famous Hakka-styled "coiling dragon house(圍龍屋)". Click the picture below to see her whole article.