The 8th Annual CUHK Anthropology
Postgraduate Student Forum, 'Transforming Asian Anthropology: Dialogues and
Imaginations' was successfully held on 22–23 January 2016. This year, we invited
over 30 participants coming from different countries to present their research
in the forum. Nine panels were organized, which included “Practicing Religion in Asia: Diversity and
Comparison”, “Culture in Display”, “Producing Space, Consuming Culture”, “En/gendering
New Subjectivities”, “Managing Health and Bodies Beyond Self”, “Negotiating
Ethnic Boundaries”, “Alternative Future and Popular Protest”, “Remaking Lives
in a Multifaceted Market” and “Asian Migrations: Trajectories, Meanings,
Embodiments”. The wide range of topics brought forth by paper presenters gave the
audience insights into different cultural phenomenon occurring across space and
time relative to Asia.
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| Paper presenters |
On the second day of the event, Dr. Nicole
Constable gave a keynote speech on “Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of
Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption”. Her
speech addressed the divergent forms of intimate and invisibilized labor
undertaken by Southeast Asian migrant workers that contribute to both formal
and informal economies of Hong Kong.
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| Dr. Nicole Constable |
A field trip was also arranged for forum
participants to know more about Hong Kong culture. Our postgraduate students
led the participants to the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail in Fanling, in the
northern areas of the New Territories. This trip highlighted the remnants of
the Tang lineage and introduced participants to the
clan's ancestral halls, temples, shrines, stone tablets, study halls located in
both walled villages as well as other
non-walled villages (tsuens).
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| Field trip |
Last but not least, we would like to thank
Dr. Nicole Constable, chairs and discussants of each panel, and all the
participants who contributed to the success of this year’s forum. This forum indeed incited new dialogues and
imaginations to help transform an ever-emergent Asian anthropology.
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| Group photo |
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