[Event] Cambodia Summer Field Trip 2017 Exhibition

Touching Angkor: From Temples to Cities, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Cambodia

This summer, the anthropology department from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) established the first credit-bearing course that included fieldwork in archaeology and cultural heritage studies in Cambodia. With our students from CUHK and graduates from The Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, we travelled to the capital Phnom Penh then to Angkor, Siem Reap in June. To share the result of our research, we have organized an exhibition at Hui Gallery, New Asia College, CUHK, 16-27, October, co-organized with APSARA Authority, Siem Reap and Faculty of Archaeology, RUFA, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

We visited a piece of history left by the Khmer Rouge through the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum that was listed under “the Memory of the World” in 2009; we examined the archaeological sites of Angkor, which the UNESCO inscribed as “World Heritage” in 1992. The class was divided into five groups that conquered the academic areas of museum anthropology, archaeology, ceramic studies, intangible cultural heritage and peoples and cultures of Cambodia. We will unravel some new and interesting cross-cultural interpretations of archaeology and cultural heritage studies in Cambodia in this exhibition.

Details
Opening Ceremony: 12:00 p.m., October 17, 2017 (Tue)
Exhibition Date: October 16 - 27, 2017
Venue: Hui Gallery, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Opening hours of Hui Gallery:
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Monday to Friday);
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Saturday);
Closed (Sundays and Public Holidays).

Enquiries: 3943 7670

Refreshment will be provided in the opening ceremony. All are welcome!

Watch the 1-min video trailer. 

[Event] Final Year Project (FYP) Forum 2017

Poster of the FYP Forum 2017

The FYP Forum is a platform for undergraduate students to present their final year research projects on a topic of their choice. In the project, students would demonstrate their ability in applying concepts, theories and skills they have learnt in their years of anthropology study. This year, the forum will be held on Apr 25, 2017 (Tuesday) at 2pm–6pm at Room 12, Humanities Building, CUHK. 

Apart from the student presentations, we have also invited Ms Winsome Lee, our MA graduate, to give a keynote speech on "Skeletons In the Closet: From forensic anthropology to blogging". All interested are welcome! (Undergraduate students of other years are recommended to attend the forum since it can give them better understanding of their capstone course and inspire them of more anthropological research topics.)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

East Asian Anthropological Association 

Annual Meeting 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

14-16 October 2017

The East Asian Anthropological Association is a scholarly association of teachers and students of anthropology based in East Asia and engaged in anthropological work on East Asia. It has its conferences in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan in recent years. Its upcoming meeting will be in Hong Kong 14-16 October 2017. We hope that you will propose a panel or an individual paper for this conference. You do not need to be a member of EAAA at present in order to submit a panel or paper; you become a member automatically by attending this conference.     

 

Please fill out a EAAA panel proposal or EAAA individual paper proposal, which will require an abstract from you in English. (We regret making English the conference’s language, but because of the prohibitive expense of hiring simultaneous translators, this is necessary.) You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-6 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal, which is your paper alone. Individual paper proposals we will subsequently organize into panels. Submitted panels have a somewhat better chance of being accepted for the conference than individual papers. Panels that cross national boundaries rather than only dealing with one society are preferred, but we realize that such panels may not always be possible. 

If you cannot access the online forms, please complete the attached panel or paper proposal form and send it to eaaa.hk.2017@gmail.com by 1 May 2017. The program committee will make its decisions by 15 May, and will then send out acceptance notices, conference registration forms, and payment instructions to all participants. 

The conference will be held on 14-15 October at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, followed on 16 October by a tour of interesting Hong Kong places.  Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. We will arrange lodging at a CUHK guesthouse (for which there are limited spaces), or at the Hyatt hotel; you will have the chance to choose which of these you would prefer. We will provide lunches and dinners and refreshments at the conference. For more details, please visit http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/EAAAconf/index.html.

We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong in October! 

[ I·CARE Film Festival 2017 博群電影節] Sunday Beauty Queen 周日皇后

This year's I·CARE Film Festival has invited Dr. Ju-chen Chen to be the post-screening speaker for the film "Sunday Beauty Queen". Highlighting the subjectivity of the Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong, this film shows us the dreams and life of these workers through their participation in a beauty pageant.

Sunday Beauty Queen

2016｜Philippine｜94 min｜ In English & Filipino with English subtitles  Director: Baby Ruth Villarama

When it comes to weekend streetscape in Hong Kong, the little makeshift havens put up by the Filipino maids in Central are likely to spring to mind. Leaving their country at a young age for a better livelihood, they strike the most of us as menial workers who crowd together on holidays. Who cares who they are, what their dreams are…? As director Villarama delves into their world, she finds out that some of them are busy getting ready for a beauty pageant. Their beauty eludes most Hong Kongers, but not Villarama and the jurors at the Busan International Film Festival, South Korea. Show time for our Cinderellas! Date: 23 March 2017 (Thursday) Time: 6:45pm Venue: Room103, Y.C. Liang Hall Post-screening Discussion Speaker: Chen Ju Chen (Lecturer, Department of Anthropology) Language: English Chen Ju Chen Chen is a Lecturer of the Department of Anthropology in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interest includes anthropology of China, globalization, urban studies, social differences, labor migration, gender, consumption and mass media. Click HERE for details. 周日皇后 2016｜菲律賓｜94分鐘｜ 英語、菲律賓語｜英文字幕 導演：維拉拉瑪 說起香港的周末風光，好不容易偷得半日閒的菲律賓女傭在中環搭起的臨時小天地，確是一道讓人難以忘懷的風景。她們自小離家到外地打工，旁人只注意她們的工作和聯群結隊的假日，說到真性情與少女夢，卻乏人問津。導演Villarama走進香港鬧市，問問這群異鄉人有何所求，意外地跟隨一群有志於參加選美的「周日皇后」，看她們如何構想專屬的美夢。香港人看不見她們的美，但導演看見了，南韓釜山電影節的評審亦看見了。銀幕上，這群灰姑娘才是主角。 日期：2017年3月23日（星期四） 時間：晚上6時45分 地點：潤昌堂103室 映後座談講者：陳如珍（人類學系講師） 座談語言：英語 陳如珍 香港中文大學人類學系講師，其研究興趣為中國人類學、全球化、都市人類學、社會差異與階層、勞動移民、性別研究、消費文化與媒體研究。 按此查看詳情。

[Upcoming Event] TALENTS DISPLACED: An Explosion of Rap, DJ, African drums and dance!

Department of Anthropology 

presents

TALENTS DISPLACED

An Explosion of Rap, DJ, African drums and dance!

Come join us

2 December 2016

5:30PM–6:30PM 

At 

New Asia Concourse, 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Event Poster

香港中文大學本科入學資訊日

香港中文大學一年一度的本科入學資訊日將於明天（05/11/2016）舉行！本學系當日的活動詳情如下：

課程簡介及諮詢

第一節（麥高登教授主講）：10:00am – 10:30am（英語）
第二節（鄭詩靈教授主講）：11:30am – 12:00noon（廣東話）
第三節（林永昌教授主講）：1:30pm – 2:00pm（廣東話；亦會深入介紹考古學）
第四節（關宜馨教授主講）：3:00pm – 3:30pm（英語）

地點：崇基學院利黃瑤璧樓206室

展覽及攤位

時間：8:30am – 6:00pm
地點：崇基學院利黃瑤璧樓地下大堂

學科介紹

時間：9:00am – 5:30pm
地點：崇基學院利黃瑤璧樓205室

學系開放

時間：11:00am – 5:30pm
地點：新亞書院人文館四樓401及412室

考古學：示範環節

時間：3:00pm – 5:00pm
地點：聯合書院曾肇添樓301室

屆時本系的同學及舊生會在場解答有關人類學本科生課程及就業出路等問題，歡迎有興趣的同學、家長及教師前來了解！

活動海報

[Upcoming Event] Roundtable: "Low-End Globalization on Three Continents"

The Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong will hold a roundtable discussion on “Low-End Globalization on Three Continents” next Tuesday! All interested are welcome!

Poster

Roundtable: “Low-End Globalization on Three Continents.” 

Date: 1 November 2016 (Tuesday) 

Time: 5:30PM–7:00PM 

Venue: Room 401, Humanities Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Speakers:

Juliane Müller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany 

“Popular trade in Bolivia and the Andes in relation to China” 

Sayaka Ogawa, Ritsumeikan University, Japan 

“Copy Mobile Phones, Tanzania and China” 

Gordon Mathews, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

“Cheating between African entrepreneurs and Chinese suppliers in Guangzhou”

Each speaker will speak for ten minutes. Then, speakers and audience members will question each other, to try to arrive at some deeper insights into the processes of low-end globalization worldwide.

[Upcoming Seminar] Made to Measure: Understanding Crafting Revival in a Melanesian Society

Title: Made to Measure: Understanding Crafting Revival in a Melanesian Society

Speaker: Prof. Graeme Were (Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies, University of Queensland)

Date and time: 12:00pm, 14 October 2016

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

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Graeme Were is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Museum Studies and convenes the Museum Studies postgraduate programme in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. He has held positions at University College London, Goldsmiths College London, and the British Museum and joined UQ in 2011. His research interests include museum anthropology, digital heritage and material culture studies and he has a regional specialism in Papua New Guinea. His recent work includes Lines that connect: rethinking pattern and mind in the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) and (co-edited with J.C.H. King) Extreme collecting (Berghahn, 2012). He presented the prestigious 2011 Curl Lecture at the British Museum awarded by the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in 2012, he received a UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award for his work on digital heritage and knowledge networks in Melanesia. He serves on the Australian government's National Cultural Heritage Committee.

ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME!

[Upcoming Event] One-Day Workshop organized by Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

One-Day Workshop organized by 

Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies, 
Department of Anthropology, 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Date: 17/10/2016 (Mon)
Time: Part I:10:00am-1:00pm; Part II: 3:30-6:30pm
Venue: NAH401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

(Conducted in English)

Visiting Scholar’s Profile:

Miriam Stark is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her PhD at the University of Arizona (1993) was an ethnoarchaeological study of ceramic production and exchange among tribal Kalinga potters in the highland Philippines, and her subsequent Smithsonian post-doctoral fellowship used Kalinga ceramic data to test the analytical limits of compositional techniques. Dr. Stark has conducted field-based archaeological work in Cambodia since joining the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1995, when she launched the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. She also joined the Greater Angkor Project as a Partner Investigator in 2010; this international collaboration (between the University of Sydney, EFEO, APSARA National Authority and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) focuses on urban organization in Angkor. In 2014 she co-founded the Khmer Production and Exchange Project in partnership with APSARA National Authority, the University of New England (Australia) and Santa Clara University. She has edited or co-edited five books, authored/co-authored more than 70 journal articles and chapters, and serves on the Executive Board of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.

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Part I: Materiality and Anthropology 物質性與人類學

Content/theme:

1. Discuss how social boundaries and ethnoarchaeological survey relates to the study of anthropology

2. Discuss how archaeologists conduct and then apply findings from actualistic research

3. Discuss the relationship between cultural anthropological theory and archaeological practice

4. Students discuss their research projects and Prof. Stark gives feedbacks

Time: 10:00am-1:00pm (lecture, fieldwork experience sharing, and discussion)

Target participants: All are welcome! Priority will be given to anthropological students and staff.

Venue: NAH401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

Quota: 15-20

Registration on or before 11/10/2016 (Tue)

Registration Link: https://goo.gl/WKQOge

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Part II: Archaeology in Asia 考古學在亞洲

Content/theme:

1. Overview of Asian archaeology

2. Some Very Cool Discoveries that make Asian Archaeology interesting to study, such as human evolution, early pottery, ancient cities

3. Selected methodologies that Asian Archaeology has contributed to world archaeology

4. Some of Prof. Stark’s experiences in Asian archaeology

5. Why Cambodian archaeology is so wonderful?

Time: 3:30-6:30pm (lecture, fieldwork experience sharing, and discussion)

Target participants: All are welcome! Priority will be given to anthropological students and staff.

Venue: NAH401, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK

Quota: 15-20

Registration on or before 11/10/2016 (Tue)

Registration Link: https://goo.gl/cJKQKT

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＊ Light lunch and refreshment will be provided.

＊ Confirmation email will be sent out by 13/10/2016 (Thurs).

[Cultural Heritage Talk Series 2016] Imagining Angkor: Politics, Myths, and Archaeology (想像吳哥：政治、神話與考古)

Cultural Heritage Talk Series 2016

Imagining Angkor: Politics, Myths, and Archaeology

想像吳哥：政治、神話與考古

Prof. Miriam Stark (Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

*Conducted in English*

Date: 14/10/2016 (Fri)

Time: 4:00-6:00pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre (L1), Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK

Abstract: Angkor's first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia' Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor's kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer empire's achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia's most influential polity; it has also shaped political agenda in unanticipated ways. This lecture visits such accounts and myths and explores how archaeological research offers another strategy for imagining Angkor: its rise, its splendor, and its collapse and regeneration over two millennia.

Bio of the Speaker: Miriam Stark is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her PhD at the University of Arizona (1993) was an ethnoarchaeological study of ceramic production and exchange among tribal Kalinga potters in the highland Philippines, and her subsequent Smithsonian post-doctoral fellowship used Kalinga ceramic data to test the analytical limits of compositional techniques. Dr. Stark has conducted field-based archaeological work in Cambodia since joining the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 1995, when she launched the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. She also joined the Greater Angkor Project as a Partner Investigator in 2010; this international collaboration (between the University of Sydney, EFEO, APSARA National Authority and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa) focuses on urban organization in Angkor. In 2014 she co-founded the Khmer Production and Exchange Project in partnership with APSARA National Authority, the University of New England (Australia) and Santa Clara University. She has edited or co-edited five books, authored/co-authored more than 70 journal articles and chapters, and serves on the Executive Board of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.

Free admission. All interested are welcome.

Please register at: https://goo.gl/4MJd4R. 

[SEAA Hong Kong Conference 2016] East Asia and Tomorrow's Anthropology

The SEAA Hong Kong Conference 2016 “East Asia and Tomorrow's Anthropology” was successfully held on 19-22 June, 2016 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. We were honored to have Professor Leung Yuen Sang, the Dean of Arts, to give a speech at the opening ceremony.

Prof. Leung Yuen Sang, the Dean of Arts, giving the opening speech at the conference

After the ceremony, we had invited Dr. Huang Shu-min from Academic Sinica, Dr. Takami Kuwayama from Hokkaido University, Dr. Kwang Ok Kim from Shandong University, Dr. Gordon Mathews from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Ichiro Numazaki from Tohoku University, and Dr. Helen Siu from Yale University to hold a keynote panel and discuss on the topic “Overcoming the Gap between American Anthropology and East Asian Anthropologies”.

The keynote panel

More than 150 scholars coming from different countries presented their research at the conference. A total of 33 panels, focusing on various anthropological scopes such as identity, religion, gender, language, transnationalism, ethics, media, ecology, and medical practices, were organized. The panels had incited new dialogues on different anthropological topics.

Linessa, our PhD candidate, presenting her paper at the panel “Migrant Mobilities and Identities in East Asia: Ethnographic Inquiries into Subjectivities and Experiences”

Dr. Gordon Mathews and Leah, our MPhil graduate, having a musical performance at the welcoming banquet

The conference participants visited Chungking Mansions, the center of “low-end globalization” in Hong Kong, and had dinner in the restaurants inside the building

Three different field trips, respectively to the Big Buddha, to Hong Kong museums, and to Sham Shui Po and Shek Kip Mei, were also organized for the conference participants to know more about Hong Kong culture.

Marco and Man Kei, our PhD candidates, explaining to the conference participants the history and special features of Sham Shui Po

Last but not least, we would like to thank the keynote speakers, chairs and discussants of each panel, and all the participants who contributed to the success of this conference!

Call for Papers: The 9th Annual CUHK Postgraduate Student Forum

The 9th Annual CUHK Postgraduate Student Forum

“Engaged Asian Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges”

The Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, invites graduate students in Asia and elsewhere to present their current research at our 9th Postgraduate Student Forum: “Engaged Asian Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges”. The Forum, to be held on 20-21 January 2017 (Friday and Saturday) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, will showcase the best of students’ contemporary research on Asia. 

Hong Kong is a global city, a major node for trade, investment, and the exchange of ideas. The Postgraduate Student Forum seeks to encourage the communication among young anthropologists in and of the East and Southeast Asian region, to help improve their research and to make the excellent research being conducted in Asia to be better known internationally. 

Presentations and Panels

We accept proposals for individual papers ONLY this year. Papers of different topics are welcome, ethnographic work preferred. Papers will then be organized into panels. Each paper presentation will last 15 minutes; PowerPoint and multimedia equipment will be provided. The language of the forum will be English. 

How to Apply

·       Please fill the form online (http://goo.gl/forms/00ZX2wtzMYEAC8lG2).

·       If you cannot access the online form, please download it here (http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/pgforum/PGSF9Abstract.xlsx ). Complete the form, rename it as PGSF9 + your name + your university/affiliation, e.g. PGSF9 +Jack Chen + Boston University, and send it to anthforum@cuhk.edu.hk

·       Deadline for abstract submission is 15 September 2016. 

  

Forum Dates 

20-21 January 2017 (Friday and Saturday)  

For additional information, please contact us

Website:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PGSF9

Email: anthforum@cuhk.edu.hk 

Telephone: +852 3943 7670

Cultural Heritage Talk Series 2016 In Honor of Professor Tracey Lie-dan Lu: Rethinking the Origin of Food Production and Population Movements in Prehistoric China

Cultural Heritage Talk Series 2016 

In Honor of Professor Tracey Lie-dan Lu 

Rethinking the Origin of Food Production and Population Movements in Prehistoric China 

史前中國食物生產起源和人群移動的再思考 

Dr. Tianlong Jiao (Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art, Denver Art Museum, USA) 

焦天龍博士 （美國丹佛美術博物館亞洲部主任） 

*Conducted in English 英語演講* 

*Refreshments will be provided after the talk 演講後敬備茶點*

The study of the beginning of food production in prehistoric China has been dominated by the approach of searching for a single mark of the “origin” of agriculture, leading to infinite debates on many issues. A more reasonable and productive way to understand the economic pattern of this critical period is the level of food production. The concept of “Low-Level Food Production” offers a useful alternative perspective to investigate the economic changes as well as the population dynamics in early Neolithic China. 

在探索史前中國從採集到食物生產轉變的過程這一問題上，傳統的研究大都注重尋找或定義農業起源的單一界限，導致了在很多問題上的永無止境的爭論。而如果我們換一個角度，從食物生產水準的角度來研究這一轉變時期的經濟形態，將是一個更有效的研究方式。「低水準食物生產」這一概念提供了一個新的視角，可以更好地促進研究中國早期新石器時代的經濟形態和人群移動的發源。

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Dr. Tianlong Jiao is the Curator of Asian Art at the Denver Art Museum, USA. He is also an Affiliate Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, an Adjunct Chair Professor at Xiamen University and the Chinese University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph. D from Harvard University in 2003. He was the Head of Chinese Art Department at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from 2014-2015, Chief Curator of Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 2013-2014, the Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Bishop Museum from 2006-2013. He also served as the Director of Shandong Archaeology Team in the Institute of Archaeology at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research specialty is Chinese and Pacific archaeology and museum studies. He has conducted archaeological projects in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Hawaii and central America. He also curated many museum exhibitions. His publications have explored a variety of issues including early food production, the Austronesian expansions, formation of states, ancient environment, archaeology of gender and style, maritime adaptation and maritime trade. He has authored/co-authored six books and more than eighty research papers both in Chinese and in English. His English book The Neolithic of Southeast China (Cambria Press 2007) was the winner of the 2007 Philip and Eugenia Cho Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Asian Studies.

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Date: 19 June 2016 (Sunday)

日期: 2016年6月19日(星期日)

Time: 4:30pm – 6:00pm

時間: 下午4時30分至6時

Venue: LT1, 7/F, Mong Man Wai Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

地點: 香港中文大學蒙民偉樓七樓LT1演講廳

Enquiry: (Tel.) (852) 39439264, (E-mail) wschok@cuhk.edu.hk

查詢: (電話) (852) 39439264, (電郵) wschok@cuhk.edu.hk

Free admission. All interested are welcome. Please register on or before 8 June 2016 by filling the form: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/cchstalk2016.htm. 

費用全免，歡迎各位參與。有興趣者請於六月八日或之前填妥此表格：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/cchstalk2016.htm.

Society for East Asian Anthropology Hong Kong Conference 2016

The Society for East Asian Anthropology Hong Kong Conference will be held in Hong Kong on 19–22 June 2016. The theme of this conference is "East Asia and Tomorrow's Anthropology."

This conference is jointly organized by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. The conference has attracted more than 140 scholars in the field to share their latest research findings. For more details, please visit the conference website: http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/SEAAconf/index.html.

Preliminary program can now be downloaded at the conference website: http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/SEAAconf/program.html

[Event] Final Year Project (FYP) Forum 2016

The FYP Forum is a platform for undergraduate students to present their final year research projects on a topic of their choice. In the project, students would demonstrate their ability in applying concepts, theories and skills they have learnt in their years of anthropology study. This year, the forum will be held on Apr 27, 2016 (Wednesday) at 14:00–18:00 at NAH 12. 

There will be 26 presentations on diverse topics, including "Archaeology & Artifacts", "Work & Identity", "Food & Taste", "Coming of Age in Hong Kong", "Pop Culture & Consumption", "Making Gender", and "Meaning & Life Course". After the student presentations, we have also invited Allie Kwong, our alumni, to give a keynote speech on "How is Anthropology Relevant in the Workplace?"

All interested are welcome. Undergraduate students of other years are recommended to attend the forum since it can give them better understanding of their capstone course and inspire them of more anthropological research topics.

[Announcement] Department e-Newsletter (Spring 2016)

The e-newsletter (Spring 2016) of our department has been published! Click here to catch up with us on our latest news, student activities, department events and alumni updates.

Department e-newsletter (Spring 2016)

Contents

Department News (P.1)

• New Teacher
• Department Outreach

Department Events (P.2)

• Friday Seminars
• Conference
• Co-organized Talks
• Multiculturalism in Action Project

Student Activities (P.3)

• 2015-16 Undergraduate Student Society
• Lunar New Year Dinner
• 2016 New Asia Photo-taking Day
• The 8th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum

Alumni Updates (P.4)

• Interview with Lee Wai Yi (MPhil in Anthropology, 1999)

If you have any suggestions, comments or news to share with our subscribers, feel free to contact Ms. Esther Chok at wschok@cuhk.edu.hk. We would like to hear from you!

[Event] FUN with Interculturalism

FUN with Interculturalism, a community outreach project directed by Prof. Maria Tam, will have its 4^th event on this coming Saturday (27 February) at SKH St. Joseph’s Church and Social Center! The event will last from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm. There will be an Exhibition on South Asian Communities in Hong Kong, kabaddi, Indian and Nepali dance, Pakistani games…and more!

Center's address: 

SKH St. Joseph's Church and Social Centre
83A Ng Ka Tsuen, Kam Sheung Road, Yuen Long

Public transportation:

Use Exit C of Kam Sheung Road West Rail Station to reach the Public Transport Interchange. Then: 
1) Take KMB Route 64K, and get off at San Ma Lo Pat Heung (八鄉新馬路) or; 
2) Take Minibus Route 78, and directly tell the drive the center's name and get off there.

Have a review if you have missed our previous event:

http://anthrocuhk.blogspot.hk/2016/02/multiculturalism-in-action-2015-2016.html

Looking forward to seeing you all! ;)

[The 8th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum] Transforming Asian Anthropology Imaginations & Dialogues

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.

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.

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).

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.

Group photo

[Event] FUN with Interculturalism

Multiculturalism in Action Project will have a booth at the Art Connection Carnival on 24 January (coming Sunday!) at Shui Bin Tsuen Playground, Yuen Long. The carnival will start from 2 pm to 5 pm.

There will be an exhibition on South Asian communities in Hong Kong, and our volunteers will teach you the exciting South Asian sport - kabaddi - at 15:00 and 16:00 respectively.

We need your support! Don't miss the chance and come visit us!

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[PGSF8: Keynote Speech] Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption

Keynote Speech for 

The 8th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum:

Transforming Asian Anthropology: Imaginations & Dialogues

23 January 2016

Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption

Speaker: Dr. Nicole Constable
Date: 23 Jan 2016
Time: 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Venue: Exhibition Zones, 1/F, An Integrated Teaching Building (AIT), School of Architecture, CUHK

Dr. Constable is currently JY Pillay Global-Asia Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include transnational migration and mobilities; the commodification of intimacy; gender, sexuality and reproductive labor; ethnographic writing and power.

Her geographical interests span Hong Kong, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. She has conducted fieldwork in Hong Kong on constructions of Hakka Chinese Christian identity, on resistance and discipline among Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers, and among migrant mothers. Her recent publications focused on cross-border marriages, migrant worker activism, undocumented workers, and new transnational family formations.

Her latest book is Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor (University of California Press and Hong Kong University Press, 2014), about Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong who become mothers, and the legal and personal struggles they face regarding migrant work, intimate relationships, and parenthood.

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