Schedule
(Updated as of March 12, 2021)
Important notes:
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March
Panel 1-8
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Event
| Panel 1: 09:00-11:30, March 1 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Keynote Speeches Chairs: Chair: Daisy Yan DU (HKUST) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| 09:00-09:15 |
Opening Remarks* & Welcome Speech# Daisy Yan DU* (HKUST) / Kellee TSAI# (HKUST) / Andrew COHEN# (HKUST) |
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| 09:15-10:25 |
Playful Dispositif and Remediation: Chinese Animation from the Perspective of Film History as Media Archaeology ZHANG Yingjin (University of California, San Diego) |
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| 10:25-10:35 | Break | |
| 10:35-11:45 |
Vernacular Networking: The Transmedial Situation of ‘Chinese Anime’ Thomas LAMARRE (University of Chicago) |
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| Panel 2: 09:00-11:00, March 2 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Screening of Early Animated Shorts by China Film Archive Chairs: Zhen ZHANG (New York University) |
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| Online via Zoom (not open to the public, exclusive to invited conference speakers and HKUST HUMA 3201 students only) |
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| P02-01 |
The Mouse and the Frog (cel, Wan Brothers, 1934) |
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| P02-02 |
Songs of Resistance 2 (cel, Wan Brothers, 1938) |
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| P02-03 |
Songs of Resistance 5 (cel, Wan Brothers, 1939) |
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| P02-04 |
The Kite (cel, Liang Jin, 1943) |
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| P02-05 |
Dreaming to be Emperor (puppet, Chen Bo’er, 1947) |
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| P02-06 |
An Overview of the Animated Film Data in the China Film Archive TAN Qiuwen (China Film Art Research Center) |
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| P02-07 |
Screening of Selections from the Early Chinese Animation Playlist Christopher REA (University of British Columbia) |
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| Panel 3: 09:00-11:40, March 8 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Early Animation and Cartoons before 1949 Chairs: ZHANG Yingjin (University of California, San Diego) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P03-01 |
Kamishibai in Wartime China Sharalyn ORBAUGH (University of British Columbia) |
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| P03-02 |
Metamorphosis: ‘Three Hairs’ from Newspaper to Big Screen ZHANG Zhen (New York University) |
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| P03-03 |
Reality and Seriality in Zhang Leping’s Comic Strip: The Wandering Life of Sanmao, 1947-1948 John CRESPI (Colgate University) |
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| P03-04 |
Animation and the Republican Chinese Film Industry: In Search of New Methodologies Christopher REA (University of British Columbia) |
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| P03-05 |
The Wan Brothers Reexamined CHEN Yan (Kyoto Seiki University) |
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| Panel 4: 09:00-12:10, March 9 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Animation in Socialist China Chairs: Stephi Hemelryk DONALD (University of Lincoln) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P04-01 |
The Deconstruction of Animated Technology in Socialist Puppet Animated Films, 1949-1964 Linda C. ZHANG (University of California-Berkeley) |
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| P04-02 |
Sonic ‘National Style’ in Socialist Chinese Animation Films ZHANG Ling (State University of New York Purchase College) |
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| P04-03 |
Animated Soundscape: Wu Yingju’s Music in Meishu Films in Socialist China from 1957 to 1965 [Cancelled] GAO Yunwen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
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| P04-04 |
Receiving the Classics [Cancelled] Sean MACDONALD (State University of New York at Buffalo) |
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| P04-05 |
From Ink to Animation: Tang Cheng’s Artistic Road YANG Zeyu (Qingdao Agricultural University) |
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| Panel 5: 09:00-11:10, March 15 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Legacy of the 1980s Chairs: Paola VOCI (University of Otago) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P05-01 |
Motifs of Science and Technology in Chinese Animation during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw LI Hua (Montana State University) |
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| P05-02 |
Adapting Dunhuang in a Transitional Period: Negotiated Intermediality in The Deer of Nine Colors and Jiazi Saves the Deer LIU Shasha (University of Toronto) |
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| P05-03 |
Xu Bing’s The Character of Characters and the Possibilities of Calligraphic Animation YANG Panpan (University of Chicago) |
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| P05-04 |
Dynamics of Dialogue: Reconstructing the Sino-European Opening-Up within the Art-house Animation Festival Circuit in the 1980s Olga BOBROWSKA (Jagiellonian University) |
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| Panel 6: 09:00-11:10, March 16 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Independent Animation in China Chairs: Thomas LAMARRE (University of Chicago) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P06-01 |
The Chinese Animateur 2.0: Playful Technologies and Magical Wonders Paola VOCI (University of Otago) |
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| P06-02 |
Animating the Urban: Cities in 21st Century Chinese Independent Animation Isabel GALWEY (HKUST) |
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| P06-03 |
Assembling the History of Difference: Independent Animation in Postsocialist China WU Hang (University of Chicago) |
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| P06-04 |
Constant Renegotiation: Understanding the Ecology of Independent Chinese Animation Aaron Wenhai ZHOU (University of Waikato) |
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| Panel 7: 09:00-11:50, March 29 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Animators’ Perspectives: Women and Independent Animation (in English and Chinese) Chairs: WANG Yiman (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P07-01 |
Re-archiving Forgetfulness: How Women Artists Evoke Memories in the Collaboration of Independent Animation Maggie Chunning GUO (Renmin University of China) |
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| P07-02 |
In the Name of Love CHEN Hailu (East China Normal University) |
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| P07-03 |
She-Frame-Gaze CAI Caibei (Independent Animation Director) |
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| P07-04 |
I Have Gender, But My Work Does Not CHAI Mi (Independent Animator and Artist) |
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| Panel 8: 09:00-11:40, March 30 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Chinese Animation, Children, and Adults Chairs: Wendy LARSON (University of Oregon) / Stephi Hemelryk DONALD (Monash University Malaysia) / Bin FANG (Beijing Normal University) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P08-01 |
Animation and Technologies of Mobility: Internationalism and the Making of Mao’s Children XU Lanjun (National University of Singapore) |
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| P08-02 |
Educating the ‘Careless’ Socialist Child: Professionalizing Childhood in the Maoist and Early Post-Mao Years ZHANG Yu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
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| P08-03 |
Transborder Fairy Tales: Wartime Animated Film Princess Iron Fan and the Discourse of Children CHEN Ying (City University of Hong Kong) |
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| P08-04 |
Breaking the Stereotype: Dahufa and Adult-Oriented Chinese Animated Film CHEN Shaopeng (Southeast University) |
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April
Panel 9-14
Time
Event
| Panel 9: 09:00-11:40, April 12 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Theorizing Chinese Animation and the World Chairs: Alex ZAHLTEN (Harvard University) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P09-01 |
Beyond the Great Divide: Asian Animation and the Future of Animation Studies [Cancelled] Mitsuhiro YOSHIMOTO (Waseda University) |
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| P09-02 |
On the Value of Anime Studies for Chinese Animation Studies Marc STEINBERG (Concordia University) |
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| P09-03 |
Suspended Animation Daisy Yan DU (HKUST) |
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| P09-04 |
From an Ontology to a Mish-Mash: The Development of Chinese Animation Theories CHEN Yuanyuan (Ulster University) |
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| P09-05 |
Chinese Animation between Standardization and Disneyfication Rolf GIESEN (Independent Scholar) |
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| Panel 10: 09:00-11:40, April 13 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Digitality, CGI, and VR Animation in China Chairs: Yomi BRAESTER (University of Washington, Seattle) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P10-01 |
Chimeric Animation WANG Yiman (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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| P10-02 |
Digital Animation and CGI in Twenty-first Century Chinese Prescriptive Realism Jason MCGRATH (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) |
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| P10-03 |
CGI Ink-Painting Animation in China CHEN Hailu (East China Normal University) |
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| P10-04 |
Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Contemporary Shuimo Donghua Style Shannon BROWNLEE (Dalhousie University in Halifax) |
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| P10-05 |
Present Absence: Rethinking VR Animation as Digital Myths in China Maggie Chunning GUO (Renmin University of China) |
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| Panel 11: 09:00-12:30, April 19 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Film Screening and Animators’ Perspectives (in Chinese and English) Chairs: Daisy Yan DU (HKUST) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P11-01 |
Premier of Red Squirrel Mai (CGI ink-painting animated feature film, 2020) |
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| P11-02 |
From Pleasant Goat to Red Squirrel Mai: On Creative Animation Industry in Contemporary China LO Wing Keung (Chairman of Ink Culture LTD (Hong Kong) & Ink Culture Brand Management Co., LTD (Guangzhou)) |
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| P11-03 |
The Quest for Digital Ink: Developing Tools for Painting, Calligraphy, and Animation Nelson CHU (Creator of Expresii (an ink-painting software tool)) |
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| Panel 12: 09:00-11:10, April 20 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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The Invention of Traditions in Chinese Animation Chairs: John CRESPI (Colgate University) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P12-01 |
The Invention of Chinese Pictorial Space in Chinese Animation Yomi BRAESTER (University of Washington-Seattle) |
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| P12-02 |
Queering an Icon, Becoming a Demon: A Preliminary Discussion of the 2019 White Snake Animation LUO Liang (University of Kentucky) |
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| P12-03 |
Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chinese Animation [Cancelled] SUN Hongmei (George Mason University) |
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| P12-04 |
Nationality, Modernity, and Individuality: The Refunctionalization of Monkey King’s Image in Chinese Animation CHEN Yishui (Beijing Normal University) |
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| Panel 13: 09:00-11:40, April 26 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Animation and Cartoon in China Chairs: Christopher REA (University of British Columbia) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P13-01 |
The Twinning of Chinese Animation and Cartooning John A. LENT (Temple University) |
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| P13-02 |
Hua Junwu’s Cartoons and the Unmaking of National-Style Animation ZHUANG Muyang (HKUST) |
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| P13-03 |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Bugman: Scientific Fairy Tales and the Enemy Within Nick STEMBER (University of Cambridge) |
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| P13-04 |
From the ‘Golden Era’ to the ‘Horse Racing Book’ Crisis: The Transformation of the Comic Publishing Industry in the Early PRC (1949-1956) [CANCELLED] Rebecca SCOTT (King’s College London) |
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| P13-05 |
Exploring Lianhuanhua: A Look into the Imagined Community of China’s Palm-Sized Comic Books Stephanie JONES (University of San Francisco) |
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| Panel 14: 09:00-11:40, April 27 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Chinese Animation and Live Action Chairs: Jason MCGRATH (University of Minnesota) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P14-01 |
From Animation to Martial Arts: Toward the Transcendence of False Movements LI Jinying (Brown University) |
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| P14-02 |
The Promise of Flying: Flash Animation in Jia Zhangke’s The World Wendy LARSON (University of Oregon) |
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| P14-03 |
Interacting with the Virtual: Affect and Animated Environment in Recent Chinese-Language Films LIU Xiao (McGill University) |
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| P14-04 |
Uneasy Ties: Digital Realism and the Discourses of Actualities in Contemporary Chinese Animated Documentaries GUO Li (Utah State University) |
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| P14-05 |
Ethnographic Animation: Participatory Design with the Longhorn Miao WANG Yijing (Beihang University) |
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May
Panel 15-19
Time
Event
| Panel 15: 09:00-11:40, May 3 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Border-Crossings: Chinese/Japanese Animation Chairs: Sharalyn ORBAUGH (University of British Columbia) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P15-01 |
Anime in China and ‘Connective’ Memory in East Asia Alexander ZAHLTEN (Harvard University) |
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| P15-02 |
Mochinaga Tadahito and the Question of Chinese, Japanese, and American Animation Jason Cody DOUGLASS (Yale University) |
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| P15-03 |
Chinese Wanghong in Japanese Manga: Transnational/Cultural Production in Asano Tatsuya’s Faceless [CANCELLED] Cyrus Huiyong QIU (University of British Columbia) |
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| P15-04 |
When Bullet Screen Meets Animation: The Visual Ethnography of the Alternative ACGN Culture in China WU Weihua (Communication University of China) |
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| P15-05 |
It’s a Good Day for Gag: Cultural Dubbing, Sound Culture, and the e-gao Mode of Cultural Critique Casey LEE (Harvard University & University of Florida) |
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| Panel 16: 09:00-11:40, May 4 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Animation Research, Education, and Publication in Mainland China (in Chinese) Chairs: WU Weihua (Communication University of China) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P16-01 |
A Brief History of Animation Theory in Mainland China NIE Xinru (East China Normal University) |
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| P16-02 |
How Animation Research Institutes in China Promote the Development of Chinese Animation ZHONG Yuanbo (Chengdu University) |
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| P16-03 |
Flourishing from Barrenness - The Birth and Development of Animation Education in Mainland China [CANCELLED] AI Shengying (Communication University of China) |
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| P16-04 |
The Journal Contemporary Animation and Chinese Animation Academia TAN Qiuwen (China Film Art Research Center) |
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| P16-05 |
An Overview of Animation-Related Publications in Mainland China ZHAO Jun & CHEN Mo (Communication University of China Press) |
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| Panel 17: 09:00-11:10, May 10 (Monday, HKT) | ||
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Animation in Taiwan Chairs: WANG Yiman (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P17-01 |
Animating Worker Subjectivity: Cartoon Characters Modeling Neoliberal Subjectivity in Taiwan Teri SILVIO (Academia Sinica) |
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| P17-02 |
Becoming Animated: The Transmedia Performance of Pili Puppetry Jasmine Yu-Hsing CHEN (Utah State University) |
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| P17-03 |
Animating Collective Memories and Traumatic Narratives: Hand in Hand, On Happiness Road, and Taiwan’s White Terror Laura Jo-Han WEN (Randolph-Macon College) |
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| P17-04 |
Animated Discursive Practices in Taiwan Bar and Year Hare Affair: A Comparative Study on Online Animations in Taiwan and China Lien Fan SHEN (University of Utah) |
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| Panel 18: 09:00-11:10, May 11 (Tuesday, HKT) | ||
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Animation in Hong Kong and Singapore Chairs: Marc STEINBERG (Concordia University) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P18-01 |
Animated Abstraction and Meaning: A Case Study of Hong Kong Artists Max HATTLER (City University of Hong Kong) |
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| P18-02 |
Recalling and Storytelling Hong Kong in Animation: No. 7 Cherry Lane HU Tze-yue G. (Independent Scholar) |
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| P18-03 |
Moving Tales in the History of Hong Kong Animation Winnie FU (Independent Scholar) |
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| P18-04 |
A Brief History of Ink-painting Animation in Hong Kong Ann Y. Y. LEUNG (University of Hong Kong) |
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| P18-05 |
Singapore Independent Animation in the New Millennium Hannes RALL (Nanyang Technological University) |
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| Panel 19: 09:00-11:30, May 12 (Wednesday, HKT) | ||
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Animators’ Perspectives: Independent Animated Filmmaking in the Digital Age (in English and Chinese) Chairs: ZHANG Zhen, (New York University) |
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| Online via Zoom | ||
| P19-01 |
Memory Clash LEI Lei (Experimental Animation Artist) |
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| P19-02 |
Am I an Animator? The New Trend of Self-made Animator in Hong Kong and Beyond NG Kai Chung Tommy (Independent Animator) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Best Student Paper Award Ceremony Chair: John LENT (Temple University) |
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| 11:45 - 11:50 |
Closing Remarks Daisy Yan DU (HKUST) |
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