Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City,’ co-hosted by City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on 5-6 December 2024..

This is a cross-institutional, interdisciplinary conference with nearly 60 established and emerging scholars from diverse fields of study, including literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, architectural and urban studies, art and visual studies, cultural anthropology, history, and geography, applying various critical and creative methods to analyze different cultural genres and analytical objects that engage with the urban across geographic locations and historical periods. The conference will feature an artist talk and a walking tour. Workshops will be conducted on emerging topics for PhD students. Plenary speakers include Lieven Ameel (Tampere), Nishat Awan (UCL), Cecilia L. Chu (CUHK), Dominic Davies (City St. George’s), Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser), Lee Kah-Wee (NUS), Gina Marchetti (Pratt), Jasmine Nadua Trice (UCLA), Jini Kim Watson (Melbourne), and Linda Chiu-han Lai (CityUHK).

This conference is co-organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Research Institute for the Humanities, Centre for Cultural Studies & MA in Intercultural Studies Programme, Departments of English and Cultural & Religious Studies; City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), Department of English; University of Hong Kong (HKU), Center for the Study of Globalization & Cultures in the Department of Comparative Literature.

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Plenary speakers include Lieven Ameel (Tampere), Nishat Awan (UCL), Cecilia L. Chu (CUHK), Dominic Davies (City St. George’s), Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser), Lee Kah-Wee (NUS), Gina Marchetti (Pratt), Jasmine Nadua Trice (UCLA), Jini Kim Watson (Melbourne), and Linda Chiu-han Lai (CityUHK)