International Conference on Asia¡¦s Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Cinema, History and Culture

organized by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore &

the Singapore History Museum,

29-30 April 2005, Singapore

 

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PROGRAMME

2929 APRIL (FRIDAY) 2005 )

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9:00 ¡V 9:30 am REGISTRATION

WELCOME REMARKS 9:45 ¡V 10:00 am

Chua Beng Huat, Professor, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

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10:00 ¡V 12:00 pm KEYNOTES

CHAIR: Lee Chor Lin, Director, Singapore History Museum

Film and History: A Self-critical  Reflection 

Hou Hsiao-Hsien Film Director

The Eloquence of the Taciturn: An Essay on Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Shigehiko Hasumi  Professor and former President of Tokyo University, Japan

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12:00 ¡V 1:30 pm LUNCH (On your own)

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1:30 ¡V 3:30 pm PANEL 1 (mainly in Mandarin)

CHAIR: Lee Guan Kin, Nanyang Technological University

Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Point of Measurement for Taiwan  Cinema

Wen Tien-Hsiang  Film Critic, Taiwan

Home Soil, Family-country and

the World: A Preliminary

Reading of Hou Hsiao-Hsien¡¦s Work

Dai Jinhua Peking University, Beijing, China

DISCUSSANT: Quah Sy Ren, Nanyang Technological University

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3:30 ¡V 4:00 pm TEA BREAK

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4:00 ¡V 6:30 pm PANEL 2

CHAIR: Yung Sai-Shing, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

The Art of Seduction in HouHsiao-Hsien's Films

Ainling Wong  Hong Kong Film Archive

The Use of Allegory in Hou Hsiao-Hsien¡¦s Poetics

Wenchi Lin  National Central University,Taiwan

What's Happening? Modernist Mise en scène, Image and Sound in Hou's Teen Movies

Adrian Martin Film Critic, Australia

DISCUSSANT: Philip Holden, Dept of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore

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7:00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER (For invited guests only)

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30 April 2005 (SATURDAY)30 APRIL (SATURDAY) 2005 )

9:30 ¡V 12:00 pm PANEL 3

CHAIR: Chen Kuan-Hsing, Asia Research Institute, National University

of Singapore

The Idea of in-Betweeness in Hou Hsiao-Hsien¡¦s Café Lumière and Other Films

Ru-Shou Robert Chen National Taiwan University of Arts,Taiwan

How Did Hou Hsiao-Hsien Change Taiwan Cinema?: A Critical Reassessment

Ti Wei Tamkang University, Taiwan

The Reception of Hou Hsiao-hsien Films in Europe from 1980 to Date

Valentina Vitali Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK

DISCUSSANT: Kenneth Chan, Nanyang Technological University

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12:00 ¡V 1:30 pm LUNCH (On your own)

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1:30 ¡V 3:30 pm PANEL 4

CHAIR: Kwok Kian-Woon, Nanyang Technological University

Scenes of Comparison: Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Im Kown-taek

Kim Soyoung Korean National University of Arts, Korea

Ordinary Hero(in)es: Personal Memory and Sociopolitical History in Hou Hsiao-Hsien¡¦s

Good Men, Good Women and Ann Hui¡¦s Ordinary Heroes

Daisy Ng and Lin Pei-yin Department of Chinese Studies,National University of Singapore

DISCUSSANT: Srinivas V. Singavarapu, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

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3:30 ¡V 4:00 pm TEA BREAK

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4:00 ¡V 6:00 pm PANEL 5

CHAIR: Chua Beng Huat, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Reconsidering Asian Melodrama: A Presentation for Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Ashish Rajadhyaksha Center for the Study of Culture and Society, India

Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Paradoxes of Individuation in History

Paul Willemen Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK

DISCUSSANT: Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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6:00 pm END OF CONFERENCE

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Conference program, Abstract and autobiography of contributors.

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