Research Seminar Series

Topic 1 : Narratives of Truth: Painting the Past in post-Tridentine Rome

Speaker: Professor Alessandra Di Croce (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)

Topic 2: No Gain Without Pain? Discursive Representation of Foreign Domestic Helpers in Online Discourse

Speaker: Professor Janet Ho (Assistant Professor, Department of English)

Moderator: Professor Chunmei Du (Associate Professor, Department of History)

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Topic 1 : Robert Rauschenberg and the Politics of Appropriation: Revisiting ROCI Beijing in 1985

Speaker: Professor Yu-chieh Li (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Studies)

Topic 2: Marilynne Robinson's Waterlines

Speaker: Professor Kira Rose (Assistant Professor, Department of English)

Moderator: Professor Chunmei Du (Associate Professor, Department of History)

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Topic 1 : Everyday Erotics in Destiny: An Urban Ethnography of Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong

Speaker: Professor Tse-shang Denise Tang (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies)

Topic 2: Modern Women or Parasitic Whores: The Jeep Girls Debate in Post-World War II China

Speaker: Professor Chunmei Du (Associate Professor, Department of History)

Moderator: Professor Andrea Sauchelli (Associate Dean, Research and Postgraduate Studies)

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