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Please note:
• each scheduled panel contains:
1) panelist presentations (15 minutes each);
2)
discussant comments and panelist responses (15 minutes in total);
3) Q&A session (15 minutes in total). Depending on the actual number of presenters, some panels may be shorter or longer than others during the same session-time block.
• Regular fonts for in-person panelists, Italic for online panelists.
DAY 1 30 January 2026 (Friday)
9:00-9:30 Registration
Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
• All panelists and discussants will receive your name cards and forum souvenirs in
registration.
9:30-9:45 Opening Ceremony
Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Zoom Meeting ID: 988 5251 2535 Passcode: 889822
9:45-10:30 Coffee Break
2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
• Please bring your own bottle for refilling. We will also appreciate it if you bring your own
utensils for the tea break.
• Vegetarian snacks provided. Please feel free to inform helpers of any special needs.
Panel A1: Life, Death, and Objects: Archaeological Perspectives on Society
10:30-12:15 / Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Discussant: Prof. LAM Weng Cheong |
Yiruoshi WANG (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Becoming Unequal: Gendered Mortuary Practices at Taosi and Qingliangsi in Late Neolithic North China |
Fangying GUO (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Challenges and potentials of macro-archaeobotanical studies in Hong Kong: Case study from Nga Tsin Wai Village |
Xiaoshuai YUAN (University of Haifa)
Did He/She Wear the Seal, or Did the Seal Represent Him/Her? |
Panel A2: Measured, Verified, Heard: AI, Technology, and the Making of Subjectivity
10:30-12:15 / Room 403, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Discussant: Prof. Gabriella ANGELINI
Zoom Meeting ID: 981 2354 6449 Passcode: 140436 |
Yinuo CHEN (King's College London)
Generative Sound or Generating Sound? Becoming Human-With-Machines in London’s EMOM
|
Yichen TAO & Chi Tak Jamie Chin (University of Oxford)
When AI Forces Its Way into Rural Classrooms: The Coloniality of Educational Technology and Anticolonial Resistance in Rural China |
Pan WANG (Xiamen University)
Posthumanist Perspectives on the Nostalgic Art of ‘Chinese Dreamcore’
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Chenyue JIANG (Shanghai University)
Childhood in the Algorithm: Digital Intimacy in Chinese Online English Education |
Panel A3: Embodied Environmental Changes
10:30-12:15 / Room 503, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Discussant: Prof. Adam LIEBMAN
Zoom Meeting ID: 960 1439 6482 Passcode: 391230 |
Su XUE (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
‘Becoming Human’ through Affective Connection: Self-Reconstruction in a Beijing CSA Farm |
Jingni DUAN (Yunnan Normal University)
People by the lake: Openness and Co-Becoming at Green Lake in Yunnan |
Siyu ZHOU (University of Zurich)
Restless Ghosts among the Ruins: Spirit Possession and the Suspended Life of Post-Earthquake Mandalay |
Xinyi HUANG (National University of Singapore)
Making Mosquitoes, Feeling Mosquitoes: Multispecies Imaginations Beyond Dengue Control in Project Wolbachia, Singapore |
Boxuan YU (Minzu University of China)
Making “Domestic Salmon” in Contemporary China: The Dynamic Edibility of Seawater Rainbow Trout |
12:30-13:45 Buffet Lunch
2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
• Vegetarian sets provided. Please feel free to inform helpers of any special needs.
Panel B1: The Making of Bodies Otherwise: Space, Technology and Popular Culture
14:00-15:45 / Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Discussant: Prof. Sealing CHENG
Zoom Meeting ID: 934 9192 4442 Passcode: 764101 |
Russell YAP Way Shen (National University of Singapore)
Contested Spaces Along the Fringes – Examining Facilitated Spaces that Bridge Space and
Privilege in LGBTQ+ Singapore |
Lingkun HUANG (City University of Hong Kong)
The Paths They Circumvented: Gendered Experiences and Embodied Practices in Urban Spaces |
Jize DONG (Northwest University, China)
Becoming Gendered Beyond Biology: Sex Reassignment Surgery as a Modern Rite of Passage |
Jie (Jocelyn) XU & Ruyi ZHANG (University of York, UK; Shanghai Normal University,
China)
Memory in Life, Memory in Digital Archives: The Case of Peng Zhuying |
Xinyao LI (Columbia University)
Reimagining Queerness: Affective Cartographies in Chinese Fandom of Taiwanese Singer-
Songwriter Anpu Chiao |
Panel B2: Governing Uncertainty: Ritual, Heritage, and the Politics of Memory
14:00-15:45 / Room 403, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Discussant: Prof. Leilah VEVAINA
Zoom Meeting ID: 525 231 1842 Passcode: 20260130 |
Pohling TAN (University of Indonesia)
From “Cina” to “Kita”: Memory Curation and the Politics of Becoming Human in Indonesia
|
Xun XU (Yangzhou University)
Re-semiotizing the Biopolitical Tool: A Geosemiotic Study of Post-COVID PCR Testing
Booths as Sites of Collective Memory |
Shuxian ZHANG (The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Tracing Shanghai: Demographic Patterns, Spatial Memory, and the Politics of Place (751–1949) |
Mengping LIU (Seoul National University)
Between Humans, Deities, and Food: The Cultural Logic of Food Offering Rituals in a Chaoshan Village |
Siwen WANG (Peking University)
Encountering, Comforting, and Coexisting with ’dre: An Exorcism Ritual in Lhasa Countryside |
Yunhan ZHAO (Sichuan University)
Contested Heritage and Social Memory in Informal Settlements |
15:45-16:30 Coffee Break
2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Panel C1: Entangled Things: Value, Ethics, Sensory Practice, and Emotional Attachments
16:30-18:15 / Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Discussant: Prof. Sidney C.H. CHEUNG
Zoom Meeting ID: 970 6500 6803 Passcode: 205904 |
Haojie MU (Fudan University)
Leash Media: Interspecies Communication and Symbiosis in Urban Spaces |
Gene Paolo A. GARCIA (Hiroshima University)
Coffee, Land, and Translation: Relational Value-Making in Indigenous Cordillera Communities of the Philippines |
Junyan OUYANG (Zhejiang University)
When the Flâneur Waits: Coffee Making and the Cultivation of Modern Subjectivity in Contemporary Urban China |
Yuqiong MA (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
Crafting for the Dead: The Social Life of Customised Zhizha and the Contemporary Transformation of Mourning Practices |
Meng Ting YU (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
The Transnational Afterlives of a Wartime Relic: An Object Biography Approach to the Good Luck Flag of Fukuyama Kaneo |
Panel C2: Rethinking Care Today: Aging, Medicine, and Technology
16:30-18:15 / Room 403, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Discussant: Prof. Aaron HAMES
Zoom Meeting ID: 968 8930 0413 Passcode: 628455 |
Peiting YU (University of Michigan)
Aging in the Other Land: Institutional Worlds, Independent Living and Older Chinese Migrants in the U.S. Affordable Housing |
Yingtan SU (Peking University)
Becoming the “Platform Patient”: The Body Multiple in Online Medical Consultation |
Ferlie Rose Ann FAMALOAN (Hiroshima University)
From Performing Body to Caring Body: Shifting Subjectivities and Aging Intimacy among Filipina Migrants in Japan |
Zhiming ZHANG (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Traces of Medicine, Trails of the Self: Pharmaceutical Subjectivities and Embodied Resistance in Post-Reform China |
19:30 Self-paid Dinner (For registered participants)
Chung Chi College Staff Clubhouse (CUHK)
DAY 2 31 January 2026 (Saturday)
Panel D1: Shifting Subjectivity: Diverse Human Ethical Experiences
10:30-12:15 / Room 503, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Discussant: Prof. Teresa KUAN
Zoom Meeting ID: 959 6993 1953 Passcode: 593023 |
Pei LIU (Peking University)
Combating AI Rate: Verification Labor and the Making of Humanness in the AI Era |
Xinrong JI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Becoming Through Dwelling: Gendered Entanglements and Care-Making in the Rebuilding of Mount Wutai's Buddhist Temples |
Xiaoxiao SUN (Peking University)
Weaving Time: Non-linear Academic Trajectories and Rhythmic Entanglements of Undergraduates in Elite Programs |
Florian ZHANG (The New School for Social Research)
Involuntary Responsibilities and the Ethics of Escape |
Panel D2: Ethics, Care, and Negotiation in Multispecies Worlds
10:30-12:15 / Room 507, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Discussant: Prof. Chaoxiong ZHANG
Zoom Meeting ID: 999 6098 7156 Passcode: 535313 |
Zhe YUAN (Yunnan University)
On Being a Protector: A Multispecies Ethnography of Lisu People’s Engagement in Gibbon Conservation in Dehong, Yunnan |
Dan WU (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
From Competition to Collaboration: Fairness and Multispecies Ecologies in Tibetan Caterpillar Fungus Harvests |
Jiayang CHEN (Nankai University)
From Living with Fish to Responding to Data: Shifting Subjectivity between Embodiment and Infrastructure |
Yadong LI (Tulane University)
Landscape of Futurities: Herbs, Lands, and Competing Hopes in a Chinese Northwestern Town |
Jiajun YAO (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
The Productive Absence: Multispecies Negotiations of an Unfindable Vent in the Great White Pagoda |
Ralph GUST-FRENGER (National Chi Nan University)
The Meaning of Honey Bees and their Products for Upland Communities in Laos - Bees and Multispecies Ethnography in Upland Southeast Asia |
15:00-16:30 Keynote Speech
“Multispecies Justice in Beyond Bios Worlds” by Dr. Sophie Chao
Room 201, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
Zoom Meeting ID: 962 9636 8081 Passcode: 762617
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA)
17:00-19:00 Multispecies Workshop with Dr. Sophie Chao
Room 506, Wu Ho Man Yuen Building (WMY)
Dr. Chao will comment on eight selected attendees’ abstracts in the multispecies workshop,
and she will also share her experiences conducting fieldwork with more-than-human beings
and reflect on related ethical issues. All are welcome to audit! |
