Date: May 22, 2026 Time: 9:30-18:00 Venue: LT9 (2/F), Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK Speakers: Tani Barlow（Rice University） Harlan David Chambers（University of Göttingen） Benjamin Kindler（Lingnan University） Leung Shuk Man（The University of Hong Kong） Vivian Lu （Rice University） Lucien Monson（Wenzhou-Kean University） Pang Laikwan（The Chinese University of Hong Kong） Gabriel Antonio Solis (The Chinese University of Hong Kong） Jose Monfred C. Sy (The University of Hong Kong） 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Globality and Place in the Politics of Life Gabriel Solis, "Cheap Labor in Cheap Places: Industrial Contamination and the Global Factory in Taiwan and the US-MX Border" Vivian Lu, "Cultures of the Global Majority” Leung Shuk Man, "Localizing literary knowledge: 明報月刊 in Cold War Hong Kong" 13:30-15:00 Session 2: Maoist Life and Revolutionary Mobilization Harlan David Chambers, "Theater of Familial Life: Family Form and the Politics of Care in China’s Communist Base Areas (1938-1946)" Jose Monfred C. Sy, “The Guerrilla is Like a Forest, Jose Maria Sison's Poetry" 15:30-18:00 Session 3: Subject, Life, Sex Lucien Monson, "Transformation as Redemption: Tan Sitong's Philosophy of Humaneness 仁 in an Age of Upheaval" Pang Laikwan, "The Anti-Evolutionary Thoughts of Zhang Taiyan: The Epistemology and the Politics of Equality" Tani Barlow, "Vitalist Thought and the Life Question in the 1920s" Benjamin Kindler, "Sophia's Ghost and Liu Zaifu's 1980s" Co-organisers:Rice University; Lingnan University; Centre for Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk