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WEDNESDAY, December 7

 

9:00-9:45 Registration

 

9:45-11:15 Keynote Address

 

Karen Fang (University of Houston)

Reading Race in an Age of Neoformalism

 

11:30-12:20 Panel: Buzz

 

Jessica R. Valdez (University of Hong Kong)

Gossiping in Jane Austen’s Novels

 

Andreas Graae (University of Southern Denmark)

Beyond Gazing: Drone Imaginaries and the Dehumanization of Vision in Ernst Jüngers’ “The Glass Bees”

 

12:30-1:50 Lunch

 

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2:00-2:50 Panel: Space

 

Miles Link (Fudan University)

‘A Challenge to Those Who Do Know’: Cold War Surveillance and the Birth of Planetary Consciousness

 

Nick Jones (Queen Mary University of London)

Spatial Surveillance, Cinema and Science Fiction

 

 

3:00-3:50 Panel: Post

 

Florian Zappe (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Surveillance Culture and the Lifelogged Self – A Critical Posthumanist Intervention

 

Jeffrey Clapp (The Education University of Hong Kong)

Postparanoid David Foster Wallace

 

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4:00-5:20 Panel: Selfie

 

Anirban Baishya (University of Southern California)

Celling Indian Porn: Surveillance, Voyeurism and the Indian "Amateur" Sex-Video

 

Danielle Wong (McMaster University)

Jus Reign’s Floating Head: Sikh Canadian Selfie-Love as Counter/Surveillance

 

Janice Ka-wa Cheung (City University of Hong Kong)

Self-Disclosure? A Way to Explore the "Self" in Contemporary Art

 

6:00 Dinner

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, December 8

 

9:45-11:15 Keynote Address

 

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University)

Surveillance, Empathy, and the Insidiousness of Homophily

 

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11:30-12:20 Panel: Empathy

 

Emily Ridge (The Education University of Hong Kong)

Beware of Pity: Stefan Zweig and the Fate of Empathy Under Surveillance

 

Niketa Narayan (University of Hong Kong)

Policing the Policing Husband in Wilkie Collins’s “The Law and the Lady”

 

12:30-1:50 Lunch

 

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2:00-2:50 Panel: Games

 

Peter Krapp (University of California, Irvine)
Still the Great Game? Espionage and Data Mining in Virtual Worlds

 

Christopher B. Patterson (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Freedom of (Tracked) Movement: Video Games and Benevolent Designers

 

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3:00-4:20 Panel: The State

 

Shir Alon (University of California, Los Angeles)

The Passive Form: Surveillance and Passivity in the Works of Elia Suleiman and Adania Shibli

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Emily Shun Man Chow (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Surveillance and Intellectual Anarchism: Dambudzo Marechera’s "Black Sunlight"

 

Hye-Ran Jung (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Private-Sector "Ethnic" Spying in the US's Triangulated Surveillance Network

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FRIDAY, December 9

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12:00-12:50 Panel: Institution

 

Michael O'Sullivan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Weak Surveillance: Necessity, Auto-affection, Self-stratification

 

Douglas Scott Berman (Independent Scholar)

Surveillance, Kafka, and the Kafkaesque

 

1:00-2:20 Lunch

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2:30-3:20 Panel: School

 

Ivan Stacy (College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University)

In Plain Sight: Atrocity and Acceptance in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”

 

Aaron Chan (University of Glasgow)

Surveillance in Hogwarts: Between Anarchism and Managerialism

 

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3:30-4:20 Panel: Data

 

Jason E. H. Lee (Hong Kong Baptist University)

The Glow of Endless Patterns: Theorizing Data Flows in Contemporary American Fiction

 

Robert Kiely (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)

Catfishing

 

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4:30-6:10 Film Screening: Ten Years

6:15-7:00 Discussion with directors and producers of Ten Years

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