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Faculty of Arts: Faculty Colloquium (Term 2, 2018-19) – Professor Lim Song Hwee on “Cinema as Soft Power, Soft Power as Method”

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Date:

8 Mar 2019

Time:

4:00pm-6:00pm

Venue:

Rm 101, Leung Kau Kui Building

Speaker(s):

Professor Lim Song HweeDepartment of Cultural and Religious Studies

Biography of Speaker:

Lim Song Hwee is Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the author of, among others, Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014). He recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Taiwan New Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography” under the aegies of a CUHK-Clare Hall (Cambridge) Visiting Fellowship. He is also recipient of a CUHK Research Excellence Award in 2016/17.

Enquiries:

Tel:3943 7107 (Ms Sonia Yip)