Program Results

Introduction to the event

Professor Song Hwee Lim established the “Geopolitics and Transnational Cinemas: Towards a New Filmic Geography” research team, aiming to explore various aspects of transnational cinemas from a geopolitical perspective. Global events of the past few years have arguably inaugurated a new world order. The notion of geopolitics has, perhaps, never been more pertinent in contemporary times. Yet, as Gearóid Ó Tuathail tells us, geopolitics is also a discourse, a way of making sense of world politics through words, metaphors, and visual images, indeed, an interpretative cultural practice. Geopolitics, therefore, does not fall only within the purview (or privilege) of international relations scholars; rather, scholars of film and screen studies could and should claim a stake in examining how audio-visual materials partake in the business of generating geopolitical discourses through their storytelling capabilities.

This conference invited speakers from various institutions, including Professor Michael Berry from the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Paola Voci from the University of Otago in New Zealand, Professor Ravi Vasudevan from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in India, Professor Kaushik Bhaumik from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, Dr. Felicia Chan from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, Assistant Professor Xin Peng from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Assistant Research Fellow Po-Hsi Chen from the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica, Independent Scholar Ting-Wu Cho, Assistant Professor Pei-Sze Chow from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Associate Professor Elmo Gonzaga from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. candidate Shu-Mei Lin from Cornell University in the United States, Assistant Professor Yee Lok Tam from Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and Dr. Mirjam Tröster from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, among others, for academic exchange.

Photo 01 description: Group photo on the first day of the international academic symposium "The Work of Cinema in the Age of New World Order"

Photo 02 caption: Group photo on the second day of the international academic symposium "The Work of Cinema in the Age of New World Order"