

KWAN FONG
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FUND

​2016 International Conference on
Sounds, Images, and Texts on China's Periphery
18 September 2016 - 20 September 2016
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Film Screening - WLB109, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU
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Concert - AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU
Conference - AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU
19 September 2016
Monday | Day 2
AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU
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09:15 – 09:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks
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09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1 – Text and Performance
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:45 Panel 2 – Socialism
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Keynote Speech 1 – Helen REES
(Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music)
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 17:45 Panel 3 – Art and Music
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:15 – 21:30 Uyghur Music Concert: Voices from the Ili Valley
Uyghur singing and instrumental music from the Ili Valley in Chinese Central Asia
featuring master singer Abduweli Dawut and his two disciples Yakup Ababekri and
Dilmurat Enwer.
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20 September 2016
Tuesday | Day 3
AST916, Au Shue Hung Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU
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09:00 – 10:15 Keynote Speech 2 – Robert BARNETT (Columbia University)
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:30 Panel 4 – Theorizing the Periphery
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Keynote Speech 3 – Frederick LAU (University of Hawai'i)
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:30 Panel 5 – Ethnography
17:30 – 18:00 Closing/Photos Session
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18 September 2016
Sunday | Day 1
WLB109, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU
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17:30 – 18:00 Reception
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18:00 – 21:30 Film Screening
Tsekor (2016), directed by Tenzin Sedon.
Tibetan; 135 minutes (ta special Q-&-A session with the director to follow)
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