Contentious Politics Forum

Date: 14 December 2019 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30-5:30 pm
Organizer: Society for Hong Kong Studies
Venue: WMA Space, 8/F, Chun Wo Commercial Centre, 23-29 Wing Wo Street, Central, Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese

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2:30 – 3:30pm

From the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-Extradition Protests

Moderator:

Eliza Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Administration, HKU

Ching Kwan Lee & Sing Ming

Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, Cornell University Press, 2019.

Ma Ngok & Edmund Cheng

The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong, Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Francis Lee & Joseph Chan

Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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3:45 – 5:30pm

Reflections on Hong Kong’s Summer of Dissent

Moderator:

Ray Yep, Professor of Politics, City U

Albert Chen, Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor in Constitutional Law, HKU

Susanne Choi, Professor of Sociology, CUHK

Gary Tang, Assistant Professor of Communication, HSU

Sampson Wong, Lecturer of Performing Arts, HKAPA