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Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Asian Literature and Culture
Location
Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Start Date
2015-11-26
End Date
2015-11-27
Type
Symposium
Abstract
The Department of English Language and Literature organised – “Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Asian Literature and Culture” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The symposium was attended by scholars based in Hong Kong, India, Macau, the Philippines, and Singapore and the regions covered included Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Palestine, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. Hong Kong Shue Yan University students participated in the event as student helpers and as audience members. The symposium focused on Asian literary and cultural texts that respond to social and political conflict and environmental catastrophe. It sought to explore how different social and historical contexts have generated diverse strategies of literary and cultural representation during and following human suffering. The overarching aims of the symposium were to generate and share new knowledge about modern and contemporary Asian literature and culture and to contribute cross-cultural perspectives to trauma studies. The symposium also sought to provide an initial setting for scholars working in these research areas to develop a research network that may give rise to opportunities for future collaboration. It was a very successful event, enjoyed by all, that will certainly lead to future collaboration. The symposium was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS15/H10/14), to the project “Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Modern Asian Literature” run by Dr. Sharanya Jayawickrama.