Talks

Conference and Workshop Presentations

Presented a paper entitled ‘Revisiting pattern as a geographical concept and reflecting on policy mobilities’, at the Workshop on Asian Urban Peripheries, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8 December 2023.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Reflections on the territoriality of the shrinking domestic space in the Global East’, at the Shrinking Domesticities Global Seminar Series: Tokyo, Urban Studies Foundation; Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 17–19 July 2023.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Jean Ruegg, entitled ‘Cartography and ‘reality’: The territoriality of nine-dash line’, at the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference on Islands in Relations: Conflicts, Sustainability, and Peace, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan, 4–6 April 2023.

Presented a paper entitled ‘The right to work and its territoriality’, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2022, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, the United Kingdom, 30 August – 2 September 2022.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Jean Ruegg, entitled ‘Legal certainty principle and uncertain urban spaces’, at the Global Meeting on Law & Society, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 13–16 July 2022.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Irem Ince Keller and Jean Ruegg, entitled ‘Unfolding disaster risk management: Exploring relational uncertainties of hazard, law and space’, at the Global Meeting on Law & Society, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 13–16 July 2022.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Jean Ruegg, entitled ‘The law’s preciseness paradox: Interpreting the unrecognisable spaces in the sharing urbanism’, at the Symposium – Geographies of Law: Inquiries into the space-law tangle, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, mixed mode, 13-14 December 2021.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Irem Ince Keller, entitled ‘More-than-human promise and legal materiality’, at the Osgoode GLSA Graduate Student Conference 2020-2021, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, virtual conference, 18-20 February 2021.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Hong Kong as a property jurisdiction’, at the 2018/19 Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2019.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Property assemblage, urban developmentalism and democratic struggle in East Asia’, at the 4th Workshop on the Geopolitical Economy of East Asian Developmentalism, Osaka City University, in Osaka, Japan, 26 November – 1 December 2019.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Joanna Wai-Ying Lee and Wing-Shing Tang, entitled ‘Land injustice in Hong Kong: Its concept and manifestations in G/IC redevelopment’, at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Hong Kong Studies, the University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, 22 June 2019.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Law, urban infrastructure, and land (in)justice: A new explanation of new town in British Hong Kong in the 1980s’, at the 9th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG), in Daegu, Korea, 10-15 December 2018.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Wing-Shing Tang, entitled ‘Gentrification is dead in East Asia: “Nano”-isation in Hong Kong’, at the 9th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG), in Daegu, Korea, 10-15 December 2018.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Thinking spatio-legally: A research agenda for the legal geography of Hong Kong’, at the Hong Kong Geography Day 2018, at the Education University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, 24 November 2018.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Wing-Shing Tang, entitled ‘Gentrification is dead: “Nano”-isation in Hong Kong’, at the 27th Conference of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA), in Havana, Cuba, 19-25 November 2017.

Presented a paper, co-authored with TANG Wing-Shing, entitled ‘The everyday life practices of residents in high-density Sham Shui Po district and the unchallenged hegemony of the land (re)development regime’ at the Fifth International Workshop on Constructing the East Asian Inclusive City Network, in Taipei, Taiwan, 23-25 September 2015.

Seminars

Delivered a seminar entitled ‘Language Translation of Geographical Knowledge: A Lens into the History of Human Geography in Japan’ [地理的知識の翻訳―日本人文地理学史の一側面―], at the Department of Geography, Osaka Metropolitan University, in Osaka, Japan, 30 May 2023.

Delivered a seminar entitled ‘“No more tears on our land”: Legal geography of property and sovereignty’ (presented in Chinese), at the Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, in Taipei, Taiwan, 4 December 2019.

Presented a paper, co-authored with Wing-Shing Tang, entitled ‘Reflecting on neoliberalism: The randomly indigenised and appropriated concept on China and Hong Kong’ (written in English; presented in Chinese), at the HKCGG seminar on The Critique of the Conceptions of Neoliberalism, Hong Kong Critical Geography Group, in Hong Kong, 30 June 2018.

Delivered a presentation on ‘Urban redevelopment in Hong Kong and its artistic representations’ at Asia Art Archive, in Hong Kong, 18 January 2017.

Talks at Home Institutions

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Delivered a seminar entitled ‘Futurity and endurance of temporary space: Law, democratisation, and the city’, at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 17 November 2020.

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Delivered a seminar on ‘Legal production of land (in)justice in Hong Kong in the 1980s’, at Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, in Hong Kong, 15 February 2019.

Delivered a postgraduate research seminar on ‘Land question and law in Hong Kong: An unsolved puzzle since the 1980s’, at Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, in Hong Kong, 18 January 2018.

Delivered a guest lecture, entitled ‘Whither is urban geography?’, in an undergraduate course urban geography (GEOG3027), at Hong Kong Baptist University, in Hong Kong, 29 November 2017.

Delivered a presentation on ‘Thinking urban space legally: Towards legal geography of Hong Kong’, at Postgraduate Research Sharing, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, in Hong Kong, 30 August 2017.