Chair: Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong)
Helena Wu (University of British Columbia), ‘Materiality, Visuality, and Spectacle: The Street Writing of Tsang Tsou Choi’
Vincenz Serrano (Ateneo de Manila University), ‘Walking, Poetry, and Manila as Archipelagic City’
Louis Lo (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), ‘Walking Happy Valley: Phantasmatic Thoughts and Historicity’
Sampson Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘“Hong Kong Strollology”: On the Poetics of Urban Walking and Contexts of the Strollology Project’

Chair: Ashley Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Erol Köymen (Florida State University), ‘Infrastructures of Inter-imperial Listening in Ahmed Hamdi Tanpınar’s Istanbul’
Richard Müller (University College London), ‘Reading the Gaps: Expanded Interstitiality within Chennai and Hsinchu’
Jaana Serres (University of Groningen), ‘Afrobeats in the Postmodern City: An African World-Making Project in Dubai’
Ashley Lee Wong, Melody Hoi-lam Yiu and Yim Sui Fong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘The Ecologies of Participation in Cultural Architecture, Artist-Led Education and Co-creative Processes with Technology’

Chair: Wesley Attewell (University of Hong Kong)
Wang Yinglin, Xiaochuan Pan, Jingqing Lv and Jie He (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen), ‘Urban Spatial Narratives of Guangzhou in Zhu Zhi Ci (Bamboo Branch Poetry): A Phonotextual Perspective and Literature Cartographical Approach’
Xi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), ‘Social Inequalities in Urbanization and Its Discontent: Subaltern Women in Post-2020 Chinese Writing’
Rita Rongyi Lin (Northwestern University), ‘Disoriented in the City: Female Migrant Labor and the Limits of Representation’

Chair: Jamie Wang (Education University of Hong Kong)
Fiona Y.W. Law (University of Hong Kong), ‘Waiting for Feline Encounter: Urban Poetics of Fluffiness in Digital Mediations’
Chak-kwan Ng (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), ‘Portraits of Nonhuman City Dwellers: Narrating Urban Ecology and Multispecies Worlding in Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s The Urban Bestiary’
Brent Luvaas (Drexel University) and Jenny Chio (University of Southern California), ‘Green as an Infrastructure of Urban Feeling: The Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Eco-City Developments’

Chair: Moonyoung Hong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Maggie Leung (University of Hong Kong), ‘Changing the City After the Hearts’ Desire and the Body Shapes: The Urban Poetics of Calisthenics in Hong Kong’
Paul Fung Kai-yeung (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong), ‘Money and the City: Volatility in Johnnie To’s Life Without Principle (2011)’
Susan Ingram (York University), ‘Monarch’s Echolocational Urban Mediations’

Jiang Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘“Shanghai Badland”: A Cartographic Reading of Collected Cases of Huo Sang (1931–1933)’
Nicola Wan (City University of Hong Kong), ‘Echoes of Home: Urbanisation, Identity, and Genfūkei in Dazai’s Return to Tsugaru’
Yuxi Qin (University of Hong Kong), ‘The Sorrow of Nature in Urban Demolition: The Natural Writing in Hon Lai Chu’s Losing the Cave’
Alena Eremenko (Russian State University for the Humanities), ‘On the Poetics of Infrastructure: Optical and Discursive Perception of the City’
Zhang Yichun (University College London), ‘Rivers as the Past Lingering: Gothic Waterscapes in Late Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Neo-Victorian Fiction’
Li Yueying (University of California, Los Angeles), ‘Mirage in the Lost: Reimagining the Urbanscape of Shinkyō in Changchun’
Kaiyun Zheng (Aqua) (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Borderscaping Hong Kong’s Northern Frontier: An Autoethnographic and Creative Essay’
Jamie Wing Tung Tse (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘The Past Made in the Present: Kowloon Walled City as a Symbol of Re-negotiation of Hong Kong’s History and Identity’

Choi Sin Yi, Emilie (City University of Hong Kong), ‘The Elemental Turn of Urban Infrastructure: The Mediation as Extraction of Water in Hong Kong’
Clarissa Lim (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Stage 1: The Search for Shared Materials Ecologies to Build Arts Collectives in Malaysia’
Zhang Yixuan (Peking University and the University of Oxford), ‘Algorithmic Curation of Urban Place’
Lee Chi Shing (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Deferred Time: Infrastructural Failures in the New Generation of Urban Cinemas in Post-Umbrella Hong Kong’
Qifan Hao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Haunted Border: Southeast Asian Images’ Imaginary City, Plural Bodies and the Returns of Socio-ecological Violence——Using Love in Khon Kaen by Apichatpong as an Example’
Liu Yijun Joyce (University of Edinburgh), ‘Simulating Nostalgia: Hong Kong Kowloon Walled City, Shenzhen Wenheyou and the Reproduction of Cyberpunk Cityscape’
Hu Wenxi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Remaking the Afterlife of E-Waste in Cities: Documentary Visual Representation and China’s E-Waste Industry in Guiyu and Shenzhen’
Hope Reidun St. John (University of Washington), ‘Photographic Palimpsests: Built Form, Memory, and Worlding in Qingdao and Hong Kong’

Mary Xinyue Fu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Diasporic Foraging in New York City: The Narrative of Healing in Asian-American Ecobiography’
Kan Yuen Yee, Christine (City University of Hong Kong), ‘Hong Kong’s Urban Dynamics: Examining Interplays Between Anthropocentrism and Inclusivity’
John Moses S. Cruz and Christine Joy A. Magpayo (University of the Philppines Diliman), ‘(Mis)Managing History and Heritage: The Case of the Rizal Monument and the Comfort Woman Statue in Manila, Philippines’
Lin Tingcong Jack (University of Hong Kong), ‘An arhat Marco Polo in Urban Guangzhou and Venice: Distance as a Discursive Strategy and Transcultural (Re)Productions of a (Hi)Story in Between’
Xinyue Yao (Nanyang Technological University), ‘Enjoy the Ruins: A Novel Experience of Living in Modern Asian Cities’
Ma Junlin (University of Hong Kong), ‘Refuge, Battleground, and Cosmopolitan City: Remapping Hong Kong in the 1950s through Mandarin-language Cinema’