Faculty of ArtFailures of Departure and Arrival
Dr. Hilary Chung (University of Auckland)
With response by Anne Murphy, Assoc. Prof., Asian Studies
A comparative examination of the contemporary representation in theatre of two historical migrant journeys by ship, the SS Komagata Maru to Canada in 1914 and the SS Ventnor from New Zealand in 1902, in a reconsideration both of fraught historical cross-cultural encounters and of contemporary cross-cultural relationships in these two multicultural settler societies.
Tuesday, 21 October, 2014, 4 p.m.
Buchanan Tower 599 (Click for directions)
Professor Chung is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and former Head of the School of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland; she is currently a visiting scholar in UBC’s Department of English.
Sponsored by The Departments of English and Asian Studies, UBC
