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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nMonday, October 16, 2023 5:30 pm to 7:30 
 pm \n The Deluxe™ Screening Room \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Avenue, Uni
 versity of Toronto \n\nSpeakers \nArnika Fuhrma\n, Profesor of Asian Stud
 ies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, is an interdiscipli
 nary scholar of Southeast Asia working at the intersections of the region’
 s aesthetic, religious, and political modernities. \n\nDescription: \nAc
 ross Southeast Asia and East Asia real estate and hospitality ventures, c
 inema and new media, lifestyle brands, and wellness businesses currently
  draw on Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity as the pri
 vileged aesthetics of the good life. As film directors, hotels, bars, a
 nd clubs revive 1930s Shanghai and 1960s Hong Kong modernities—and exploit
  the materiality of Bangkok’s Chinese neighborhoods—this redeployment of (
 semi)colonial histories and urban pasts is emerging as the primary signifi
 er of a desirable Asian cosmopolitanism but also as the grounds for politi
 cal critique. Bangkok as a Chinese city stands at the center of these deve
 lopments. Both nationally and internationally the city represents a paradi
 gmatic site of fantasy that provides for a particular elasticity of place 
 and time and, by extension, of personhood and belonging. This talk inqui
 res into the ways that contemporary Thai films such as Happy Old Life (201
 9) and Bad Genius (2017) take part in this conversation.  \n\nContact Info
 rmation: \n Munk School https://munkschool.utoronto.ca \n\nSponsors \nSout
 heast Asia Seminar Series, Asian Institute, Cinema Studies Institute, U
 niversity of Toronto, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies, and
  the Department of East Asian Studies \n2 Sussex Avenue, University of To
 ronto \n\nCategories \n Talk \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityF
 acultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduating StudentsProspective G
 raduate StudentsProspective Undergraduate StudentsStaffUndergraduate Stude
 nts
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LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, University of Toronto
SUMMARY:The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City: Cinema and Media
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