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SUMMARY:Consuming Home: Memory, Community Building, and Hong Kong Canadian Futures
DESCRIPTION:\nSaturday, 07 March 2025 | 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Nat Taylor Cinema, Room 102, North Ross Building, Keele Campus, York University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event brings together archival media, scholarly insight, and lived experience to explore the making of the Hong Kong Canadian consumption cultures and community in Toronto across generations. It is structured in three parts:\n\n\n\n\nScreening: A curated presentation of iconic 1970s and 1980s Hong Kong television commercials, offering an entry point into consumer culture, everyday life, and collective memory.\n\n\n\nKeynote Talk: Professor Emerita Lucia Lo (Geography, YorkU) will trace how earlier waves of Hong Kong migration shaped patterns of consumption, spatial belonging, and community formation in Canada. Her talk will draw on her pioneering research on ethnicity and the geography of consumption, particularly concerning shopping malls and urban spaces, and connect these histories to the recent transformations associated with the Hong Kong Pathway.\n\n\n\nPanel Discussion: Features guest discussants from newer waves of Hong Kong Canadian economic and cultural life, specifically Stanley Fu of 852community.ca ( https://www.instagram.com/852community.ca/ ), Andrew Choi of Haven Brews ( https://www.havenbrews.ca/ ), and Sandra Kuan of Bowl Cut Paper Goods ( https://www.bowlcutpapergoods.com/ ).\n\n\n\n\nCollectively, the components are designed to invite a "transgenerational conversation" about memory, continuity, change, and the reimagining of home across time and place.\n\n\n\nAbout the keynote talk\n\n\n\nTitle: The Role of Ethnicity in the Geography of Consumption\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lucia Lo ( https://www.yorku.ca/research/ycar/associate/lucia-lo/ ), Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of Geography, York University \n\n\n\nProfessor Emerita Lucia Lo of Geography at York University has held leadership roles in research centers, including the Geomatics for Informed Decision Making and the Ontario Centre of Excellence on Research on Immigration and Settlement, and served as former Chair of the Department of Geography. Trained as an economic geographer, her early research focused on mathematical modeling of transportation demand and consumer spatial behavior.\n\n\n\nSince the late 1990s, she shifted her focus to immigration scholarship, examining immigrant integration, their role in economic development, and urban transformation. She has conducted extensive work on the Chinese diaspora, covering their settlement, use of services, labor market performance, entrepreneurship, and consumer behavior. Since retirement, her work has included a comparative project on higher education migration between China, Canada, and the United States.\n\n\n\nProfessor Lo is also the co-author of two books, Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs and Intellectual Migration: The Movement of Students and Professionals, in addition to numerous book chapters, journal articles, and technical reports.\n\n\n\nHost: Wendy Wong, School of the Arts, Media, Performance, & Design, York University \n\n\n\nProfessor Wendy S Wong is an active scholar of Chinese graphic design and comics. She authored Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua (2002) and The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design (2018), and co-edited Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art (2022), contributing to global design and comics studies.\n\n\n\nAll are welcome! Please register using this link ( https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/consuming-home-memory-community-building-and-hong-kong-canadian-futures-tickets-1982596152462?aff=oddtdtcreator ).\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Diaspora, Decolonization, and Dialogue, the Hong Kong Studies Group ( https://www.yorku.ca/research/ycar/hong-kong-studies-group/ )'s 2025–26 event series.   \n\n\n\nFor more information: hongkong[at]yorku.ca ( mailto:hongkong@yorku.ca )\n
URL:https://www.yorku.ca/research/ycar/events/consuming-home-memory-community-building-hong-kong-canadian-futures-hksg-07032026/
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