[Updated 29 May 2019: For those who might have missed this conversation with Mr. Alex Chow and Prof. Lui Tai-lok, here are the webcast and the photo album.]
Community Forum
Sunday, 24 March 2019, 2:30 pm
Alex Chow and Prof. Tai-lok Lui (moderator: Prof. Helen Leung)
Performance Hall, Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond
Free and open to the public
(Program in Cantonese 粵語講座 with simultaneous tweeting)
Registration: https://bit.ly/2BRo3uP
The Umbrella Movement of 2014 was a major milestone in the history of the democratic movement in Hong Kong. Though it has failed to lead to democratic reforms, the movement did witness the rise of the so-called localists, many of whom were too young to have had experienced colonial rule. And though they share the aspiration of a more democratic Hong Kong, such “localists” do differ from many from the pro-democracy camp in how they view the past and future of the former British colony. This conversation will explore such imaginations as well as the implications of their commonalities and differences.
五年前的雨傘運動為香港的民主發展奠下了一個新的里程碑。儘管這運動沒有為香港人帶來應得的民主選舉權，但卻把由保衛皇后碼頭等一連串保育抗爭行動所蘊釀的本土意識，推向爭取政治民主方向。以年青人為主的本土派，逐漸成為香港政治角力的一股新力量。他們沒有經過1989民主運動的政治洗禮，亦未必有在殖民地生活的親身經驗。他們與香港主流民主派對香港民主的訴求可能一致，但是兩者在對香港過去與未來的想像，和對爭取民主的策略上卻存在一定差異。那究竟兩者對香港未來的想像會是如何？而他們之間的相同和差異又會如何影響到香港的命運？
Alex Yong Kang Chow is a former secretary-general of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. He was sentenced to seven months in prison in 2017 for his political leadership in the Umbrella Movement. He is an initiator of the Community Citizen Charter Movement, the Community Press Crowdfunding Scheme in Hong Kong, and the archival project Decoding Hong Kong. He also serves as a member of Network of Young Democratic Asians, which aims at building a region-based platform for activism and young activists. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
周永康為加州柏克萊大學地理系博士生，倫敦政治經濟學院城市設計碩士。周於雨傘運動期間擔任學聯秘書長；雨傘運動後他聯同其他學者及社區組織成立社區公民約民約章運動、社區新聞計劃及香港前途研究計劃，開拓社區政治，探索過去未來，重思港人命運自主的路向。周亦為2017年「13+3」其中一名「政治犯」。
Prof. Tai-lok Lui 呂大樂 is Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Hong Kong Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is also Director of the Academy of Hong Kong Studies and the Centre for Greater China Studies. Prof. Lui’s research interests cover class analysis, economic sociology, urban sociology, and Hong Kong studies. He is a co-author of Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation and Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City as well as a co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong. Prof. Lui is a columnist and an active member of various committees in NGOs, governmental, and professional bodies.
呂大樂教授現為香港教育大學副校長（研究與發展）、香港社會研究講座教授、香港研究學院總監及大中華研究中心總監。加入教大（前身香港教育學院）前，呂教授曾任香港大學社會學系教授，期間並出任社會科學院副院長 (2010–2011) 及社會學系系主任 (2011–2014)。他的研究範疇涵蓋階級分析、經濟社會學、城市社會學和香港社會研究等領域，著作包括 Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation; Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City;《香港模式》等。他一直熱心社會事務，參與多個政府及志願團體的委員會工作。同時，他亦是香港報刊的專欄作者。
This event is hosted by the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and co-presented by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
