Speaker:

Dr. Ho Sik Ying, Petula

Date:

29 April 2014 (Tuesday)

Time:

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Venue:

Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong

Language:

廣東話 Cantonese

Key theme:

Going against the stream and counteracting mainstream culture
逆流而上，抗衡文化

Special guests:
1. Chan King Fai (Commentator/Social critic, Activist, the Author of the book “草木皆兵”)
陳景輝 (評論人、社會運動人、草木皆兵作者)
2. Wong Kin Wai, Anthony (Business director, Policy Research and Advocacy, Hong Kong Council of Social Services)
黃健偉 (社聯政策研究及倡議業務總監)

About the Author:

何式凝博士，香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授，研究領域涵蓋男同性戀、女性情慾和多元關係等課題。近作有與曾家達合著的Sex and Desire in Hong Kong和《從情慾、倫理與權力看香港的兩性問題》。

2007年遊學日本意外跌傷手腕後，何式凝開始反思自己的學術與人生。她拍攝紀錄片，打破傳統的知識生產模式，建立新的社會研究方法。

2008年與莫頌靈成立The Sik Ying HO & Jolene MOK Production，合作完成的作品收錄於【香港廿二春：師奶列傳】。借視像呈現與詮釋女性情慾和渴望。近作收錄於【母女對對配】，作品包括 《半世紀茶跡》 和《愛與罰》。

除了教學和研究，何式凝曾主持多個電臺節目，包括《形形色色何式凝》, 《黃色訊號》, 《一箋茶論盡天下》, 《自由風，自由Phone》,《今夜陽光燦爛》, 《有武心情》,《顏式生活》, 建立另類粉絲群。

2013年，嘗試多媒體劇場，創作了「何式性望愛」。

二零零七年開始寫自傳，二零一三年得以面世。

游走在藝術與學術間，談情說性，樂此不疲。

Dr. Petula, Sik Ying HO is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Her main research and teaching interests are in the area of homosexuality, gender and sexuality issues. She has made important contributions to the development of a dynamic theory of gender and sexuality in the international arena that will help problematize feminist theories and resist Western hegemonies through empirical case studies that make connections between discourses, cultural practices, political economy, and social change.

She is working, with Professor Stevi Jackson on a book provisionally entitled Women Doing Intimacy: Gender, Family and Modernity in Hong Kong and Britain for Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Studies in Family and Intimate Life’ series.

Dr. Ho’s current projects also include using documentary films to explore the integration of arts and scholarship. She has produced 48 documentary films based on various research projects. They include: 22 Springs: The Invincible; Whatever Will Be Will Be; Hong Kong Calling Tokyo and The “Kong-lo” Chronicles.They represent new ways of collecting data, producing new knowledge and disseminating findings. 

Dr. Ho’s 2013 multi-media theatre performance “Love Sex and Hope: Ho Style” explores the use of theatre as a medium for sex education. She considers it to be the most innovative research output as it is one of the first theatrical performance that has uniquely combined sex, the arts and academic research.

Her new book, co-edited with Ka Tat Tsang is entitled Love and Desire in Hong Kong. It is published in English and Chinese by Hong Kong University Press and China Social Science Press in 2012.

Website: http://sikyingho.socialwork.hku.hk/

About the book:
何式凝的一生就似是電影劇本，一幕幕情節甚至比電影更充滿戲劇性、戲味和張力。
觀者並不知道是否該為女主角惋惜或心痛，因為她是多麼堅定地稟承著她對關係的想像，即使她愛上的是一位男同性戀者，她認為純粹的愛可以跨越一切：不計付出 和回報，不論是性取向、別人的阻力、社會的框框抑或政治和生活環境的轉變、分離。雖然結局並不圓滿，何式凝自有她的看法和提升，沿用新的方式，繼續「以藝 術拯救愛情，以談笑創造希望」。
這一部由當時人親身表述的自傳，會告訴你情愛歷史與個人歷史密不可分。研究情慾和性別議題的她，以二十年時間，與同一位男人去歷劫關係的可能，放在書首， 自然是她生命之重。第二章關於她的線人父親與家庭，描述成長於資源匱乏的年代以及父母親不和諧的家庭氣氛下，如何形成了她緊張和多愁的性格；及後在修女學 校的嚴厲壓迫下，她學會收藏真實情感，卻建立了無畏權力，反抗不公義的剛烈特質...

This is a story of cruelty, cruelty to oneself and onto others. This is also a story of love, as love and cruelty manifested towards each other. Ho Sik Ying’s story as a female scholar and her past 55 years of life – love for a gay man, and then a married man, her experience of colonial education and her struggles in a lower-middle class family openly demonstrates how painful, but also, how joyous, her life-long project has been, despite of all the difficulties, social pressures and expectation. Every one of us, in our own ways, tries to forge a level of being that is honest with ourselves as well as coherent with our conception of good. Some of us are more successful, more diligent, or vigilant than others. The alternative is to live according to the rules and boundaries laid down for us in our society that is heavily conditioned by capitalist values, equivalent to a loss of self-dignity. Ho’s writing is an affirmation and encouragement for us to lead our own lives rigorously, thoughtfully, to the fullest, and the best of our ability. You will also find a voice which you may or may not resonate with, but of which you will most certainly be shocked, provoked, and moved.