Annotation Exchange #5: A Reading Group on Narrative Change
‘Storytelling in Advocacy and Journalism’ with Johnson Yeung and Dave Besseling
Time: Tuesday, 5 Nov. 2024, 2:30pm - 4:00pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK
Format: Hybrid (for online attendees the ZOOM link will be sent via email prior to the event)
Please register via this link:
https://forms.office.com/r/v18HNFc9HW
by Monday, 4 Nov. 2024
Contact: com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk
The Digital Narratives Studio (DNS) at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, presents the Annotation Exchange (AnnEx) series, that puts authors, texts, and readers in a productive dialogue.
Participants are invited to read newly published inspiring texts (academic, journalistic, artistic etc) or even unpublished drafts of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Narrative Change.
Following our successful inaugural events earlier this year, we are incredibly excited to relaunch our series with several of our knowledge partners, that have helped shaping meaningful research briefs for our MA in Global Communication students on questions of social impact and the future of coming together.
For our next session on 5 November, we are absolutely delighted to welcome labor rights advocate and campaigner Johnson Yeung, as well as Dave Besseling, a Hong Kong-based editor, journalist, and writer. They will be present at the C-Centre at CUHK to engage in a dialogue with the readers/participants in small, collaborative groups, but the event will also be offered as hybrid mode for remote participants.
More about the speakers
Johnson Yeung is based in Hong Kong, where he climbs rocks and advocates for human rights. He is the International Urgent Appeal Coordinator at the Clean Clothes Campaign, a global network of over 220 organisations that advocates for a worker-centered and sustainable fashion and apparel industry. Over the years he has supported living wage campaigns in H&M supply chain, enforceable global agreement on severance, and freedom of association campaign in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. He is the chairperson of Amnesty International Hong Kong. He obtained a LL.M at the University of Hong Kong, with a dissertation about the Foreign NGO Law in mainland China. His writing can be found in Made in China Journal, in The Guardian and in various Hong Kong news outlet. He is interested in Business & Human Rights, Civic Space, and Digital Rights.
Dave Besseling was deputy editor at GQ India, managing editor at Motherland, and senior copy editor at The Caravan, Before joining South China Morning Post as longreads editor for Post Magazine. He has had two books published, and was shortlisted for the Kurt Schork Award for International Journalism.
More about the texts:
The chosen texts include a range of different formats and genres, that will help participants to engage with our speakers.
- Book Chapter – Ford, M. (2024). “Transnational Labor Activism: The International labor movement and beyond.”. In: Margit Fauser and Xochitl Bada (eds). The Roudledge International Handbook of Transnational Studies. Roudledge: London and New York.
- Magazine Article – “A year of online school has pushed children from low-income families further down the learning curve” (Emma Russell, South China Morning Post)
Learn more about the Annotation Exchange (AnnEx) series:
TIME & PLACE
🕙 Tuesday 5 Nov. 2024, 2:30-4 pm (HK time)
📍 The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK