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Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, BA MA
T: +43-1-4277-43858
Winter term 2024
150128 UE Urban Heritage as Method - The Past, and its Remembering in the present built Environment of the Sino
Summer term 2024
150073 SE Hong Kong 101 - the (post)colonial City, its cultures and the making-of
150092 UE Cultural Studies Research Methods in Chinese Studies - Tracing the colonisers: Postcolonial built environments in visuals and narratives in the Sinophone world
Kam, L. W. M. (2021). Liberating Architecture from ‘Chineseness’: Colonial Shinto Shrines and Post-colonial Martyrs’ Shrines in Post-war Taiwan. In C-Y. Hoon, & Y. Chan (Eds.), Contesting Chineseness : Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia (pp. 59-81). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Asia in Transition Vol. 14 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-33-6096-9_4

Kam, L. W. M. (2021). May the Stones keep preaching: Re-appropriated colonial Shinto Shrines in Taiwan as new sacred spaces. In U. Pottgiesser, S. Fatoric , C. Hein , E. de Maaker , & A. Pereira Roders (Eds.), International LDE-Heritage Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (pp. 448-461). Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/press/catalog/view/781/892/860-2

Kam, L. W. M. (2021). Modern Architecture as Ideological Representations: East Berlin, West Berlin, and Hong Kong. In T. Hon (Ed.), Cold War Cities: The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s (pp. 19-37). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058844-3

Kam, L. W. M. (2020). Protest in Metropolis: Symbolism in Play from Queen’s Pier Conservation to Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. In M. D. M. Castro Varela, & B. Ülker (Eds.), Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation (1. ed., pp. 233-252). Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10h9f87.15




Kam, L. W. M. (2016). Colonial Nostalgia? Demolition of Colonial Space and its Aftermaths in Hong Kong. In A. Dremel, & D. Juckes (Eds.), Exploring Nostalgia: Sad, Bad, Mad and Sweet (pp. 51-60). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883987_006


Kam, L. W. M. (2011). Travelogue: Notes in urban Detroit. In K. Niemann (Ed.), Filter Detroit (pp. 42-69). Self-published.

Bishop Hill's Reservoir in Hong Kong and Shinto Shrines in Taiwan: colonial space and post-colonial subjectivities

Liza Wing Man Kam (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Shinto shrines in Taiwan in Transformation: colonial history, heritage or legacy?

Liza Wing Man Kam (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Living Colonial Space across Borders 跨境踐行殖民空間

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker) & Shu-Mei Huang (Contributor)

15 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Claiming agency and articulating my (hi)story: colonial architecture in post-colonial Hong Kong

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

20 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Improvising in Colonial Spaces: Vibrant Re-appropriations of Shinto Shrines in Taiwan

Liza Wing Man Kam (Selected presenter)

16 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tracing the inveterate (post-)colonial controls: Queen’s Pier in Hong Kong and the ‘Cape No. 7’ in Hengchun, Taiwan

Liza Wing Man Kam (Speaker)

7 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Real Tomoko’s Stories as in ‘Cape No.7’: Cemented Colonial Memories in Hengchun, Taiwan

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shinto shrine Architecture and its political symbolism in the colonial Taiwan

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

28 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Roundtable discussion: Changing Religious Heritage

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

26 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Beneath the Grand Yellow Imperial Roofs of Martyr Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political/architectural symbolism at play

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

28 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



PhD Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Obscured history, romanticized memory: Commodification of the Japanese colonial past in Taiwan with urban heritage in Hengchun as case study

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

14 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Obscured history, romanticized memory: Commodification of the Japanese colonial past in Taiwan with urban heritage in Hengchun as case study

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

28 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dereliction, Mutation and Re-inhabitation: Shinto Shrines in post-colonial Taiwan and its ever-changing representations in the post-war era

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

1 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


One Township One Shinto Shrine’: Kōminka (Imperialization) Policy, its Effect on Urbanization in the Japanese occupied Taiwan and onwards

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

24 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




One Shinto Shrine per Township': Kōminka policy and its effect on Urbanization in the Japanese occupied Taiwan and onwards

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

7 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Evolution of Artistic Actions in Hong Kong: from Queen’s Pier in 2007 to Anti-Express Railway Campaign in 2010 to the Umbrella Movement in 2014

Liza Wing Man Kam (Selected presenter)

Mar 2016 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Queen’s Pier to Gezi Park then back to the Umbrella Movement: How can Hong Kongers learn from Turkey (or vice versa)?

Liza Wing Man Kam (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Colonial Legacy in Transformation: the post-colonial Hong Kong

Liza Wing Man Kam (Selected presenter)

16 Jul 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




Prerequisite for Democracy─ history education and civic awareness in Hong Kong during the late-colonial and post-colonial period

Liza Wing Man Kam (Selected presenter)

Sep 2012 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-43858

liza.wing.man.kam@univie.ac.at