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Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, BA MA
Liza Wing Man Kam
T: +43-1-4277-43858
Winter term 2026
150051 SE Shaping the city and its minds - (Post)colonial built and cultural environments in/of Hong Kong
150073 SE All those old stuffs in Taiwan - Heritage, memory, story-telling and cultural productions
Summer term 2026
150058 SE The chopsticks that traveled - culinary cultures and their transformation in and between Empires
Winter term 2025
150025 UE Architecture and Metaphor - Constructions, Narratives and Interactions of/in the Built Environment in Modern East Asia
150051 SE Around and In-between Chopsticks - Culinary Culture and Empire Expansions
150136 SE The Cultures of Hong Kong - the Perceived, the Lived and in-between

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. 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.

Staying righteous or/and heritagizing colonial architecture: Taiwan’s Taoyuan Shinto Shrine as a (contested) playground

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

1 Dec 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Colonial architecture in post-coloniality: Shinto Shrines in Taiwan

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

25 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Learn to oppress: Intellectual trajectory in constructing the colonies in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

7 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Metropolitan and Gongwu (river and lake): Cultural Space in Postwar Hong Kong [大都會與江湖:戰後香港的文化空間]

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

15 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public




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

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Kam, L. W. M. (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



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

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker) & Huang, S.-M. (Contributor)

15 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shinto shrine Architecture and its political symbolism in the colonial Taiwan

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

28 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Roundtable discussion: Changing Religious Heritage

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

28 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


First the Japanese, then the Chinese'. Continual othering(s) of the Taiwanese Population with Colonial Shinto Shrines and Martyrs' Shrines as material Evidence

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

11 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


PhD Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

24 Sept 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



From Shinto Shrines to Martyr Shrines and the derelictions in the 'sacred' space: The failed Indoctrination of Shintoism in Colonial Taiwan and the thereafter

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

17 Jun 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

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (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)?

Kam, L. W. M. (Invited speaker)

25 Nov 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Colonial Legacy in Transformation: the post-colonial Hong Kong

Kam, L. W. M. (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

Kam, L. W. M. (Selected presenter)

Sept 2012 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of East Asian Studies

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