Christine Walker is a scholar of women, gender, and slavery in the Atlantic World with expertise in the Caribbean. Her research exposes the diverse yet tangled experiences of free, freed, and enslaved women living in an era of tremendous change. It offers a necessary antidote to historical accounts that feature male actors, while also complicating feminist scholarship that either emphasizes female oppression or celebrates women’s agency.

Alvin K. Wong is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. His research covers queer theory, Sinophone studies, Hong Kong culture, and transnational feminism. He is the author of Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press, 2025). He has published in Diacritics, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Continuum, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Interventions and in edited volumes such as Transgender China, Queer Sinophone Cultures, and Queer TV China. He also coedited Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge, 2020).

Chun Fung Tong studied history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for his BA and MPhil degrees and received a PhD in Sinology from Heidelberg University, where he served as a postdoc before joining the HKU in 2024. His research primarily focuses on social, political and institutional history in early China, early Chinese historiography, as well as writing culture in premodern China.

Carol C. L. Tsang is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. She is a historian of gender and reproductive health in Hong Kong. She coordinates and teaches courses on gender studies, motherhood and family. Her works have been published in Cold War History, World Medical & Health Policy, Twentieth Century British History and with HKU Press.

Professor Hanwool Choe earned both her MA in Language & Communication (MLC) and her PhD in Linguistics at Georgetown University. Using interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, she studies language use and identity construction across diverse contexts, such as social media, family, and food (both as individual domains and at their intersections).

Anna Marie Bautista is Lecturer in Gender Studies and Global Creative Industries at the University of Hong Kong. Her teaching and research interests include various aspects of film, television and popular culture studies, particularly in representations of gender. Her article, ‘Exposing the “lie”: uncovering abuse and misogyny in Big Little Lies’ was published in Feminist Media Studies in January 2022. Her book Conspicuous Feminism On Television: Gender, Power and #MeToo was published by Lexington Books in January 2023.

Michael Roellinghoff is a historian of modern Japan with a focus on the 19th century Japanese colonization of Hokkaido, the unceded territories of the Ainu people. More broadly, he writes about settler colonialism, race, and Indigenous sovereignty in Asia and North America. His recent work relates to topics such as the role of memory sites in maintaining colonial power relations and the impact of colonization on Indigenous health.

Dr. Wu is a Lecturer and Capstone Experience Coordinator at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, HKU, and a Lecturer and Field Practicum Supervisor at HKUSPACE. As a registered social worker and professional Buddhist counselling supervisor, Dr. Wu is committed to promoting gender equity and diversity, and strives to create a respectful, dignified, and inclusive environment in her practice and teaching.

Ms. Trinity Pun serves as the Student Wellness Counsellor for the Faculty of Arts. She coordinates the Thrive@Arts wellness programme, organising diverse activities that foster wellbeing and a supportive learning environment. Trinity works closely with Faculty of Arts students experiencing stress or other mental health concerns, guiding them towards appropriate sources of support and helping them navigate available university resources.