Taking Pictures of Snakes at Midnight: An Anthropological Perspective by Ryan Xin XIE
Schedule
Fri, 22 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+08:00Location
Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館 | Hong Kong, HK
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The Hong Kong Anthropological Societyin association with
The Hong Kong Museum of History*
Presents
Taking Pictures of Snakes at Midnight: An Anthropological Perspective
An anthropological lecture by Ryan Xin XIE
Friday, 22 August at 7:00 p.m. sharp
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.
The widespread availability of social media technology in Hong Kong enables both amateur and professional photographers engaging with nature to share their observations in visually
appealing ways. What do images of wild animals mean to achieve? Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork among nature enthusiasts in Hong Kong, this talk places photographs of wild animals such as snakes at the centre of the complex relationships between humans and nature. It examines the cultural narratives of wildlife photographs in promoting
an ecological perspective of urban environments and fostering empathy for human-animal coexistence.
Ryan Xin Xie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the intersections of urban wildness, power/knowledge, embodied cognition, and human-animal relations in urban China.
For more information, please contact [email protected], www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas,www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks
* The Museum makes no representations on the content of this lecture.
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Where is it happening?
Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館, Hong Kong Science Museum, Jia Lian Wei LaoDao, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, Hong KongEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
