Date: 20 October 2011
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Venue: Reading Room, Ground Floor, Tang Chi Ngong Building, The University of Hong Kong

The Folk and the Formal - Common Sense, Experience, and Official Authority in East Asia by Judith B. Farquhar (Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago )

Panelists:
Professor John Lagerwey
Centre for East Asian Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Angela Leung
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong   

Dr Zhou Xun
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong  

Dr Izumi Nakayama
School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong

Dr David Palmer
Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong  

This panel will discuss various examples of interactions between popular knowledge and elite-led knowledge production, between common sense and formal science, between valued experience and proven fact.  The historical and sociological theories and methods that can reveal the complex interweaving of folklore and formalized knowledge will also be explored.

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