Liza Wing Man Kam was research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Goettingen. She joined the university as assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies since 2016. She was research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in 2017-2019. Prior to that she obtained her PhD in architecture (summa cum laude) at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She trained as architect in architecture schools and practices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Paris, Liverpool.
Kam’s transdisciplinary research examines colonial architecture, their productions and legacies in the post-colonial eras in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Alongside architecture and their spatial politics, she is interested in the trajectories of design/culinary ideas between Europe/China and Japan/Hong Kong/Taiwan. Her teaching interests range from architectural/design/art history and theory, colonial representations in various cultural forms, Hong Kong/Taiwan Studies, research methodology and foodways.
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