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SUMMARY:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nProf. Junot Díaz\, Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\n  \nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
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LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Tegan Smyth (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Tegan Smyth – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nTegan Smyth reads from Mountain Songs (Proverse Hong Kong\, 2023)\, winner of the 2022 Proverse Publishing Prize \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOx WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. \nDuring 2025 Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\n\nPhoto Highlights \n       \n       \n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Tegan Smyth from her official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tegan-smyth-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Events with Prof. Junot Díaz
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nWriting in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\nMasterclass: "Worldbuilding 101"\nDate: February 20\, 2025 (Thursday) \nTime: 10:00am – 12:00noon \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nBy Invitation only. \n\nAbstracts\nWorldbuilding — the creation of convincing “secondary" worlds — has become both an essential practice in storytelling across nearly all narrative medium and a defining feature of our global mass culture. Once a practice confined to genre nerds\, worldbuilding is now everywhere in our culture — from the books we read to the games we play to the vast narrative “universes" controlled by the likes of Disney\, Nintendo\, and Warner Brothers. For better or worse\, worldbuilding is how many of us come to understand our social / political worlds. \nIn our seminar we will discuss some of the strategies and principles common to the best secondary worlds in order to deepen our critical and creative understanding of this invaluable aesthetic practice. \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n\nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/events-with-prof-junot-diaz/
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