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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029
DTSTAMP:20231019T163942Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2023
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n \nInformation Counter\n\nTime: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, Centennial Campus (map) \nIf you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes\, come and meet our student ambassadors. \nInformation Talk\n\nTime: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\nUndergraduate Coordinator\, School of English \nGraduate sharing on academic exchange\nMr. Angus Chan\nEnglish Studies graduate\nTeaching Assistant\, School of English\nFormer exchange student at the University of Oxford in 2021-22 \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Chloe Mak & Ms. Ariel Tam\nEnglish Studies major \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\nHead\, School of English \nMock lecture in English Linguistics\nDr. Brian King\nAssistant Professor\, School of English \n  \nPhoto Highlights
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2023/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231026
DTSTAMP:20231017T121017Z
CREATED:20231017T121017Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Session: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes in the School of English
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nRegister Now!\n  \n \nProgramme\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nProgramme(s)\nSpeaker(s)\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n \n\nTaught postgraduate programme: \n\nMaster of Arts in English Studies (MAES)\n\n\nDr. Otto Heim and Dr. Agnes Kang (MAES Programme Directors)\n\n\n5:30 – 6:00 p.m.\n \n\nResearch postgraduate programmes: \n\nMaster of Philosophy (MPhil)\nDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)\n\n\nDr. Daniel Weston (Chair\, Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee)\n\n\n6:00 – 6:30 p.m.\n \n\nTaught postgraduate programmes: \n\nMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English (MFA)\nMaster of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)\n\n\nDr. Page Richards (MFA and MACC Programme Director)\n\n\n\n\nEnquiries\nEmail: english@hku.hk     Tel: 3917-2749 \nRegister Now!\n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-session-applying-for-postgraduate-programmes-in-the-school-of-english/
LOCATION:Room 403\, T.T. Tsui Building\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114614Z
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SUMMARY:Iconicity\, virality and the intercorporeal speech chains of TikTok
DESCRIPTION:Rodney H. Jones – University of Reading (https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/professor-rodney-jones) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \nAbstract\nThis paper analyses the way lip-synching on TikTok contributes to the reproduction and circulation of racial stereotypes. Drawing on recent work on the role of iconicity in sociolinguistics\, it examines two ‘audio memes’ that feature the lip-synching of minoritized voices by mostly White creators. Understanding how these practices of ‘digitally assisted crossing’ operate ideologically\, it is argued\, requires that we go beyond traditional concerns with indexicality to examine the more sensuous\, embodied aspects of such performances\, especially the ways lip-synching allows creators to simultaneously embody the affect of both speaker and listener. The perspective offered in this paper contributes to our understanding of language crossing by accounting for the experiential\, and intercorporeal dimension of such practices as well as our understanding of how new forms of embodiment made possible by digital technologies are affecting semiotic and social practices around social categories like race. \n ||  \nBiography\nRodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. His research interests include language and digital media\, health communication\, language and sexuality\, and language and creativity. His recent books include Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction\, 2nd edition (Routledge\, 2021) Viral Discourse (Cambridge University Press\, 2022) Introducing Language and Society\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). In March 2022 he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/2262396829?pwd=WUhyZXc5YUx4TkNjd1VQeUJQeFNTQT09 \nMeeting ID: 226 239 6829\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/iconicity-virality-and-the-intercorporeal-speech-chains-of-tiktok/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231005T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231005T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114524Z
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SUMMARY:“Why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned”: Anglo-Québécois Writer Gail Scott’s Turn-of-the-Millennium Novel My Paris
DESCRIPTION:Simon Ng – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/69/Dr_Simon_Ng) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk offers a slice of my ongoing book project “Imperfect Flâneurs” (in contract with McGill-Queen’s UP) which studies reïnterpretations of the flâneur in contemporary novels. Baudelaire sketches the perfect flâneur as a cosmopolitan spectator who feels everywhere at home and sees the world from the privileged position at the centre. My project emerges from this simple question: can the flâneur be imperfect? \nMy example for the talk is Gail Scott’s 1999 novel My Paris – a fictional travel journal of the writer who won a six-month residency with studio space in Paris. Like many travellers and sojourners in Paris today\, during her stay\, the narrator is tempted to taste the pleasures of walking Paris as a flâneur. Her daily flânerie leads her to this unexpected question with a street slang in the predicate\, “why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned[?]” I propose an innovative reading of this novel by way of critical reflection on this rhetorical question. The profound implications behind it are relevant to Scott’s creative process and such unprecedented features in this novel as the conversion of most of the verbs into present participles and the fabrication of a narrative voice that can be described as porous and sutured. \n ||  \nBiography\nSimon Ng is a Full-time Lecturer in the School of English\, HKU. He obtained a PhD in English Studies in a francophone research university in Canada\, the University of Montreal. His primary field of specialization is literature and the city. The substance in this talk comes from the unique environment of his PhD study: the work of a Montreal-based literary writer who is committed to writing in English with the sound of French in her ear. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-shouldnt-the-flaneur-be-stoned-anglo-quebecois-writer-gail-scotts-turn-of-the-millennium-novel-my-paris/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230928T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230928T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114248Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Andre Theng – PhD Candidate – University of Edinburgh || Vincent Tse – PhD Candidate – Monash University & University of Warwick || Jasper Wu – PhD Candidate – National University of Singapore \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \nAbstract\nLanguage Policy as Spatial Production: Onions|Domains|Rhizomes\nJasper Wu (PhD candidate\, natIONAL UNIVERSITY of singapore)\nLanguage policy processes are intricately intertwined with spatial production. However\, the concept of space remains peripheral in the theorization of language policy. Two existing dominant models – the ‘onion’ and the ‘multi-domain’ models – have focused on contested policy interpretations and conflicted management strategies permeating language policy. I argue that a spatial theory of language policy needs to address these practical indeterminacies as well as the ontological indeterminacy in language ecology. I introduce the Deleuzo-Guattarian rhizome as a complementary concept for presenting this additional aspect. I demonstrate my theoretical argument through business language practices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. \n  \n“Today's Example is about Mirror”: Between Technologization of Epistemic Practice and Celebrity Tutors’ Semiotic Expertise\nVincent Tse (phd candidate\, Monash uNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF warwick) online\nUsing interactional and metapragmatic data from a 17-episode tutoring talent show\, I examine the employment and valorisation of humour and intertextual references to the entertainment industry as "discourse technologies" (Fairclough\, 1992) in Hong Kong's commodified shadow education. I demonstrate that the effective use of said resources depends on celebrity tutors' semiotic expertise in\, for example\, managing the duration of their use and interweaving them with subject or examination knowledge being taught. The analysis illuminates tutors' interdiscursive performance of edutainment and positioning of self as professional yet close to their students. \n  \nThe ‘Institutional Effect’ on Online Communities: Interactional dynamics of a Catholic Facebook Group in Singapore\nAndre theng (phd candidate\, UNIVERSITY OF edinburgh) online\nIn this paper\, I explore the online-offline relationship in the institutional context of the Catholic Church via my empirical case of a Facebook group for Catholics in Singapore. The analysis considers 129 threads from the group made in an eight-day period. I explore how ‘sharedness’ in the group results from 1) recurring discursive practices 2) the role of group administrators and ‘experts’ in ratifying viewpoints and 3) the sharing of personal and intimate experiences. The result is a degree of continuity with offline and historical modes of interaction\, whilst also demonstrating ways in which the interactional structure of the platforms allows for new means of knowledge production. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94596051244?pwd=Y2p5Wm81azQ4YnFNdFdUOThyWTFlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 9605 1244\nPassword: 664501
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/alumni-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230921T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230921T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T113737Z
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SUMMARY:Exchanging languages: Explaining language shift in Papua New Guinea
DESCRIPTION:Don Kulick – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis is a paper written together with American linguist Lise Dobrin (U Virginia) that attempts to account for the fact that languages in the country of Papua New Guinea seem to be disappearing at a dishearteningly rapid rate. I will briefly discuss the evidence for the widespread language shift and argue that the reasons behind it are the same dynamics that\, in the past\, led to country’s lush linguistic diversity (840 languages\, at last estimate)—a diversity that now is vanishing. I will suggest that both diversity and shift are crucially linked to the prominence and value of exchange throughout the country. Language traditionally has been regarded less as a conceptual system than as a material possession; a quality that makes it both available and desirable for exchange with others. When the conditions of exchange are altered (as has happened during the last century with the colonization and missionization of Papua New Guinea)\, the dynamics of exchange relationships remain\, but the consequences of those exchanges turn out to be dramatically different. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exchanging-languages-explaining-language-shift-in-papua-new-guinea/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230917
DTSTAMP:20230911T110711Z
CREATED:20230911T110711Z
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SUMMARY:Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA) 2023
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/coalition-of-english-departments-in-asia-coeda-2023/
LOCATION:Convocation Room MB-2.18\, Main Building\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230823
DTSTAMP:20230822T122235Z
CREATED:20230822T122235Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 1\, 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-1-2023-24/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230818
DTSTAMP:20230706T101223Z
CREATED:20230706T101223Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Major and Minor 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:11:00 – 12:30 (for First-Year Students)\n14:00 – 15:30 (for Second-Year Students)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-major-and-minor-2023-24/
LOCATION:CPD-3.28\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230720
DTSTAMP:20230719T100041Z
CREATED:20230719T100041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T100041Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Full-Time Research Assistant in the School of English
DESCRIPTION:Commence as soon as possible\, for a period of 9 months.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-full-time-research-assistant-in-the-school-of-english/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230719
DTSTAMP:20230718T120200Z
CREATED:20230718T120200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T120200Z
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SUMMARY:MACC at HKU Teaching Opportunities Fall Semester 2023
DESCRIPTION:1. Part-time Lecturer/ Assistant Lecturer (1 post)\n2. Full-Time Teaching Assistant (3 posts)\n3. Part-Time MACC Tutor (2 posts) \nApplications close: August 22\, 2023  (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/macc-at-hku-teaching-opportunities-fall-semester-2023/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230706
DTSTAMP:20260917T091527Z
CREATED:20230705T104238Z
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SUMMARY:2023-2024 Course Offerings and Time-table
DESCRIPTION:Course Offerings and time-table in 2023-2024 are available now.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2023-2024-course-offerings-and-time-table/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230704
DTSTAMP:20230703T170532Z
CREATED:20230703T170532Z
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SUMMARY:July 2023 edition of Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features a piece on a year in Graduate School by Shameera Nair Lin\, an interview with Professor Christopher Hutton by Jisu Bang and Tingcong Lin\, and a reflection on Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne's talk on applying to and presenting at conferences by Tingcong Lin.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/july-2023-edition-of-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230701
DTSTAMP:20260917T091527Z
CREATED:20230630T105337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091527Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2025 Part-time \nExtended Deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 28\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-6/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230614
DTSTAMP:20230613T173823Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Press Release: School of English\, HKU RIICH and IC4CH co-host the “Transitioning from University to the Workplace During and Post COVID-19” Interactive Panel
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-press-release-school-of-english-hku-riich-and-ic4ch-co-host-the-transitioning-from-university-to-the-workplace-during-and-post-covid-19-interactive-panel/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230601
DTSTAMP:20230504T112243Z
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SUMMARY:Transitioning to The Workforce During and Post Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Transitioning to The Workforce During and Post Covid-19\nINTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION \nALL ARE WELCOME \nDate: 31 May 2023 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:30 pm (HKT) \nHYBRID EVENT \nIn-person venue:\nSocial Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nREGISTRATION\nZoom Details\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/97652339520?pwd=eGNSNFhaa0wrRFdrK0xaaGpLQkJtZz09\nMeeting ID: 976 5233 9520\nPassword: 376887\nABSTRACT\nThe COVID-19 pandemic had profound social\, economic\, and health impacts on billions of people across the globe. Hong Kong in particular faced multiple waves of infections and strict anti-epidemic regulations. Despite the move to a new post-pandemic 'normal\,' many demographic groups in Hong Kong society are still dealing with the impacts of the pandemic. Young adults are a prime example as they have faced multiple challenges in relation to their education\, health and social lives. Our interactive panel discussion\, “Transitioning from University to the Workforce During and Post COVID-19\,” will present qualitative and quantitative research findings from our Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) project. The event will also focus on how we can apply our research findings to develop evidence-based support strategies and interventions to improve graduates’ university-to-workplace transitions during and after times of crisis. The event will also feature a panel discussion with the main stakeholders of our CRF project\, namely\, university students\, graduates\, university staff representatives and workplace representatives from across different industries. \nAcknowledgements\nThis event is part of a project funded by the Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)\, Hong Kong (The Educational\, Social and Health Impacts of the COVID- 19 Pandemic on University Graduates Transitioning to the Workforce in Hong Kong; C7086- 21G). \nEVENT PROGRAMME:\nPlease click here. \nHKU Press Release\nSchool of English\, HKU RIICH and IC4CH co-host the “Transitioning from University to the Workplace During and Post COVID-19” Interactive Panel \nFor enquiries about the event\, please contact:\nMr. Angus Chan\nResearch Assistant\, HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare\nTel: +852 3917 7283\nEmail: anguscsm@hku.hk \n \n ||  \nMap\nSocial Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/transitioning-to-the-workforce-during-and-post-covid-19/
LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230531
DTSTAMP:20230522T092124Z
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SUMMARY:The Hunger of the Republic: Panel Discussion with Ashish Rajadhyaksha
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-hunger-of-the-republic-panel-discussion-with-ashish-rajadhyaksha/
LOCATION:Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, 9 Justice Drive\, Admiratly
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230521
DTSTAMP:20230425T171747Z
CREATED:20230425T171747Z
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SUMMARY:The 5th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Oral Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Projects\nPlease visit here for the MAES student creative projects and watch the video here. \n ||  \nFarewell video to MAES Class of 2023\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal) \n ||  \nPhotos\n \n ||  \nCampus Map
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-5th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230505
DTSTAMP:20230502T171942Z
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH Seminar - Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care
DESCRIPTION:HKU RIICH Seminar – Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care\nPROFESSOR ALISON PILNICK\nUNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM\, UNITED KINGDOM\nDATE: 04 MAY 2023   TIME: 2:00PM (HKT)   HYBRID EVENT\n\nIN-PERSON VENUE:\n745\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\nZOOM LINK:\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/J/97834037231?PWD=REPFM0Z6QZFVWUT4ME84CWNLS1JSZZ09\nMeeting ID: 978 3403 7231 Password: 739037\nABSTRACT\nThe philosophy of patient-centred care (PCC) underpins the delivery of much healthcare globally. PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative\, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However\, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings\, to be remediated through more or 'better' training in PCC. \nIn this talk\, I will draw on research based on a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected over 25 years from a range of settings. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy\, to be exercised through choice and control; my analysis will highlight the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC\, and show how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need. \nThis work highlights the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policymaking at the outset\, rather than simply as a barometer of its success. \n  \nBIOGRAPHY\nAlison Pilnick is Professor of Language\, Medicine and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests lie primarily in the field of the sociology of health and illness\, with a particular interest in interactions between health and social care professionals and their patients or clients. She has worked with a wide range of health professionals in a wide range of care settings both in the UK and overseas\, using audio and video recordings to examine interactions and to inform and develop communication skills training. This is linked to a broader interest in the use of qualitative methods in sociological research. \n  \nFor enquiries about the seminar\, please contact:\nMr. Angus Chan\nResearch Assistant\, HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare\nTel: +852 3917 7283\nEmail: anguscsm@hku.hk
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-seminar-between-autonomy-and-abandonment-reconsidering-patient-centred-care/
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Luisa Wan – MPhil Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Anneliese Ng – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Rowena Kwan – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nQueer poiesis: Reversing the other in Why Karen Carpenter Matters\nLuisa Wan\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn Queer Experimental Literature\, Tyler Bradway observes how the criticality of reading practices are often evaluated in terms of their affective charge. Accordingly\, they turn to formal experiments in queer literature to recuperate the usefulness of readerly affect in generating alternative social imaginaries. In this paper\, I read Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters to explore how Tongson experiments with the dialogical structure of the personal essay to reconfigure the oppositionality between the postcolonial self and the Other. Foregrounding her experience of what Lauren Berlant calls “cruel optimism”—a dialectical condition that exists when something one desires is the obstacle to one’s flourishing—Tongson reckons with the source of her feelings in the form of a literary dialogue with the singer Karen Carpenter. Analysing how Tongson weaves her biographical account with Carpenter’s\, I argue this dialogical exchange fosters a relationality that “queers” the dialectical double bind that “cruel optimism” sustains. \n  \nRethinking radicalism: the utilitarians’ democratic concept of political disinterestedness\nAnneliese Ng\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn the early nineteenth century\, millions in Britain joined the movement of radicalism\, demanding a “radical” reform of the parliament\, including universal (male) suffrage\, so that Members of Parliament would be chosen by all (adult males) in Britain. Coming from the middle and working classes\, these “radicals” contended that implementing democracy was the only way to protect their economic interests. Historians accordingly treated radicalism as an analysis of socio-economic problems in terms of distribution of political power\, versus Marxism which analysed social problems in terms of distribution of economic power or means of production. This talk foregrounds the utilitarians’ argument for democracy as an essential condition for realizing society’s greatest happiness or “utility”. I argue that\, more than providing a perspective on social problems\, radicalism provided the first theorization of political disinterestedness as a democratic ability possessable by the common people – not an elite quality possessable only by the aristocracy. \n  \nIdeas of fortune-telling after the Glorious Revolution in William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695)\nRowena Kwan\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines the meanings of experience and wisdom in William Congreve’s Love for Love. Produced 7 years after the triumph of the Glorious Revolution\, Love for Love\, exploring the themes of inheritance and different forms of governments\, is a representation of the reformed ideologies of its own time. Revolving around the comedy of the struggle over inheritance between a father and a son\, Love for Love responds\, the paper argues\, to the changing concepts of wisdom and the increasing demand for facts and scientific reasoning in the late-seventeenth century. Focusing on a discussion about travel experience in the play\, the paper argues that Love for Love suggests that the popularisation of empiricism challenged the lack of physical and observable proof in the practice of the traditional means of prognostication\, yet at the same time\, exposes the unreliability of the claims of bodily experience. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93961975799?pwd=cUFLdFN5VWZBN3lXOUlOQm80SlYzQT09 \nMeeting ID: 969 1683 2177\nPassword: 021538
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session-3/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:A genealogy of South Korean cinema: From the 50s cosmopolitan style to global Korean blockbusters
DESCRIPTION:Soo Yeon Kim – Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (http://elc.hufs.ac.kr/hufselc/8716/subview.do?enc=Zm5jdDF8QEB8JTJGcHJvZmwlMkZodWZzZWxjJTJGMTQ5JTJGMzM5JTJGYXJ0Y2xWaWV3LmRvJTNGcGFnZSUzRDElMjZzcmNoQ29sdW1uJTNEJTI2c3JjaFdyZCUzRCUyNg%3D%3D) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nMy presentation offers a genealogy of South Korean (hereafter Korean) cinema in the light of its paradoxical role of building and unsettling national narratives since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Throughout the dizzy history of rapid industrialization and modernization\, the Korean government used national cinema in a way to create an array of positive national images and identities. While nationalist narratives pervaded Korean cinema\, a number of filmmakers developed internationalist film styles which\, rather than remaining ancillary to narrative\, generated compelling aesthetics that belies and debunks nationalism. \nTo rephrase\, postwar Korean cinema portrays the clash of the two opposite desires of a young nation: constructing national identity founded upon traditional values\, on the one hand\, and breaking with the war-ridden past to become a land of the free and affluent\, on the other hand. This tension between the national and the global often translates to the division of male and female\, narrative and style\, and tradition and Americanization. Remembering these gaps and ironies\, this presentation briefly looks at each decade since the 1950s and its representative films in relation to genre\, narrative\, style\, national/sexual ideologies\, reception\, and industry. \n ||  \nBiography\nSoo Kim is Professor of English Literature & Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, Seoul\, South Korea. Kim’s research and teaching interests include contemporary Anglophone fiction\, film\, and sexuality studies. Kim has been published in English and Korean about post-2000 British and American novels\, theorists such as Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière\, and Korean queer cinema and other Korean films directed by Chan-wook Park and Joon-ho Bong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94503912243?pwd=RzFYOGNnV1pvSkREWG5FRVI5eDA4Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 0391 2243\nPassword: 788541 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-genealogy-of-south-korean-cinema-from-the-50s-cosmopolitan-style-to-global-korean-blockbusters/
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SUMMARY:Debilitating to capacitate: Discourses of innate sex characteristics in Hong Kong hospitals
DESCRIPTION:Brian King – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) \nAbstract\nThis study uses metapragmatic discourse analysis (i.e. analysis of talk about language use) to mitigate the appropriation of Southern ideas by the Global North\, treating interviewees as collaborators who analyse language and bring their knowledge into dialogue with the researcher’s knowledge. The data is drawn from interviews with two Hong Kong Chinese doctors (a gynaecologist and a paediatric urologist) who work with intersex children and their parents. In analysing their metapragmatic narratives about ‘what they say\, how and why\,’ I draw on Jasbir Puar’s ideas about biopolitics as an ableist mechanism with the right to maim\, which can debilitate any of us. Alternatively\, it capacitates others. Biomedical professionals\, regardless of diverse personal convictions\, work in a relationship with their patients that reflects the relationship between biomedicine and political economy\, one in which they are always potentially agents of biopolitical regulation. The doctors in this study report a reliance on scientifically outdated discourses to maintain a conversational boundary in which parents keep listening rather than despairing. There is a sense of a need to help manage parents’ emotions and therefore their perceptions of their child. Disorder is spoken of as a problematic framing and yet throughout their explanation\, the intersex body is referred to as a manifestation of disease or illness\, leaving little room for any non-medicalized interpretation. The doctors position themselves as capacitators of these babies. But to have a role to play they first must debilitate them. It is for their ‘welfare’. \n ||  \nBiography\nBrian is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong\, as well as a critical sociolinguist researching the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity\, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within healthcare communication\, sexuality education\, computer-mediated communication\, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically\, he draws on a number of traditions\, including interactional sociolinguistics\, corpus linguistics\, linguistic anthropology\, and critical discourse studies. His teaching career has spanned more than 20 years across three continents and multiple sectors. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n        Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99553996706?pwd=MXdBc2U2U3BzbkZpSThpOXdxSTFDQT09 \n        Meeting ID: 995 5399 6706 \n        Password: 693756
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/debilitating-to-capacitate-discourses-of-innate-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong-hospitals/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Linguistics\, writing and textualization: A semiological review
DESCRIPTION:Sinead Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/167/Dr_Man_Ka_Sinead_Kwok) \nAbstract\nA comprehensive way of formulating linguistics is to see it as a textualizing enterprise. This is to say that linguistics is created by humans’ continuous engagement in written communication\, and thus\, in textualization – the creation of texts\, via the human production of written signs\, in artifacts; whereas to look into how linguists maintain the appeal of their practices\, one has to see linguistics as a textualization theory – that is\, to study how linguists conceptualize text. It is contended that linguistics has moulded and been moulded by uneven attention to text and artifact where the existence of the latter is obscured or forgotten while the former has become an autonomous\, ‘detextualized’ entity called a linguistic/verbal text. In fact\, it is only through detextualization (abstraction of a written text from the artifact\, and the human textualizer from whose perspective the text and the artifact are integrated) that doing linguistics is possible: only a much-detached concept of writing can help formalise a scientific notion of a bipartite speech sign and of language. What are the complications of forgetting the artifact\, and what is a more illuminating understanding of the written sign\, texts\, artifacts and language? This topic will be deconstructed in my presentation. \n ||  \nBiography\nSinead Kwok is a full-time lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She is an early-career researcher whose research interests and published works lie in philosophy of language and communication\, history of linguistics\, semiology and semiotics\, as well as translation. After obtaining a PhD at the University of Hong Kong with a thesis which explores Western translation theories from a semiological and semiotic viewpoint\, Sinead is currently working on the relationship between textualization and sign theories\, which forms the topic of her upcoming talk. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n  Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98164272981?pwd=SWoyT2RIM2twdDdISkRUYnhPVjVFQT09 \n  Meeting ID: 981 6427 2981        \n  Password: 378180
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/linguistics-writing-and-textualization-a-semiological-review/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Selfish matter: William Blake and eighteenth-century sciences of the mind
DESCRIPTION:Tara Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/tara-lee) \nAbstract\nWhat do we do with Blake's abandoned manuscript poem\, The Four Zoas? Left unfinished with its various revisions\, deletions\, and insertions\, assembled into a heterogenous bundle of nearly 150 sheets with two versions of chapter seven left extant\, the manuscript poem has long confounded and intrigued scholars of Blake. In this paper\, I argue that Blake's engagements with eighteenth century materialist understandings of the mind can illuminate this difficult manuscript. Blake was fascinated and troubled by the evolutionist idea that the human mind might have emerged from fluid matter imbued with the powers of self-organisation. Reading scenes of mental and verbal dissolution in the manuscript against early evolutionary accounts of the development of animal intelligence\, I discuss the ways in which The Four Zoas's disorganised state formally registers how the nervous mind and the sinuous text collaborate in giving unreliable body to thought. Reading The Four Zoas against Erasmus Darwin's vibrant materialist poem The Temple of Nature (1803) on the one hand and Edward Young's important religious poem Night Thoughts (1742-45) on the other\, I show how Blake uses motifs of fluidity and plasticity to uniquely mediate between biology and spirituality in what Northrop Frye called '[t]he greatest abortive masterpiece in English Literature.' \n ||  \nBiography\nTara Lee is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford\, and has articles related to Blake and biology in European Romantic Review\, Studies in Romanticism\, and Romanticism on the Net. She is preparing a monograph on Blake's preformationist aesthetics and his relationship with the rise of organicism and historicism in the eighteenth century. Alongside this\, she is also developing a new project on how real and imaginary machines afforded visionary thinking about revolution\, progress\, and individual agency in the Romantic epic. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91353372784?pwd=OVJXMkU5dTBqUUpXZFc1RXR4WlBIZz09 \nMeeting ID: 913 5337 2784\nPassword: 716377
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/selfish-matter-william-blake-and-eighteenth-century-sciences-of-the-mind/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-macc-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing-mfa-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
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SUMMARY:Connected parenting: Digital discourse and diverse family practices
DESCRIPTION:Jai Mackenzie – Newman University (https://www.newman.ac.uk/staff/jai-mackenzie/) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nThis presentation explores the role of social media in contemporary parenting and family practice. It takes its title from my forthcoming book (Bloomsbury\, 2023)\, and draws on digital and interview data from my research with single and/or LGBT parents who brought children into their lives through adoption\, donor conception\, surrogacy and/or co-parenting arrangements. In the talk I will propose that connection is the defining force in these parents’ social and support networks\, and that they construct their parenting and family practices in and through connection with others. This connected parenting practice has three core components: epistemic connection\, collective connection and affective connection. These forms of connection are often facilitated by new media technologies\, and integrated with other (non-digital) connective practices\, such as face-to-face meetings\, telephone calls and prayer. Using mediated discourse analysis (Jones\, 2005; Scollon\, 2001\, 1998) to focus my exploration on the mediated social action\, I elaborate these three dimensions of connected parenting\, using illustrative examples from my participants’ social media and mobile messaging data. I close by considering some of the implications of connected parenting for contemporary parenting and family practice\, especially in new and marginalised family forms. \n  \nReferences: https://tinyurl.com/2p9btpke \nBook: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connected-parenting-9781350262539/ \n ||  \nBiography\nJai is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Writing and Humanities at Newman University\, Birmingham. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which gendered\, sexual and familial roles\, relationships and practices are shaped and (re)produced in digital contexts. She has undertaken a range of collaborative and single-authored research in this area\, including the monographs Language\, Gender and Parenthood Online (Routledge\, 2019) and Connected Parenting (Bloomsbury\, 2023). Jai is convenor of the Language\, Gender and Sexuality special interest group\, which sits within the British Association of Applied Linguistics. She is a member of the editorial board for Discourse\, Context and Media. \nJones\, R.H.\, 2005. Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. Routledge\, London and New York. \nScollon\, R.\, 2001. Mediated Discourse: The nexus of practice. Routledge\, London and New York.  \nScollon\, R.\, 1998. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction. Longman\, London. \n  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98964286778?pwd=eGloS0w2WlRnZFI1SVo4eGZjTlMwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 989 6428 6778\nPassword: 415387 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/connected-parenting-digital-discourse-and-diverse-family-practices/
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SUMMARY:The application of digital humanities: A case study of Irish literature
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/280/Dr_Jenny_Kwok) \n4:30 pm – 6:00 pm\, Friday \nAbstract\nThe recent increasing demand to quantify the efficiency of research output poses a challenge to subjects such as the humanities\, which are arguably qualitative in nature. In this context\, humanities research can greatly benefit from digital humanities approaches in communicating the significance of our scholarly output in quantitative terms. In this seminar\, I will draw on my current research project\, which focuses on the classification of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature\, a classification that is often ambiguous and problematic. I will demonstrate how the use of digital tools can increase the efficiency of conducting this kind of research\, and present the three types of digital humanities projects I have identified. Finally\, I will discuss the possibility of reconsidering digital humanities as a practical tool for previously unthinkable projects\, and how its application can potentially increase the fundability of projects\, especially for early-career scholars. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Jenny Kwok specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-Irish writers and intellectual history\, particularly in relation to the tradition of liberal education and the post-World War I struggle between the humanities and the sciences. Dr Kwok was a Kilns Scholar in Residence of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and a recipient of the Werner Huber Fellowship of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). She has previously published on the Anglo-Irish poet Seamus Heaney and his seminal work Station Island. As well as developing her dissertation into a monograph\, she is working on publications on Irish literature as world literature and on applications of digital visualisation (in particular dispersion plot and VOS Viewer). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92167490113?pwd=L1phUmZFRkR4Z1lwdU1JaEttOU45Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 921 6749 0113\nPassword: 889616
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-application-of-digital-humanities-a-case-study-of-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Intertextuality and metadiscourse in an online community: “Fixing” posts and “locking” threads
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Gordon – Georgetown University (https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TpEoAAK/cynthia-gordon) \n(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am\, Friday \nAbstract\nIntertextuality – the idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations\, and that people make and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links – is fundamentally connected to metadiscourse\, that is\, discourse about discourse. In this talk\, I explore the specific ways in which\, and for what purposes\, these phenomena are intertwined at the micro-interactional level in one online community. Using the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics to examine users’ posts to discussion boards affiliated with a popular weight loss app\, I focus on two inherently metadiscursive activities: when a user “fixes” another poster’s post (i.e.\, by adjusting the content and adding some version of “I fixed it for you”) and when a discussion board moderator “locks” a thread that has violated one or more community guidelines (i.e.\, by posting a message that announces the guideline violation and indicates that future posts to the thread will be prohibited). I identify and explicate intertextual linking strategies that facilitate these activities\, both linguistic (e.g.\, word repetition\, deictic pronouns) and multimodal (e.g.\, emojis\, symbols\, and GIFs). I also highlight the role of these actions in constructing shared understandings\, interactional norms\, and engagement in the community. \n ||  \nBiography\nCynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on how meanings\, relationships\, and identities are constructed in digital discourse\, in food-related communication\, and in family interaction. Gordon is author of two books: Making Meanings\, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction and Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making in an Online Community (both Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Approaches to Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Press) and co-editor (with Alla Tovares) of Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts (Bloomsbury). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97158415907?pwd=K3paTStLVjR3L0N1eHFpa2w0OEREUT09 \nMeeting ID: 971 5841 5907\nPassword: 800333 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/intertextuality-and-metadiscourse-in-an-online-community-fixing-posts-and-locking-threads/
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SUMMARY:Irritative modernism and its stoic patients: Free indirect narration of illness  in British modernist literature
DESCRIPTION:Chloe Leung – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/271/Dr_Chloe_Leung) \nAbstract\n‘Illness’ has been discussed in British literary modernism almost exclusively in the medical sense of the word. Especially concerning authors who battled with chronic illnesses\, criticism tends to narrowly circumscribe the epistemology of illness by quoting biography and medical history while bypassing other implications that followed ‘illness’ in literary representations. Drawing on modernist narrative techniques in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys\, this talk seeks to disentangle ‘illness’ from medicine and explores the affective residues of diagnostic practice. I postulate free indirect discourse (FID) as a narrative technique these authors deploy to de-medicalise pain\, illness\, and disabilities since it reveals the slipperiness of formative elements in the diagnostic practice\, including patient’s autonomy\, pain receptivity\, subjective intentions\, and identity. Divulging distinct depths of consciousness while leaving its intention inaccessible and attention irretrievable\, FID irritates the expectation of a transparent pathogenesis as well as medical categorisation of bodyminds as either ‘pathological’ or ‘normal’. Being attentive to the narrativization of pain (rather than its symptoms) will generate new knowledge and identification when we are patient with our irritations. This talk would like to suggest that literary modernism\, contra the instrumental role Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine (2006) assigned to literary studies\, explicitly intervenes in pain\, depressive moods\, or other afflictions. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Chloe Leung graduated from her doctorate degree in English Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include modernist studies\, the medical humanities\, and dance studies. Dr Leung has published articles on Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence on how free indirect narration overturns assumptions about the relationship between body and feelings. Her latest publication is on Woolf and Eugenic Modernism\, which was recently published (Jan 2023) in Journal of Literary & Critical Disability Studies. Currently\, Dr Leung is a full-time lecturer at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91595494352?pwd=WWUvMnlnYmkxTXgvcUJkWkxPaEsvZz09 \nMeeting ID: 915 9549 4352\nPassword: 187052
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irritative-modernism-and-its-stoic-patients-free-indirect-narration-of-illness-in-british-modernist-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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