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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231031
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SUMMARY:Inter-Island Festival 2023: Rhythms of the Inter-Island
DESCRIPTION:An experiential learning opportunity funded by the Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund by contributing to the 2nd Inter-Island Festival\, will be held in Peng Chau\, Mui Wo\, Chi Ma Wan\, and Cheung Chau in November 2023. Students are invited to participate in one of the featured projects of the Festival\, entitled “Rhythms of the Inter-Island”.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/inter-island-festival-2023-rhythms-of-the-inter-island/
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231026
DTSTAMP: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029
DTSTAMP:20231019T163942Z
CREATED: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:20231031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231101
DTSTAMP:20231031T142901Z
CREATED:20231031T142901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T142901Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Officer/Senior Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk I) (Ref.: 523615)
DESCRIPTION:Applications close:  Nov 30\, 2023 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-officer-senior-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-i-ref-523615/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231110
DTSTAMP:20230829T114704Z
CREATED:20230829T114704Z
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SUMMARY:Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality
DESCRIPTION:Anjuli Gunaratne – The University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/miraculous-corpse-tragedy-and-postcoloniality/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114754Z
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SUMMARY:Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream\, a Peking Opera
DESCRIPTION:Qiong Zhang – Fudan University \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \nAbstract\nThe research examines Qing Qi’s Dream (2007)\, a jingju (Peking Opera) adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear by Shanghai Jingju Theatre. With a discussion of the adaptation\, the speaker probes into the related concerns on different art forms\, features of jingju performance\, its special stage styles\, and the variants of the adapted version. The research points out that the jingju adaptation of King Lear can be viewed as an attempt to participate in the thematic representation using one’s own unique discourse. Therefore\, the cultural source is inexhaustible in adaptation and active interations across time and space\, among which the personal ambition and lust\, ethic value and filiality\, as well as Lear’s self-quest or cultural reflection triggered thereafter are worth discussion. The research further points out that the unending interpretations of King Lear and its numerous spin-offs reveal the continuity of a canon’s vigorous life. Examining the tragic king as a jingju role demonstrates that the paradigm of theatrical splendor relies on its emotional truth\, philosophical quest\, and the potential of its artistic multiplicity. Finally\, the research tries to indicate that by breaking down cultural borders\, we in a more globalized world are facing cultural values which are mutually constitutive. \n ||  \nBiography\nJoan Qiong Zhang is Professor of English at Fudan University\, Shanghai\, China and a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley (2019-2020). Research interests include English fiction and Shakespeare. Her major publications include Shakespeare in Visual Age: a study on Shakespearean Movies (2009) and Singing Survivance: a Study of Contemporary Native American Poetry (2021). She has also published two collections of prose works on travel\, film and books. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98951%20844991?pwd=UnNUV1RUc%20G5EY2VTVkFZa1VqYSsz%20QT09 \nMeeting ID: 989 5184 4991\nPassword: 039433
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/continuity-in-the-floating-world-king-lear-in-king-qis-dream-a-peking-opera/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231123T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231123T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114846Z
CREATED:20230829T114846Z
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SUMMARY:Language Revival and Wellbeing: From the 'Promised Land' to the 'Lucky Country'
DESCRIPTION:Ghil’ad Zuckermann – Flinders University (https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/ghilad.zuckermann) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON) \nAbstract\nThis talk will explain why language revival is (1) right\, (2) beautiful\, and (3) beneficial. In our current world\, more and more groups are losing their intangible heritage. Language reclamation (e.g. Hebrew and the Barngarla Aboriginal language of South Australia)\, revitalization (e.g. Shanghainese and the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal language) and reinvigoration (e.g. Te Reo Māori and Welsh) are becoming increasingly relevant as more and more people seek to reconnect with their heritage\, recover their cultural autonomy\, empower their spiritual and intellectual sovereignty\, and improve their wellbeing and mental health. There is an urgent need to offer comparative insights\, for example from the Hebrew revival\, which resulted in a cross-fertilized Semito-European hybrid that I call "Israeli". \n ||  \nBiography\nGhil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil Oxford; PhD Cambridge\, titular; MA Tel Aviv\, summa cum laude) is Professor of Linguistics at Flinders University\, Adelaide\, Australia. Prof. Zuckermann is the author of Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (Oxford University Press\, 2020) and 多源造词研究 (A Study of Multisourced Neologization; East China Normal University Press\, 2021). Professor Zuckermann is the founder of Revivalistics\, a new global\, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation\, revitalization and reinvigoration. His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages\, has attracted 20\,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages): https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93741887377?pwd=RFp6ZmNwMEVkMER2REdCbjFteEF5QT09 \nMeeting ID: 937 4188 7377\nPassword: 165988
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/language-revival-and-wellbeing-from-the-promised-land-to-the-lucky-country/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231125
DTSTAMP:20231115T105214Z
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SUMMARY:Love's Labours Found: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
DESCRIPTION:The HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. \nAdditional Content\nPlease join us for a festive conclusion to the semester with ‘Love’s Labours Found’: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio on Friday 24 Nov from 4:30-6:00pm in Seminar Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower. \nPublished in 1623\, Shakespeare’s First Folio presents 36 of his plays\, half of which appear for the first time. Dr. Nick Luke and Dr. Kristen Murray will host this event\, highlighting contested passages in plays we know well\, as well as peerless plays we might have missed. The talk will touch on the complex process that secured this collection for a print run of around 750 leather-bound books of continual global significance. \nThe HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. “Do you think because you are virtuous\, there will be no more cake and ale?” (Twelfth Night\, II\, iii\, 113). \n“Knowing aforehand of our merriment\,” please register here to attend (Love’s Labours Lost\, V\, ii\, 505).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/loves-labours-found-a-celebration-of-the-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-first-folio/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T115020Z
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SUMMARY:Interspatiality
DESCRIPTION:Sheila Hones – University of Tokyo & Swansea University (https://sheilahones.wordpress.com/) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \nAbstract\nAcademic literary geography today is often explained in terms of aggregation: literature and geography; texts and places; literary studies and human geography. While these X+Y formulations usefully suggest the interdisciplinary range of the field\, they less helpfully reinforce the idea that both the subject matter and the practice of literary geography depend on the stitching together of separate things. As a result\, contemporary definitions of literary geography typically emphasise intersections and interactions and interdisciplinarity while dodging the question of whether there is an identifiable object of inquiry specific to the field itself. The term ‘interspatiality’ has been designed to cut through this X+Y problem. Merging a geographical definition of ‘spatiality’ (as a way of talking about the social-spatial)\, and a literary understanding of ‘intertextuality’ (as a way of talking about texts as nodes in relational spatial networks)\, interspatiality is a way of naming the implied subject focus of much contemporary work in the field: the inseparability of writing\, reading and geography. The main theme of this talk on literary geography and interspatiality\, then\, is the idea that understandings of what literary geography is\, does\, and can do might usefully be reconfigured by a move away from the current emphasis on the accretion and interaction of separate things and towards a focus on an inhabited world in which the social\, the spatial\, and the textual are routinely and inextricably fused. \n ||  \nBiography\nSheila Hones is a literary geographer\, a professor emerita of The University of Tokyo\, and an honorary research fellow at Swansea University. She is one of the editors of the online journal\, Literary Geographies\, and co-editor for the book series\, Literary Geography: Theory and Practice (University of Wales Press). She is the author of Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (2014) and Literary Geography (2021\, Routledge New Critical Idiom). Her next book\, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography\, will be published in 2024. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95878115207?pwd=VThpSTZpbzhXNThWbVRYY0hKcGF5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 958 7811 5207\nPassword: 903130
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/interspatiality/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231207
DTSTAMP:20260917T091530Z
CREATED:20231206T144926Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time / 2024-2026 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 28\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231228T124951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091533Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 523617)
DESCRIPTION:to commence as soon as possible\, on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Jan 26\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-523617/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231230
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231229T164555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091533Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, April 5\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing-mfa-is-now-open-for-applications-3/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231230
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231229T165150Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, April 5\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-macc-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240112
DTSTAMP:20240111T104328Z
CREATED:20240111T104328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T104328Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2\, 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-2-2023-24/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240120
DTSTAMP:20240119T160228Z
CREATED:20240119T160228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T160228Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Research Assistant I (2 posts) (Ref.: 524529)
DESCRIPTION:to commence on May 1\, 2024\, or as soon as possible thereafter on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Feb 29\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-research-assistant-i-2-posts-ref-524529/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240426
DTSTAMP:20210923T111303Z
CREATED:20210923T111303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T111303Z
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SUMMARY:School of English Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Second Semester\, 2023-24
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240426
DTSTAMP:20230601T161851Z
CREATED:20230601T161851Z
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SUMMARY:Previous Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Click for details
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/previous-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240125T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240125T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T114617Z
CREATED:20231220T114617Z
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SUMMARY:Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality
DESCRIPTION:Anjuli Gunaratne – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/78/Dr_Anjuli_Gunaratne) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nMy talk will be a presentation of the main arguments that ground my book project\, “Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality.” Close reading the work of C. L. R. James\, (1901-1981)\, Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)\, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)\, and Assia Djebar (1936-2015)\, “Miraculous Corpse” reconsiders the centrality of tragic forms of thought and art to the conception of “postcoloniality\,” regarded here as both a strategy of critical thinking and the predicament of inhabiting the aftermaths of colonial domination. In my talk\, I will focus on one of the central components of the book: my uncovering of each author’s reanimation of tragedy’s constitutive but often underread relationship to the funeral ritual. To formulate their own theory of “postcoloniality\,” the writers I study reconceive and redramatize this relationship in a myriad of ways. This technique of representation\, you will see\, makes it possible to redress the grief that ensues from the destruction of old temporal structures that made certain vistas of freedom legible. It also enables writers to dramatize differently the events through which official narratives of and monuments to national history are created. What I then hope to demonstrate is how a writer recovers the past through tragic structures of thought and representation in order to make appear what I am calling the “miraculous corpse.” \n ||  \nBiography\nAnjuli I. Gunaratne is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Interested in the literatures of the former British and French colonies\, Anjuli is at work on a book tentatively titled Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality\, which studies the emergence of tragedy as a dramatic\, narrative\, and philosophical form in postcolonial literature\, with a special focus on Caribbean novelists and poets. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/miraculous-corpse-tragedy-and-postcoloniality-2/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240201T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240201T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T114755Z
CREATED:20231220T114755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T114755Z
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SUMMARY:“Destroyer of Worlds”: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
DESCRIPTION:Jason Harding – City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jason-derrick-harding(da1b437f-65a2-46fb-ac30-530ffd398b3d).html) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis paper explores how the humanities shape our understanding of science and technology\, examining the example of the US physicist Robert Oppenheimer. It analyses how Oppenheimer raised questions about human values as a postwar public intellectual at a time when Cold War imperatives were driving scientists to develop weapons of mass destruction. The paper closes with a consideration of how novels and film – notably\, the recent biopic of Oppenheimer – frame imaginative and ethical reflections on the dilemma posed by Bertrand Russell: “Whether science will prove to have been a blessing or a curse to mankind\, is to my mind\, still a doubtful question.” \n ||  \nBiography\nJason Harding is Head of the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He arrived from Durham University\, where he had lectured since 2006 and was promoted to full Professor in 2017. He is the author or editor of seven books\, including a study of British literary journalism\, The Criterion (OUP 2002)\, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (CUP 2017) and he edited a volume in the award-winning The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot (Faber 2015). He is currently completing the first full-length book on Encounter magazine for Princeton University Press. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/destroyer-of-worlds-oppenheimer-and-the-bomb/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240203
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Professor/Associate Professor on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century) (Ref.: 524440)
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-professor-associate-professor-on-tenure-terms-or-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies-the-long-nineteenth-century-ref-524440/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240203
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SUMMARY:Job Opening:  Professor/Associate Professor on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies (Drama\, Theatre\, and Performance) (Ref.: 524441)
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-professor-associate-professor-on-tenure-terms-or-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies-drama-theatre-and-performance-ref-524441/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240222T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240222T180000
DTSTAMP:20240115T093003Z
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SUMMARY:Eugene Onegin: The Greatest Novel in Verse in English. What is it? Why is it so Worth Bothering with?
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Barker – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/288/Dr_Andrew_Barker) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThe English speaker approaching Eugene Onegin for the first time has over a dozen translations to choose from. In this talk I will argue that the chosen translation will have a huge impact on appreciation of the poem\, and that the stanza Pushkin created to tell his verse novel within has been drastically under-utilized in English poetry since the first completed metrical and rhymed translations were achieved. The talk is the work of a fan of the poem\, and an attempt to increase the work's popularity among poetry enthusiasts through an analysis of the delights of a consistent structure in the novel length poem. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Andrew Barker holds a PhD in American Literature\, an MA in Anglo/Irish Literature and a BA (Hons) in English Literature. He has taught over twenty different literature courses at Hong Kong University\, Lingnan University\, Baptist University and for HKU SPACE. His interests include the poetry of Yeats and Heaney\, twentieth-century American Literature\, the plays of Martin McDonagh\, the novels of David Mitchell and Zadie Smith\, and the films of Christopher Nolan. He also pays close attention to literature written in and on Hong Kong\, and is a widely-published poet. Examples of his work and lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/mycroftlectures-andrewbarkerpoetry \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eugene-onegin-the-greatest-novel-in-verse-in-english-what-is-it-why-is-it-so-worth-bothering-with/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240307T163000
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DTSTAMP:20231220T114916Z
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SUMMARY:Checkpoints of Desire: Theorizing the Nexus of Multilingualism\, Sexuality and (In)securitization
DESCRIPTION:Tommaso Milani – The Pennsylvania State University (https://aplng.la.psu.edu/people/tommaso-milani/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn sociolinguistics\, the notion of (in)securitization has recently been proposed as a heuristic lens through which to better understand how everyday practices of surveillance and lived experiences of vulnerability are mediated through linguistic means (Rampton and Charalambous 2020). While sociolinguistic research informed by (in)securitization has offered nuanced analyses of the complex ways in which language(s) produce (in)security\, this body of work has largely neglected to consider how more intimate domains such as sexual and romantic relations may also become charged spaces of (in)securitization. Against this backdrop\, the aim of this talk is twofold. Firstly\, I will give empirical examples of the role played by multilingualism in the (in)securitization of sexual and romantic intimacy in the context of the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Palestine. Secondly\, on a more conceptual level\, I draw upon work in geography (Ritchie 2010) to advance the notion of the checkpoint as an analytical tool through which to theorize more precisely the discursive accomplishment of (self-)surveillance. The point I want to make is that checkpoints are not only external barriers that determine the kinetic regulation of people and goods; they can also be internalized “technologies of the Self” (Foucault 1988) and “structures of feeling” (Williams 1977) that regiment how people police themselves\, their identities and their emotional attachments to others in everyday interactions. And\, as I will show\, multilingualism can play a key function in regulating the interactional push-and-pull of desire in relation to (in)securitization.  \n ||  \nBiography\nTommaso M. Milani is George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics\, Jewish Studies\, African Studies\, and Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research aims to understand how power (in)balances are reproduced and contested through meaning-making resources (language\, visuality\, the body etc.). While identifying strongly with the intellectual tradition of critical discourse analysis\, he is not committed to a single theoretical paradigm. In his analyses of language and power he has drawn upon different theoretical frameworks\, which include language ideology\, intersectionality\, queer theory\, southern/decolonial perspectives and theories of affect. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/checkpoints-of-desire-theorizing-the-nexus-of-multilingualism-sexuality-and-insecuritization/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240329
DTSTAMP:20240321T171349Z
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SUMMARY:Ben Rowlett
DESCRIPTION:Stories from the Gay Games Hong Kong: Rethinking People/Place through Collaborative Linguistic Landscape Research \n  \nTime: 16:30 – 18:00
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/ben-rowlett/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240328T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240328T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T115050Z
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SUMMARY:Stories from the Gay Games Hong Kong: Rethinking People/Place through Collaborative Linguistic Landscape Research
DESCRIPTION:Ben Rowlett – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/academic-staff/dr-benedict-rowlett/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk will report on how participatory fieldwork methods\, in this case a research/pedagogical collaboration between undergraduate students and their instructor\, allowed for a diverse and wide-ranging exploration of the linguistic landscape (LL) of the 2023 Gay Games Hong Kong. With the understanding that this LGBTQ+ event\, as it travels across cultural and socio-political borders\, would be shaped by diverse semiotic actions in its LL\, this present study aimed to investigate those actions from the perspectives of the research team who interacted with the LL by participating as on-site volunteers during the event. As such\, these collaborative methods were aimed at capturing and reflecting on the emergence of particular discursive and spatial formations via the researchers’ interactions with people and place. These formations are therefore examined through the experiential lens of this group of Hong Kong citizens (the students)\, whose stories from the games appear as integral to certain  understandings of the event’s potential reach and impacts.   \n ||  \nBiography\nBenedict J. L. Rowlett is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University with research interests in queer (applied) linguistics and ethnographic methods. His recent work has focused on the intersections between language\, identity\, sexualities\, and social action in Asian contexts\, including discourse analytical research on Asian Pride events. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/stories-from-the-gay-games-hong-kong-rethinking-people-place-through-collaborative-linguistic-landscape-research/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240405T163000
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DTSTAMP:20240326T150345Z
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SUMMARY:Mechanical Slavery: Freedom\, Subjection\, Automation
DESCRIPTION:Seb Franklin – King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/seb-franklin) \n*Friday* THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n\n\n\n\nThis talk is about the strikingly constant presence of slavery in theories of automation. So constant is this presence that\, I argue\, it must perform some essential structuring function in relation to automation’s principal subjects: labor and machinery. So multivalent are slavery’s appearances in the corpus of automation discourse that they must reveal something fundamental—something structural—about the form of society in which labor and machinery emerge\, interact\, and become meaningful. \nIn writings on automatic machinery from the early nineteenth century onwards one finds: machines analogized to slaves\, and sometimes simply called slaves; workers defined in contradiction to slaves and presented as slaves; intensified mechanization described as labor’s enslavement and emancipation; the absence of mechanization understood as enslavement and emancipation; ethical and practical appeals to democratize the production process underscored by way of references to slavery; and\, perhaps most jarring\, capitalists presented as slaves to labor. I name this bundle of metaphorical deployments mechanical slavery. \nIn the talk\, I will theorize mechanical slavery through a reading of a single popular text—a profile of the cybernetician Norbert Wiener by the novelist of white-collar ennui Sloan Wilson. In that profile\, the cover story for the March 1953 issue of The Saturday Review\, Wiener displaced the social relations mechanical slavery implies onto an anxiety about freedom of thought as the characteristic that separates free persons from computing machines and\, in his telling\, slaves. \n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nSeb Franklin is Reader in Literature\, Media\, and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is the author of The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatic of Value (2021) and Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic (2015). \n  \nThis is an IN-PERSON ONLY event and the event is held on *FRIDAY*.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mechanical-slavery-freedom-subjection-automation/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240411T163000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the 'English' in English-Language Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Wang – Williams College (https://american-studies.williams.edu/profile/dwang/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will discuss some of the assumptions foundational to the study of English poetics and poetry and suggest possible ways to rethink current norms and practices in the teaching of poetry\, poetics\, and poetry-writing. \n ||  \nBiography\nDorothy Wang is Professor of American Studies at Williams College. Her Thinking Its Presence: Form\, Race\, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford UP\, 2013) won the Association for Asian American Studies' 2016 award for best book of literary criticism. The only national conference on race and creative writing is named after it and has been convened four times. She also conceived of and co-founded the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) initiative. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry\, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature\, and The Boston Review\, among other places. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rethinking-the-english-in-english-language-poetics/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240418T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240418T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T115312Z
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SUMMARY:Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect
DESCRIPTION:Tong King Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/292/Professor_Tong_King_Lee) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nKongish is an emerging hybrid urban dialect that is affiliated to but not co-extensive with Hong Kong English. Starting with an English(-Cantonese) poem published in an anthology by the Facebook initiative KongPoWriMo (Hong Kong Poetry Writing Month)\, we will look at how colloquial Cantonese is represented in the written word (or numeral)\, sometimes to the effect of disfiguring what is ostensibly English. Examples will be used to illustrate three aspects of Kongish\, namely its fluidity\, multimodality\, and self-reflexivity. It is suggested that Kongish\, possibly undergirded by what is dubbed MK (Mongkok) Culture\, exemplifies an ethos of translanguaging that seeks to continually transgress the boundary between named languages as well as between linguistic and nonlinguistic modalities. It is also highly amenable to commodification\, both on social media and in the commercial market. The seminar considers the extent to which we might consider Kongish to be based “off” rather than “on” English—more specifically\, as an innominate register that breaches institutionalised borders without settling into a code. \n ||  \nBiography\nTong King Lee is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of English\, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor of Culture\, Communication\, and Media at University College London. He was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center\, U.S. (2021)\, Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library\, Singapore (2022)\, and IAS Fellow at Durham University\, U.K. (2023). He is the author of Kongish (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Choreographies of Multilingualism (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, and Translation as Experimentalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/kongish-translanguaging-and-the-commodification-of-an-urban-dialect/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240425T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240425T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T115509Z
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SUMMARY:RPG Student Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Lea Wu – PhD Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Shameera Lin – MPhil Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHopepunk: The Ideal of Virtuous Care and the Re-imagination of the Public\nLea Tong Wu\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines an emerging group of speculative fiction texts called "hopepunk" that have been voluntarily discussed\, selected and advocated by a group of speculative fiction writers\, readers\, media\, and publishers since 2017. In response to increasing discrimination and injustice around gender\, race\, class\, and religion\, exacerbated during the Trump administration\, hopepunk proponents are exploring an imagination of care to counter the prevailing cynicism and nihilism. In this presentation\, I suggest that while the specific imaginaries of care proposed by hopepunk texts are grounded in progressive principles of inclusion\, equality\, and anti-discrimination\, the construction of such care in hopepunk exposes the conflicts between a progressive imaginary of community-based care and the currently dominant neoliberal model of self-responsible care. Reading a representative hopepunk text\, the Wayfarer series (2014-2021) by Becky Chambers\, I discuss how attempts at a progressive imaginary of care can be limited by its focus on the moral education of care\, which obscures the complications caused by vulnerability and dependence on the social infrastructure that distributes resources and labor\, and redirects the duty of care back to the individual as the primary agent and the family as the primary site for all responsibilities of care. \n  \n“You are What You Eat”: Foodways in Malaysian Literature in English\nShameera Nair Lin\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation proposes reorienting the locus of Malaysian Literature in English (MLE)\, an emerging body of scholarship grounded in the national\, through reconsidering its mainstream methodological approach of authoritative canonicity\, suggesting a path beyond the “border barricades” of colonialism. Though a postcolonial field concerned with the formation of English-language writing in post-Independence Malaysia through nationalist\, anticolonialist strategies\, examinations of MLE have fallen into the trap of reproducing authoritative canonicity. Read through one of the symbols I associate with the nation-space of Malaysia –that of foodways — this presentation constructs what John Guillory would call an “alternative canon” as a strategy of resistance through its examination of the function of foodways in Malaysian Literature in English. Particularly\, I place a short story typically associated with Sinophone Malaysian literature\, Ng Kim Chew’s “Allah’s Will”\, in conversation with the writing of Nina Mingya Powles\, a New Zealand-born writer with ties to Malaysia\, as a means of speaking to the heteroglossic nature of Malaysian English\, simultaneously broadening what constitutes MLE. I assert the place of “Malaysia” as a literary space through the “geo-body\,” or what Thongchai Winichakul describe as a reified geographical space bearing “a component of the life of a nation […] a source of pride\, loyalty\, love\, passion\, bias hatred\, reason\, unreason.” Charting the components that form the “life of a nation”\, I suggest there is a Malaysian literary geo-body that troubles taxonomies based on citizenship and language in relation to the study of national literary traditions\, and it is through foodways as one of its constitutive symbols where such a geo-body takes shape. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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