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SUMMARY:Professor Matthew Reynolds - Public Lecture: Translalia: A possible Future for Translation with GenAI
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Matthew Reynolds – Public Lecture\nTranslalia: A possible Future for Translation with GenAI\nDate: Mar 19\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105508\nFor non-HKU members:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105508\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nLarge Language Models (LLMs) are biased\, error-prone\, and bad for the environment; they reinforce the dominance of English and generate large amounts of terrible writing; and they are associated with a simplistic\, functional conception of translation. But they can also represent language variety in unprecedentedly fluid ways\, and enable new kinds of translational creativity that nurture an ethical awareness of difference. I call this potential ‘translalia’: in the talk I will explain what it is\, how it relates to the history of translation\, and why we should all be practising and promoting it. \n ||  \nBiography\nMatthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at Oxford\, where he founded and chairs the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT) and the associated Masters in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation. Some of his books are: the open access Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (2023) which includes interactive digital elements; Prismatic Translation (2019); Translation: A Very Short Introduction (2016); The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011); Likenesses (2013); The Realms of Verse (2001); and the novels Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The World Was All Before Them (2013). He is currently leading a collaborative research investigation into 'AI\, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation' and developing an app to support creative\, ethically reflective translation through language(s) in dialogue with AI tools. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-matthew-reynolds-public-lecture-translalia-a-possible-future-for-translation-with-genai/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321
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SUMMARY:Professor Matthew Reynolds - Workshop: Constraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Matthew Reynolds – Workshop\nConstraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)\nDate: Mar 20\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105510\nFor non-HKU members:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105510\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nVerse form\, narrative voice\, Oulipian lipograms – all are constraints which release creativity through the paradoxical act of confining it. What happens if we impose these or similar constraints on Large Language Models (LLMs)? – and how might this stimulate our own creativity\, in translating/versioning and/or in single-author writing? Please bring a device with which to connect to an LLM\, a text or idea you would like to work with\, and a readiness to explore and share. \n ||  \nBiography\nMatthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at Oxford\, where he founded and chairs the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT) and the associated Masters in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation. Some of his books are: the open access Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (2023) which includes interactive digital elements; Prismatic Translation (2019); Translation: A Very Short Introduction (2016); The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011); Likenesses (2013); The Realms of Verse (2001); and the novels Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The World Was All Before Them (2013). He is currently leading a collaborative research investigation into 'AI\, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation' and developing an app to support creative\, ethically reflective translation through language(s) in dialogue with AI tools. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-matthew-reynolds-workshop-constraints-as-a-route-to-creativity-with-genai-and-in-general/
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
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SUMMARY:Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Are YOU the right candidate?
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English would like to invite you to attend our forthcoming Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Are YOU the right candidate?\n  \nDate: March 25\, 2026 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nSpeakers: Ms. Eva Chau and Ms. Reina Cheng \nIn this interactive talk\, the speakers\, who are experienced HR professionals\, will share their front-line experiences in talent acquisition and offer some tips for you to plan smart in your job searches. More information about the talk and the speakers could be found in the poster attached. \nRegistration with your HKU Student Portal ID is required. Please scan the QR code shown on the attached poster\, or click this link https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105518 to reserve a seat. All HKU students are welcome. \nWe look forward to seeing you at the talk! \n \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/dream-big-plan-smart-series-are-you-the-right-candidate/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Suspended Circulation and the Double Life of Things in Dickens: The Pawnbroker's Shop and the Debtor's Prison
DESCRIPTION:Ben Moore – Assistant Professor\, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/m/o/b.p.moore/b.p.moore.html) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk brings together two contexts prominent in Charles Dickens’s work where the economic circulation of things and people is suspended: the pawnbroker’s shop and the debtors’ prison. Reading these two settings together\, I suggest\, allows us to recognise a homology in the way things (in the case of the former) and people (in the case of the latter) are withdrawn from circulation\, with their existence equated to money in both cases. In a strange modification of Marx’s circuit of capitalist profit\, the commodity character of both people and things is highlighted precisely when they cease to circulate. At the same time\, in texts such as ‘The Pawnbroker’s Shop’ (1835) and Little Dorrit (1855-7)\, affective and symbolic economies continue to operate in the place of inactive or hindered economic ones\, as people and objects come to stand in for or refer to each other even as they are prevented from working or being used. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s understanding of symbol and allegory\, I argue that these two contexts in Dickens’s writing should be read as allegorically referring to one another. \nI position these readings in relation to my wider project\, which argues that the specific spaces in which money operates (or fails to operate) in the nineteenth century shape its cultural and affective entanglements more deeply and thoroughly than has been previously recognised. \n ||  \nBiography\nBen Moore is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research areas include nineteenth-century literature\, cities\, money\, modernity\, childhood and the figure of the human. He is the author of Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity (Edinburgh UP\, 2024) and Human Tissue in the Realist Novel\, 1850–1895 (Palgrave\, 2023). His work has appeared in journals including Victorian Literature and Culture\, Modernism/modernity\, Modern Language Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture\, as well as in various handbooks and edited collections. He is Co-Editor of the Gaskell Journal and Secretary of the Dickens Society.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/suspended-circulation-and-the-double-life-of-things-in-dickens-the-pawnbrokers-shop-and-the-debtors-prison/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328
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SUMMARY:Sheung-King & JeeMin Kim (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Sheung-King & JeeMin Kim – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n     \nSheung-King\, a Canadian-Chinese novelist\, and JeeMin Kim\, a South Korean artist\, join us for the durational performance Displaced Nostalgia: Temporality. In the performance\, time follows JeeMin Kim’s rhythm\, with live writing from Sheung-King\, and audience participation. The audience is welcome to drop in freely to observe and take part at your own pace.   \nThis session is presented with the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. \nDate: March 27\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 10:00am – 5:00pm \nNo registration is required. Come and go as you wish and take part at your own pace — everyone is welcome. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Sheung-King\nSheung-King is a novelist. His novel BATSHIT SEVEN\, published by Penguin Random House\, won the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel\, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked (Book*hug Press\, 2020)\, is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award\, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021\, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by The Globe and Mail. Sheung-King was born in Vancouver and grew up in Hong Kong. \n\nAbout JeeMin Kim\nJeeMin Kim is an artist with a BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design\, an MA in Critical Practice from the Royal College of Art\, London\, and a PhD in Painting from Hong Ik University. Her ongoing research and solo exhibition series\, Prototype Temple\, unfolds within constructed stage-like spaces where forms of various civilisations and ruins are layered together. The project questions the fictive nostalgia produced by Western archaeology and colonial perspectives. Kim’s works have also been featured at Horse Hospital Gallery\, London (2019); Arts Council Korea (2021); Culture Station Seoul 284 and Namsan Library\, Seoul (2023); and KL Museum\, Seoul (2024). \n\nAbout Black Box Writers’ Series\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen \n\nAbout Hong Kong International Literary Festival\n\nThe Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF) inspires the joy of reading by bringing the world’s writers and stories to Hong Kong’s diverse communities. A dynamic year-round programme and an annual festival offer dialogue\, entertainment and perspective\, while the Young Readers Festival motivates students to engage with all aspects of the written word\, improving communication skills\, while nurturing the art of writing and storytelling. The annual festival features established and emerging writers from around the world\, alongside local literary talents\, in a programme that includes panel discussions\, book talks\, readings\, workshops\, walks\, school programmes\, performances\, and more. \nHKILF is a registered charity non-profit organisation championing stories\, words and language in Hong Kong. To find out more\, please visit their official website: https://www.festival.org.hk. \n\nMore information about Sheung-King can be viewed from here. \nMore information about JeeMin Kim can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sheung-king-jeemin-kim-spring-2026/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260403
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SUMMARY:Professor Caroline Bassett - Public Lecture & Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nPublic Lecture\nDate: April 2\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nThe End of Literature? AI and the Future of Writing \n\n\nWhat will AI do to literature? Nobody doubts that Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce text. Indeed\, there are fears of a text-apocalypse\, as bots speak to bots\, humans automate their own writing\, and the processed word proliferates. But what happens to literature\, to literary writing\, and even to literary theory\, in all this? Literature might be simulated perhaps\, but can it be generated anew? Is there even such as thing as AI literature? If so\, how might we taxonomise it\, understand it as distinctive\, or study it? Perhaps we should consider instead what might be termed a post-literature – if so what might this look like? This lecture takes up some of these questions through a re-consideration of creativity\, understood not as a single moment\, or a single work\, but as process generated across what is here termed a new passage of forms. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n ||  \nReading Group\nDate: April 1\, 2026 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: XR Space\, Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nAuthors\, Deadbots\, Science Fiction \n\n\nI research technical media and cultural change – often in relation to specific forms (literature\, visual culture\, media arts)\, but also in relation to theory and method. In this reading group I’ve included some work that looks at different aspects of this. The first reading considers the future of literature in an age of GenAI. The second reading explores the uncanny and the digital afterlife. The third is brief and considers the relationship between fictional and ‘real’ futures. I hope we can use them as a jumping off point to explore some of the themes that interest me\, and that might also be areas you are working on. I’ve included an article on scholarly editing if you have time for some background reading. \nReading List – reading materials will be sent upon successful registration \nKey reading: \n\n‘Contagious Life\, Clones\, Deadbots\, Digital Twins’. Culture Machine. Vol 24. (2025).\n‘Except in Science Fiction? Why you can get there from here’ in Micheal Shamiyeh (eds)\, Practices of Futurecasting. De Gruyter Brill: London.\n				 \n\nOptional reading: \n\n‘The Author\, Poor Bastard’ in Lively et al (eds). The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature. London: Routledge. (2025) 19-26.\n‘The Construct Editor: Tweaking with Jane\, Writing with Ted\, Editing with an AI?’. Textual Cultures. May 2022.\n\n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nCaroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities\, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities\, a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge. She researches medium technologies and cultural change with a focus on critical theory\, gender and technology\, and critical methods. Key book length publications include Anti-Computing (MUP\, 2022)\, a cultural history of automation fever\, Furious (Pluto\, 2020)\, a co-authored work exploring gender\, ambition and future technologies\, and The Arc and the Machine (MUP\, 2014)\, which explored narrative and computation. She is widely published in academic and public fora. Current projects focus on AI and writing\, critical medium theory\, artificial creativity\, future collapse\, and on the politics and aesthetics of refusal. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-caroline-bassett-public-lecture-reading-group/
LOCATION:Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402
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SUMMARY:Press Release: HKU Centre for the Humanities and Medicine Drives Dialogue on Women’s Health and Menopause Support in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Prof Zayts-Spence delivers a keynote speech at the Hong Kong Women Health Symposium. \n\nProf Zayts-Spence (second from right) attends the inauguration of The Hong Kong Menopause Society. \nThe Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) is reinforcing its commitment to advancing women’s health and health communication through key strategic engagements in the local community. Representing the Centre\, Director Professor Olga Zayts-Spence recently participated in two major initiatives: delivering a keynote address at the Hong Kong Women Health Symposium and joining the inaugural council of The Hong Kong Menopause Society (THKMS). \nProfessor Zayts-Spence opened the Symposium with her keynote address\, titled “The Modern Woman’s Health Timeline: From Menarche to Menopause and Beyond.” In her presentation\, she highlighted the importance of women’s health across the lifespan and brought attention to the issue of menopause often being left out of conversations when taking about women’s reproductive health. \nProfessor Zayts-Spence noted the need for robust community support and institutional backing. “The average life expectancy for women in Hong Kong has now risen to 88.7 years. This means that women\, on average\, spend nearly one-third of their lives in menopause and post-menopause\,” she noted. “Therefore\, it is a crucial issue that cannot be overlooked as it ensures women’s continuous participation in social and work lives. Greater attention is needed to this topic.” \nFurther cementing CHM’s role in community health advocacy and knowledge exchange\, Professor Zayts-Spence recently attended the inauguration ceremony of the Hong Kong Menopause Society (THKMS)\, where she has also been appointed as a Council Member. THKMS is a newly established non-profit organisation committed to promoting public education\, advocacy\, and support for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause. The Society was formally inaugurated in the presence of Dr Ronald Lam Man Kin\, Director of Health\, along with THKMS’s founders – Dr Zara Chan Lok\, Dr Rebecca Lau\, and Dr Laurena Law – and other professionals dedicated to advancing menopause care in Hong Kong. \nProfessor Zayts-Spence commented\, “I am honoured to be part of these important initiatives. The inauguration of THKMS marks a significant step forward in supporting women’s health and well-being. As a Council member\, I look forward to working with colleagues to create meaningful resources and opportunities for women\, families\, and healthcare professionals.” \nThe Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) at HKU remains deeply committed to women’s health and health communication. The Centre anticipates future collaborations with THKMS\, supporting initiatives that promote healthcare innovation and empower women. \nAbout the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine\nThe Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) is a pioneering cross-faculty research initiative at the University of Hong Kong\, established jointly by the Faculty of Arts and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. CHM leverages expertise from the humanities\, social sciences\, and medical studies to address complex health challenges through interdisciplinary research and innovation. With a focus on communication\, culture\, and technology\, CHM collaborates internationally and locally to advance strategic themes for instance\, healthy aging\, mental health\, gender and sexuality\, genetics\, and intercultural communication. The Centre works closely with government\, corporates\, and NGOs to foster impactful\, humanistic healthcare. For further information about CHM\, please visit: https://www.chm.hku.hk/. \nMedia enquiries:\nProfessor Olga Zayts-Spence\, Director\, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine\, HKU (Email: zayts@hku.hk)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
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SUMMARY:Professor Carmen Lee - Public Lecture: Aggressive Prescriptivism and Language Policing in Post-Digital Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Carmen Lee – Public Lecture\nAggressive Prescriptivism and Language Policing in Post-Digital Hong Kong\nDate: April 24\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=106211\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=106211\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nPublic discourse about linguistic correctness and norms has been well documented in sociolinguistics. In the post-digital era\, however\, metalinguistic commentary circulates rapidly across platforms and media contexts\, often marked by intense affect of disdain and moral indignation directed not only at individual speakers but also at the social groups they are assumed to represent. This talk draws on digitally-mediated interaction and interview data from Hong Kong to examine “grassroots aggressive prescriptivism”\, the hostile\, emotionally charged ways in which ordinary people discuss\, police\, and condemn the linguistic practices of others. Tracing how such discourse is recontextualized from offline linguistic landscape and media reports to online comment threads and back into everyday life\, this talk demonstrates that the affective dimensions of such metalinguistic discourse are not merely expressive of linguistic prejudice. Mediated through platform affordances and polymedia circulation\, aggressive prescriptivism emerges as a site of engagement through which collective identities in post-digital Hong Kong are discursively constructed\, contested\, and renegotiated. \n ||  \nBiography\nCarmen Lee is Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and co‑Editor‑in‑Chief of the journal Discourse\, Context & Media. Her research focuses on digital discourse\, digital multilingualism\, and online verbal aggression. Her recent publications include the second edition of Language Online (Routledge\, 2026\, with D. Barton) and Doxxing Discourse (CUP\, 2026). Her current projects examine the interplay between online and offline linguistic landscapes. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-carmen-lee-public-lecture-aggressive-prescriptivism-and-language-policing-in-post-digital-hong-kong/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
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SUMMARY:Professor David Huddart - Public Lecture: Plotting Risk: Dread in Lawrence Osborne
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor David Huddart – Public Lecture\nPlotting Risk: Dread in Lawrence Osborne\nDate: April 30\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=106496\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=106496\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nThrough a reading of Lawrence Osborne’s work\, this paper focuses on how the tourist experience frequently turns back on itself: the pursuit of pleasure\, escape\, and elevated self-presentation gives way to anxiety\, paranoia\, and existential dread. Central to the analysis is the latter\, treated not as a fear with a specific object but as an indeterminate atmosphere of forewarning: a “general anxiety” intensified by an inability to locate the source of crisis. In The Glass Kingdom\, dread emerges from the novel’s tightening interconnection of private and public worlds\, where social anonymity is contradicted by architectural transparency\, and where political upheaval and mutual secrecy dissolve assumed boundaries between inside and outside. Dread functions as a narrative analogue to tourism’s screening effects: pleasurable distance obscures exploitation and distrust\, until the mask fractures. Through The Naked Tourist and Bangkok Days\, the paper argues that Osborne builds this dread by staging the tourist gaze as a practice of roles\, surfaces\, and misrecognitions. His accounts of travel and expatriate life cultivate a heightened insecurity: an attentiveness to dislocation experienced as foreknowledge. In these autofictions\, “outside” tourism becomes inseparable from dread\, especially as anxieties associated with political instability and exile intensify the sense that pleasure and familiarity are conditional and reversible. \n ||  \nBiography\nDavid Huddart is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches recreational ecology\, conservation humanities\, and life writing. He served on the Humanities Panel for RAE2020\, and is currently serving for RAE2026. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-david-huddart-public-lecture-plotting-risk-dread-in-lawrence-osborne/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:HKU JUPAS Information Sessions 2026
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nReady to travel with the School of English and explore the infinite worlds of English Studies? Join us at the HKU JUPAS Information Sessions 2026 to learn more! Our staff members and student ambassadors cannot wait to welcome you on board. See you there! \n \nSchool of English Information Booth\n\nDate: May 8\, 2026 (Fri)\nTime: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm\nLocation: 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (HKU Station Exit C1) \nMock Lecture — Global Englishes\n\nDate: May 8\, 2026 (Fri)\nTime: 3:00 – 3:45 pm\nLocation: Room 4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (HKU Station Exit C1)\nSpeaker: Professor Daniel Weston \nClick here or scan the QR code to register for the mock lecture! \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-jupas-information-sessions-2026/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260517
DTSTAMP:20260512T174048Z
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SUMMARY:MFA Showcase 2026  X  Black Box Magazine Issue 2 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nMFA SHOWCASE 2026  X  BLACK BOX MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 LAUNCH \n \nDate and Time: May 16\, 2026 (Saturday)\, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Admission from 2:15 PM) \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nHKU BLACK BOX MAGAZINE \nHong Kong’s arts\, culture\, \nand literary review since 2025 \n  \nIssue 2 Launch \nAs part of the MFA Showcase 2026 \n\nFREE ISSUE 2 COPIES* \nEXCLUSIVE MERCH* \nLIVE PERFORMANCES: SPOKEN WORD\, DRAMA\, DIGITAL ART \nDIALOGUE WITH ESTABLISHED CREATIVES \nPOST-EVENT RECEPTION \n*While supplies last \n  \nPresented by the MFA in Creative Writing in English & HKU Guild \nPublished by the School of English \nEditor: Dr Antony Huen \n  \nEnquiries: blackboxmagazine@hku.hk | mfahku@hku.hk \nFollow us on Instagram: @hkubbm \n  \nNO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mfa-showcase-2026-x-black-box-magazine-issue-2-launch/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260524
DTSTAMP:20260519T122349Z
CREATED:20260519T122349Z
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SUMMARY:The 8th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nPoster\n \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstract of Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel and Poster Sessions
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-8th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTSTAMP:20260527T090229Z
CREATED:20260527T090229Z
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday and Beyond: In Conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett and Ki Kwok
DESCRIPTION:Bloomsday and Beyond: In Conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett and Ki Kwok\n       \nJoin acclaimed writers Claire-Louise Bennett and Ki Kwok for an afternoon of readings\, reflection and conversation inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses and the enduring legacy of Irish literature. Celebrating not only Joyce’s revolutionary work but also the generations of writers shaped by Ireland’s literary tradition\, the event explores how Irish writing travels across languages\, cultures\, and personal histories. Featuring readings from Ulysses and their own works\, Bennett and Kwok will explore the influence of Irish writers on their own creative journeys\, alongside conversations on literature\, identity and their connections to Ireland. \nPresented by the Consulate General of Ireland\, HKU School of English and HKU Guild. \nDate: June 16\, 2026 (Tuesday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=106848\nFor non-HKU members:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=106848\n\n\nAbout Claire-Louise Bennett\nClaire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond (2015)\, Checkout 19 (2021) and Big Kiss\, Bye-Bye (2025). Her work has been shortlisted for a number of prizes\, including the Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Goldsmiths Prize\, and the James Tait Black Award. In 2018 the TLS named her among the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today. \n\nAbout Ki Kwok\nKi Kwok (郭梓祺) is a Hong Kong writer\, educator\, and columnist whose work bridges Chinese literature and Irish studies. He earned a BA in Chinese from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MPhil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin\, where he studied Samuel Beckett’s political aesthetics. His works include Time Difference (2024)\, the award-winning Piling Up the Wind trilogy\, Untuned Songs (2020)\, and A Door (2022)\, and he recently co-founded Typhoonpress with Au Wah Yan. \n\nAbout Bloomsday & Beyond: Celebrating Ireland\, the Island of Writers\nEvery year on 16 June\, Ireland tips its hat\, often literally\, to one of our most iconic literary figures. Bloomsday celebrates James Joyce’s epic tale Ulysses\, which follows Leopold Bloom’s day and night of wandering through Dublin. But it’s also become something more: a tribute to the written word. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/bloomsday-and-beyond-in-conversation-with-claire-louise-bennett-and-ki-kwok/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTSTAMP:20260612T122926Z
CREATED:20260612T122926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260612T122926Z
UID:2850-1782086400-1782172799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:HKU Arts in the Age of AI: JUPAS Engagement Series
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English will be offering a mock lecture in the HKU Arts in the Age of AI: JUPAS Engagement Series. Join us to explore and deepen your interest in English Studies! See you there! \n******************************************\nMock Lecture — Language\, Gender\, and Sexuality\nDate: June 22\, 2026 (Monday)\nTime: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.\nLocation: Room G02\, G/F\, Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (HKU Station Exit C1)\nSpeaker: Dr. Vincent Pak \nRegister here!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-arts-in-the-age-of-ai-jupas-engagement-series/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260719
DTSTAMP:20260630T100952Z
CREATED:20260630T100952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T100952Z
UID:2852-1784332800-1784419199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Visionary Machines -- Literary Studies & Art/Tech Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nIn an age of generative AI\, how can we use digital media to interrogate key aesthetic concepts such as originality and artistic value? Following our call for submissions for the upcoming Visionary Machines exhibition in August\, we are pleased to invite you to a hands-on one-day workshop designed to bridge literary studies\, digital humanities\, and creative technology. \nWhether you are interested in learning more about Romanticism\, picking up new creative skills\, or meeting like-minded collaborators\, this workshop offers a supportive space to experiment and create. No programming or technical background required. \n  \nVisionary Machines: Literary Studies & Art/Tech Workshop  \nDate: 18 July 2026 (Saturday) \nTime: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM \nVenue: HKU Arts Tech Lab \nAdmission: Free and open to all students and members of the public (Light lunch included) \n  \nWorkshop Schedule  \n10:30 | Registration and tea/coffee \n11:00 | Introduction – Romanticism and the Machine (Prof. Tara Lee) \n11:45 | Creative Prototyping with GenAI \n12:30 | Intro to Audio-Reactive Installations \n13:00 | Light lunch (provided) \n13:30 | Time to Create! Work individually or form groups to brainstorm\, draft concepts\, and build rough prototypes of your ideas using digital or traditional media. We will provide a custom "Source Kit" containing high-res public domain images\, guides to key concepts\, and access to generative AI tools to spark your creativity. \n15:30 | Showcase & Reflection \n  \nExhibition  \nAll workshop participants will be invited to submit their completed works or prototypes to our main Visionary Machines Exhibition (27–30 August 2026)\, which features prizes worth up to $2\,000 HKD. \n  \nRegistration Portal:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=107378 \nSeats are limited; please register early to secure your place.  \n  \nEmail us: visma@hku.hk \nFollow us on Instagram: @visionarymachines2026 \nLearn more on our website: https://visionary-machines.github.io/ \n  \nWe look forward to collaborating\, learning\, and creating with you.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/visionary-machines-literary-studies-art-tech-workshop/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260815
DTSTAMP:20260728T120442Z
CREATED:20260728T120442Z
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SUMMARY:Dream Big\, Plan Smart: Navigating English Studies at HKU
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/dream-big-plan-smart-navigating-english-studies-at-hku/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831
DTSTAMP:20260622T170228Z
CREATED:20260622T170228Z
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SUMMARY:Open Call: Visionary Machines: Romanticism & Art/Tech Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Open Call: Visionary Machines: Romanticism & Art/Tech Exhibition\nWe would like to promote Visionary Machines\, an interdisciplinary public engagement project exploring the connections between Romanticism (a literary\, artistic\, and intellectual movement from the late 18th to the mid-19th century) and our contemporary moment. By showcasing the creative responses of students and artists\, we aim to foster a greater understanding of Romanticism’s relevance to present-day concerns around the relationship between humans and technology. \nWe invite students\, researchers\, artists\, technologists\, and interdisciplinary creatives to submit creative works exploring how key ideas from Romanticism (e.g. the sublime\, organic form\, original genius) can be reinterpreted or subverted through digital mediums to help us navigate the ethical\, psychological\, and aesthetic dimensions of our current technological moment. \nA one-day workshop will be additionally held on 18 July (Sat) to kick-off the open call with an introductory talk exploring the exhibition theme\, as well as tutorials on innovative creative tools (more information to follow). \n  \nVisionary Machines: Romanticism & Art/Tech Exhibition  \nExhibition Dates: 27–30 August 2026 \nVenue: HKU Arts Tech Lab \nAdmission: Free and open to the public \n  \nSubmission Guidelines  \nSubmissions may encompass a wide variety of media (e.g. illustration\, creative writing\, creative code\, etc.) provided they can be presented or documented as digital images (single or sequential\, max. 10 images) or as a video/audio file (max. 4 minutes). Other set-ups can also be considered (e.g. XR/AR/VR) on a case-by-case basis. \nSubmission Deadline: 2 August 2026 23:59  \n  \nAwards & Recognition  \nTop Open Prize worth $2\,000 HKD \nFirst Runner-Up Open Prize worth $1\,500 HKD \nTop Student Prize worth $1\,500 HKD \nPlease note: Prizes are restricted to Hong Kong residents. All selected and exhibiting contributors will receive an official Certificate of Participation\, regardless of residency status. \n  \nEmail us: visma@hku.hk \nFollow us on Instagram: @visionarymachines2026 \nLearn more on our website: https://visionary-machines.github.io/ \nSubmit your project: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1HbKYsb6GHI8enY \n  \nWe look forward to receiving your intellectual and creative contributions soon. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/open-call-visionary-machines-romanticism-art-tech-exhibition/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
DTSTAMP:20260827T183827Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Between access and awareness: Machine translation Literacy in migrant workers' daily lives
DESCRIPTION:Seminar: Between access and awareness: Machine translation Literacy in migrant workers’ daily lives\n \n  \nWe are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming seminar\, hosted by the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare and the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at The University of Hong Kong! \n  \nEvent Details: \n\nSpeaker: Professor Narongdej Phanthaphoommee (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia\, Mahidol University)\nTalk Title: “Between access and awareness: Machine translation Literacy in migrant workers' daily lives”\n\nDate: September 2\, 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:00–5:00PM HKT\nLocation: Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\nSign Up Here: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?UEID=109111&ticket=ST-191680-LzcqzqcUIGz90sTXPsWd\n\n\n\n  \nAbstract: \nMachine translation has become part of everyday migrant life in Thailand\, taken up in hospitals\, workplaces and official dealings\, yet used with little instruction in its limits. Two studies from one programme. This report presents two studies from one programme. here. The first was conducted with fifteen Myanmar migrant workers in Bangkok and Samut Sakhon\, whose knowledge of the tool had been gained informally. Reliance upon camera translation was heavy\, recognition errors followed from accent variation\, and privacy risk was largely unrecognised. Five concepts were derived and made into a training programme\, afterwards carried to Mae Sot and delivered to twenty Myanmar teaching assistants at migrant learning centres\, who translate for pupils\, parents and institutions. The finding shows participants having a decision-making process before translation\, trust conditional upon subject matter\, and privacy understood as a duty owed to others. Access to translation\, it may be argued\, is more readily obtained than awareness of what its use entails\, a burden that should not rest upon migrant users alone. \n  \nFor enquiries\, please feel free to email chm1@hku.hk or riich@hku.hk. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/seminar-between-access-and-awareness-machine-translation-literacy-in-migrant-workers-daily-lives/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260903T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260903T173000
DTSTAMP:20260820T190032Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T190032Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Fandom\, Discourse\, and K-Pop Demon Hunters
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Ross – Associate Professor\, University of Canberra (https://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/education/staff/andrew-ross) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk examines an instance where digital fandom operates as a site of participatory meaning-making and collective intimacy through a discourse analysis of comments responding to the YouTube short based on Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters titled Do NOT Interrupt Our Mukbang! Drawing on a corpus of nearly 1\,800 comments\, the study explores how fans collaboratively negotiate humour\, identity\, and cultural knowledge in response to a global popular culture phenomenon. Utilising the concepts of participatory culture\, parasocial interaction\, and interdiscursivity\, the analysis demonstrates how online fandoms blur boundaries between fiction and reality\, animated characters and real-world idols\, and entertainment and everyday life. \n ||  \nBiography\nAndrew Ross is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra\, Australia. His research focuses on the use of (multimodal) critical discourse analysis in social media discourse. His work has appeared in Language & Communication\, New Media & Society\, Communication and Sport\, Poetics\, and World Englishes. His most recent books are Innovations and Challenges in Socia Media Discourse Analysis (2025\, Routledge – with Michele Zappavigna) and Understanding the Language of Virtual Interaction: Communities\, Knowledge and Authority (2025\, Cambridge University Press – with Antonio Reyes). Andrew also serves as Associate Editor for the journal Discourse\, Context & Media. \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nSign up here \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):   https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=109227\nFor non-HKU members:   https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=109227\n\n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/digital-fandom-discourse-and-k-pop-demon-hunters/
LOCATION:Room CRT-4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260910T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260910T173000
DTSTAMP:20260820T190417Z
CREATED:20260820T190417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T190417Z
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SUMMARY:Waking into Newness of Life: Resurrection and Folly in A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Luke – Associate Professor\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Professor_Nicholas_Luke) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nBottom\, the unwitting butt of a cruel\, fantastical fairy prank\, experiences a moment of transcendence that echoes some of the most famous scriptural words about the promises of the hereafter. This talk considers why Shakespeare takes up the key biblical text on the doctrine of resurrection\, Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians\, at this critical point of A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, and what this says about Shakespeare’s approach to imaginative power. It suggests that the mysterious resurrection envisaged by Paul informs both the preposterous change experienced by Bottom (with his ass’s head) and the perspectival shift the play prompts in its audience. The play’s references to both Paul and to Erasmus’s Praise of Folly help us to understand why it is the base and foolish Bottom that opens an imaginative gateway to newness of life. \n ||  \nBiography\nNicholas Luke is an Associate Professor in the School of English at HKU. His work includes Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character (Cambridge\, 2018)\, Shakespeare’s Political Sprit: Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power (Cambridge\, 2024)\, and papers in journals such as Modern Philology\, Shakespeare Survey\, Law and Literature\, and Literature and Theology. He is currently working on a third monograph\, “Resurrection Events in Late Shakespeare” (funded by the UGC)\, which re-examines the vexed question of Shakespeare’s engagement with religion through the idea of resurrection. \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nSign up here \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=10933\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=109334\n\n  \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/waking-into-newness-of-life-resurrection-and-folly-in-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260924T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260924T173000
DTSTAMP:20260820T190903Z
CREATED:20260820T190903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T190903Z
UID:2857-1790265600-1790271000@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Tom Stoppard & Politics
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Adjunct Associate Professor\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nStoppard’s biographer\, Hermione Lee\, writes that he has been “typecast as a wit\, an apolitical entertainer”. I wish to take issue with this view. I will consider first his play Indian Ink (1995) and the politics/ethics of colonialism. Next\, I will look at his treatment of politics/ethics in the Soviet Union & Czechoslovakia in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977)\, Professional Foul (1978)\, Doggs’ Hamlet\, Cahoot’s Macbeth (1979) and Rock N Roll (2006). Finally\, I will consider what he says about politics/ethics and the artist in Travesties (1974) and The Invention of Love (1997). \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy has taught in Hong Kong since 1988. At HKU\, he teaches C20th poetry\, C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland\, the USA\, UK and Germany.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tom-stoppard-politics/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261112T173000
DTSTAMP:20260820T191047Z
CREATED:20260820T191047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T191047Z
UID:2858-1794499200-1794504600@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Book Launch: William Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution\, Originality\, and Organic Form
DESCRIPTION:Tara Lee – Assistant Professor\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/291/Professor_Tara_Lee) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/book-launch-william-blake-and-romantic-biology-evolution-originality-and-organic-form/
LOCATION:Room CRT-4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261119T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261119T173000
DTSTAMP:20260820T191235Z
CREATED:20260820T191235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260820T191235Z
UID:2859-1795104000-1795109400@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The Art of Being There: Marianne North’s Brazilian Journeys in Paint and Prose
DESCRIPTION:Julia Kuehn – Professor\, University of Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.c.kuhn/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-art-of-being-there-marianne-norths-brazilian-journeys-in-paint-and-prose/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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