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  • Retroactive Jokes: Kafka’s Literary Laughter

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Alfie Bown - Hang Seng Management College (https://mst.hsu.edu.hk/en/) Abstract This paper discusses the relationship between literature and laughter, focusing not so much on representations of laughter nor on the […]

  • When I find myself, what did I find, and who did the finding?

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Emeritus Eugene Eoyang - Indiana University Bloomington/Lingnan University (https://comparativeliterature.indiana.edu/people/eoyang.shtml) Abstract The study of the self has prompted many publications in the West in the last generation, but few studies […]

  • Enacted Narratives

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Matias Martinez - Bergische Universität Wuppertal (https://www.ndlmm.uni-wuppertal.de/) Abstract In recent years narratologists have become increasingly aware of ways of telling stories that do not correspond to a narrow definition […]

  • Transnational Adoption Literature: History, Genre, Representation

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Eli Park Sorensen - The Chinese University of Hong Kong (http://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/?page_id=1831) Abstract Since the Korean War (1950-1953), over half a million non-western children have been sent to western countries […]

  • Writing as spectacle

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Adam Jaworski - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor%20Adam%20Jaworski) Abstract This talk is a preliminary, work-in-progress inquiry into the idea of writing as ‘spectacle’. I will discuss several examples of […]