Events
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Transnational Adoption Literature: History, Genre, Representation
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. 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 […]
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Writing as spectacle
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. 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 […]
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Radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar and the development of non-deontic be bound to
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Dirk Noël - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/83/Dr%20Dirk%20No%C3%ABl) Abstract Even when both use and cognition are incorporated in its theorizing about grammatical change, research in the budding discipline of […]
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When is consent not consent? Medical Ethics-in-Interaction
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Hannah Shipman - School of English, HKU Abstract Informed consent is held as the ethical and legal bedrock of clinical practice and research involving humans, though there is ongoing […]
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Performing Afro Asian Martial Arts
by Dr. Zachary Price, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Destiny Their Choice: Consent and Subjection in the Eighteenth Century Domestic Novel
by Dr. Brandon Chua (University of Queensland)
