Events
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Feeling One’s Self: Onania and Eighteenth-Century Networks of Desire
by Dr. Leah Benedict (Washington State University)
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“Would it Get Some Wind for the Sailboat”: Christopher Knowles and Robert Wilson, Toward a Theatre of Neurological Difference
by Dr. Leon Hilton (University of Pennsylvania)
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Articulating Alternative Cultural Identities: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Theatre Praxis in Singapore
by Dr. Lim Wah Guan (Bard College)
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Map-able: The Turn to the Map in Contemporary Fiction and Culture
by Dr. Elizabeth Ho (Lingnan University)
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The HKU Black Box presents: Hansel & Gretel
24, 25 February, 3, 4, March, 2017
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An American Ancestor: Minor Settler Belonging in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Hawai’i One Summer
by Dr. Huang Yu Ting (Amherst College)
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Migration, Hyperlocality and the Politics of Dislocation
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Saskia Witteborn - The Chinese University of Hong Kong (http://www.com.cuhk.edu.hk/en-GB/people/teaching-staff/witteborn-saskia) Abstract How does the local become mobile? This central question shifts conventional discussions about migration and the Other as […]
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“Solemn Progress”: Woolf, Burke, and the Negotiation of Virtue
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Nan Zhang - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/116/Dr%20Nan%20Zhang) Abstract This talk analyzes Virginia Woolf’s exploration of a public spirit exceeding both bourgeois egotism and narrow patriotic allegiances prescribed by […]
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From Iowa City to Kowloon City: The Cold War Origins of Hong Kong’s First Creative Writing Workshop
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUMr James Shea - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract This talk explores the development of Hong Kong poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the prism of […]
