The HKU Black Box presents: Hansel & Gretel
24, 25 February, 3, 4, March, 2017
10 events found.
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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 […]
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Addressing, Re-accenting, and Othering Utterances on WeChat: A Bakhtinian Analysis
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Todd L. Sandel - University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract WeChat is a popular social media application developed in China and designed for the mobile phone. Users may send and […]
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School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar A Lawful Magic: A New World of Precedent in Mabo No 2 and Shakespeare’s Late Plays
by Dr. Nicholas Ian Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
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The arrival of Oceania: ending extractivism, politics of enactment, and Pacific Island representations of a good life
Dr Otto Heim - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) Abstract This paper is concerned with what Rob Nixon identifies as the representational challenges and imaginative dilemmas posed by slow violence, […]
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School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar Changing Meaning, Moving Text, and the Authority of Early English Legal Codes
by Ms. Anya Adair (The University of Sydney)
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Gass – Tolstoy – Marx – Beethoven: A Retroactive Decryption of “Cartesian Sonata”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Ivan Delazari - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://buhk.me/category/ivan-delazari/) Abstract “Cartesian Sonata” (1998), a novella by William H. Gass (b. 1924), is assembled of three sections, which were previously published […]
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‘In sha’Allah, Masha’Allah, Hopefully no martial law’: the disciplining of transnationalism and the attempted self-legitimisation of the so-called Islamic State
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUMr Aaron Anfinson - School of English, HKU Abstract Since 2001, Muslim minority communities have been subjected to disproportionate disciplinary State power, surveillance and legislation. Through the identity politics of […]
