“The rights they claim over our bodies”: Intersex experience and biomedical regimes of the normal
by Dr. Brian W. King (City University of Hong Kong)
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An Introduction to Theatre: History and Practice
Wednesdays: October 4, 11, 25, November 1, 8; Fridays: October 6, 13, 27, November 3, 10
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What’s behind variation with (A) LOT (OF)? A view from World Englishes
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Marianne Hundt - English Department, University of Zurich (https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/Subsites/Personal/mhundt.html) Abstract In English, lot is used in the complex quantifier a lot of (as in a lot of fun) and as a degree adverb (e.g. a […]
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“Cousin, I am too young”: Age and Royalty in Shakespeare’s Richard II
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Rudolph Glitz - Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/l/r.w.h.glitz/r.w.h.glitz.html) Abstract Shakespeare’s second history tetralogy has long been recognised as centring round Prince Hal’s legendary coming of age. In […]
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Arts and the Language of Recovery
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Paul Crawford - School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/paul.crawford) Abstract In this talk, Professor Crawford will report on a key strand of his £1.5m Creative Practice as […]
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“Silas Mullett His Book His Hand & Pen”: an unpublished MS song & ballad collection from 1806
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Simon Alderson - Cygnet Communications Ltd (https://www.cygnet.com.hk/about.html) Abstract For a number of reasons, the English ballad and popular song have always stood in an uncomfortable relationship with traditional literary […]
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‘Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Room CRT-7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Miles Link - Department of English, Fudan University Abstract After Adam and Eve’s temptation in John Milton’s biblical epic Paradise Lost, the Earth is drastically altered to reflect humans’ fallen […]
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A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets – Hardy, Field, Meynell, Kipling
Room CRT-7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Isobel Armstrong - Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) Abstract Generally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets, mainly male, in critical discussion, I […]
