Listening to Beckett: Sounds and the Event of Literature
Dr Bobo Wong - The University of Hong Kong Abstract This paper offers a close reading on Beckett’s Watt with special attention paid to its audio qualities in an attempt […]
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Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
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The FRANKENREADS: An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Halloween 2018
Additional Content On October 29, come celebrate Halloween and the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with the School of English and the English Society. The event will take place from 6 to 8 […]
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On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: The Impact of Developmental Funding on Palestinian Drama
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Rashna Darius Nicholson - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/87/Dr%20Rashna%20Darius%20Nicholson) Abstract This presentation offers an outline of the impact of non-governmental and governmental funding on theatre with additional examples […]
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The British Library, Digital Humanities and Your Research
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Anya Adair - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr%20Anya%20Adair) || Dr Luisa Mengoni and Ms Alexandra Ault - The British Library (https://www.bl.uk/people/experts/alexandra-ault) Abstract Scholarly work that is enabled, supported […]
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Iterations of the Microeconomic Mode
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Jane Elliott - King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/english/about/people) Abstract This talk examines what transpires when the economic dynamics of primitive accumulation are transposed into what I call ‘the microeconomic mode’, […]
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Time Public Lecture Series on Health Communication Inaugural Public Lecture: “Ending the Stigma around Mental Health Worldwide”
by Sue Baker OBE (Global Director of Time to Change)
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and its Afterlives
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Daniel Anlezark - The University of Sydney (https://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/daniel-anlezark.html) Abstract According to all available evidence, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was the most widely disseminated vernacular text in early medieval England. The […]
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Cartoons, Creativity, Censorship
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKULarry Feign - Author and Cartoonist (https://larryfeign.com/author.html) Abstract Like most political cartoonists, Larry Feign doesn’t back down from sensitive subjects. His hardheadedness has gotten him fired before – from the […]
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation: Exploring the Work of Atxaga, Kundera and Semprún
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Harriet Hulme - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme)
