Dr Yalız Akbaba - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (https://www.schulpaedagogik.uni-mainz.de/yalz-akbaba-m-a/) Abstract German discourses about migrants’ children in schools usually insinuate educational problems, social deviances and cultural incommensurability. Interestingly, this stigma […]
Prof. Ian Duncan - The University of California, Berkeley (https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/21) Abstract The enormous cultural prestige of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory has eclipsed earlier and alternative versions of nineteenth-century evolutionary science, […]
Professor Helen Smith - University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/helen-smith/) Abstract 'What's the matter?', Polonius asks Hamlet. But what exactly does he mean? This paper gets to grips with early modern understandings […]
John Scott Daly - The University of Hong Kong Abstract Using a critical discourse studies approach, here I analyse YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street, a Channel […]
Natalie Mo - The University of Hong Kong Abstract The doppelganger is a recurring character across literary history. Within nineteenth-century British literature, it is most commonly associated with gothic fiction […]
Anneliese Ng - The University of Hong Kong Abstract This talk examines how Elizabeth Gaskell offers an alternative plot for the fallen woman in her 1853 novel Ruth. Gaskell reworks the […]
by Professor Rodney H. Jones (University of Reading)
by Professor Asif Agha ( University of Pennsylvania)
