Events

(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am, Friday

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Friday

(Virtual Zoom)

Tara Lee - The University of Hong Kong (https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/tara-lee) Abstract What do we do with Blake's abandoned manuscript poem, The Four Zoas? Left unfinished with its various revisions, deletions, and insertions, assembled into a heterogenous bundle of nearly 150 sheets with two versions of chapter seven left extant, the manuscript poem has long confounded and […]

Sinead Kwok - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/167/Dr_Man_Ka_Sinead_Kwok) Abstract A comprehensive way of formulating linguistics is to see it as a textualizing enterprise. This is to say that linguistics is created by humans’ continuous engagement in written communication, and thus, in textualization – the creation of texts, via the human production of written signs, […]

Brian King - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) Abstract This study uses metapragmatic discourse analysis (i.e. analysis of talk about language use) to mitigate the appropriation of Southern ideas by the Global North, treating interviewees as collaborators who analyse language and bring their knowledge into dialogue with the researcher’s knowledge. The data is drawn […]

(Virtual Zoom)

Luisa Wan - MPhil Candidate - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Anneliese Ng - PhD Candidate - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Rowena Kwan - PhD Candidate - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) Abstract Queer poiesis: Reversing the other in Why Karen Carpenter Matters Luisa Wan, MPhill Candidate, School of English, The […]