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  • Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022

    CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022 Information Counter Time: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Venue: CPD-LG.07, Centennial Campus (map) If you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes, come and meet our student ambassadors.   Information Talk Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Venue: CPD-3.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus […]

  • Islanding Hong Kong

    Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Otto Heim - Principal Lecturer - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) Abstract In this talk I will show and discuss a selection of recent work by Hong Kong artists (ink, photography, video, installation) that captures Hong Kong’s shifting island environment and experience. Approaching this work from an island studies perspective (an interdisciplinary approach […]

  • HKU Bulletin November 2022 issue

    Consuming Interests - Dr Hanwool Choe

    A study reveals that digital discourse about and involving food – including mukbang (livestreamed eating) and everyday vlogging – serves as a means of realising the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well.

  • School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session

    Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Emily Nicholls - PhD Candidate - School of English, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Firoz Ahsan - PhD Candidate - School of English, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) Abstract Elsinore’s Absent Jesters: Hamlet’s Neurodiverse Resonance Emily Nicholls, PhD Candidate, School of English, The University of Hong Kong ‘The Neurodiversity Paradigm’ challenges the dominant pathology […]

  • Examining language loss through an ecolinguistic lens: The case of Hakka in Hong Kong

    Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Sherman Lee - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/281/Dr_Sherman_Lee) Abstract This talk will examine language loss and language endangerment from an ecolinguistic perspective, an approach which emphasises the interrelationships between a language, its speakers, and their sociocultural and natural environment. I focus on the situation of Hakka, a Chinese fangyan ('dialect group') widely used in […]