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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221110T163000
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SUMMARY:Islanding Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Otto Heim – Principal Lecturer – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) \nAbstract\nIn 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 to understanding islands “on their own terms”)\, I will try to situate and appreciate it in relation to the sense of islandness that has historically dominated Hong Kong’s development and identity. Whereas the conventional narrative of Hong Kong’s transformation into an island city may have privileged the land/water and island/mainland relationships that conceptually define the space of islands\, I will suggest that these artworks bring into view island-to-island relationships that have typically been overlooked by metropolitan perceptions but are perhaps most significant to the lives of islanders. Noting that Hong Kong’s integration/participation in the Greater Bay Area will be constrained by its traditional role as a regional gateway\, I will try to argue that the islanding imaginations represented in these artworks make important contributions to a hesitantly evolving planning vision that pays attention to Hong Kong’s island geography and vernacular culture. \n ||  \nBiography\nOtto Heim has been teaching English literary studies at the University of Hong Kong since 2001. His interest in island studies evolved from research on indigenous and postcolonial literature and culture in Oceania. He has served on the editorial boards of the Island Studies Journal\, Shima\, and Urban Island Studies and has co-organized several island-themed international conferences at HKU. He is currently the director of the full-time MA in English Studies programme in the School of English. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99179169795?pwd=VU44V2loUHdlZ0UvWXU4b0Q2bEo5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 991 7916 9795\nPassword: 655663
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/islanding-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221103T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221103T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T124430Z
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SUMMARY:Travel/Writing: Conservation/Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Professor Julia Kuehn – Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/46/Professor_Julia_Kuehn) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn the abstract sense\, this paper is about journeys into nature and into the self; journeys into literature and into new ways of thinking about and writing the human-environment relationship. It is about journeys into myth\, idealism and pragmatism and about humanity’s urge to love and to destroy. More specifically\, this paper is about tigers and tiger conservation\, as experienced and envisaged by poet\, novelist\, non-fiction writer and traveller Ruth Padel in her book Tigers in Red Weather (2005). \n ||  \nBiography\nJulia Kuehn is Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are the Victorian novel\, travel writing\, popular culture and critical theory. She has published monographs on Marie Corelli\, on colonial writing (about North Africa\, the Middle East and India) between 1870 and 1920\, and has edited a number of essay collections on the poetics and politics of travel writing. Julia is currently finishing a comparative study of nineteenth-century British and German realisms and has begun work on a new book on geopoetic forms in the travel genre. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94099741667?pwd=eWVXWk5DNlNlYzVQZzYxQTdGWU5UQT09 \nMeeting ID: 940 9974 1667\nPassword: 312777 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/travel-writing-conservation-poetics/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221104
DTSTAMP:20221103T120358Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 517267)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on January 1\, 2023 for six months. \nApplications close: November 30\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-lecturer-assistant-lecturer-in-english-language-and-linguistics-ref-517267/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221030
DTSTAMP:20221018T114207Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022
DESCRIPTION:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022\n \nInformation Counter\n\nTime: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, Centennial Campus (map) \nIf you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes\, come and meet our student ambassadors. \n  \nInformation Talk \n\n\nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator\, School of English \nStudent sharing on academic exchange\nMr. Angus Chan\, English Studies major\, and outgoing exchange student at the University of Oxford in 2021-22 \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Rachel Lee & Ms. Sunniva Yim\, English Studies major \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\, Head\, School of English \nMock lecture in English Linguistics\nDr. Brian King\, Assistant Professor\, School of English \n  \nPhoto Highlights\n\n \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2022/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221020T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T123956Z
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SUMMARY:"Kill all the lawyers": Shakespeare's (Negative) Political Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Luke – Assistant Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \n(Face-to-face only) \nAbstract\nThis talk re-examines the notorious Jack Cade scenes of Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI\, which include the famous rebel cry\, “The first thing we do\, let’s kill all the lawyers”. I will argue that Shakespeare’s representation of the breakdown of the body politic\, including into the chaos of the so-called “mob scenes”\, raises the shadow of a more just political community.  The paper forms part of a larger project that seeks to read Shakespeare’s drama as a negative mode of political thought. It pursues something of a phenomenology of political spirit that looks to the creative potential of experiences of negativity\, failure\, impasse\, disruption\, and dreams. In pursuing Shakespeare’s negative spirit\, the project operates as a counterpoint and corrective to the often positivist way in which scholarship has discussed the intersection of Shakespearean drama and politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nNicholas Luke is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU. Nick’s work focuses on early modern literature\, how we receive it\, and why it still matters. His first book\, Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)\, argues that contemporary criticism fails to do justice to the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s tragic characters and seeks to re-establish the concept of character on new philosophical and theatrical foundations. Nick’s current research re-examines the vexed question of Shakespeare’s engagement with religion through the theme of resurrection. \n(In-person Seminar Only)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/kill-all-the-lawyers-shakespeares-negative-political-spirit/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (In-person Seminar Only)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221014
DTSTAMP:20220928T155339Z
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language\, mental health\, and stigma”
DESCRIPTION:HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language\, mental health\, and stigma”\n \nAs famously announced by the first Director-General of the WHO\, Dr Brock Chisholm\, back in 1951\, “without mental health there can be no true physical health”. Despite these remarks being made more than 70 years ago\, mental health remains to be surrounded by societal taboo and stigma. Mental health has gained a lot more prominence with the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar aims to showcase cutting-edge sociolinguistic research on mental health and stigma. This research centres on the lived experiences of those who go through mental health issues and stigma. The short papers presented in this webinar will focus on how people communicate about and make sense of their mental health experiences and stigma. The webinar will highlight research being conducted in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom in collaboration with Mind Hong Kong\, a mental health NGO\, and City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong\, a workplace mental health organization. Papers will address the topics of mental health and stigma amongst different populations such as end-of-life care workers; new university graduates entering the workforce; working mothers; and mental health ambassadors. It will also discuss media constructions of mental health pre- and post-pandemic. The webinar will consider the implications of sociolinguistic research for challenging our existing understandings of mental health and for developing practical advice for the healthcare and volunteer sectors. \n  \nSpeakers and topics\nDr. Olga Zayts\, HKU RIICH Director\, School of English\, HKU \nMental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19 \nDr. Zoe Fortune\, ‘Mental Health and Communication’ Research Cluster Leader\, HKU RIICH\, HKU \nUnderstanding graduates’ mental health during workplace transitions \nProf. Sylvia Jaworska\, University of Reading\, UK \nMedia constructions of mental health in Hong Kong: What has changed pre and during the pandemic \nDr. David Edmonds\, HKU RIICH\, School of English\, HKU \nSources of adverse emotions and mental health for end-of-life care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic \nMs. Stephanie Ng\, HKU RIICH\, School of English\, HKU \nExploring forms and functions of mental health recovery narratives and their implications for narrator wellbeing  \nDiscussant: Ms. Odile Thiang\, Mind HK Lead Clinical Advisor – Anti-Stigma Programme \n  \nRegistration\nThose who successfully registered will receive an email with Zoom link before the event.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-ic4ch-webinar-speaking-our-minds-studies-of-language-mental-health-and-stigma/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221006T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221006T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T123859Z
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SUMMARY:Triangulating Practice and Discourse in Pick-up Artist Instructional Videos – From Voice-Over to Video Comments
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sofia Rüdiger – Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Chair of English Linguistics – University of Bayreuth\, Germany (https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/sofia-ruediger/index.php) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I investigate the discourse of instructional videos from the pick-up artist (PUA) community. PUAs are men who learn and practice short-term mating-oriented speed-seduction based on techniques and scripts as propagated by seduction ‘experts’. In doing so\, I focus on videos which feature explicit voice-over commentary by the PUA himself plus the comment section of the respective video. This allows for a threefold perspective on PUAs’ seduction performance: 1) the ‘seductive’ speech event itself\, 2) the PUA’s commentary\, which situates the speech event in their instructional paradigm\, and 3) the comments by the viewers of the video\, which provide an understanding of the uptake of the proposed strategies by the audience. In a case study analysis\, I show that PUAs’ discourse\, although ostensibly aimed towards seduction\, in fact pursues different aims: recruitment of new members\, promotion of the ideology\, and creation of power imbalance in conversations with women that tilts towards verbal coercion. The comments left by the audience demonstrate an ambivalent reception\, with the assessment of the PUA being questioned. In addition\, I address issues of informed consent and research ethics\, which come to the fore in dealing with such sensitive material and/or hostile informants. \n ||  \nBiography\nSofia Rüdiger is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Bayreuth with a research focus on digital communication\, World Englishes (part. in East Asia)\, language and food\, and (historical) pragmatics. She is editor of Corpus Approaches to Social Media (with Daria Dayter\, Benjamins\, 2020) and Talking about Food (with Susanne Mühleisen\, Benjamins\, 2020). Together with Daria Dayter\, she has published several articles on the discursive behavior of pick-up artists (e.g.\, in Applied Linguistics Review\, English Today\, Journal of Pragmatics); in 2022\, their research monograph The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry was published by Routledge. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99943621938?pwd=TlhiRWh3L2pJMjQ1WGovT2xPOU9ldz09 \nMeeting ID: 999 4362 1938\nPassword: 966145 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/triangulating-practice-and-discourse-in-pick-up-artist-instructional-videos-from-voice-over-to-video-comments/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T123744Z
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SUMMARY:American Iconography of Macedonian Calls: Leung A-Fa’s Conversion to Print Evangelism and the Imperial Crosscurrents of the Canton Mission Press
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kendall Johnson – Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/50/Professor_Kendall_Johnson) \nAbstract\nAs a printer and distributor of evangelical tracts\, Leung A-Fa captured the imagination of the first US missionaries to China as they established and operated the Canton Mission Press in the decades leading to and through the Opium Wars. The Canton Mission Press was but one station in a global system of print communication administrated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) headquartered in Boston. The lecture considers the representation of Leung A-Fa in the ABCFM’s layered accounts of global print endeavours that stretched from the continental “Far West” to a circuit of printing stations in the “Far East.” His representation registers ideological “crosscurrents” of antebellum US imperialism in iconography of the Macedonian Call—an iconography that invoked trade reciprocity as a moral imperative and the free press as a vehicle of regulating revivalist enthusiasm. \n ||  \nBiography\nAs an interdisciplinary scholar of early American and British literatures\, Prof. Johnson researches material print culture in the historical contexts of commerce and diplomacy. He is the author of Henry James and the Visual (2007) and The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (2017). He has edited and co-edited several collections\, including Oceanic Archives (2019; with Otto Heim and Yuan Shu). His articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies\, American Literary History (ALH)\, American Quarterly\, Literature and History\, and elsewhere. A recent contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature (2022) addresses the affective charge of opium smoking in Emily Hahn’s review of George Santayana’s novel The Last Puritan.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96451929348?pwd=Z3JIZTFHY3pEUlpYZ0FBRTRha01LZz09  \nMeeting ID: 964 5192 9348\nPassword: 012256 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/american-iconography-of-macedonian-calls-leung-a-fas-conversion-to-print-evangelism-and-the-imperial-crosscurrents-of-the-canton-mission-press/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220922T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220922T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T123636Z
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SUMMARY:The language of trauma: Evidence from domestic migrant workers’ storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hans Ladegaard – Professor – Hong Kong Polytechnic University (https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-hans-j-ladegaard/) \nAbstract\nTrauma storytelling represents a break not just with a particular form of representation but with the very possibility of representation at all. Extreme suffering is an experience that goes beyond ‘ordinary’ words\, and since no vocabulary is available to account for extraordinary subhuman experiences\, storytelling which reports on human-inflicted trauma is characterized by voids in the narrative flow. Drawing on a large corpus of more than 400 domestic migrant worker narratives recorded at shelters in Hong Kong and among returnees in Indonesia and the Philippines\, this talk analyzes narratives of suffering and humiliation. The women talk about their painful encounters with verbal and physical assault\, sexual assault\, starvation\, and the fear and anxiety they experienced while working for an abusive employer. The talk outlines some of the characteristics of these stories of suffering\, including a broken disruptive style\, incoherent stories that break with ordinary logic\, and lack of appropriate vocabulary to account for extreme suffering. Finally\, I discuss how we as researchers (should) deal with other people’s stories of suffering. \n ||  \nBiography\nHans Ladegaard studied at the University of Southern Denmark and Cambridge University\, England. Prior to his present post as Professor (and Head until 2021) of the Department of English & Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\, he taught at universities in Denmark and the UK. His research interests include intercultural communication\, language attitudes and stereotypes\, language and gender\, narratives of migration\, and pragmatics and discourse analysis. He is Editor-in-Chief of Language & Intercultural Communication (Routledge). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93659393176?pwd=azB0QnplSHRzOTlQUE5yQjkrYi8vdz09 \nMeeting ID: 936 5939 3176\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-language-of-trauma-evidence-from-domestic-migrant-workers-storytelling/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220915T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220915T180000
DTSTAMP:20220906T123426Z
CREATED:20220906T123426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T123426Z
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SUMMARY:When Serious is Funny
DESCRIPTION:Professor Don Kulick – Chair Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \n*Room CRT-4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower \nAbstract\nLove on the Spectrum is an Australian reality series that follows a number of young adults on the autism spectrum\, as they search for love and go on dates with others who also are on the spectrum. The show ran for two seasons\, in 2019 and 2021\, and was recently also made in a US version. The series was generally well-reviewed both by people who themselves are on the spectrum and by neurotypical viewers. Much of the charm of the series is that it evokes laughter\, frequently at the seriousness of the people it portrays. My talk will explore how the series invites viewers to find the protagonists’ serious behaviour funny. I will compare the laughter raised during Love on the Spectrum with laughter encouraged by British comedian Ricky Gervais’s 2012-2014 series Derek\, which is about a character whom many viewers identified as being on the autism spectrum. I will discuss similarities between the two series\, but will conclude by proposing that the laughter invited by seriousness during these two series in fact is structured very differently. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/2262396829?pwd=WUhyZXc5YUx4TkNjd1VQeUJQeFNTQT09 \nMeeting ID: 226 239 6829\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/when-serious-is-funny/
LOCATION:Room 4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220902
DTSTAMP:20220810T093259Z
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SUMMARY:Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Lunch Choice\n1) \n2) \n3) \n4)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220902
DTSTAMP:20211019T151700Z
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SUMMARY:Test
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/test-2/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220830
DTSTAMP:20220829T183345Z
CREATED:20220829T183345Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 1\, 2022-23
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-1-2022-23/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220818
DTSTAMP:20220721T160303Z
CREATED:20220721T160303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220721T160303Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Major and Minor 2022-23
DESCRIPTION:14:00 – 15:30 (for Second-Year Students)\n16:00 – 17:30 (for First-Year Students)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-major-and-minor-2022-23/
LOCATION:CPD-3.28\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220813
DTSTAMP:20220812T134814Z
CREATED:20220812T134814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220812T134814Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Full-time Post-doctoral Fellow
DESCRIPTION:Commence in September 2022 or thereafter until June 2023 \nApplications close: August 26\, 2022
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-full-time-post-doctoral-fellow/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220713
DTSTAMP:20220712T120149Z
CREATED:20220712T120149Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in the Master of Arts in Creative Communications programme (MACC)(Ref.: 515715)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on September 1\, 2022 for four months. \nApplications close: Aug 5\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-lecturer-assistant-lecturer-in-the-master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-programme-maccref-515715/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220712
DTSTAMP:20220711T112645Z
CREATED:20220711T112645Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Full-time/Part-time Teaching Assistants in The Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)(Ref.: 515692)
DESCRIPTION:commence on September 1\, 2022 for four months \nApplications close: Aug 5\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-full-time-part-time-teaching-assistants-in-the-master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-maccref-515692/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220630
DTSTAMP:20260917T091516Z
CREATED:20220629T160238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091516Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2022-2024 Part-time \nExtended Deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 29\, 2022
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-5/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Funded MPhil Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:A funded MPhil place is offered for a suitable candidate researching. For more information about this MPhil opportunity\, or to discuss possible research topics with Dr. Anya Adair\, please email adair@hku.hk. \nA funded MPhil place is offered for a suitable candidate researching in any of the following fields: \n  \n\nThe History of the Book\nMedieval/Pre-Modern English Literature (c.550-1650)\nMedieval Manuscript Studies\nDigital Humanities (especially as relates to pre-1650 research topics)\nLaw and Literature (especially as relates to pre-1650 research topics)\nHistory of the English Language\n\n  \nThe primary supervisor of this MPhil will be Dr. Anya Adair. As part of this MPhil\, the candidate will assist Dr. Adair with research into the history of the “Ancient Statute” collection (c.1250-1550). These medieval manuscripts contained copies of Magna Carta and other statutes\, and were among the most popular books produced in the medieval period. The candidate will receive training in using and analysing manuscript catalogues\, describing and studying ancient books\, and in the tools of the digital humanities (e.g. database construction and user experience design). \n  \nFor more information about this MPhil opportunity\, or to discuss possible research topics with Dr. Adair\, please email adair@hku.hk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/funded-mphil-opportunity/
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SUMMARY:The 4th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Oral Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Projects\nPlease visit here for the MAES student creative projects. \n ||  \nFarewell video to MAES Class of 2022\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal) \n ||  \nPhotos
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-4th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 513781)
DESCRIPTION:to commence as soon as possible\, on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Jun 12\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-513781/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220428T163000
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Tai – Mphil Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Fang Xuan – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Monirul Huq – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nWhat is Science?’ Discussion from an Integrationist Semiological Perspective\nJoseph Tai\, Mphil Candidate\, School of English\nThe question “what is science?”\, also known as the demarcation problem\, refers to the search for the criterion/criteria that separates science from non-science. However\, by the standards of philosophers of science\, no criteria proposed thus far have been able to definitively separate science from non-science. This talk proposes that the difficulty in solving the demarcation problem has a semiological basis\, and that it may be understood using linguist Roy Harris’ integrational semiology. Specifically\, from the perspective of integrational semiology\, how one understands science (as a thing)\, and by extension\, what activities one considers to be a part of science\, cannot be separated from how science (as a word) is defined. This talk proposes that one’s semiological leanings will affect how one answers the demarcation problem. \n\nFundamentals of Integrationism and Foundations of Meaning\nFang Xuan\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\nFor the seminar\, I will present a cursory outline of the research I have done for my PhD thesis. First\, I will explain the purpose of my thesis\, which is to address the long-standing issue of considering meaning from an integrational perspective: that is\, the discrepancy between the opaqueness of the nature of meaning\, and the transparency of meaning as a phenomenon. Secondly\, I will put forward the findings of my research: 1) that the meaning issue cannot be adequately handled by any semantic\, semiological\, or semiotic approach alone; 2) that every approach presupposes certain philosophical views. Thirdly\, I will discuss my studies of the impactful schools of thought about meaning that have held sway across the western academic tradition and disclose their latent philosophical positions. Finally\, I will delineate my reconstruction of an integrational philosophy and my construction of a corresponding integrational account of meaning.  \n  \nFinding Agency in the Face of Climate Change: Creative Expressions from the Sundarbans and the Pacific\nMonirul Huq\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\nThe Pacific Island states and the lower Bengal delta\, including the Sundarban\, are among the places most affected by planetary climate change. In response to the “slow violence” wrought on these places\, writers and activists hailing from them often resort to oral tradition and performative practices to emphasise the residents’ “environmental identities” and “environmental heritage\,” both connected to the land they inhabit. Acknowledging the essential differences in perceiving and reacting to the Anthropocene\, this paper discusses how creative expressions situate the residents of these two regions in relation to the land to reinforce their identities and to proclaim their agency as climate warriors. Despite the disparities between these practices and the distinct geographical positions of these places\, this paper highlights the way cultural productions from distant regions may complement each other and bring into view a new kind of cosmopolitics oriented toward a common world composed through agency distributed across ecological borders. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95537801179?pwd=cXYwSlh0bzZjSXpBNk5YNWtXZXREdz09 \nMeeting ID:    955 3780 1179\nPassword:      150496 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Project Associate (Ref.: 512643) (to commence as soon as possible for 1 year)
DESCRIPTION:Applicants should be Hong Kong residents and fresh graduates of 2020 and 2021. \nApplications close: May 31\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-project-associate-ref-512643-to-commence-as-soon-as-possible-for-1-year/
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SUMMARY:April's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features an interview with Dr. Hanwool Choe\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, where she delves into her research in food discourse. \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/aprils-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
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SUMMARY:Opium Addiction and Forms of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Menglu Gao – Visiting Assistant Professor\, English Department – Colby College (https://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/mgao/) \nFriday\, 9:30 am \nAbstract\nIn the essayist Thomas De Quincey’s notorious Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)\, the protagonist describes opium’s psychoactive effects as “found[ing] its empire on spells of pleasure.” In this and myriad other nineteenth-century writings\, the encounter between opium and “empire” serves as a significant rhetorical device that sparks questions about the connections among peoples\, nations\, and individual bodies. The seminar is built on a quite obvious premise: substance use was often politicized in the nineteenth century\, in the sense that it could be associated with “abnormal\,” marginalized groups marked by race\, gender\, class\, health status\, or other factors. Starting from this premise of modern individuals’ susceptibility to the power of normalization\, the seminar shows that addiction was a conduit for imagining the structure of empire instead of merely being an actual consequence of imperialism. In particular\, I will focus on one example: how Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) mimics and reflects on the method of imperial knowledge making\, including the way Orientalism and racialization work. \n ||  \nBiography\nMenglu Gao is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Colby College. She is the recipient of prizes and fellowships from\, among others\, the Buffett Institute\, the Midwest Victorian Studies Association\, and the Consortium for History of Science\, Technology and Medicine. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93305162283?pwd=eDc1Ny9aaldIdDVISXVkZXVuaHZpdz09 \nMeeting ID: 933 0516 2283\nPassword: 735745 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/opium-addiction-and-forms-of-empire/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Speaking Otherwise: Feminist Refusal\, Silence\, and Transnational Trauma in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jerrine Tan – Assistant Professor\, Department of English – City University of Hong Kong (https://jerrinetan.squarespace.com/) \nAbstract\nThe assertion of national powers and enforcement of authority in wartime are often inscribed through the enactment of sexual violence on women’s bodies. This talk will read Korean American writer Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life\, which broaches the issue of military “comfort women” —women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII— and their representation (or lack thereof) in Japanese (and global) memory. Analyzing the novel alongside theorists such as Barbara Johnson and Saidiya Hartman\, this talk examines the occlusion of the female voice to consider the impossibility of representation and the disingenuousness of discourse\, in order to offer a way of recuperating a silenced voice. In my larger project\, I draw attention to the figures of female suffering that lie at the center of certain transnational novels to show how these novels are powerful for their ability to make this pain into an allegory for other forms of historical violence while maintaining a feminist focus on the issue of misogyny. \n ||  \nBiography\nJerrine Tan was born and raised in Singapore. She received her BA in English and Economics from UC Berkeley and her MA and PhD in English from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor at City University Hong Kong and previously taught Global Anglophone Literature in the English department at Mount Holyoke College. Her research interests include Transnational Asian Literature and Film\, Contemporary Fiction\, 20th century American Literature\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and Film. Her international approach to research has been supported by various international fellowships\, including the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)\, the Japan Foundation\, Brown University\, and Fudan University. Her academic essays have been published or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Wasafiri\, and the Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro. Her essays have also been featured on popular platforms such as Literary Hub\, WIRED\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Asian American Writers' Workshop. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94328637377?pwd=cnY0eVpaNm5DRmlFaE1UZkRDaitGdz09 \nMeeting ID: 943 2863 7377\nPassword: 735745 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/speaking-otherwise-feminist-refusal-silence-and-transnational-trauma-in-chang-rae-lees-a-gesture-life/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare’s Political Spirit: Towards a Negative Political Theology
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Luke – Assistant Professor – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \nPostponed to September
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-political-spirit-towards-a-negative-political-theology/
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SUMMARY:“The New Economy and the Old Morality”: Wells\, Forster\, and Edwardian Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nan Zhang – Associate Professor – Fudan University (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/116/Dr_Nan_Zhang) \nTuesday \nAbstract\nThis talk examines how the novels of H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster represent the transmutation of British liberalism at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes a strain of liberal thinking that connects to and diverges from the advocacies of both the New Liberalism and Fabian socialism\, reformist doctrines that reshaped the political topography of Edwardian England. Focusing on depictions of “the new economy and the old morality” by both writers\, I argue that Edwardian literature vividly captures the internal complexity and variability of British liberalism in the early twentieth century. The talk extends recent scholarship that calls attention to the affective and ethico-aesthetic dimensions of liberalism. It demonstrates how the mutually informing relationship between Edwardian liberalism and literature enriches our understanding of the subtleties of liberal culture in the twentieth century and beyond. \n ||  \nBiography\nNan Zhang is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Fudan University and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University. She has published a book on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group\, and is currently finishing her second monograph\, “Solemn Progress”: Modernism\, Social Constitution\, and the Politics of Cosmopolitan Virtue\, which explores global modernist negotiations with various forms of cosmopolitan virtue. Her new book project examines the interplay between Edwardian liberalism and literature and its transcultural implications. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Modernist Cultures\, Journal of East-West Thought\, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and currently chair of the Modernist Studies in Asia research network\, and has been awarded international fellowships for her research\, including the 2020 Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at the Australian National University and British Academy Seed Funding in 2019. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91794677602?pwd=ZmJSbndoZVJCUE1QYWJqakxKVGVXQT09 \nMeeting ID: 917 9467 7602\nPassword: 735745 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-new-economy-and-the-old-morality-wells-forster-and-edwardian-liberalism/
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SUMMARY:Don Mee Choi’s Radical Historiographies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet – Postdoctoral Fellow – Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/243/Dr_Claire_Gullander-Drolet)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/don-mee-chois-radical-historiographies/
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SUMMARY:Novel Theory Beyond Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michaela Bronstein – Assistant Professor – Department of English\, Stanford University (https://english.stanford.edu/people/michaela-bronstein) \n9:30 am \nAbstract\nWhy do critics persistently seek the politics of fiction in novels about anything but politics? This talk argues that the novel of politics has been sidelined in theories of the novel because novels about political action foreground the limits of the novel’s ability to treat literary mimesis as a model of representative democracy. Rather than focus on the ways novels represent a more capacious vision of society\, novels of politics foreground a politics of action instead of representation or vision. They ask us to think not of the better world we might desire\, but of the compromised\, difficult means available to get us there. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Michaela Bronstein is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Stanford University. She works on modernism and 20th-century fiction more broadly in American\, British\, and African contexts. Her first book\, Out of Context (Oxford)\, was shortlisted for the MSA first book prize. Articles by her have appeared in Novel\, PMLA\, American Literary History\, the Journal of Modern Literature\, Modern Language Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Her book in progress examines novels about acts of revolutionary violence. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96357063374?pwd=MFhoc3FUL2p0VjNQaHJUT1U0c2l0UT09  \nMeeting ID: 963 5706 3374 \nPassword: 607408 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/novel-theory-beyond-democracy/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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