When Serious is Funny
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Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
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The language of trauma: Evidence from domestic migrant workers’ storytelling
Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Hans Ladegaard - Professor - Hong Kong Polytechnic University (https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-hans-j-ladegaard/) Abstract Trauma 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 […]
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American Iconography of Macedonian Calls: Leung A-Fa’s Conversion to Print Evangelism and the Imperial Crosscurrents of the Canton Mission Press
Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Kendall Johnson - Professor, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/50/Professor_Kendall_Johnson) Abstract As 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 […]
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HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language, mental health, and stigma”
HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language, mental health, and stigma” As 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 […]
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“Kill all the lawyers”: Shakespeare’s (Negative) Political Spirit
Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU (In-person Seminar Only)(Face-to-face only)
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Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022
CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04, Centennial Campus, HKUInformation 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 […]
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Job Opening: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 517267)
Commence on January 1, 2023 for six months.
Applications close: November 30, 2022 (HK Time)
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Travel/Writing: Conservation/Poetics
via Zoom(Virtual Zoom)
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Islanding Hong Kong
Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. 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 […]
