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  • Selfish matter: William Blake and eighteenth-century sciences of the mind

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

    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 […]

  • Linguistics, writing and textualization: A semiological review

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

    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, […]

  • Debilitating to capacitate: Discourses of innate sex characteristics in Hong Kong hospitals

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

    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 […]

  • School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session

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

    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 […]

  • HKU RIICH Seminar – Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care

    via Zoom

    HKU RIICH Seminar - Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care PROFESSOR ALISON PILNICK UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM DATE: 04 MAY 2023   TIME: 2:00PM (HKT)   HYBRID EVENT IN-PERSON VENUE: 745, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong ZOOM LINK: https://hku.zoom.us/J/97834037231?PWD=REPFM0Z6QZFVWUT4ME84CWNLS1JSZZ09 Meeting ID: 978 3403 7231 Password: 739037 ABSTRACT The […]

  • The 5th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference

    Poster || Conference Programme Please download below, Programme Booklet Abstracts of Oral Presentations Schedule of Parallel Sessions || MAES Student Creative Projects Please visit here for the MAES student creative projects and watch the video here. || Farewell video to MAES Class of 2023 Please watch here. (only access with HKU portal) || Photos || Campus Map