Events

Moonyoung Hong - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/267/Dr_Moonyoung_Hong) Abstract This talk examines representations of Asia and Asian characters in contemporary Irish writing, drawing on the discourse on Orientalism and other postcolonial theories. Orientalism in Irish studies has undergone multiple phases: from the Celtic-Oriental ties that stressed cross-colonial identification with Eastern countries as a way to […]

(Virtual Zoom)

Chloe Leung - The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/271/Dr_Chloe_Leung) Abstract ‘Illness’ has been discussed in British literary modernism almost exclusively in the medical sense of the word. Especially concerning authors who battled with chronic illnesses, criticism tends to narrowly circumscribe the epistemology of illness by quoting biography and medical history while bypassing other […]

(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, […]