Events

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 […]

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 […]