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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220406
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Post-doctoral Fellow (Ref.: 512190)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on June 30\, 2022 for one year\, with the possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability. \nApplications close: May 20\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-post-doctoral-fellow-ref-512190/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220331T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220331T180000
DTSTAMP:20220131T114902Z
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SUMMARY:Migration Discourses and Nostalgia
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Charlotte Taylor – Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (English) – School of Media\, Arts and Humanities\, University of Sussex (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I discuss the presence and role of nostalgia in contemporary discourses of migration in the UK. I start by examining nostalgia in immigration discourses and take the case-study of the Windrush generation to illustrate how we can empirically test for nostalgia in current representations by focussing on a single linguistic feature: metaphor. Through this analysis\, narratives such as the warm history of welcome are reconsidered as recurring rhetorical devices that legitimate hostility. In the second phase\, I focus on nostalgia around emigration from the UK\, identifying mismatches in how movement from the UK has been framed at different points in time\, including the erasure of forced mobility. I argue that nostalgia around past mobility is integral to the maintenance of hostile discourses of immigration because it backgrounds and elides shared experiences of migration between so-called static and mobile populations. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Charlotte Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and conflict using the methodologies of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse (with Anna Marchi)\, Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse (with Melani Schroeter)\, Mock Politeness in English and Italian\, and Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97904392360?pwd=MlRVQTZiT3JwOXgrRTFJNmZ1VnBudz09  \nMeeting ID: 979 0439 2360 \nPassword: 429877 \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/migration-discourses-and-nostalgia/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220324T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220324T180000
DTSTAMP:20220131T114801Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Conviction on the 18th Century Stage: Representing Confessional Commitment in an age of Toleration
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brandon Chua – Assistant Professor of English – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/85/Dr_Brandon_Chua) \nAbstract\nRecent studies of the British Enlightenment have turned to a site of cultural production traditionally overlooked in Enlightenment scholarship: the playhouses of Eighteenth Century London. This work-in-progress paper takes up this revisionist inquiry of Georgian theatrical entertainment by exploring the ways in which the medium of Georgian theatre was uniquely positioned to tackle one of the central quandaries posed by Enlightenment sociability: the contested place of religious conviction within a state established on principles of religious diversity. I take as a case study a body of early Hanoverian drama centred around plots of inter-faith marriage\, paying particular attention to the ways in which Georgian theatre contributed to debates about toleration by asking what new forms of gendered and sexual identities were attendant in a public landscape reconstituted by the imperatives of confessional pluralism. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Brandon Chua gained his PhD in English Literature from The University of Melbourne. He specialises in British Literature written in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries\, with a particular focus on the ways in which literary texts from this period explore the relationship between liberty and subjection. His recent monograph Ravishment of Reason: Government and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage (Bucknell University Press\, 2014) concentrates on dramatic texts by William Davenant\, John Dryden\, Aphra Behn\, Nathaniel Lee\, and John Crowne\, and demonstrates how emerging understandings of the human body and its affective drives generate new dramatic visions of sovereignty and subjection in the later seventeenth century. His new research project\, funded by the Research Grants Council’s Early Career Scheme\, studies early modern understandings of diversity in the context of religious schism and conflict. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99644367646?pwd=ZkVCNG96ZU5GamNDd2VZeHlvT0crdz09  \nMeeting ID: 996 4436 7646 \nPassword: 585447  \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/religious-conviction-on-the-18th-century-stage-representing-confessional-commitment-in-an-age-of-toleration/
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene Storytelling: Homecoming or Far from Home?
DESCRIPTION:Professor David Farrier – Professor of Literature and the Environment – School of Literature\, Languages and Culture\, The University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-farrier) \nAbstract\nThe collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—forecast to occur before the end of the decade—could raise global sea level by three metres. The grounding line\, eroded by currents of warm water\, is arguable the most important place on Earth right now\, yet it lies two kilometres beneath the ice’s surface and thousands of kilometres from the nearest human settlement. Thwaites shows that in Anthropocene stories\, the background is often the most critical location. Drawing on recent trends in environmental literature to bring the background to the foreground\, and focusing in particular on Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun (2021)\, I will explore the challenges of telling Anthropocene stories.  \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor David Farrier is the author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020) and Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time\, Sacrifice Zones\, and Extinction (2019). He teaches at the University of Edinburgh. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97624487782?pwd=MlZkOGk2NldxUGl5MW0xMm9UV2dxUT09  \nMeeting ID: 976 2448 7782 \nPassword: 110980  \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/anthropocene-storytelling-homecoming-or-far-from-home/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220317
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DTSTAMP:20220321T114800Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Research Assistant I/II (2 posts) (Ref.: 512187)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on June 30\, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter for 1 year. \nApplications close: May 20\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-research-assistant-i-ii-2-posts-ref-512187/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Between Abjection and Refusal: Yellow Feminism in The Bacchus Lady
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jerrine Tan – Assistant Professor – Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jerrine-eewen-tan(d1550de2-49b0-46e9-9efe-5f7eb53cf603).html) \nAbstract\nAnne Cheng notes in Ornamentalism that\, “We say black women\, brown women\, white women\, but not yellow women.” Cheng's statement\, which is as much an indictment as an observation\, serves as my starting point in asking: what does a yellow feminism look like? In attempting to craft one possible way of thinking about "yellow feminism\," and in beginning to build an archive for how we might examine and define it\, I turn to E J-yong’s 2016 film\, The Bacchus Lady\, about an elderly sex worker who comes to care for a Korean-Filippino (known as Kopino) child. Reading The Bacchus Lady alongside Bonnie Honig’s study of the Bacchae in her latest book\, A Feminist Theory of Refusal\, I adumbrate one form of radical yellow feminism\, rooted in a historically\, culturally\, and politically South Korean experience and practice. I argue that E J-yong’s film demonstrates its feminist commitments by crafting a complex woman heroine who embodies a radical politics of care in the face of cruel late-stage capitalism\, models a radical queer communitarian politics\, and\, finally\, self-reflexively takes to task not only the male director but also the voyeuristic viewer. \n ||  \nBiography\nJerrine Tan is an Assistant Professor in the English department at City University Hong Kong. She received her PhD from Brown University and was previously Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Her scholarly and public writing have been published or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro\, Lit Hub\, WIRED\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Asian American Writers' Workshop\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Post45. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91514525076?pwd=UXJpY3l2QldIVFBSUFVwdGVTb25Xdz09 \nMeeting ID: 915 1452 5076\nPassword: 533678 \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/between-abjection-and-refusal-yellow-feminism-in-the-bacchus-lady/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Job Opening:  Lecturer in English Literary Studies (Ref.: 511843)
DESCRIPTION:commence on September 1\, 2022 for ten months \nApplications close: Mar 31\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-lecturer-in-english-literary-studies-ref-511843/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 511841)
DESCRIPTION:commence on September 1\, 2022 for ten months \nApplications close: Mar 31\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-lecturer-in-english-language-and-linguistics-ref-511841/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220128
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SUMMARY:January's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro\nby WU Tong \nInterview with Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet\nby Khadija Azhar\, Lok Hang Vincent Chu\, and Rajesh Panhathodi
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/januarys-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220128
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Project Associate (Ref.: 511737) (to commence as soon as possible for 1 year)
DESCRIPTION:Applicants should be Hong Kong residents and fresh graduates. \nApplications close: Feb 28\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-project-associate-ref-511737-to-commence-as-soon-as-possible-for-1-year/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
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SUMMARY:Orchestrated Openings:  Establishing Intimacy-at-a-distance in Video Calls between  Left-behind Children and Their Migrant Parents
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nOrchestrated Openings:  Establishing Intimacy-at-a-distance in Video Calls between  Left-behind Children and Their Migrant Parents\nDr. Christian Greiffenhagen\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \n  \nJanuary 27\, 2022 (Thursday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time)\nRoom 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nWith live broadcast on Zoom: \nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/96795658643?pwd=dmFrK3R2MUsvZ3hUQkNOYXl2dytIdz09 \nMeeting ID: 967 9565 8643\nPassword: 223131 \n  \nAbstract\nOpenings of interaction are critical for maintaining social relationships. In this work with Yumei Gan (Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Christian Licoppe (Télécom ParisTech)\, I explore the practices of managing openings in a situation where parents are separated from their children and they only encounter each other in a video-mediated environment. As a result of this\, these openings have a particular emotional significance. Based on detailed analysis of 56 video calls openings between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children\, we show that grandparents\, who are the caregivers of these children\, ‘orchestrate’ these openings. We demonstrate\, firstly\, that grandparents help to establish a parent-child ‘talking head’ configuration upon connection. We show\, secondly\, that after the establishment of mutual talking head\, both grandparents and parents expect the child to treat the production of this video-mediated configuration as sequentially implicative\, that is to speak and greet first\, and to greet largely. Our findings suggest that such orchestrated openings are an important component in the enactment of family bonding and intimacy across distances. \nBiography\nChristian Greiffenhagen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, where he leads the Video Analysis\, Science & Technology (VAST) Research Group. His research interests include conversation analysis (CA)\, video-mediated communication (VMC)\, human-computer interaction (HCI)\, and science & technology studies (STS). Current research projects are “The Practice of Peer Review in Mathematics” (GRF 14600218)\, which investigates the disciplinary specificity of peer review; and “Intimacy at a Distance: A Video-based Study of Video Calls between Migrant Workers and their Left-behind Children in China” (GRF 14602619)\, which studies the role of video calls in facilitating intimacy in multi-local families. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/orchestrated-openings-establishing-intimacy-at-a-distance-in-video-calls-between-left-behind-children-and-their-migrant-parents/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220126
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SUMMARY:Signs of the Time: Access\, Inclusion\, and Social Justice in Covid-19 Linguistic Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Hopkyns\nAssistant Professor\, College of Education\, Zayed University\, United Arab Emirates \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSigns of the Time: Access\, Inclusion\, and Social Justice in Covid-19 Linguistic Landscapes\nDr. Sarah Hopkyns\nAssistant Professor\, College of Education\, Zayed University\, United Arab Emirates \n  \nJanuary 25\, 2022 (Tuesday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nOn Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91720519424?pwd=K3VaZktKaE1LUnZtZStoY3pCNGZvUT09 \nMeeting ID: 917 2051 9424\nPassword: 082175 \nWith live broadcast in Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nAbstract\nAs the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year\, with the Omicron variant in full swing\, there is an ongoing need to reflect on language practices in multilingual contexts. Covid-induced disruptions to habituated social practices and familiarized communication patterns have shone a spotlight on linguistic diversity and issues of access\, inclusion\, and social justice. Linguistic hierarchies and power relations can be revealed through inclusion and exclusion of certain languages on public signage\, and especially locally produced impromptu messages are authentic ‘signs of the time’ (Kalman 2020). In a crisis\, often only official languages and English are used by default for communicating health warnings. The exclusion of peripheral languages from crisis communication\, known as ‘disaster linguicism’ (Uekusa\, 2019)\, has been found in multiple contexts globally. \nThis presentation shares findings from a linguistic landscaping study taking place in the multilingual city of Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the onset of the pandemic. Although the UAE has Arabic as its official language and English as a de facto lingua franca\, over 100 other languages are spoken in the nation due to transnational workers constituting approximately 89 per cent of the population. In the study\, two Abu Dhabi live-work contexts (a beachside community and an industrial site) were explored through ‘walking ethnographies’ with an analysis of a corpus of 326 top-down and bottom-up signs.  Through nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon\, 2003)\, language\, images\, spacing\, prominence\, and location were analysed as well as intended audience and sociolinguistic implications. Key findings revealed mainly monolingual (English only) bottom-up Covid signage together with predominately bilingual (Arabic and English) top-down Covid signage. Although symbols aided understanding\, little inclusion of periphery languages could be seen. The findings shed light on existing inequalities in linguistically diverse contexts\, and the need to ensure access to information for all at a street level. The presentation concludes with future directions for Covid linguistic landscaping research and provides practical suggestions for greater linguistic inclusion in the Covid period and beyond. \nBiography\nSarah Hopkyns is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zayed University\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester\, UK. Her research interests include cultural identities\, language policy\, translingual practice\, linguistic landscaping\, and English as a global language. She has published widely in journals such as Asian Englishes\, Multilingua\, Policy Futures in Education\, and World Englishes\, and has contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes. Sarah is the author of The Impact of Global English on Cultural Identities in the United Arab Emirates (Routledge\, 2020) and co-editor of a forthcoming Routledge book: Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States: Waves of Change. \n  \nKalman\, J. (2020). Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City. Language on the Move\, 2020-05-14. https://www.languageonthemove.com/signs-of-the-times-small-media-during-covid-19-in-mexico-city/.\nScollon\, R.\, & Scollon\, S. W. (2003). Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World. London: Routledge.\nUekusa\, S. (2019). Disaster linguicism: Linguistics minorities in disasters. Language and Society 48(3). 353-375. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/signs-of-the-time-access-inclusion-and-social-justice-in-covid-19-linguistic-landscapes/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220125
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SUMMARY:How We Eat Online
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hanwool Choe\nPostdoctoral Fellow\, Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, HKU \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nHow We Eat Online\nDr. Hanwool Choe\nPostdoctoral Fellow\, Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, HKU \n  \nJanuary 24\, 2022 (Monday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time)\nRoom 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nWith live broadcast on Zoom:\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/96628570157?pwd=VVFnUkE5YWgzNlJpcUhxbW52UU1KZz09 \nMeeting ID: 966 2857 0157\nPassword: 638644 \n  \nAbstract\nUsing interactional sociolinguistics and multimodality\, I investigate how practices of eating together and eating well are discursively and multimodally performed in two different online settings: eating together in mukbang (livestream of eating) and eating well in Korean expatriates’ everyday vlogs (video blogs of everyday lives). To accomplish online commensality\, mukbang participants make collaborative eating actions by incorporating spoken\, typed\, and bodily actions. Such collaborative eating actions contribute to framing mukbang as a shared mealtime\, while also constructing a virtual sense of togetherness. Just as mukbang provides an online space to eat together\, everyday vlogs provide a platform for vloggers to share how they eat well\, which is more than just healthful or luxurious eating styles. Rather\, it resonates with the ordinariness of what and how to eat in daily lives. The practice of eating well is also tightly linked to everyday identities of vloggers such as Koreans\, foreign nationals\, and local selves. Through highlighting how technologies connect food and eating practice to digital discourse\, my talk provides a better understanding of how digital communication about and involving food embodies the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well. \nBiography\nHanwool Choe is currently a postdoctoral fellow for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics\, with a specialization in Sociolinguistics\, at Georgetown University. Prior to her Ph.D.\, she was a recipient of a Fulbright Graduate Study Award for her M.A. in Language & Communication at Georgetown University. She is a discourse analyst who primarily focuses on digital discourse\, multimodal interaction\, language and food\, and life stories. Her works have appeared in journals such as Language in Society\, Journal of Pragmatics\, Discourse Studies\, and Narrative Inquiry. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/how-we-eat-online/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220114
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates and Teaching Mode (January 17-31) for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2 2021-22
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the teaching arrangement from January 17-31 ONLY. Please keep checking the course Moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-and-teaching-mode-january-17-31-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2021-22/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211223
DTSTAMP:20211222T150535Z
CREATED:20211222T150535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T150535Z
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SUMMARY:December's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne\nby Khadija Azhar\, Lok Hang Vincent Chu\, and Rajesh Panhathodi
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/decembers-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211212
DTSTAMP:20211206T113216Z
CREATED:20211206T113216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T113216Z
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SUMMARY:Exodus and Exile
DESCRIPTION:Migrants\, Refugees\, Asylum Seekers and the Problem of Slavery in the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds\, 1750-1850
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exodus-and-exile/
LOCATION:Chicago / Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211207
DTSTAMP:20260917T091508Z
CREATED:20211206T115840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091508Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2022-2023 Full-time / 2022-2024 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 25\, 2022
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-4/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211125T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211125T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103801Z
CREATED:20210923T103801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T103801Z
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing English(es): which statues must fall and why?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mario Saraceni – Reader in English Language & Linguistics\, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics – University of Portsmouth (https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/mario-saraceni) \nAbstract\nDebates are being held about decolonization and on how to deal with anything associated with Empire and its violence\, from what is very visible – e.g.\, urban landscapes\, museums – to what is less visible\, e.g.\, the curriculum. The approach to visible imperial markers is essentially one of removal: statues of slave traders\, stolen artefacts\, etc. The approach to the decolonization of the curriculum is more complex as it involves dynamics of knowledge production/diffusion\, the dominance of a certain view of the world and the suppression of others. As knowledge and worldviews are expressed largely through language\, and as English is currently the most dominant language\, it makes sense to discuss ways in which English itself can/should be decolonized. And this is what I do in this talk. Given that the status of English as a ‘global’ language is deeply embedded in Empire\, oppression\, suppression and inequality\, the questions that I ask are: what does it mean to decolonize English? How has it been done so far? What else can be done? My answers will not be definite\, but they will offer food for thought. \n ||  \nBiography\nMario Saraceni is a Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth\, UK. He previously taught at Assumption University in Bangkok\, Thailand. His main academic interest is in the area of the ideologies\, representations and roles of English in the world. He has worked extensively in this field\, and his publications include The Relocation of English (Palgrave\, 2010) and World Englishes: A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury\, 2015\, winner of the 2016 BAAL Book Prize). He has recently edited the Bloomsbury World Englishes three-volume series: Paradigms\, Ideologies\, Pedagogies.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91471164097?pwd=VmdFVnBZUnhXL0VZWjQ3WWZVNGNtUT09 \nMeeting ID: 914 7116 4097\nPassword: 383261 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/decolonizing-englishes-which-statues-must-fall-and-why/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211122T152748Z
CREATED:20211122T152748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211122T152748Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies
DESCRIPTION:Applications close: Mar 15\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-associate-professor-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211111T093942Z
CREATED:20211111T093942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211111T093942Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the Near Occasion:
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Don Mee Choi\, and Feminist Translation as Historiographic Practice \n  \nby Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-the-near-occasion/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 4.04\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211118T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103703Z
CREATED:20210923T103703Z
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SUMMARY:Stella Benson\, Transnational Crossing\, and the Unconsoled
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Klaudia Lee – Associate Professor\, Department of English – City University of Hong Kong (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/hiuylee.htm) \nAbstract\nIn the opening of the chapter titled 'Manila – Macao – Hongkong' in her travelogue-memoir The Little World (1925)\, British writer Stella Benson (1892–1933) writes that there are 'three ways of occupying an alien place – first\, to absorb; second\, to be absorbed; third\, neither to absorb nor to be absorbed' (42). This observation undoubtedly relates to her own journeys and experiences in various parts of the world including America\, China\, Japan\, the West Indies\, and Hong Kong (first as a young lady wanting to explore the world\, then as the wife of a colonial official who resided in Asia). In this talk\, I will explore Benson's poetics of mobility. \nBenson has long been marginalized in the literary history of a period that has until recently been dominated and defined by a few high-profile modernist writers\, including Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)\, whom Benson met and corresponded with. Focusing on Benson’s novels\, I will discuss how she appropriates\, and at times parodies\, the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism that has gained much currency since the mid-nineteenth century so as to draw attention to its limits\, and to pinpoint the deep sense of isolation felt by individuals in a seemingly connected yet detached world. By drawing reference to her unpublished diaries that were written in Hong Kong\, where she completed her last novel\, Tobit Transplanted (1931)\, I will also show how her life story reflects the efforts and struggles of a female writer who strived to preserve her writerly identity and sensibility in various volatile environments. \n ||  \nBiography\nKlaudia Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture\, spatiality\, translation and literature\, comparative and world literature. She published articles in international journals\, such as Journal of Victorian Culture\, Comparative Literature Studies\, English Studies and Victorian Periodicals Review. She is the author of Charles Dickens and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters\, 1895-1915 (Routledge\, 2017). She is currently working on a book project that explores the literary and journalistic connection between Hong Kong\, Britain\, and China from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92123437344?pwd=Z21wTVBta2hGdnlUOGdtUmdjRjIvUT09 \nMeeting ID: 921 2343 7344\nPassword: 789777 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/stella-benson-transnational-crossing-and-the-unconsoled/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211112T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211112T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103606Z
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SUMMARY:Neo-Victorian Fashion in Singapore: The Intertwined Legacies of English Literature and Race
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Waiyee Loh – Assistant Professor of World Literature  – Kanagawa University\, Japan (https://www.waiyee-loh.com/) \nFriday 4:00pm \nAbstract\nThis paper examines the subcultural practices of young Singaporean women who dress up in highly stylised Victorian-inspired outfits as followers of Lolita fashion from Japan. Why do these women invest time\, effort\, and money in performing this highly mediated form of Victorian-ness\, and how does Singapore’s doubly colonial past as a former British and Japanese colony shape the fashion practices of these women? \nThis paper is based on interviews with a small group of Singaporean Lolita fans conducted in 2016 and 2019. While the sample size is not representative\, my interactions with the interviewees reveal that\, for this small group of women\, their choice of neo-Victorian fashion is inflected by the development and reification of racial thinking under both British and Japanese colonial rule\, from the early 19th century to the end of the Asia-Pacific War in 1945. While my interviewees profess an admiration for Englishness\, their desire for a physical mode of expressing this Englishness draws them to Japanese Lolita fashion. Because it is coded as both raceless and racially proximate to “East Asian” identities\, Japanese Lolita fashion allows these women to perform a version of Englishness that can accommodate their non-white bodies. \n ||  \nBiography\nWaiyee Loh is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Kanagawa University in Yokohama\, Japan. She received her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Japan\, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore\, where she conducted the research that forms the basis of today’s presentation. Her work has appeared in the journals Textual Practice\, Neo-Victorian Studies\, Mechademia\, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93967993338?pwd=ZlMxYTg2SEcxS1NNUDBVQTJUcFpUQT09 \nMeeting ID: 939 6799 3338\nPassword: 011961 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/neo-victorian-fashion-in-singapore-the-intertwined-legacies-of-english-literature-and-race/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103258Z
CREATED:20210923T103258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T103258Z
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SUMMARY:Failure's Shared Unshareability in Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Irving Goh – Assistant Professor of Literature – National University of Singapore (http://www.irving-goh.com/) \nAbstract\nThis paper addresses an aspect of failure that I am calling “shared unshareability.” Highlighting this aspect of failure runs counter to the communitarian contour that “failure studies” and recent affect theory tend to give to contemporary understanding of failure\, but it brings us to the following reckoning: that even though failure can be a common phenomenon\, there is always something of failure that affects only the personal\, that never leaves the personal. I argue that articulating failure’s “shared unshareability” allows us to come to terms with the irreducibility of failure; it also helps us understand why some of us would want to keep the sense of failure to ourselves. In this paper\, I will elucidate failure’s “shared unshareability” through a selection of Yiyun Li’s texts\, which deal with the failure to want to live\, and which further show how melodrama and writing are also implicated.  \n ||  \nBiography\nIrving Goh is President's Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community\, Politics\, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP)\, which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies\, and L'existence prépositionnelle (Galilée). The Deconstruction of Sex\, a book he worked on with Jean-Luc Nancy\, was recently published by Duke UP. He is currently completing his third monograph\, Touching Literature\, or the Experience of the Limit (contracted by Cornell UP)\, and is beginning work on a new book project on rethinking failure. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97039615527?pwd=b2FKcHFYQlZ4eVl5WDZmSDBRQklCZz09 \nMeeting ID: 970 3961 5527\nPassword: 373540 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/failures-shared-unshareability-in-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211105
DTSTAMP:20211022T171833Z
CREATED:20211022T171833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T171833Z
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SUMMARY:School of English Online Workshops: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English invites you to join us for two Postgraduate Information Workshops on “Applying for Postgraduate Programmes”\, featuring a range of programmes available to applicants. We welcome HKU students and other international students interested in our programmes. \nDo join us if you would like to learn more. \n  \nInformation Workshop 1: \nMaster of Arts in English Studies (MAES)\, MPhil\, and PhD\nNovember 3\, 2021 (Wednesday) \n4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Dr. Haewon Hwang\, Dr. Agnes Kang and Dr. Jessica Valdez \nThe first information session will focus on the MAES\, MPhil and PhD degrees. \n\nWhat are the differences between these degrees?\nHow do I apply for postgraduate studies in Hong Kong and internationally?\nHow do I find a supervisor?\nHow do I write a research proposal?\nCan I apply for financial aid or scholarships?\n\nWorkshop 1 Registration here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n  \nInformation Workshop 2\nMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English (MFA)\, and Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)\nNovember 4\, 2021 (Thursday) \n12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Page Richards\, Chair of Creative Writing & Theatre\, and Ms. Aarti Hemnani\, Theatre Manager\, HKU Black Box \nThe second information session will focus on the MFA and the new MACC degrees. \n\nWho applies for postgraduate studies in creative writing or creative communications?\nWhy choose one over the other?\nWhat is it like to study for an intensive creative degree among multilingual colleagues?\nWhat kinds of unique professional opportunities do creative postgraduate degree make possible?\n\nWorkshop 2 Registration Here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-online-workshops-applying-for-postgraduate-programmes/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211104
DTSTAMP:20211020T120740Z
CREATED:20211020T120740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211020T120740Z
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SUMMARY:Travelling Terminology and Variations of Sex Characteristics in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian King\, School of English \nTime: 5:00 PM
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/travelling-terminology-and-variations-of-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211031
DTSTAMP:20211019T161028Z
CREATED:20211019T161028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T161028Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 11:30am) and mock lectures on English Literature (11:30am)\, and English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication (12:15pm)! \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \nAdditional Content\n \nThe Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday).  \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \n  \nInformation for Prospective Undergraduate Students\nVideo Presentation by Undergraduate Coordinator\, Dr. Elizabeth Ho \nPowerpoint of Admissions Information for 2022-23 \nNotes \n\nThe Language and Communication major programme will only be open to applicants admitted to Year 3 of the Bachelor of Arts programme via the Direct Admissions Scheme for 2022-23.\nThe Language and Communication major and minor programme will not be open to applicants admitted to Year 1 in 2022-23 and thereafter\, as the Language and Communication component has already been incorporated into the English Studies major and minor programme.\n\n  \nSchedule of Activities\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nActivity\nSpeaker(s)\nLink\n\n\n10:00 am –\n			11:30 am\n \n\nLive Chatroom on English Studies Majors and Minors \nMore enquiries can be directed to english@hku.hk \n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator and School Representatives \n\n\nJoin the live chatroom by registration on HKU webpage here \n\n\n\n11:30 am –\n			12:00 nn\n \nMock Lecture on English Literature:\n			“Reading like a Detective”\nDr. Jessica Valdez\, Associate Professor\n\nClick here \n\n\n\n12:15 pm –\n			12:45 pm\n \nMock Lecture on English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication\,   \n“It’s Time to Learn Englishes” \n\nDr. Daniel Weston\, Assistant Professor\n\nClick here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/virtual-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103203Z
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SUMMARY:Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Aleksandar Stevic – Assistant Professor of English – Lingnan University (https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/people/details/Sasha) \nAbstract\nWe usually associate aesthetic detachment with indifference to moral considerations. In the famous formulation of Oscar Wilde\, “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” Unsurprisingly\, such commitment to ethical indifference comes under pressure when literature turns to the representation of great historical traumas. Can we afford to say that a book is simply “well written or badly written” if it deals with such topics as the Holocaust or the transatlantic slave trade? Focusing on such diverse figures as Christopher Okigbo\, Danilo Kiš\, Caryl Phillips\, Milan Kundera\, and Boualem Sansal\, my ongoing project explores the ways in which these authors balance aesthetic and ethical considerations\, the kinds of theoretical arguments they produce in the process\, and the formal choices they make in the name of this dual commitment. \n ||  \nBiography\nAleksandar Stević is an assistant professor of English at Lingnan University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and has previously taught at the University of Belgrade\, Hampshire College\, King’s College\, Cambridge\, and Qatar University. His research focuses primarily on the intersections of the history of the novel with social and intellectual history across the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self Fashioning (University of Virginia Press\, 2020)\, co-editor of The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature (Routledge\, 2020)\, the editor of The Politics of Tragedy (Belgrade\, 2014)\, and the translator of a several works into Serbo-Croatian\, including\, most recently\, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91682581132?pwd=MzQ4V0ovTGNCR3F4eFRIYW1GWkdudz09 \nMeeting ID: 916 8258 1132\nPassword: 308496 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/aestheticism-on-the-margins-aesthetic-detachment-and-the-ethics-of-testimony-in-twentieth-century-literature/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T102915Z
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SUMMARY:American Claimants: A Romance in New Clothes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Meer – Senior University Lecturer in English – Cambridge University (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Sarah.Meer/) \nAbstract\nI shall argue for the significance of a particular narrative or dramatic scenario in the nineteenth century\, on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the 'American Claimant' plot\, in which an American heir turns up to claim a British estate.  The premise allowed writers to dramatize culture clash\, often for comic purposes\, but also to contrast political systems\, to pit history and modernity\, or to examine colonialism and revolution. I'll discuss some manifestations in U.S.\, British Victorian\, and South African literature\, as well as in a transatlantic antislavery newspaper\, Frederick Douglass's Paper. I'll also try to talk a little bit about the process of writing\, and I hope that participants will bring their own reflections on this to the Q and A. \n ||  \nBiography\nSarah Meer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge\, and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She teaches 19th and 20th-century literature – mainly British and American – and has published two monographs: Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery Minstrelsy\, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (2005); and American Claimants: The Transatlantic Romance\, c. 1820-1920 (2020). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92832511494?pwd=V3dzdElTZVlQSERIamtPeXBzVVMvdz09 \nMeeting ID: 928 3251 1494\nPassword: 924295 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/american-claimants-a-romance-in-new-clothes/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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