Additional Content The 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. Do join us if you would like to learn more. Information Workshop 1: […]
Dr. Irving Goh - Assistant Professor of Literature - National University of Singapore (http://www.irving-goh.com/) Abstract This 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 […]
Friday 4:00pm
Dr. Klaudia Lee - Associate Professor, Department of English - City University of Hong Kong (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/hiuylee.htm) Abstract In 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 […]
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Don Mee Choi, and Feminist Translation as Historiographic Practice
by Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
Applications close: Mar 15, 2022 (HK Time)
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) Abstract Debates 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 […]
2022-2023 Full-time / 2022-2024 Part-time
Deadline for application
12:00 noon (GMT +8), March 25, 2022
Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Problem of Slavery in the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds, 1750-1850
Interview with Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne
by Khadija Azhar, Lok Hang Vincent Chu, and Rajesh Panhathodi
