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SUMMARY:Professor Caroline Bassett - Public Lecture & Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nPublic Lecture\nDate: April 2\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nThe End of Literature? AI and the Future of Writing \n\n\nWhat will AI do to literature? Nobody doubts that Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce text. Indeed\, there are fears of a text-apocalypse\, as bots speak to bots\, humans automate their own writing\, and the processed word proliferates. But what happens to literature\, to literary writing\, and even to literary theory\, in all this? Literature might be simulated perhaps\, but can it be generated anew? Is there even such as thing as AI literature? If so\, how might we taxonomise it\, understand it as distinctive\, or study it? Perhaps we should consider instead what might be termed a post-literature – if so what might this look like? This lecture takes up some of these questions through a re-consideration of creativity\, understood not as a single moment\, or a single work\, but as process generated across what is here termed a new passage of forms. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n ||  \nReading Group\nDate: April 1\, 2026 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm \nVenue: XR Space\, Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (MTR: Exit C1) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nAuthors\, Deadbots\, Science Fiction \n\n\nI research technical media and cultural change – often in relation to specific forms (literature\, visual culture\, media arts)\, but also in relation to theory and method. In this reading group I’ve included some work that looks at different aspects of this. The first reading considers the future of literature in an age of GenAI. The second reading explores the uncanny and the digital afterlife. The third is brief and considers the relationship between fictional and ‘real’ futures. I hope we can use them as a jumping off point to explore some of the themes that interest me\, and that might also be areas you are working on. I’ve included an article on scholarly editing if you have time for some background reading. \nReading List – reading materials will be sent upon successful registration \nKey reading: \n\n‘Contagious Life\, Clones\, Deadbots\, Digital Twins’. Culture Machine. Vol 24. (2025).\n‘Except in Science Fiction? Why you can get there from here’ in Micheal Shamiyeh (eds)\, Practices of Futurecasting. De Gruyter Brill: London.\n				 \n\nOptional reading: \n\n‘The Author\, Poor Bastard’ in Lively et al (eds). The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature. London: Routledge. (2025) 19-26.\n‘The Construct Editor: Tweaking with Jane\, Writing with Ted\, Editing with an AI?’. Textual Cultures. May 2022.\n\n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nCaroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities\, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities\, a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge. She researches medium technologies and cultural change with a focus on critical theory\, gender and technology\, and critical methods. Key book length publications include Anti-Computing (MUP\, 2022)\, a cultural history of automation fever\, Furious (Pluto\, 2020)\, a co-authored work exploring gender\, ambition and future technologies\, and The Arc and the Machine (MUP\, 2014)\, which explored narrative and computation. She is widely published in academic and public fora. Current projects focus on AI and writing\, critical medium theory\, artificial creativity\, future collapse\, and on the politics and aesthetics of refusal. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-caroline-bassett-public-lecture-reading-group/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
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SUMMARY:Sheung-King & JeeMin Kim (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Sheung-King & JeeMin Kim – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n     \nSheung-King\, a Canadian-Chinese novelist\, and JeeMin Kim\, a South Korean artist\, join us for the durational performance Displaced Nostalgia: Temporality. In the performance\, time follows JeeMin Kim’s rhythm\, with live writing from Sheung-King\, and audience participation. The audience is welcome to drop in freely to observe and take part at your own pace.   \nThis session is presented with the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. \nDate: March 27\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 10:00am – 5:00pm \nNo registration is required. Come and go as you wish and take part at your own pace — everyone is welcome. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Sheung-King\nSheung-King is a novelist. His novel BATSHIT SEVEN\, published by Penguin Random House\, won the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel\, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked (Book*hug Press\, 2020)\, is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award\, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021\, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by The Globe and Mail. Sheung-King was born in Vancouver and grew up in Hong Kong. \n\nAbout JeeMin Kim\nJeeMin Kim is an artist with a BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design\, an MA in Critical Practice from the Royal College of Art\, London\, and a PhD in Painting from Hong Ik University. Her ongoing research and solo exhibition series\, Prototype Temple\, unfolds within constructed stage-like spaces where forms of various civilisations and ruins are layered together. The project questions the fictive nostalgia produced by Western archaeology and colonial perspectives. Kim’s works have also been featured at Horse Hospital Gallery\, London (2019); Arts Council Korea (2021); Culture Station Seoul 284 and Namsan Library\, Seoul (2023); and KL Museum\, Seoul (2024). \n\nAbout Black Box Writers’ Series\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen \n\nAbout Hong Kong International Literary Festival\n\nThe Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF) inspires the joy of reading by bringing the world’s writers and stories to Hong Kong’s diverse communities. A dynamic year-round programme and an annual festival offer dialogue\, entertainment and perspective\, while the Young Readers Festival motivates students to engage with all aspects of the written word\, improving communication skills\, while nurturing the art of writing and storytelling. The annual festival features established and emerging writers from around the world\, alongside local literary talents\, in a programme that includes panel discussions\, book talks\, readings\, workshops\, walks\, school programmes\, performances\, and more. \nHKILF is a registered charity non-profit organisation championing stories\, words and language in Hong Kong. To find out more\, please visit their official website: https://www.festival.org.hk. \n\nMore information about Sheung-King can be viewed from here. \nMore information about JeeMin Kim can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sheung-king-jeemin-kim-spring-2026/
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SUMMARY:Suspended Circulation and the Double Life of Things in Dickens: The Pawnbroker's Shop and the Debtor's Prison
DESCRIPTION:Ben Moore – Assistant Professor\, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/m/o/b.p.moore/b.p.moore.html) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk brings together two contexts prominent in Charles Dickens’s work where the economic circulation of things and people is suspended: the pawnbroker’s shop and the debtors’ prison. Reading these two settings together\, I suggest\, allows us to recognise a homology in the way things (in the case of the former) and people (in the case of the latter) are withdrawn from circulation\, with their existence equated to money in both cases. In a strange modification of Marx’s circuit of capitalist profit\, the commodity character of both people and things is highlighted precisely when they cease to circulate. At the same time\, in texts such as ‘The Pawnbroker’s Shop’ (1835) and Little Dorrit (1855-7)\, affective and symbolic economies continue to operate in the place of inactive or hindered economic ones\, as people and objects come to stand in for or refer to each other even as they are prevented from working or being used. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s understanding of symbol and allegory\, I argue that these two contexts in Dickens’s writing should be read as allegorically referring to one another. \nI position these readings in relation to my wider project\, which argues that the specific spaces in which money operates (or fails to operate) in the nineteenth century shape its cultural and affective entanglements more deeply and thoroughly than has been previously recognised. \n ||  \nBiography\nBen Moore is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research areas include nineteenth-century literature\, cities\, money\, modernity\, childhood and the figure of the human. He is the author of Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity (Edinburgh UP\, 2024) and Human Tissue in the Realist Novel\, 1850–1895 (Palgrave\, 2023). His work has appeared in journals including Victorian Literature and Culture\, Modernism/modernity\, Modern Language Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture\, as well as in various handbooks and edited collections. He is Co-Editor of the Gaskell Journal and Secretary of the Dickens Society.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/suspended-circulation-and-the-double-life-of-things-in-dickens-the-pawnbrokers-shop-and-the-debtors-prison/
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SUMMARY:Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Are YOU the right candidate?
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English would like to invite you to attend our forthcoming Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Are YOU the right candidate?\n  \nDate: March 25\, 2026 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nSpeakers: Ms. Eva Chau and Ms. Reina Cheng \nIn this interactive talk\, the speakers\, who are experienced HR professionals\, will share their front-line experiences in talent acquisition and offer some tips for you to plan smart in your job searches. More information about the talk and the speakers could be found in the poster attached. \nRegistration with your HKU Student Portal ID is required. Please scan the QR code shown on the attached poster\, or click this link https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105518 to reserve a seat. All HKU students are welcome. \nWe look forward to seeing you at the talk! \n \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/dream-big-plan-smart-series-are-you-the-right-candidate/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321
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SUMMARY:Professor Matthew Reynolds - Workshop: Constraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Matthew Reynolds – Workshop\nConstraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)\nDate: Mar 20\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105510\nFor non-HKU members:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105510\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nVerse form\, narrative voice\, Oulipian lipograms – all are constraints which release creativity through the paradoxical act of confining it. What happens if we impose these or similar constraints on Large Language Models (LLMs)? – and how might this stimulate our own creativity\, in translating/versioning and/or in single-author writing? Please bring a device with which to connect to an LLM\, a text or idea you would like to work with\, and a readiness to explore and share. \n ||  \nBiography\nMatthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at Oxford\, where he founded and chairs the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT) and the associated Masters in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation. Some of his books are: the open access Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (2023) which includes interactive digital elements; Prismatic Translation (2019); Translation: A Very Short Introduction (2016); The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011); Likenesses (2013); The Realms of Verse (2001); and the novels Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The World Was All Before Them (2013). He is currently leading a collaborative research investigation into 'AI\, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation' and developing an app to support creative\, ethically reflective translation through language(s) in dialogue with AI tools. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-matthew-reynolds-workshop-constraints-as-a-route-to-creativity-with-genai-and-in-general/
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
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SUMMARY:Professor Matthew Reynolds - Public Lecture: Translalia: A possible Future for Translation with GenAI
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Matthew Reynolds – Public Lecture\nTranslalia: A possible Future for Translation with GenAI\nDate: Mar 19\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105508\nFor non-HKU members:  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105508\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nLarge Language Models (LLMs) are biased\, error-prone\, and bad for the environment; they reinforce the dominance of English and generate large amounts of terrible writing; and they are associated with a simplistic\, functional conception of translation. But they can also represent language variety in unprecedentedly fluid ways\, and enable new kinds of translational creativity that nurture an ethical awareness of difference. I call this potential ‘translalia’: in the talk I will explain what it is\, how it relates to the history of translation\, and why we should all be practising and promoting it. \n ||  \nBiography\nMatthew Reynolds is Professor of English and Comparative Criticism at Oxford\, where he founded and chairs the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT) and the associated Masters in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation. Some of his books are: the open access Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (2023) which includes interactive digital elements; Prismatic Translation (2019); Translation: A Very Short Introduction (2016); The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (2011); Likenesses (2013); The Realms of Verse (2001); and the novels Designs for a Happy Home (2009) and The World Was All Before Them (2013). He is currently leading a collaborative research investigation into 'AI\, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation' and developing an app to support creative\, ethically reflective translation through language(s) in dialogue with AI tools. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-matthew-reynolds-public-lecture-translalia-a-possible-future-for-translation-with-genai/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
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SUMMARY:Mr. Greg Eldridge - Public Lecture & Workshops
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nMr. Greg Eldridge – Public Lecture & Workshops\nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Successful registrants will be selected after the deadline of 12:00 noon on March 11\, 2026 (Wednesday). \n ||  \nPublic Lecture\n\n\n\n\nEvent\n\n\nDate & Time\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nPublic Lecture \n\n\nMarch 17\, 2026 (Tuesday)\n			4:30 pm – 6:00 pm \n\n\nPublic Lecture \nDrama in the Opera House: The Evolution of Dramatic Theory in Operatic Performance from Declamation to Individualism \n\n\nIn this lecture\, Maestro Eldridge will lead an exploration of dramatic theory and its uses from antiquity up to the present day\, with a focus on observing the socio-political threads that run through performance practices from vastly different eras. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nWorkshops\nIn a series of three workshops\, Maestro Eldridge will look at dramatic theories from various time periods\, and how these can be applied to performing for today’s audiences. These sessions will encourage participation from audience members and feature a live performance aspect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent\n\n\nDate & Time\n\n\nTitle\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop \n\n\nMarch 17\, 2026 (Tuesday)\n			10:00 am – 1:00 pm \n\n\nWorkshop 1 \nOpera as a Bloodsport–How to Act on Stage: Acting Pre-Enlightenment \n\n\nIn this workshop\, Maestro Eldridge will look at dramatic theories ranging from antiquity to the 17th century. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop \n\n\nMarch 18\, 2026 (Wednesday)\n			10:30 am – 1:30 pm \n\n\nWorkshop 2 \nOpera as a Bloodsport–How to Act on Stage: Acting Post-Enlightenment \n\n\nIn this workshop\, Maestro Eldridge will look at dramatic theories ranging from the 17th century to the early 20th century. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop \n\n\nMarch 18\, 2026 (Wednesday)\n			3:00 pm – 6:00 pm \n\n\nWorkshop 3 \nOpera as a Bloodsport–How to Act on Stage: Acting in the Modern Era \n\n\nIn this workshop\, Maestro Eldridge will look at dramatic theories covering 20th century and the most recent contemporary dramatic works. \n\n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):\n				Click here\n				 \nFor non-HKU members:\n				Click here\n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nMaestro Greg Eldridge has worked on over 80 productions in 14 countries at theatres including Teatro à la Scala Milan\, the Royal Opera House London\, Teatro Real Madrid\, Houston Grand Opera and LA Opera in America\, as well as the national opera companies of Norway\, Australia\, Iceland\, Israel\, Scotland\, Wales\, and Northern Ireland. He was also a former Professor of Stage Directing at the College of Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mr-greg-eldridge-public-lecture-workshops/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
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SUMMARY:Emma Pei Yin (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Emma Pei Yin – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n   \nEmma Pei Yin\, an Australian-Chinese writer and editor\, joins us to discuss her novel When Sleeping Women Wake. The book follows the lives of three women who fled to Hong Kong under British colonial rule when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the city\, and the talk will explore historical fiction as a genre that navigates documented history and narrative reconstruction. Emma will be in conversation with Dr Antony Huen\, followed by an audience Q&A. This session is a collaboration with the Hong Kong International Literary Festival (March 1-8\, 2026). \nDate: March 6\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required and no walk-ins are allowed due to limited seatings. Successful registrants will be informed in due course. \n\n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105468\n	 \n\n\nAbout Emma Pei Yin\nEmma is an Australian-Chinese writer and editor. Her debut novel\, When Sleeping Women Wake\, has been published globally\, translated into multiple languages. It was longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize (2025) and shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards (2026). She is the founder of yinfluence editorial\, an agency supporting PoC\, queer and neurodivergent writers by connecting them with editors and mentors who understand the stakes of telling stories from the margins. She also co-hosts Served With Rice Poddy\, a cultural podcast and visual series that centres conversations about books\, publishing\, identity and community through food-infused discussion. \n\nAbout Black Box Writers’ Series\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen \n\nAbout Hong Kong International Literary Festival\n\nThe Hong Kong International Literary Festival inspires the joy of reading by bringing the world’s writers and stories to Hong Kong’s diverse communities. A dynamic year-round programme and an annual festival offer dialogue\, entertainment and perspective\, while the Young Readers Festival motivates students to engage with all aspects of the written word\, improving communication skills\, while nurturing the art of writing and storytelling. The annual festival features established and emerging writers from around the world\, alongside local literary talents\, in a programme that includes panel discussions\, book talks\, readings\, workshops\, walks\, school programmes\, performances\, and more. \nHKILF is a registered charity non-profit organisation championing stories\, words and language in Hong Kong. To find out more\, please visit their official website: https://www.festival.org.hk. \n\nMore information about Emma Pei Yin can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/emma-pei-yin-spring-2026/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
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SUMMARY:Launch of Hong Kong Literary Review
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Hong Kong Literary Review\nDate: March 5\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 7:00pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nYou are warmly invited to the launch of Hong Kong Literary Review\, a new journal of bold\, original writing from Hong Kong and beyond. \nThe inaugural issue\, Voices\, showcases a dynamic range of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry attuned to the urgencies of our time — from the shifting conditions of storytelling in an AI‑inflected world to the enduring human experiences of grief\, memory\, and desire. \nThe evening will open with remarks from Editor‑in‑Chief Maria Chaudhuri\, followed by a keynote talk by renowned author Xu Xi on why literary journals matter — for writers\, for readers\, and for the cultural life we build together. A Q&A and reception will follow. \nPresented by the HKU School of English\, in collaboration with The HKU Guild and the English Society\, as part of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2026. \nWe would be delighted to have you join us for this special evening celebrating new writing and the launch of this exciting addition to Hong Kong’s literary landscape. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited\, and advance registration is required. \nPlease register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-introducing-voices-hong-kong-literary-review-debuts-at-hkilf-tickets-1981827558577?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1 (FULL) \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/launch-of-hong-kong-literary-review/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260228
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SUMMARY:Eric Choi (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Eric Choi – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n   \nEric Choi\, a Hong Kong-born aerospace engineer\, writer\, and editor based in Canada\, joins us to discuss his sci-fi story collection Just Like Being There. The collection features fifteen of his sci-fi and alternate history stories\, including the Aurora Award-winning “Crimson Sky”. Each story is accompanied by an afterword that explains the underlying scientific principles. He will discuss how his short fiction engages with topics such as space exploration\, artificial intelligence\, and extraterrestrial intelligence. He will be in conversation with Dr Antony Huen\, with time for audience exchange. \nDate: February 27\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 10:30am – 12:00noon \nVenue: Online via Zoom \nRegistration is required. Zoom link will be sent via email. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):   https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105293\nFor non-HKU members:   https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=105293\n	 \n\n\nAbout Eric Choi\nEric was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada at a young age with his family. He has twice won Canada’s Aurora Award\, for his short story “Crimson Sky” and the Chinese-themed speculative fiction anthology The Dragon and the Stars\, and he received a Sidewise Award for his alternate history novelette “A Sky and a Heaven”. With the late Ben Bova\, he co-edited the hard SF anthology Carbide Tipped Pens. His short fiction collection Just Like Being There was released in 2022. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen \n\nMore information about Eric Choi can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eric-choi-spring-2026/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260214
DTSTAMP:20260203T160346Z
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SUMMARY:Rajat Sharma (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Rajat Sharma – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n   \nRajat Sharma joins us to screen and discuss his short film Never Brooklyn\, a documentary shaped by his search for housing in Hong Kong and his move into a subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po. Through encounters with its residents\, the film reflects on working-class communities\, migrant experiences\, and the divides created by redevelopment. He will discuss the film as an exploration of liminality\, identity reconstruction\, and historical documentation. He will be in conversation with Dr Antony Huen\, with time for audience exchange. \nDate: February 13\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Rajat Sharma\nRajat is a scholar-filmmaker from Delhi. His creative practice centres on documentary and experimental film\, with screenings and exhibitions at Animateka (Slovenia)\, BPC New York (US)\, Freiburger Filmforum (Germany)\, Trowbridge Town Hall (UK)\, the Hong Kong Arts Centre\, and other international venues. His work examines the entanglements between popular cinema and the nation-state\, with a focus on decolonial thought\, subversive and queer imaginaries\, gendered representation\, and affective publics. He is a doctoral candidate at Hong Kong Baptist University. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rajat-sharma-spring-2026/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTSTAMP:20260202T121945Z
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SUMMARY:Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Career Talk by M+
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English would like to invite you to attend our forthcoming Dream Big\, Plan Smart Series – Career Talk by M+.\n  \nDate:  February 10\, 2026 (Tuesday) \nTime:  4:30p.m. – 5:30p.m. \nLocation: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nSpeaker: Mr. Dicky Yeung (Associate Curator\, Learning and Interpretation\, M+)\n  \nThis session pulls back the curtain on how museum curators think: embracing interprofessional collaboration and a visitor-centered mindset to shape a new museum of visual culture for Hong Kong and beyond. We’ll explore how the critical and creative skills you’re developing today are exactly what the arts and culture sector needs—and how you can help define its future. More information about the talk and the speaker could be found in the poster attached.\n  \nRegistration with your HKU Student Portal ID is required. Please scan the QR code shown on the attached poster\, or click this link https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=105105 to reserve a seat. All HKU students are welcome.\n  \nWe look forward to seeing you at the talk! \n \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/dream-big-plan-smart-series-career-talk-by-m/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
DTSTAMP:20260121T093514Z
CREATED:20260121T093514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T093514Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Anthony Bale - Workshop: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Creative Non-fiction
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Anthony Bale – Workshop\nThe Possibilities and Pitfalls of Creative Non-fiction\nDate: February 6\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=104908\nFor non-HKU members:    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=104908\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nIn this workshop I will share some examples from my own practice\, describing my own journey from traditional scholarly writing to forms of creative non-fiction. I will also briefly share some examples of creative practice arising from my research. For the workshop I would like us to explore creative translation together and also flash writing\, responding to medieval sources.  \n ||  \nBiography\nAnthony Bale is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (1954) at the University of Cambridge\, UK\, and Professorial Fellow of Girton College Cambridge. He is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow\, working on The Siege of Rhodes (1480) and medieval news media. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-anthony-bale-workshop-the-possibilities-and-pitfalls-of-creative-non-fiction/
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTSTAMP:20260121T093211Z
CREATED:20260121T093211Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Anthony Bale - Public Lecture: Conflict\, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Anthony Bale – Public Lecture\nConflict\, Novelty and Print: The Birth of News Writing in the West\nDate: February 5\, 2026 (Thursday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=104907\nFor non-HKU members:    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=104907\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nThe newspaper has conventionally been seen as an early modern innovation\, connected to print\, enlightenment and the transformation of the public and literate sphere. In this lecture I will show how news writing was a distinctive development of western Europe in the period 1453-1485\, when contemporary events started to circulate in vernacular writing. \n ||  \nBiography\nAnthony Bale is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (1954) at the University of Cambridge\, UK\, and Professorial Fellow of Girton College Cambridge. He is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow\, working on The Siege of Rhodes (1480) and medieval news media. \n ||  \nAdditional Content
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-anthony-bale-public-lecture-conflict-novelty-and-print-the-birth-of-news-writing-in-the-west/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260131
DTSTAMP:20260203T155624Z
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SUMMARY:Daryl Lim Wei Jie (Spring 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Daryl Lim Wei Jie – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2026)\n   \nDaryl Lim Wei Jie joins us to discuss his latest work\, Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular\, a collection which poses the provocation: “How many times can you rewrite a poem?” Using Oulipo techniques and newer technologies such as LLMs\, Daryl rewrites a single poem again and again. He will discuss the book as an exploration of iterative rewriting and exhaustion as method\, and how (mis)translation can be a creative generative act. He will be in conversation with Dr Antony Huen\, with time for audience exchange. \nDate: January 30\, 2026 (Friday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Daryl Lim Wei Jie\nDaryl is an award-winning poet\, editor\, translator\, and literary critic based in Singapore. His collections of poetry include Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular (2025) and Anything but Human (2021)\, the latter shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. In 2023\, he received the Young Artist Award\, Singapore's highest honour for artists under 35. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Black Box Writers’ Series celebrates creative voices and craft\, with a focus on writers and works with local connections. Featured guests present their latest work and discuss their creative practice with the moderator and audience. All are welcome. \nConvenor & Moderator: Dr Antony Huen \n\nMore information about Daryl Lim Wei Jie can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/daryl-lim-wei-jie-spring-2026/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251206
DTSTAMP:20251112T152509Z
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - MAES\, MACC & MFA Theatre Production
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe HKU School of English offers a unique opportunity to see a live theatre production of Hamlet\, by William Shakespeare. This condensed version of Shakespeare's original text combines the talents of eighty-eight students from the MAES\, MACC and MFA programmes. Now in its third year\, our Shakespeare Production Project promises visual and emotional intensity. Our version of Hamlet features forty-six actors and a contemporary\, multicultural setting for the secretive royal family of Denmark. \nPlease join us to see Shakespeare's immeasurably beautiful play within a stylish\, condensed\, modern staging. Seating is limited\, reservations are required\, and tickets are free. Running time is approximately 90 minutes without interval. Thank you for supporting the School of English production of Hamlet. \n \nPerformance times & Registration\nRegitration is required due to limited seating. \nThe performance is repeated across all three dates\, please choose the performance date you would like to attend. Registration is required and no walk-ins allowed. Successful registrants will be informed in due course. \n\nEach student may register for one ticket only for herself/himself\, but not for others;\nException: The crew and the acting cast are not required to register for a ticket\, though they may use their original quota to register one for an invited guest.\n\nDecember 3\, 2025 (Wed): 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n        For HKU members (HKU portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103967 \nDecember 4\, 2025 (Thu): 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm  \n\nFor HKU members (HKU portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103963 \n\nDecember 5\, 2025 (Fri): 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nFor HKU members (HKU portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103966 \n\nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nClick to view programme Book: Programme Booklet
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-hamlet-maes-macc-mfa-theatre-production/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251127T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251127T173000
DTSTAMP:20250904T142857Z
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SUMMARY:The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Nighttime: Circumstantial Evidence in Early English Legal Culture
DESCRIPTION:Anya Adair – Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr_Anya_Adair) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn The Adventure of the Silver Blaze\, Sherlock Holmes' account of 'the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime' epitomises the imaginative leap of circumstantial reasoning: probable meaning is deduced from what physical evidence remains (or is conspicuously absent) after the crime. This talk traces the pre-history of such methods of reasoning in the legal culture of early medieval England. Old English law codes and poetry alike\, I argue\, disclose a subtle but consistent interest in traces\, signs\, and probabilities: what we would now call circumstantial evidence. Commentators on early English legal history typically emphasise the primacy of oaths and ordeals in fact-finding. These ritualised procedures\, it is claimed\, centralise God’s judgement\, and explicitly exclude human deduction and 'fact-finding' from the processes of law. Yet the Old English law codes preserve signs of a broader evidentiary culture: traces of stolen animals\, collateral facts of behaviour\, and expectations about likelihood and proof. Old English poetry\, too\, shows this intellectual habits at work. Narrative scenes in Beowulf pivot on the careful weighing of signs\, and on conclusions drawn from material traces. Early English law and literature together point to a legal imagination alive to the interpretive potential of circumstantial evidence\, anticipating by many centuries the processes of fact-finding that drive the modern jury trial\, and the genres of detective fiction that bring these processes so vividly into the modern cultural imagination. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Adair is Assistant Professor in Law and Humanities with the Faculties of Law and Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and graduate degrees in English from Melbourne\, Oxford and Yale. Her present research seeks to unite more closely the fields of medieval law and literature\, and to provide insight into the intellectual\, emotional and social dimensions of legal and literary production across the period.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-curious-incident-of-the-monster-in-the-nighttime-circumstantial-evidence-in-early-english-legal-culture/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251126
DTSTAMP:20251016T143329Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Professionalisation Workshop: Building your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Professionalisation Workshop\nBuilding your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences\nDate: 25th November\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103740\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103740\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nFaculty career development is an important matter\, and one that should be approached as early in a faculty member’s career as possible. Indeed\, it would be an advantage to begin thinking about these matters in graduate school\, as one chooses one’s dissertation topic\, and gains the early research and teaching experience that will shape one’s early career as a faculty member. The Humanities and Social Sciences pose particular challenges in research direction and evaluation\, given their greater thematic range and more subjective evaluation when compared to the more quantitative criteria and definitive research pathways of many STEM disciplines. \nIn this session\, I will speak about some of the principle considerations which I believe should guide early career faculty in their career development planning. In research\, these include thematic coherence; impact; collaboration; and intellectual independence/leadership. In teaching\, some considerations include (again) coherence; range; curricular leadership; and feedback. Recognising the range of teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences\, it would not be possible to be prescriptive about the different expectations and pathways\, but I hope to provide principles which should be generally useful in the different disciplines therein. \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-professionalisation-workshop-building-your-dossier-research-and-teaching-development-strategies-for-early-career-scholars-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251125
DTSTAMP:20251013T164734Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Public Lecture: Foundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Distinguished Lecture Series\nFoundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture\nDate: 24th November\, 2025 (Monday) \nTea Reception (Optional)\nTime: 3:00pm – 4:00pm \nVenue: The Good Bridge\, 4/F\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nLecture\nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103739\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103739\n\n ||  \nAbstract\n“There is nothing new under the sun\,” says the author of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Christian Bible. This\, with some provocative simplification\, could well be the epigram for human cultural production\, in which we constantly see the phenomena of recurring symbols and archetypes\, narrative patterns\, allusion\, sampling\, and outright imitation. The recurrence of expression has been addressed to various extents and in various ways by a wide range of famous thinkers and scholars including Carl Jung\, Sigmund Freud\, Karl Marx\, Northrop Frye\, Joseph Campbell\, Noam Chomsky\, and Harold Bloom. This talk will critically examine recurrences and returns in cultural expression\, taking reference from the realms of literature\, film\, and popular culture. What\, as scholars\, producers and consumers of culture\, can we do about such commonalities? Can we consider taxonomies of recurrence as a helpful critical framework? Can this approach reveal anything significant about human society and the ways in which we interact with each other? To what academic disciplines and areas of human activity can this be applied? Last and certainly not least\, how do we avoid reductivity and oversimplification in this kind of approach? In short\, can foundations of expression be meaningful and not hollow\, and if so\, how do we do that? \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-public-lecture-foundations-of-meaningfulness-narrative-semiotics-culture/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251120T173000
DTSTAMP:20250904T143526Z
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SUMMARY:Burgess’ Joyce: the influence of James Joyce on Burgess' novels
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Adjunct Associate Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAnthony Burgess (1917-1993) had a lifelong love of the writing of James Joyce (1882-1941).  He read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at 16. He took Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with him into the army in 1940. He wrote two critical studies of Joyce: Here Comes Everybody (1965) and Joysprick (1973) as well as many articles about him. He produced A Shorter Finnegans Wake (1966)\, presented a film on Joyce for the BBC (1965) and on Finnegans Wake for American television (1973). In 1982\, he wrote a musical version of Ulysses called The Blooms of Dublin. His novels were heavily influenced by Joyce’s writing. In this paper\, I will trace Joyce’s influence through a few of his 33 novels: Napoleon Symphony (1974)\, Nothing Like the Sun (1964)\, the Enderby tetralogy (1963-84) and his most well-known novel\, A Clockwork Orange (1962).  \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy has taught in Hong Kong since 1988. At HKU\, he teaches C20th poetry\, C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. A passionate Joycean\, he inaugurated the annual ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations in HK 25 years ago. He continues to deepen his understanding of Joyce (see\, for instance\, his piece in the James Joyce Quarterly\, 2021). He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland\, the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review) and Germany.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/burgess-joyce-the-influence-of-james-joyce-on-burgess-novels/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTSTAMP:20251003T144250Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Kennedy (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nDr. Peter Kennedy will reflect on the creation of his second volume of verse HERE\, where poetry and prose converge. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: November 18\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Dr. Peter Kennedy\nDr. Peter Kennedy was born in the Roman city of Chester near the Welsh border. He is of Irish and Welsh extraction. He has worked in Hong Kong since 1988. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. \nPeter has taught in England\, Greece\, Czechoslovakia\, Romania\, Saudi Arabia\, China\, Brunei and Hong Kong and has been a (literature) teacher for 40 years. Until 2012\, he was Associate Professor at the School of Professional and Continuing Education\, HKU in charge of a broad range of programmes from Diploma to doctorate levels. Peter is now Honorary Associate Professor in the School of English\, HKU. He teaches modules in the (full-time) B.A. programme. These include: Joyce’s Voices\, Introduction to C20th English Poetry and C21st English Poetry. \nHis five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. Recent creative writing has appeared in the (London) Literary Review and the (US) James Joyce Quarterly. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nThe biography of Dr. Peter Kennedy can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/peter-kennedy-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:From "vp=start Crow" to Upstart Crow: Shakespeare as Comical Character from 16th to 21st Century Biofiction
DESCRIPTION:Reto Winckler – Assistant Professor\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/ewinckle) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis paper investigates a long line of bio-fictional texts that portray Shakespeare as a comical character. The paper is grounded in the observation that the two earliest historical documents that seem to give some personal insight into Shakespeare's life and character are jokes. Robert Greene satirizes Shakespeare as a preposterous ‘vp=start Crow’ with a ‘Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde’ (1592); John Manningham's anecdote about Shakespeare's affair with a fan in which Shakespeare impersonates William the Conqueror (1602)\, meanwhile\, makes Shakespeare the protagonist of a mini-comedy that ends in a one-night-stand. Both texts already exhibit the comingling of fact and fiction that would come to characterize all later Shakespeare biofiction\, and indeed all Shakespeare biography. Equally remarkably\, the two different modes of humour employed by the two anecdotes\, the satirical and the romantic\, both closely reflect how humour operates in Shakespeare's comedies and foreshadows the use of humour in later biofictional comedic visions of Shakespeare. \nBuilding on this perspective\, this paper analyzes Alexandre Duval’s Shakespeare Amoureux (1804)\, George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)\, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Ben Elton’s Greene-inspired television sitcom Upstart Crow (BBC Two\, 2-16-2020). The comedic biofictional engagements with Shakespeares discussed in this paper open up unique routes of engagement with historical facts as well as popular and academic conceptions of Shakespeare. \n ||  \nBiography\nReto Winckler is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Shakespeare\, adaptation studies (particularly in television series\, digital media and AI) and contemporary popular culture. His articles have been published in Adaptation\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, Shakespeare\, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance\, Texas Studies in Literature and Language\, and Cahiers Élisabéthains\, among others. He is the co-editor of Television Series as Literature (Palgrave\, 2022) and the forthcoming “This America\, Man:” The Literary and Cultural Origins of 21st-Century American Television Series (Brill\, 2026)\," and the editor of the forthcoming special issue of Adaptation\, "Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI" (2026). He is a member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare and Adaptation.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/from-vpstart-crow-to-upstart-crow-shakespeare-as-comical-character-from-16th-to-21st-century-biofiction/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251025
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2025
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nReady to explore the infinite worlds of English Studies? Join us on October 25 (Saturday) to learn more about our English Studies programme! Our teachers and student ambassadors are looking forward to welcoming you and introducing you to our undergraduate programme. Meet us at our information booth and information session\, and join our mock lectures to get a taste of the teaching and learning atmosphere at HKU. \nDon’t forget to scan the QR code on the poster and follow our social media platforms to redeem a gift at our booth. Stay tuned on our website and social media platforms for more information. See you there!\n  \n \nSchool of English Information Booth\n\nTime: 09:00 – 18:00\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, LG/F\, Central Podium Levels\, Centennial Campus (HKU MTR Exit C1) \nInformation Session and Mock Lectures\n\nTime: 14:00 – 15:30\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, 3/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \n\nIntroduction to English Studies Programme\nMock Lecture in English Language and Linguistics: Vocal Vibes Uncovered: Uptalk & Vocal Fry in New-Gen Talk\nMock Lecture in English Literature: Haunted by Literature
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2025/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T173000
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SUMMARY:Corrective Language and Neo-Homophobia
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Pak –  Assistant Lecturer\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/321/Dr_Vincent_Pak) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn societies where explicit homophobic discourses are met with pushback\, they must evolve to eschew mainstream criticism. They recently arrived\, in the case of Singapore\, as religionbased discourses that carry logics of change and transformation\, now observable as neohomophobia. These discourses coax change through the Christian idea of metanoia – spiritual transformation – that encourages an individualised transformation of the self. \nThis talk considers how language\, specifically discourse\, can be deployed as a corrective for nonnormative sexualities. Discourses in three forms – multimodal\, narrative\, and metapragmatic – are analyzed to demonstrate how correction can be achieved without relying on traditional modes of animus. Stories of ex-gay Christians\, circulated by a young\, non-denominational organization in Singapore\, are examined for their audiovisual and narrative qualities\, and ethnographic interviews conducted with religious queer individuals in Singapore evince language as a powerful technology for correction. \n ||  \nBiography\nVincent Pak is a sociocultural linguist at The University of Hong Kong\, working in the fields of gender\, sexuality\, and race. His work intersects with linguistic anthropology and discourse studies\, and his monograph\, Queer Correctives\, was recently published with Bloomsbury Academic. His articles can also be found in journals such as Journal of Sociolinguistics\, Language in Society\, and Signs and Society.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/corrective-language-and-neo-homophobia/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Sanjena Sathian (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sanjena Sathian – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nMs. Sanjena Sathian will reflect on the creation of her latest novel Goddess Complex (University of Iowa Press)\, a top anticipated book of 2025 by TIME. She will also engage in discussion about her broader creative practice. \nDate: October 21\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Ms. Sanjena Sathian\nSanjena Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Goddess Complex and Gold Diggers\, both published by Penguin Press. Goddess Complex\, released in March of 2025\, was named a top anticipated book of the year by TIME and has been named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Gold Diggers was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Sanjena’s short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories\, The Atlantic\, One Story\, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The Drift\, The Yale Review\, and NewYorker.com\, among other outlets. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nMore information about Ms. Sanjena Sathian from her official website here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sanjena-sathian-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251017
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SUMMARY:HKU School of English Postgraduate Information Talks
DESCRIPTION:HKU School of English Postgraduate Information Talks\nOne Language\, Infinite Worlds.\nTaught Postgraduate Information Talk\n \n\nMaster of Arts in the field of English Studies (MAES\, 1-year\, full-time)\nMaster of Arts in the field of Creative Communications (MACC\, 1-year\, full-time)\nMaster of Fine Arts in the field of Creative Writing in English (MFA\, 1-year\, full-time)\n\nDate and Time: October 17\, 2025 (Fri)\, 3:00pm – 4:30pm (HKT) \nRegistration Open: October 6\, 2025 (Mon) 3:00pm – October 17\, 2025 (Fri) 12:00pm \nRegister NOW!\nZoom link will be sent via email. \n\nResearch Postgraduate (MPhil & PhD) Information Talk\n \n\nMaster of Philosophy (MPhil\, full-time/part-time)\nDoctor of Philosophy (PhD\, full-time/part-time)\n\nDate and Time: October 20\, 2025 (Mon)\, 8:00pm – 9:00pm (HKT) \nRegistration Open: October 6\, 2025 (Mon) 3:00pm – October 20\, 2025 (Mon) 12:00pm \nRegister NOW!\nZoom link will be sent via email. \n\nJoin us to explore programmes\, admission tips\, and career paths! \nFor enquiries\, please contact us at english@hku.hk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-school-of-english-postgraduate-information-talks/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Innovative Feedback for Creative Disciplines: Developing a Multi-Modal Peer Critique Tool for Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Kan Chi Poon –  Assistant Lecturer\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/307/Ms_Kan_Chi_Poon) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis presentation introduces the CAS Form (Care–All–Shape)\, an emerging peer feedback tool developed through practice in creative and communication-focused contexts. The CAS Form invites students to combine quick checks\, short takeaway words\, and a visual or diagrammatic response\, making feedback more tangible and engaging than traditional evaluation sheets. While designed for creative subjects\, its simple format adapts well to reflective writing and artist statements\, supporting students as they articulate ideas about their own and others’ work. Early use in design and exhibition courses suggests that students respond more actively when given space for visual and multi-modal feedback. \nThe session will outline the tool’s development\, classroom applications\, and student responses\, and invite discussion on adapting CAS for wider use. Participants will also have the opportunity to try the form themselves and consider how it might support reflective practice in their own teaching. \n ||  \nBiography\nKan Chi Poon is an educator and creative practitioner whose work is grounded in fine art practice while spanning contemporary art and exhibition practices. She sees art not only as solitary creation but as communication\, where peer feedback plays a vital role in shaping dialogue and insight. To support this process\, she developed the CAS Form\, a platform that makes feedback concrete\, reciprocal\, and constructive through both words and visual expression. At the School\, she is an Assistant Lecturer in Master of Arts in the field of Creative Communications (MACC)\, teaching exhibition\, installation\, and aesthetics\, and encouraging peers to “think like artists” through transformation\, transmodal traces\, and creative practice.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/innovative-feedback-for-creative-disciplines-developing-a-multi-modal-peer-critique-tool-for-higher-education/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:James Shea (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:James Shea – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nProfessor James Shea will reflect on the creation of his latest collection Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, winner of the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: September 30\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Professor James Shea\nProfessoor James Shea is the author of  Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye\, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean)\, a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing program at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Vermont Arts Council. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nThe biography of Professor James Shea can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/james-shea-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:A Historical Survey of Hong Kong Anglophone Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Antony Huen –  MFA Programme Director\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/306/Dr_Antony_Huen) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHow is poetry classified as Hong Kong poetry? Records of poets writing in Chinese in Hong Kong date back to the 1940s. What about poetry written in English? From Auden’s oriental view of Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War to Blunden’s writing during his professorship at the University of Hong Kong\, and the debuts of ethnically Chinese poets in the 1970s and subsequent decades\, there were comparable and sometimes overlapping developments in the Anglophone poetry scene in Hong Kong. More recently\, with the emergence of an expanding diasporic group of young poets who have received major literary recognition\, including Eric Yip\, the youngest winner of the UK’s National Poetry Competition\, Hong Kong Anglophone poetry has begun to emerge from various literary peripheries. This paper investigates the emergence of a body of Hong Kong Anglophone poetry\, tracing its origins and charting its key developments to date. In doing so\, it spotlights a once-overlooked\, young tradition that is growing in momentum and visibility. \n ||  \nBiography\nAntony Huen directs the MFA in Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in contemporary poetry\, with a special focus on transcultural and transmedia contexts. He received the Award for Young Artist (Arts Criticism) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2025. He was the winner of the inaugural essay prize of Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing in 2022 and runner-up for that of Women: A Cultural Review in 2023. He was also shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize in 2023. He holds a PhD in English from the University of York.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-historical-survey-of-hong-kong-anglophone-poetry/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250904T180000
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SUMMARY:Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About…
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Hutton – Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/47/Professor_Christopher_Hutton) || Don Kulick – Visiting Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nProfessors Chris Hutton and Don Kulick will present the chapters they have written for a book of short essays on language\, politics and power titled Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About… \nChris will talk about definition and the legal and social controversies surrounding authority over meaning. Future cultural historians will no doubt remark on the contemporary phase of ‘gotcha’ questioning in western political life\, when politicians and activists are asked to define the word woman (though rarely\, if at all\, the word man)\, or are required to explain how many sexes or genders there are. One notable feature of these controversies is the novel alignment between conservatives and so-called gender-critical feminists. A second is the resort to law\, making judges the uncomfortable arbiters of contentious public meanings\, as in the recent UK Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v the Scottish Ministers (2025).The question is: can disputes about meaning be settled by appeals to definition? \nDon will discuss the lust for naming among asexuals\, which is endlessly generative and which produces identity labels like myrsexual\, which asexuals.net explains as “Someone who…is on the asexual spectrum but might feel confused as to where exactly as they can experience multiple asexual identities at once. They can also rapidly fluctuate”. Or aegosexual\, “also (previously) known as autochorissexual. This label describes people on the asexual spectrum who have a disconnection between themself and the subject of arousal”. What does the invention and proliferation of such labels mean? What do they tell us about how identity is being articulated at the current moment\, the end of the 2020s?  \n ||  \nBiography\nChris Hutton is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a BA in Modern Languages (1980)\, a DPhil in General Linguistics from the University of Oxford (1988)\, an MA in Linguistics and Yiddish Studies from Columbia University\, New York (1985)\, and an LLB from Manchester Metropolitan University (2008). He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin from 1987-1989 before moving to Hong Kong. His research is concerned with the politics of language and linguistics\, particularly in the context of law\, and the history of Western linguistics in its relationship with race theory. His most recent book is The People that Never Were (OUP\, 2025). \nDon Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and Visiting Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His most recent books are two co-edited anthologies: Changing Vulnerability (with Michel Naepels\, School of Advanced Research Press\, 2026) and Clashing Vulnerabilities: Disability and Conflict (with Simo Vehmas\, Routledge\, 2026). He is currently directing a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant titled “Out of Sight”\, on people who are made to be\, or who want to be\, invisible.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/lets-stop-talking-bollocks-about/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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