Mr James Shea - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract This talk explores the development of Hong Kong poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the prism of […]
Dr Todd L. Sandel - University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract WeChat is a popular social media application developed in China and designed for the mobile phone. Users may send and […]
by Dr. Nicholas Ian Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
Dr Otto Heim - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) Abstract This paper is concerned with what Rob Nixon identifies as the representational challenges and imaginative dilemmas posed by slow violence, […]
by Ms. Anya Adair (The University of Sydney)
Dr Ivan Delazari - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://buhk.me/category/ivan-delazari/) Abstract “Cartesian Sonata” (1998), a novella by William H. Gass (b. 1924), is assembled of three sections, which were previously published […]
Mr Aaron Anfinson - School of English, HKU Abstract Since 2001, Muslim minority communities have been subjected to disproportionate disciplinary State power, surveillance and legislation. Through the identity politics of […]
Ms Jenn Gresham - School of English, HKU Abstract In their classic analysis of the James Bond phenomenon, Bennett and Woollacott argue that the release of Goldfinger in 1964 “saw the establishment […]
by Professor Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Co-organising with the Department of Linguistics
