Events
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“Silas Mullett His Book His Hand & Pen”: an unpublished MS song & ballad collection from 1806
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Simon Alderson - Cygnet Communications Ltd (https://www.cygnet.com.hk/about.html) Abstract For a number of reasons, the English ballad and popular song have always stood in an uncomfortable relationship with traditional literary […]
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‘Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Room CRT-7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Miles Link - Department of English, Fudan University Abstract After Adam and Eve’s temptation in John Milton’s biblical epic Paradise Lost, the Earth is drastically altered to reflect humans’ fallen […]
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A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets – Hardy, Field, Meynell, Kipling
Room CRT-7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Isobel Armstrong - Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) Abstract Generally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets, mainly male, in critical discussion, I […]
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Englishes, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Johan van der Auwera - Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/) Abstract The talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites, i.e., the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing, […]
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From Diamonds to Samosas: The Uneven ‘Global’ Diffusion of Parsi Theatre
by Dr. Rashna Nicholson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
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The World of the Play: Theatre as “Re-Creation”
by Dr. Michael Bennett (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
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Filial Power
by Dr. Arifani Moyo (Royal Holloway University of London)
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The Modernist Theatrum Mundi: Jean Cocteau’s Around-the-World Performance
by Dr. Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University)
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Saying and Renunciation in Chang Chung-yuan’s Commentary to the Dao De Jing
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Johan Siebers - Religious Studies Unit, Middlesex University London (https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/siebers-johan) Abstract One of the most conspicuous aspects of the Dao De Jing is its negative view of language. Language […]
