• Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Chris Patterson - Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University (http://hum.hkbu.edu.hk/staff.php?staff_class=ts&staff_id=41) Abstract This presentation will discuss the major concepts of Dr. Patterson’s book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone […]

  • Samoan ghost stories: John Kneubuhl and oral history

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Otto Heim - School of English, The University of Hong Kong Abstract Hailed as "the spiritual father of Pacific Island theatre" (Balme 2007: 194), John Kneubuhl is best known […]

  • Building Memory: Digital Place-Making in Zuni Icosahedron’s Architecture of the City

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Joanna Mansbridge - Department of English, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/joanna-gwen-mansbridge(976997ed-c96f-4ba4-9053-ed96c55ff62c).html) Abstract This talk emerges from two central questions: How do performance and performance technologies participate in constructing alternative spaces and […]

  • ‘An act of welcome’: writing as hospitality in Refugee Tales (2016)

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr. Harriet Hulme - Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme) Abstract In Refugee Tales, its editor David Herd suggests that the asylum process symbolically dehumanises […]

  • Why Verse? Aurora Leigh and the Rise of the Verse-Novel

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Mr. Chan Man Long Johnson - RPg, School of English, The University of Hong Kong Abstract In 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her masterpiece Aurora Leigh, her “novel-poem” conceived as […]

  • Language and The Problem of Women’s Authority

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Prof. Deborah Cameron - Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-deborah-cameron) Abstract The under-representation of women in public discourse and public life—in politics, in the corporate world, […]