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  • 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, […]

  • Modernity and Mechanical Reproduction in Gift-Annual Poetry

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

    Dr Clara Dawson - The University of Manchester Abstract This paper addresses the absence of gift-annual poetry from critical accounts of the transition from Romantic to Victorian aesthetics. The close […]

  • Internationalising Drama

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

    Dr Peter Jordan - City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/peter-edward-rees-jordan(8c512b7d-e06c-441f-a886-528f7d22580f).html) Abstract Live drama performance encompasses many forms not only as an art, but also in diverse applications, such as, public […]