Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts
by Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner (The City University of New York)
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“Make Migration Great Again: Discourse Ethnography on the Double-bind for Migrant Teachers in Germany”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Yalız Akbaba - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (https://www.schulpaedagogik.uni-mainz.de/yalz-akbaba-m-a/) Abstract German discourses about migrants’ children in schools usually insinuate educational problems, social deviances and cultural incommensurability. Interestingly, this stigma […]
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“Charles Dickens, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel.”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. Ian Duncan - The University of California, Berkeley (https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/21) Abstract The enormous cultural prestige of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory has eclipsed earlier and alternative versions of nineteenth-century evolutionary science, […]
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What’s the Matter? Thinking with Shakespeare’s Stuff
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Helen Smith - University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/helen-smith/) Abstract 'What's the matter?', Polonius asks Hamlet. But what exactly does he mean? This paper gets to grips with early modern understandings […]
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“Below the Line: The Construction of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ in YouTube Comments”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUJohn Scott Daly - The University of Hong Kong Abstract Using a critical discourse studies approach, here I analyse YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street, a Channel […]
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“Her Shadow: Killing Off the Female Double in Realist and Gothic Fiction”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUNatalie Mo - The University of Hong Kong Abstract The doppelganger is a recurring character across literary history. Within nineteenth-century British literature, it is most commonly associated with gothic fiction […]
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“Replotting the Harlot’s Progress: Motherhood and Moral Agency in Gaskell’s Ruth”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUAnneliese Ng - The University of Hong Kong Abstract This talk examines how Elizabeth Gaskell offers an alternative plot for the fallen woman in her 1853 novel Ruth. Gaskell reworks the […]
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Auditor Design and Digital Surveillance
by Professor Rodney H. Jones (University of Reading)
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