• The Human Face of Money: the good, the bad and the beautiful

    via Zoom

    Professor Annabelle Mooney - University of Roehampton, UK (https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/annabelle-mooney) Abstract While it is often said that ‘money talks’, money is not usually discussed in very human terms. This paper argues […]

  • e-SS23 Welcome Video

    The Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 organizing committee welcomes you all virtually to the e-SS23 with our welcome video. 

  • Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

    The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 12:00nn) and mock lectures on English literature (12:30pm), and English linguistics (2:00pm)!

    We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.

  • (Gay) Panic Attack

    Professor David Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
    9:30am
    Room 434, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)
    Streamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link

  • ‘Take and Write These Words in Butter’: Reading and Writing Healing Words in Medieval England

    via Zoom

    Dr Katherine Hindley - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=KHINDLEY&CategoryDescription=literature) Abstract In medieval England, written words were expected to physically change the world. Written charms could heal disease or protect people from […]

  • TBC

    via Zoom

    Dr Chris Heffer - Cardiff University, UK

  • Two Seminars by HKU School of English – Research Postgraduate Students

    via Zoom

    Gloria Dou - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Xuekun Liu - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) Abstract Pride before profit: language policing on Carousell, an online classified platform […]