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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 504576)
DESCRIPTION:Applications close:  Oct 31\, 2021 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-english-language-and-linguistics-ref-504576/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210611
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SUMMARY:Sociolinguistics Symposium 23
DESCRIPTION:As a premier gathering of international sociolinguists\, this biennial event has emerged as a unique and innovative forum to develop and exchange new ideas\, broaden the scope of the discipline\, and create new academic networks. \nClosing Remarks by Organizing Committee
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sociolinguistics-symposium-23/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210603
DTSTAMP:20210505T113744Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Tourism Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:“Asia’s last ocean frontier”: tourist imaginaries and trajectories of development in the Myeik Archipelago\, Myanmar (Burma) \nSean P. Smith\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \n“Asia’s last ocean frontier”: tourist imaginaries and trajectories of development in the Myeik Archipelago\, Myanmar (Burma)\nSean P. Smith\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\n2 June 2021\n15:30 – 17:00\nZoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU \nPrior to the pandemic and the February 2021 coup in Myanmar (Burma)\, the Myeik (Mergui) Archipelago was among Asia’s most mythologized tourism destinations. With largely undeveloped tropical islands\, a nomadic indigenous group\, and a near-absence of tourists\, this chain of 800 islands off Myanmar’s southernmost coast was seen as “untouched\,” incarnating one of the most powerful and durable imaginaries in global tourism. Yet the archipelago is no paradise: decades of poorly regulated fishing\, the persecution and forced settlement of the indigenous Moken\, and a surge of development more clearly define the region as a frontier into which tourism is rapidly expanding. The contrast between these realities and the imaginary of an “untouched” Myeik Archipelago implicates tourist imaginaries in the territorialization and development of tourism frontiers. By drawing on historical representations\, participant observation of a tour in the archipelago\, netnographic data\, and interviews with tourists\, “untouched” imaginaries are shown to mobilize the ongoing commodification of land and people and to obscure extant or resulting inequalities. As debates about sustainable tourism gain momentum in the wake of COVID-19\, this talk makes a case for centralizing tourist imaginaries in charting alternative developmental pathways. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94234728552?pwd=ZUJLRml6c1dDQXgwMmxzSjNkeHlhQT09 \nMeeting ID: 942 3472 8552\nPassword: 598824 \n ||  \nPoster
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-tourism-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210528
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SUMMARY:HKU TPG Scholarship for UG Class of 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Master of Arts in English Studies and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English offered by the School of English are on the programme list.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-tpg-scholarship-for-ug-class-of-2021/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210527
DTSTAMP:20260917T091503Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2021-2023 Part-time \nExtended Deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 30\, 2021
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-3/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210526
DTSTAMP:20210512T121832Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual JUPAS Information Day 2021 (Faculty of Arts) and Live Chat Session with School of English
DESCRIPTION:Prospective students are welcome to register for the Virtual JUPAS Information Day on May 25\, 2021 (Tuesday)\, and join our School’s live chat session. \nAdditional Content\nProspective students are welcome to register for the Virtual JUPAS Information Day on May 25\, 2021 (Tuesday)\, and join our School’s live chat session: \nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. \n\n\nUnderstanding BA Curriculum\n			By Dr. Song Gang\, Associate Dean (Undergraduate) \n\n\n\n\n11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. \n\n\nLive Chat Session with School of English (via Zoom)\n			By Dr. Elizabeth Ho (UG Coordinator) and student representatives \n\n\n\n\n  \nRegistration required – please register by May 23\, 2021 via this link: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Sv3MhGqbqciuoe \nSee you there!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/virtual-jupas-information-day-2021-faculty-of-arts-and-live-chat-session-with-school-of-english/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210523
DTSTAMP:20210505T161509Z
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SUMMARY:The 3rd Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Oral Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Projects\nPlease visit here for the MAES student creative projects. (only access with HKU portal)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-3rd-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210429T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210429T180000
DTSTAMP:20210126T112252Z
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Man Ka Sinead Kwok – The University of Hong Kong || Shellie Hester Audsley – The University of Hong Kong || Xiaowei Li – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nTranslation in Signs: Semiology and Semiotics\nMs. Sinead Kwok\nWhile it may prima facie be regarded as a specialized and thus easily delineable activity\, translation is in fact a complex but fundamental activity constituted by its intricate connections with signs\, language and communication. This talk will compare three conceptualizations of signs in terms of their explanations of translation. One deep-seated sign that has corroborated translation theories for the longest time is the bipartite linguistic sign consisting of a form and a meaning; this sign has occupied a principal position from as early as the classical period and has become hackneyed since the Saussurean-semiological formulation was put forward. Gaining traction in recent decades is the semiotic sign\, which is purported to rid translation theories of their linguistic bias and offer a more dynamic account. This talk will instead propose an integrational-semiological sign as an alternative that will better illuminate translation by emancipating it from the abstract sign i.e.\, the stale semiological sign and the semiotic sign. \n\nLyricity and the Sublime in Byron’s “The Dream”\nMs. Shellie Hester Audsley\nIn light of the recent debate on the applicability of narratology in the study of the lyric\, this paper approaches Byron’s personal lyric\, “The Dream”\, with an attention to its lyric-narrative synthesis. By adapting Peter Hühn’s schema-based theory of eventfulness for the evaluation of the poem’s idealized representation of mental processes—particularly against the Wordsworthian tradition—I uncover Byron’s systematic inversion of lyric epiphany and the rendering of the sublime as narrative (anti)climax. This paper argues that narrative sequentiality is integrated with the lyric form to embody the poet’s conception of the sublime as well as to strengthen\, instead of undermine\, the poem’s lyricity. \n  \nSmart and Sassy: Construction of a Disabled Lesbian Persona\nMs. Xiaowei May Li\nDrawing on data from across multiple social media platforms\, this study investigates the identity construction of a self-identified\, disabled\, lesbian vlogger named Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. In my talk\, I focus on how she mobilizes verbal and visual semiotic resources to present herself as a “smart and sassy” ambassador for the LGBTQ+ and disabled communities. In particular\, I explore her construction of and stancetaking in two apparent\, imagined communities: an “in-group”\, conceived as a community of disabled and queer people\, and an “out-group”\, conceived as all the people espousing hegemonic able- and hetero-normative ideologies. These two groups constitute what DuBois (2007) calls the “stance object”\, and JKF aligns herself with the former through the celebratory stance and disaligns herself with the latter through the agonistic stance. She uses humor\, kinship terms and hashtags to enact the celebratory stance\, and varidirectional voicing (Bakhtin\, 1984) of her purported adversaries’ voices to enact the agonistic stance. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96718590457?pwd=REFUN3FmS2hCTnJ0ZklhdWlZSVhRUT09     \nMeeting ID: 967 1859 0457\nPassword: 940253 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/postgraduate-session-2/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210422T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210422T180000
DTSTAMP:20210126T112014Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Revolutions Out of Reach
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yanbing Er – Department of English Language & Literature\, National University of Singapore (https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elley/) \nAbstract\nHow might a feminist revolution be theorized to account for its dissonant coordinates of spatial and temporal struggle? In response to this question\, this talk develops what I call a feminist revolution out of reach: a concept that registers the transnational and transtemporal geometries intrinsic to a feminist revolution\, which are destined to remain perpetually beyond knowable grasp. I show how this concept takes shape in an analysis of Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being\, through which a revolutionary modality characterized by its multiple vanishing points is revealed. To this end\, this talk articulates another way of reading and representing a feminist revolution\, written both into and out of existence by literary strategies\, and fundamentally beyond reach in its true eventfulness. \n ||  \nBiography\nYanbing Er is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. Working at the intersections of feminist theory\, affect studies\, and twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture\, she is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Feminism Enchanted. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98778746417?pwd=a2NBR2FHRGg4dis4dkNlZ1hjWlZyZz09 \nMeeting ID: 987 7874 6417\nPassword: 558532 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/feminist-revolutions-out-of-reach/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210415T180000
DTSTAMP:20210126T111838Z
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SUMMARY:Engaging Future Parents: Activist Biocitizenship Practices and Intersex Transgression
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian King – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) \nAbstract\nThis study aims to explore a more fully theorised concept of biocitizenship as part of the teaching of intersex in critical approaches to sex education. In this more fully theorised version\, the options for students\, as future parents\, are not limited to compliance with biomedicine; rather\, formal education experiences might prepare them to be neighbours and parents who\, as allies of intersex family/community members\, can engage in political activism to effect change where deemed necessary. Drawn from a research project based in an Aotearoa/New Zealand secondary school\, the data is classroom talk. Transcripts of audio-recorded classroom interactions will be analysed using a version of critical discourse analysis that expands the attention paid to semiotic modes such as visual cues of bodies as well as affect. The findings reveal that biocitizenship can also include those who accept intersex bodies\, altering established practices to accommodate those bodies and the people who live them. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Brian W. King is a critical sociolinguist who researches the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity\, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within sexuality education\, healthcare communication\, computer-mediated communication\, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically he draws on a number of traditions\, including interactional sociolinguistics\, corpus linguistics\, linguistic anthropology\, and critical discourse studies. Brian leads the Communicating Sex Variation Research Cluster (CSV) in the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (RIICH) an interdisciplinary\, international collaboration housed in HKU's Faculty of Arts. He is a member of the board of trustees of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ)\, which strives to advocate dignity\, diversity and choice for people born with intersex traits. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97849120228?pwd=YlFJTTBFSDVzVU5VSkNGaU0yV3lCUT09 \nMeeting ID: 978 4912 0228\nPassword: 109158 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/engaging-future-parents-activist-biocitizenship-practices-and-intersex-transgression/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210408T093000
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SUMMARY:Deep Culture Memory: Performance and the Archive of Identity
DESCRIPTION:Professor Odai Johnson – School of Drama\, University of Washington (https://drama.washington.edu/people/odai-johnson) \n9:30 am \nAbstract\nThis talk explores how lost performance traditions of the past carried forward and bequeathed attitudes of the older world long after the performances themselves ceased. The archiving impulse of performance endured longer than the form itself and continues to shape cultural notions of identity; we know this from familiar tropes\, like black-face minstrel shows of the 19th century\, still emitting toxic notions of race a century after the form was discontinued. This talk will trace the long history of an older\, equally toxic memory that performance preserved: Crusader cannibalism. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Odai Johnson is a widely published historian of past performance traditions. His most recent book is Ruins: Classical Theatre and Broken Memory ​(2018). This talk is from his current book project\, The Size of All That's Missing: Lost Performance and Deep Culture Memory. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96265927457?pwd=YWU2dWtlNG0veEl1b2k0ZXFjb3ZYZz09     \nMeeting ID: 962 6592 7457\nPassword: 692902 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/deep-culture-memory-performance-and-the-archive-of-identity/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T180000
DTSTAMP:20210126T111401Z
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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Disjunctures: Variable Understandings of "Mother Tongue" in an Indian Higher Education Institute
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar (https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/hss/fac-nishaant) \nAbstract\nThe idea of ‘mother tongue’ is ubiquitous in South Asia\, both in policy and in people’s common-sense understanding of language. However\, in a highly plurilingual environment\, the concept of "mother tongue" is far from fixed and is articulated through a range of variable ideological positions that depend on one’s sociolinguistic location at particular moments in time. This talk will explore how students at a national higher education institution in western India\, who come from diverse linguistic backgrounds\, conceive of the idea of ‘mother tongue’ as they navigate (many for the first time) English-dominant education and manage their relations with peers from different regions. In the talk\, it is argued that the sociolinguistic milieu of the higher education institute affords possibilities for identification that are different from conventional understandings of "mother tongue." Within such a milieu\, spaces of “sociolinguistic disjuncture” (Meek 2010)\, where more creative linguistic practices result\, can emerge. \n**The ​research for this talk is done in collaboration with Chaise Ladousa (Hamilton College) and Christina Davis (Western Illinois University) \n ||  \nBiography\nNishaant Choksi received his PhD from University of Michigan in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar in Gujarat\, India. His research interests include the study of script\, writing\, language ideology\, education\, semiotics\, and indigenous communities in South Asia. He has published in journals such as Journal of Linguistic Anthropology\, Language and Society\, and Modern Asian Studies. His monograph\, Graphic Politics in eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy has recently been published by Bloomsbury. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93936175675?pwd=QVY5QURxVGdRYnhrVDVCY1pRVElFQT09 \nMeeting ID: 939 3617 5675\nPassword: 300995 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/postcolonial-disjunctures-variable-understandings-of-mother-tongue-in-an-indian-higher-education-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210325T163000
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SUMMARY:“High culture at street level”:  Oslo’s Ibsen Sitat and the ethos of egalitarian nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Professor Adam Jaworski – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor_Adam_Jaworski) \nAbstract\nTraditional monuments and commemorative structures used to be tall and domineering. Since the middle of the 20th century\, monuments have had their verticality diminished\, and their design has become more abstract\, or linguistic. In this talk\, I examine the three-dimensional semiotics of Ibsen Sitat\, a street-level monument commemorating Henrik Ibsen and his writing. The monument consists of 69 quotations from Ibsen’s plays embedded in the pavement of Oslo’s city centre. I suggest that\, as a national symbol\, the monument’s placement at street level espouses an egalitarian or democratic nationalist ethos\, in contrast\, for example\, to the aloof\, sacralised Norwegian flags flying atop of the grand\, state/ly buildings surrounding Ibsen Sitat. \n ||  \nBiography\nAdam Jaworski obtained his PhD (1985) and DPhil (1991) in English sociolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University\, Poznań\, where he taught as Assistant Professor until 1991. Between 1991–1992 he was Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck\, University of London. In 1993 he moved to the Centre for Language and Communication Research\, Cardiff University and in 2012 he joined the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include discursive and multimodal approaches to tourism\, mobility and globalization; display of languages in space; media discourse; nonverbal communication; and text-based art. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92561092574?pwd=bVZQVlowWDVlbm0wdFc2YjdtdnlKUT09 \nMeeting ID: 925 6109 2574\nPassword: 417749 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/high-culture-at-street-level-oslos-ibsen-sitat-and-the-ethos-of-egalitarian-nationalism/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210318T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210318T180000
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Mr. John Scott Daly – The University of Hong Kong || Ms. Giulia Usai – The University of Hong Kong || Mr. Sean Philip Smith  – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nInterdiscursive Intersections: Social Class\, Citizenship and Migration in YouTube Comments\nMr. John Scott Daly\nYouTube’s comment feature provides the affordance of persistent interdiscursivity\, as commenters can build on and intensify public debates with utterances that remain visible over time. Responding to an episode of Benefits Street\, a British documentary about welfare recipients\, commenters draw on and reinforce well-established discourses of social class\, welfare\, citizenship\, and migration to invoke two opposing characters: ‘the demotivated British citizen on welfare’ and ‘the ambitious migrant’. These polarised and polarising stereotypes help to shape and reinforce neoliberal\, post-welfare ideologies by painting welfare as stultifying and precarious mobility as motivational. \nAnalysing the ways these tropes and categories intersect in the comments provides insight into processes of social media polarisation. When sketching two opposing characters\, certain conflations are effected; for example\, ‘welfare as privilege’ and ‘migration as rebranding’. As the perception of social cohesion is integral for supporting the welfare state\, these polarising stereotypes can bring material consequences. \nThalassocorpographies: Conceptualising Mediterranean cinema in\nMy Love Awaits Me by the Sea and My Home\, in Libya\nMs. Giulia Usai\nAlthough the last two decades have seen an increased popularity of films with a Mediterranean setting\, the term Mediterranean cinema is often used descriptively and has rarely been conceptualized analytically. A geographical location\, however\, has a relevant impact on the film-making process\, the aesthetics\, and the creation of meaning of a cinematic work. This talk examines two documentaries\, My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Mais Darwazah\, 2013) and My Home\, in Libya (Martina Melilli\, 2018)\, envisioning them as part of a not-yet theorised Mediterranean film genre\, and exploring the ways in which the concept of the sea as borderscape is articulated on screen. If human movements across the Mediterranean tend to be visually narrated only within a Eurocentric framework – as migratory flows oriented towards the northern shore of the sea – these films\, on the other hand\, depict a variety of encounters\, trajectories and histories that are embodied and inscribed by individuals across the seascape\, and they investigate the role this space plays in challenging interpretations of identity and belonging as seen through a nation-state perspective. \nIn Search of the ‘Untouched’: How Tourist Discourses Facilitate Development\nMr. Sean Philip Smith\nWhen the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (Burma) began a transition from military dictatorship to civilian-led government\, a tourism boom ensued. From 2012 tourists sped to Myanmar in the interest of visiting a place allegedly ‘untouched’ by tourism or globalization. Drawing on my thesis fieldwork\, in this talk I show that these discourses of the ‘untouched’ foster the creation of tourism frontiers\, spaces that are highly desired by tourists and by industry actors who seek to reap the wealth contained in frontiers. The case of Myanmar illustrates how discourse enables forms of development that\, throughout the spaces of global tourism\, have dispossessed local residents through enclosure\, commodification\, and extraction. As the people of Myanmar struggle against the February 1\, 2021 military coup\, this study suggests that without a revaluation of the ‘untouched’\, new frontiers for dispossessive development will be created as global tourism moves past the COVID-19 pandemic. \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91279251117?pwd=NVorcHFyZGJDc1lLRFA4b3VsWllDQT09   \nMeeting ID: 912 7925 1117\nPassword: 218893 \nPlease note that the Live broadcast will be CANCELLED in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/postgraduate-session-1/
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SUMMARY:‘Purifying’ Hindi translanguaging from English and Urdu emblems: A sociolinguistic decolonisation of the Hindu right?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jaspal Singh – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/62/Dr_Jaspal_Singh) \nAbstract\nAs the right-wing Hindutva (Hinduness) movement is gaining political momentum\, exclusionary\, racist and nationalistic ideologies and practices become normalised and mainstreamed across Indian cultural spheres. Hindu enthusiasts\, both from the higher echelons of society and from the grassroots\, have made significant progress with ‘purifying’ social\, political\, legal\, discursive and sociolinguistic practices in everyday life by purging emblems perceived as un-Indian or anti-national. Their vision is to create a new Hindu Rashtra\, a Hindu Nation with the name of Bharat\, in the near future. I discuss several sociolinguistic ‘purifications’ of Hindi translanguaging; i.e. moments in which metapragmatic efforts are made to speak/write/learn a ‘pure’ (shuddh) register of Hindi\, which is free from what are perceived as historical impurities caused by Islamic rule (indexed by ‘Urdu’) and British colonialism (indexed by ‘English’). \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Jaspal Naveel Singh is a sociolinguist and linguistic ethnographer. His PhD thesis explored voice and narrative in hip hop dance\, music and art in Delhi\, India. Prior to coming to the University of Hong Kong\, he taught at Cardiff University in Wales\, UK\, and at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz\, Germany. He disseminated his research at numerous academic conferences and lectures across the world and through academic publications. Jaspal works ethnographically and is interested in the complex interconnections between language (languaging) and culture (transculturation). He takes inspiration from sociolinguistics\, discourse studies\, classic western and eastern philosophy\, hip hop and other Black diasporic traditions\, to arrive at a type of research that complexifies standard approaches in the social sciences and problematises research ethics and common-sense writing strategies. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93673208332?pwd=bExaRzRQakRjL2czVDB4UndBdDNWdz09 \nMeeting ID: 936 7320 8332\nPassword: 319501 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/purifying-hindi-translanguaging-from-english-and-urdu-emblems-a-sociolinguistic-decolonisation-of-the-hindu-right/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210303
DTSTAMP:20210216T153004Z
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SUMMARY:The 3rd International E-symposium on Communication in Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Advancing Frontiers of Health Communication Research\, Education and Practice during the Pandemic \nThe 3rd International E-symposium on Communication in Health Care\nAdvancing Frontiers of Health Communication Research\, Education and Practice during the Pandemic\nDate: 1 – 2 March 2021\nTime: 0900 – 1900 HKT (please refer to the programme provided later for exact details) \nVenue: All presentations are conducted via Zoom \nIn no other time has effective health communication been as critical as during the ongoing health pandemic of COVID-19. A massive flow of ever-changing information\, conflicting views and advice\, and uncertainty and anxiety among the world’s populations have challenged many well-established practices of effective health communication. Medical and healthcare professionals face the daily reality of difficult conversations about deceases\, death and dying\, the need to establish rapport with patients and families in tele-medical consultations\, and extreme burnout\, among other challenges. Communication with chronically ill patients and those with acute diseases other than COVID-19 has been disrupted due to widespread restrictions on access to medical facilities and services. Medical educators have had to deal with new ways of providing students with practical exposure to real clinical contexts to achieve graduate competencies. Many medical students have been fast-tracked to graduation and had to join the frontline in this unprecedented fight. These are just a sample of the many issues brought to the fore by the pandemic. Meanwhile\, other critical issues related to effective health communication that have existed pre-pandemic\, have not gone away. \nHKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH) invites you to join us at the 3rd International E-Symposium on Communication in Health Care (co-organised by Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore) that will engage with critical issues in health communication pre-\, during and post- COVID-19. The two-day event brings together academics and practitioners from across relevant disciplines of health communication\, linguistics\, social sciences\, medical education\, and medicine to share their ongoing research and practical insights in a collaborative effort to address the challenges of health communication in the current times\, and what lessons could be learnt going forward.  \nHKU RIICH is a founding partner of the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare\n(IC4CH); other partners include the Australian National University\, Lancaster University\, Nanyang Technological University\, University College London\, and Queensland University of Technology. The consortium has been established with the aim to build a world-class collaboration between communication experts\, healthcare professionals and medical educators to translate health communication research to education and practice and to improve patient safety and the quality of healthcare practices around the world. For further details\, please visit www.hkuriich.org. \nLimited Seats. Registered Now.\nThose who successfully registered will receive an email with Zoom links three days before the event. Please visit www.hkuriich.org for the programme of the event. \nPlease download the poster here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-3rd-international-e-symposium-on-communication-in-health-care/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210225T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210225T180000
DTSTAMP:20210126T104917Z
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SUMMARY:Plagues\, barricades and the shadow of Spain: An historical exploration of language choice and identity in Gibraltar
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Weston – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/88/Dr_Daniel_Weston) \nAbstract\nThis talk will explore language use from a historical perspective in one of the few remaining British colonies: the Rock of Gibraltar. Located on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula\, Gibraltar has absorbed linguistic and cultural influences not just from the United Kingdom\, or neighbouring Spain\, but from a variety of places and peoples across the Mediterranean. We will see how British Gibraltar began its existence in the early 18th century as a melting pot of languages and peoples\, and how it developed into a territory whose citizens are bilingual in Spanish and English. Particular attention will be paid to the territory’s fractious relationship with Spain\, as well as the impact of specific historical events (plague\, sieges\, war) on local processes of identity formation and language choice. \n ||  \nBiography\nDaniel Weston read English Language and Literature at BA level at the University of Oxford\, and obtained his MPhil and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to taking up a position at HKU\, he was employed at Birkbeck University of London\, Portsmouth University\, and\, latterly\, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His research interests include bilingual pragmatics (code-switching)\, World Englishes (specifically English dialect development)\, and the discourse analysis of gatekeeping encounters. He has published in a variety of journals on these subject areas. He is currently collaborating with the University of Cambridge on a project examining the communicative effectiveness of the undergraduate admissions interview. To this end\, he is also an affiliate and visiting scholar at the Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98819720687?pwd=Mm03ZDJqRW8xdzlrRzA1bEhwL0ZsZz09  \nMeeting ID: 988 1972 0687\nPassword: 520528 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/plagues-barricades-and-the-shadow-of-spain-an-historical-exploration-of-language-choice-and-identity-in-gibraltar/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210114
DTSTAMP:20210113T112509Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2\, 2020-21
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2020-21/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210106T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210108T170000
DTSTAMP:20210106T153745Z
CREATED:20210106T153745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210106T153745Z
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SUMMARY:test
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/test/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201222
DTSTAMP:20201215T114241Z
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SUMMARY:Gender/Democracy/ Diversity: “I’m losing my sanity!”: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health of ‘Working Mothers’
DESCRIPTION:Please register at https://forms.gle/M17dpP6yRbjCEsHx6 for Zoom Meeting ID\nFor enquiries\, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/gender-democracy-diversity-im-losing-my-sanity-the-impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-mental-health-of-working-mothers/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201126T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201126T180000
DTSTAMP:20200930T110736Z
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SUMMARY:Two Seminars by HKU School of English - Research Postgraduate Students
DESCRIPTION: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) \nAbstract\nPride before profit: language policing on Carousell\, an online classified platform in Hong Kong \nMs. Gloria Dou  \nIn this talk\, I investigate the direct communication that takes place between sellers and buyers on Carousell\, an online classified platform in Hong Kong. Drawing upon digital ethnographic and discourse analytic methods\, I demonstrate how Carousellers contest and rework the language ideologies of Hong Kong by positioning themselves as Cantonese-speaking\, ‘legitimate’ holders of authenticity whilst othering those who are accused of being ‘inauthentic’ in their speech because they insist on typing in English or simplified Chinese in mediated transactions. Exploring the co-occurrence of pride and profit in the discourses of globalized new economy\, typically situated in the global-local nexus\, I discuss how this bottom-up approach adds to the current literature.  \nHomonationalist and homocolonialist discourses in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests: Online evaluations and representations of LGBT rights \nMr. Xuekun Liu  \nIn this talk\, I introduce one case study from my PhD research project where I examine how some protesters perceived LGBT rights during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protest movement. Discourse analysis is deployed to scrutinize one discussion thread on the online forum LIHKG\, a thread mainly addressing the topic of an event announced as “protesting with you on Hong Kong tongzhi parade”. The analysis focuses on how participants in the discussion thread evaluate and represent the event\, LGBT rights\, and the dyads of supporters/opponents of the activity\, pro-democracy/pro-establishment Hong Kong citizens\, and Hong Kong/Mainland people. The findings illuminate that while most participants use the discourse of freedom and democracy to express their support for LGBT rights and contest hegemonic heteronormative and heterosexist values\, they largely enact and reproduce homonationalist and homocolonialist discourses\, which\, I argue\, can potentially limit the LGBT rights movement in Hong Kong.  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97785689803?pwd=eC9NT2R5bm53ZElrN3BhYmRvVk5tZz09  \nMeeting ID: 977 8568 9803\nPassword: 815580 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/two-seminars-by-hku-school-of-english-research-postgraduate-students/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201119T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201119T180000
DTSTAMP:20200930T110558Z
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SUMMARY:‘The power of expression’: typography\, politics and place in late capitalist city branding
DESCRIPTION:Dr Johan Järlehed – University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/johanjarlehed) || Ms Maryam Fanni – University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/maryamfanni) \nAbstract\nIn this paper\, we are interested in how city fonts\, as part of place-making practices\, work to sustain social difference and cohesion\, and we examine the ideologies that resonate both in their graphic form and in the design and promotional discourses that surround them. How are these fonts\, and typographic forms in general linked to place? 'Place' is then seen as an eminently social construct\, linking and ascribing cultural\, historical and political qualities to a specific geographic locale (Warnaby & Medway 2013). We are particularly interested in the ways in which politics is conditioning and being articulated in discursively mediated processes of linking type to place. What ‘graphic ideologies’ (Spitzmüller 2015) are invested in the city fonts and in the discursive and material place-making that they are being engaged in? In order to pursue this aim and answer the questions\, we build on the increasing body of work in sociolinguistics\, social semiotics and critical (type) design studies that conceptualize typography as a social practice and semiotic technology closely linked to ideology. The paper focuses on two city fonts: TilburgsAns by Sander Neijnens and Ivo van Leeuwen (2016) and Dubai Font by a Monotype team led by Nadine Chahine (2017). The two fonts are different in a number of ways and illustrate the complexities of typographic place-making and branding.  \n ||  \nBiography\nJohan Järlehed is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg\, Sweden. His research centres on the interaction of language\, images and space in processes of social change. To investigate this\, Johan works primarily with social-semiotic\, discourse-analytic and ethnographic concepts and methods.  \nMaryam Fanni is a graphic designer based in Stockholm and Gothenburg\, Sweden. PhD student at HDK Academy of Design and Crafts\, University of Gothenburg. Co-founder and member of collectives MMS\, SIFAV and Mapping the Unjust City.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97376993804?pwd=bDY4ZUlsY09GVWdkM2ZUTmI4UEU4Zz09  \nMeeting ID: 973 7699 3804\nPassword: 947310 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-power-of-expression-typography-politics-and-place-in-late-capitalist-city-branding/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201112T180000
DTSTAMP:20200930T110353Z
CREATED:20200930T110353Z
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SUMMARY:TBC
DESCRIPTION:Dr Chris Heffer – Cardiff University\, UK
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tbc/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTSTAMP:20201106T143955Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2021-2022 Full-time / 2021-2023 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 26\, 2021
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201105T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201105T180000
DTSTAMP:20200930T105834Z
CREATED:20200930T105834Z
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SUMMARY:‘Take and Write These Words in Butter’: Reading and Writing Healing Words in Medieval England
DESCRIPTION:Dr Katherine Hindley – Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore (http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=KHINDLEY&CategoryDescription=literature) \nAbstract\nIn medieval England\, written words were expected to physically change the world. Written charms could heal disease or protect people from harm\, often without being read or even seen. Instead\, they might be dissolved into water and drunk\, sealed and hung around a patient's neck\, inscribed on food and eaten\, or written directly onto the body. Drawing on a collection of more than a thousand medieval charms\, this talk explores words at their most powerful\, highlighting complex relationships between orality\, textual materiality\, and language.  \n ||  \nBiography\nKatherine Hindley is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature in the Division of English at NTU Singapore. She holds degrees in Medieval Studies and English from Yale and the University of Oxford. Her current research project examines medical and protective uses of spoken and written charms in medieval England\, with a particular focus on language and materiality. This research has been supported by the Medieval Academy of America\, the Bibliographical Society of America\, and Singapore's Ministry of Education\, among others. Katherine is also the Director of the London International Palaeography Summer School.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98790607246?pwd=UVJXZHJnc0w5Y2hVaDBGaXA1SmtUQT09  \nMeeting ID: 987 9060 7246 \nPassword: 165203 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/take-and-write-these-words-in-butter-reading-and-writing-healing-words-in-medieval-england/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201103
DTSTAMP:20201030T112143Z
CREATED:20201030T112143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T112143Z
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SUMMARY:(Gay) Panic Attack
DESCRIPTION:Professor David Eng\, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania\n9:30am\nRoom 434\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)\nStreamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/gay-panic-attack/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201101
DTSTAMP:20200918T174742Z
CREATED:20200918T174742Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020
DESCRIPTION: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)! \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \nAdditional Content\n \nThe Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31\, 2020 (Saturday).  \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \n\n\n\n\nSPEAKER\n \nVideo\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nIntroduction of the School of English\nPresented by School Head\, Professor Julia Kuehn \n\n\n\n\n \n\nInformation for Prospective Undergraduate Students\nPresented by Undergraduate Coordinator\, Dr Elizabeth Ho \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMock Lecture on English Literature: The Story of You\nPresented by Assistant Professor\, Dr Anya Adair \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMock Lecture on English Literature: “YOLO: An Ancient Theme”\nPresented by Assistant Professor\, Dr Anya Adair \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMock Lecture on English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication\,  \n			“What Is There in Life That Is Not Language?”\nPresented by Assistant Professor\, Dr. Jaspal Singh \n\n\n\n\n \nSchedule of Activities\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nActivity\nSpeaker\nLink\n\n\n10:00 am –\n			12:00 nn\n \n\nLive Chatroom on English Studies and Language & Communication Majors and Minors \nMore enquiries can be directed to english@hku.hk \n\nSchool Representatives\nJoin the live chatroom by registration here\n\n\n12:30 pm –\n			1:00 pm\n \nMock Lecture on English Literature:\n			“YOLO: An Ancient Theme”\nDr. Anya Adair\, Assistant Professor\nClick here\n\n\n2:00 pm –\n			2:30 pm\n \nMock Lecture on English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication\,  \n			“What Is There in Life That Is Not Language?”\nDr. Jaspal Singh\, Assistant Professor\nClick here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2020/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031
DTSTAMP:20201030T094433Z
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SUMMARY:e-SS23 Welcome Video
DESCRIPTION:The Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 organizing committee welcomes you all virtually to the e-SS23 with our welcome video. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/e-ss23-welcome-video/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201029T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201029T103000
DTSTAMP:20200930T105020Z
CREATED:20200930T105020Z
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SUMMARY:‘…no language at all’: Wales\, Welsh\, and British Imperialism\, Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Dr Matthew C. Jones – Northeastern University\, USA (https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/matthew-jones/) \n9am \nAbstract\nThe 1847 Reports of the Commissioners of Enquiry into the State of Education in Wales\, or the “Blue Books\,” declared that Wales was barbaric and backward\, and sufficiently so to warrant state intervention. The core of Wales’s inferior society was nurtured by the Welsh language\, which nurtured and perpetuated unhygienic behaviors\, poor motherhood practices\, and inveterate superstition. This despite mid-Victorian Wales witnessing high points of literacy and Nonconformist practice. Such phenomena urge us to ask: what are the effects on English readers of rhetorics that malign foreign cultures\, especially when those cultures cannot address the attacks’ falsities (66% of Wales was monoglot Welsh-speaking)? How can we consider these colonial practices in conjunction with contemporary state and popular Englishlanguage depictions of nineteenth-century Irish\, Indian\, Chinese\, and African life? And\, indeed\, how have such obscurations evolved into the neoliberal and Brexit eras? \n ||  \nBiography\nMatthew C. Jones is a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate at Northeastern University in Boston\, Massachusetts (USA)\, where he teaches writing seminars on twenty-first studenthood and citizenship. His research interests include Welsh literary and cultural histories\, religious studies\, and translation studies\, and these histories' influences on minority language rights and preservation today. His articles have appeared in European Romantic Review\, Church History\, BRANCH\, Romanticism on the Net\, and other venues. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98275030185?pwd=TDdmOHpKMGZxNzdhZ2NDVHA4QnByQT09  \nMeeting ID: 982 7503 0185\nPassword: 001152 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/no-language-at-all-wales-welsh-and-british-imperialism-then-and-now/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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