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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220115
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates and Teaching Mode (January 17-31) for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2 2021-22
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the teaching arrangement from January 17-31 ONLY. Please keep checking the course Moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-and-teaching-mode-january-17-31-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2021-22/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211223
DTSTAMP:20211222T150535Z
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SUMMARY:December's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne\nby Khadija Azhar\, Lok Hang Vincent Chu\, and Rajesh Panhathodi
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/decembers-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211212
DTSTAMP:20211206T113216Z
CREATED:20211206T113216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T113216Z
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SUMMARY:Exodus and Exile
DESCRIPTION:Migrants\, Refugees\, Asylum Seekers and the Problem of Slavery in the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds\, 1750-1850
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exodus-and-exile/
LOCATION:Chicago / Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211207
DTSTAMP:20260917T091508Z
CREATED:20211206T115840Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2022-2023 Full-time / 2022-2024 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 25\, 2022
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-4/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211125T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211125T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103801Z
CREATED:20210923T103801Z
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing English(es): which statues must fall and why?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mario Saraceni – Reader in English Language & Linguistics\, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics – University of Portsmouth (https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/mario-saraceni) \nAbstract\nDebates are being held about decolonization and on how to deal with anything associated with Empire and its violence\, from what is very visible – e.g.\, urban landscapes\, museums – to what is less visible\, e.g.\, the curriculum. The approach to visible imperial markers is essentially one of removal: statues of slave traders\, stolen artefacts\, etc. The approach to the decolonization of the curriculum is more complex as it involves dynamics of knowledge production/diffusion\, the dominance of a certain view of the world and the suppression of others. As knowledge and worldviews are expressed largely through language\, and as English is currently the most dominant language\, it makes sense to discuss ways in which English itself can/should be decolonized. And this is what I do in this talk. Given that the status of English as a ‘global’ language is deeply embedded in Empire\, oppression\, suppression and inequality\, the questions that I ask are: what does it mean to decolonize English? How has it been done so far? What else can be done? My answers will not be definite\, but they will offer food for thought. \n ||  \nBiography\nMario Saraceni is a Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth\, UK. He previously taught at Assumption University in Bangkok\, Thailand. His main academic interest is in the area of the ideologies\, representations and roles of English in the world. He has worked extensively in this field\, and his publications include The Relocation of English (Palgrave\, 2010) and World Englishes: A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury\, 2015\, winner of the 2016 BAAL Book Prize). He has recently edited the Bloomsbury World Englishes three-volume series: Paradigms\, Ideologies\, Pedagogies.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91471164097?pwd=VmdFVnBZUnhXL0VZWjQ3WWZVNGNtUT09 \nMeeting ID: 914 7116 4097\nPassword: 383261 \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/decolonizing-englishes-which-statues-must-fall-and-why/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211122T152748Z
CREATED:20211122T152748Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies
DESCRIPTION:Applications close: Mar 15\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-associate-professor-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211111T093942Z
CREATED:20211111T093942Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the Near Occasion:
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Don Mee Choi\, and Feminist Translation as Historiographic Practice \n  \nby Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-the-near-occasion/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 4.04\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211118T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103703Z
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SUMMARY:Stella Benson\, Transnational Crossing\, and the Unconsoled
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Klaudia Lee – Associate Professor\, Department of English – City University of Hong Kong (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/hiuylee.htm) \nAbstract\nIn the opening of the chapter titled 'Manila – Macao – Hongkong' in her travelogue-memoir The Little World (1925)\, British writer Stella Benson (1892–1933) writes that there are 'three ways of occupying an alien place – first\, to absorb; second\, to be absorbed; third\, neither to absorb nor to be absorbed' (42). This observation undoubtedly relates to her own journeys and experiences in various parts of the world including America\, China\, Japan\, the West Indies\, and Hong Kong (first as a young lady wanting to explore the world\, then as the wife of a colonial official who resided in Asia). In this talk\, I will explore Benson's poetics of mobility. \nBenson has long been marginalized in the literary history of a period that has until recently been dominated and defined by a few high-profile modernist writers\, including Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)\, whom Benson met and corresponded with. Focusing on Benson’s novels\, I will discuss how she appropriates\, and at times parodies\, the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism that has gained much currency since the mid-nineteenth century so as to draw attention to its limits\, and to pinpoint the deep sense of isolation felt by individuals in a seemingly connected yet detached world. By drawing reference to her unpublished diaries that were written in Hong Kong\, where she completed her last novel\, Tobit Transplanted (1931)\, I will also show how her life story reflects the efforts and struggles of a female writer who strived to preserve her writerly identity and sensibility in various volatile environments. \n ||  \nBiography\nKlaudia Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture\, spatiality\, translation and literature\, comparative and world literature. She published articles in international journals\, such as Journal of Victorian Culture\, Comparative Literature Studies\, English Studies and Victorian Periodicals Review. She is the author of Charles Dickens and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters\, 1895-1915 (Routledge\, 2017). She is currently working on a book project that explores the literary and journalistic connection between Hong Kong\, Britain\, and China from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92123437344?pwd=Z21wTVBta2hGdnlUOGdtUmdjRjIvUT09 \nMeeting ID: 921 2343 7344\nPassword: 789777 \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/stella-benson-transnational-crossing-and-the-unconsoled/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211112T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211112T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103606Z
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SUMMARY:Neo-Victorian Fashion in Singapore: The Intertwined Legacies of English Literature and Race
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Waiyee Loh – Assistant Professor of World Literature  – Kanagawa University\, Japan (https://www.waiyee-loh.com/) \nFriday 4:00pm \nAbstract\nThis paper examines the subcultural practices of young Singaporean women who dress up in highly stylised Victorian-inspired outfits as followers of Lolita fashion from Japan. Why do these women invest time\, effort\, and money in performing this highly mediated form of Victorian-ness\, and how does Singapore’s doubly colonial past as a former British and Japanese colony shape the fashion practices of these women? \nThis paper is based on interviews with a small group of Singaporean Lolita fans conducted in 2016 and 2019. While the sample size is not representative\, my interactions with the interviewees reveal that\, for this small group of women\, their choice of neo-Victorian fashion is inflected by the development and reification of racial thinking under both British and Japanese colonial rule\, from the early 19th century to the end of the Asia-Pacific War in 1945. While my interviewees profess an admiration for Englishness\, their desire for a physical mode of expressing this Englishness draws them to Japanese Lolita fashion. Because it is coded as both raceless and racially proximate to “East Asian” identities\, Japanese Lolita fashion allows these women to perform a version of Englishness that can accommodate their non-white bodies. \n ||  \nBiography\nWaiyee Loh is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Kanagawa University in Yokohama\, Japan. She received her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Japan\, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore\, where she conducted the research that forms the basis of today’s presentation. Her work has appeared in the journals Textual Practice\, Neo-Victorian Studies\, Mechademia\, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93967993338?pwd=ZlMxYTg2SEcxS1NNUDBVQTJUcFpUQT09 \nMeeting ID: 939 6799 3338\nPassword: 011961 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/neo-victorian-fashion-in-singapore-the-intertwined-legacies-of-english-literature-and-race/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103258Z
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SUMMARY:Failure's Shared Unshareability in Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Irving Goh – Assistant Professor of Literature – National University of Singapore (http://www.irving-goh.com/) \nAbstract\nThis paper addresses an aspect of failure that I am calling “shared unshareability.” Highlighting this aspect of failure runs counter to the communitarian contour that “failure studies” and recent affect theory tend to give to contemporary understanding of failure\, but it brings us to the following reckoning: that even though failure can be a common phenomenon\, there is always something of failure that affects only the personal\, that never leaves the personal. I argue that articulating failure’s “shared unshareability” allows us to come to terms with the irreducibility of failure; it also helps us understand why some of us would want to keep the sense of failure to ourselves. In this paper\, I will elucidate failure’s “shared unshareability” through a selection of Yiyun Li’s texts\, which deal with the failure to want to live\, and which further show how melodrama and writing are also implicated.  \n ||  \nBiography\nIrving Goh is President's Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community\, Politics\, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP)\, which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies\, and L'existence prépositionnelle (Galilée). The Deconstruction of Sex\, a book he worked on with Jean-Luc Nancy\, was recently published by Duke UP. He is currently completing his third monograph\, Touching Literature\, or the Experience of the Limit (contracted by Cornell UP)\, and is beginning work on a new book project on rethinking failure. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97039615527?pwd=b2FKcHFYQlZ4eVl5WDZmSDBRQklCZz09 \nMeeting ID: 970 3961 5527\nPassword: 373540 \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/failures-shared-unshareability-in-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211105
DTSTAMP:20211022T171833Z
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SUMMARY:School of English Online Workshops: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English invites you to join us for two Postgraduate Information Workshops on “Applying for Postgraduate Programmes”\, featuring a range of programmes available to applicants. We welcome HKU students and other international students interested in our programmes. \nDo join us if you would like to learn more. \n  \nInformation Workshop 1: \nMaster of Arts in English Studies (MAES)\, MPhil\, and PhD\nNovember 3\, 2021 (Wednesday) \n4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Dr. Haewon Hwang\, Dr. Agnes Kang and Dr. Jessica Valdez \nThe first information session will focus on the MAES\, MPhil and PhD degrees. \n\nWhat are the differences between these degrees?\nHow do I apply for postgraduate studies in Hong Kong and internationally?\nHow do I find a supervisor?\nHow do I write a research proposal?\nCan I apply for financial aid or scholarships?\n\nWorkshop 1 Registration here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n  \nInformation Workshop 2\nMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English (MFA)\, and Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)\nNovember 4\, 2021 (Thursday) \n12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Page Richards\, Chair of Creative Writing & Theatre\, and Ms. Aarti Hemnani\, Theatre Manager\, HKU Black Box \nThe second information session will focus on the MFA and the new MACC degrees. \n\nWho applies for postgraduate studies in creative writing or creative communications?\nWhy choose one over the other?\nWhat is it like to study for an intensive creative degree among multilingual colleagues?\nWhat kinds of unique professional opportunities do creative postgraduate degree make possible?\n\nWorkshop 2 Registration Here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-online-workshops-applying-for-postgraduate-programmes/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211104
DTSTAMP:20211020T120740Z
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SUMMARY:Travelling Terminology and Variations of Sex Characteristics in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian King\, School of English \nTime: 5:00 PM
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/travelling-terminology-and-variations-of-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211031
DTSTAMP:20211019T161028Z
CREATED:20211019T161028Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 11:30am) and mock lectures on English Literature (11:30am)\, and English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication (12:15pm)! \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \nAdditional Content\n \nThe Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday).  \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \n  \nInformation for Prospective Undergraduate Students\nVideo Presentation by Undergraduate Coordinator\, Dr. Elizabeth Ho \nPowerpoint of Admissions Information for 2022-23 \nNotes \n\nThe Language and Communication major programme will only be open to applicants admitted to Year 3 of the Bachelor of Arts programme via the Direct Admissions Scheme for 2022-23.\nThe Language and Communication major and minor programme will not be open to applicants admitted to Year 1 in 2022-23 and thereafter\, as the Language and Communication component has already been incorporated into the English Studies major and minor programme.\n\n  \nSchedule of Activities\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nActivity\nSpeaker(s)\nLink\n\n\n10:00 am –\n			11:30 am\n \n\nLive Chatroom on English Studies Majors and Minors \nMore enquiries can be directed to english@hku.hk \n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator and School Representatives \n\n\nJoin the live chatroom by registration on HKU webpage here \n\n\n\n11:30 am –\n			12:00 nn\n \nMock Lecture on English Literature:\n			“Reading like a Detective”\nDr. Jessica Valdez\, Associate Professor\n\nClick here \n\n\n\n12:15 pm –\n			12:45 pm\n \nMock Lecture on English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication\,   \n“It’s Time to Learn Englishes” \n\nDr. Daniel Weston\, Assistant Professor\n\nClick here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/virtual-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211028T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211028T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103203Z
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SUMMARY:Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Aleksandar Stevic – Assistant Professor of English – Lingnan University (https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/people/details/Sasha) \nAbstract\nWe usually associate aesthetic detachment with indifference to moral considerations. In the famous formulation of Oscar Wilde\, “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” Unsurprisingly\, such commitment to ethical indifference comes under pressure when literature turns to the representation of great historical traumas. Can we afford to say that a book is simply “well written or badly written” if it deals with such topics as the Holocaust or the transatlantic slave trade? Focusing on such diverse figures as Christopher Okigbo\, Danilo Kiš\, Caryl Phillips\, Milan Kundera\, and Boualem Sansal\, my ongoing project explores the ways in which these authors balance aesthetic and ethical considerations\, the kinds of theoretical arguments they produce in the process\, and the formal choices they make in the name of this dual commitment. \n ||  \nBiography\nAleksandar Stević is an assistant professor of English at Lingnan University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and has previously taught at the University of Belgrade\, Hampshire College\, King’s College\, Cambridge\, and Qatar University. His research focuses primarily on the intersections of the history of the novel with social and intellectual history across the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self Fashioning (University of Virginia Press\, 2020)\, co-editor of The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature (Routledge\, 2020)\, the editor of The Politics of Tragedy (Belgrade\, 2014)\, and the translator of a several works into Serbo-Croatian\, including\, most recently\, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91682581132?pwd=MzQ4V0ovTGNCR3F4eFRIYW1GWkdudz09 \nMeeting ID: 916 8258 1132\nPassword: 308496 \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/aestheticism-on-the-margins-aesthetic-detachment-and-the-ethics-of-testimony-in-twentieth-century-literature/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211021T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211021T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T102915Z
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SUMMARY:American Claimants: A Romance in New Clothes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Meer – Senior University Lecturer in English – Cambridge University (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Sarah.Meer/) \nAbstract\nI shall argue for the significance of a particular narrative or dramatic scenario in the nineteenth century\, on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the 'American Claimant' plot\, in which an American heir turns up to claim a British estate.  The premise allowed writers to dramatize culture clash\, often for comic purposes\, but also to contrast political systems\, to pit history and modernity\, or to examine colonialism and revolution. I'll discuss some manifestations in U.S.\, British Victorian\, and South African literature\, as well as in a transatlantic antislavery newspaper\, Frederick Douglass's Paper. I'll also try to talk a little bit about the process of writing\, and I hope that participants will bring their own reflections on this to the Q and A. \n ||  \nBiography\nSarah Meer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge\, and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She teaches 19th and 20th-century literature – mainly British and American – and has published two monographs: Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery Minstrelsy\, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (2005); and American Claimants: The Transatlantic Romance\, c. 1820-1920 (2020). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92832511494?pwd=V3dzdElTZVlQSERIamtPeXBzVVMvdz09 \nMeeting ID: 928 3251 1494\nPassword: 924295 \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/american-claimants-a-romance-in-new-clothes/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210929
DTSTAMP:20210927T161259Z
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893) \nDr. Rashna Nicholson \nRegister Now!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/online-book-launch/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210904
DTSTAMP:20210906T112928Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 508192)
DESCRIPTION:Applications close:  Oct 15\, 2021 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-508192/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210831
DTSTAMP:20210830T103738Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 1\, 2021-22
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-1-2021-22/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210819
DTSTAMP:20210803T143635Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2021-22
DESCRIPTION:11:00 – 12:30 (for Second-Year Students)\n14:00 – 15:30 (for First-Year Students) \nCPD-3.28\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU and Zoom
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-majors-and-minors-2021-22/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210804
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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/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210611
DTSTAMP:20200309T193708Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20210527T092803Z
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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
CREATED:20210526T171306Z
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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
CREATED: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/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210523
DTSTAMP:20210505T161509Z
CREATED: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
CATEGORIES:Events
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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/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210408T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210408T110000
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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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