“Spenser’s ‘Vnperfite’ Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and ‘Mingled’ History in the ‘Saluage Iland’”
Dr. Michael Gadaleto - Pennsylvania State University (http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/mpg5394)
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Spenser’s “Vnperfite” Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and “Mingled” History in the “Saluage Iland”
by Dr. Michael Gadaleto (Pennsylvania State University)
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“Resurrection Events in Shakespeare’s Late Plays”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Nicholas Luke - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr%20Nicholas%20Luke)
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Resurrection Events in Shakespeare’s Late Plays
by Dr. Nicholas Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
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“Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner - The City University of New York
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Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts
by Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner (The City University of New York)
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“Make Migration Great Again: Discourse Ethnography on the Double-bind for Migrant Teachers in Germany”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Yalız Akbaba - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (https://www.schulpaedagogik.uni-mainz.de/yalz-akbaba-m-a/) Abstract German discourses about migrants’ children in schools usually insinuate educational problems, social deviances and cultural incommensurability. Interestingly, this stigma becomes a capital when talking about teachers with the same ethnic minority background that is usually linked with problems: teachers whose descendants had immigrated to […]
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“Charles Dickens, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel.”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProf. Ian Duncan - The University of California, Berkeley (https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/21) Abstract The enormous cultural prestige of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory has eclipsed earlier and alternative versions of nineteenth-century evolutionary science, both (until recently) among historians of science and among literary scholars. As a result, critical discussions of Dickens’s fiction in relation to Victorian natural science […]
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What’s the Matter? Thinking with Shakespeare’s Stuff
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Helen Smith - University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/helen-smith/) Abstract 'What's the matter?', Polonius asks Hamlet. But what exactly does he mean? This paper gets to grips with early modern understandings of matter as, variously, the stuff of the world, the subject of thought and language, the central principle of a legal case, the excremental substances […]
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“Below the Line: The Construction of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ in YouTube Comments”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUJohn Scott Daly - The University of Hong Kong Abstract Using a critical discourse studies approach, here I analyse YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street, a Channel 4 documentary series about welfare recipients. Having qualitatively analysed over 3,000 comments, I argue that commenters use vari-directional double-voicing and enregistered emblems to co-construct a […]
