The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020 will go virtual on October 31, 2020 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 12:00nn) and mock lectures on English literature (12:30pm), and English linguistics (2:00pm)!
We look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon.
Professor David Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
9:30am
Room 434, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)
Streamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link
Dr Katherine Hindley - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=KHINDLEY&CategoryDescription=literature) Abstract In medieval England, written words were expected to physically change the world. Written charms could heal disease or protect people from 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 […]
2021-2022 Full-time / 2021-2023 Part-time
Deadline for application
12:00 noon (GMT +8), March 26, 2021
Dr Chris Heffer - Cardiff University, UK
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) Abstract In 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 […]
Gloria Dou - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Xuekun Liu - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) Abstract Pride before profit: language policing on Carousell, an online classified platform in Hong Kong Ms. Gloria Dou In this talk, I investigate the direct communication that takes place between sellers and buyers on Carousell, an online classified […]
Please register at https://forms.gle/M17dpP6yRbjCEsHx6 for Zoom Meeting ID
For enquiries, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk
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Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
