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  • e-SS23 Welcome Video

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

  • Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2020

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

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

  • (Gay) Panic Attack

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

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

    via Zoom

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

  • TBC

    via Zoom

    Dr Chris Heffer - Cardiff University, UK

  • ‘The power of expression’: typography, politics and place in late capitalist city branding

    via Zoom

    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 […]

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

    via Zoom

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