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  • HKU TPG Scholarship for UG Class of 2021

    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.

  • HKU Tourism Seminar Series

    Zoom and Room 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU

    “Asia’s last ocean frontier”: tourist imaginaries and trajectories of development in the Myeik Archipelago, Myanmar (Burma)

    Sean P. Smith, School of English, The University of Hong Kong

  • Sociolinguistics Symposium 23

    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.

    Closing Remarks by Organizing Committee

  • Online Book Launch

    via Zoom

    The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage: The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)

    Dr. Rashna Nicholson

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  • American Claimants: A Romance in New Clothes

    via Zoom

    Dr. Sarah Meer - Senior University Lecturer in English - Cambridge University (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Sarah.Meer/) Abstract I 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.  […]

  • Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature

    via Zoom

    Dr. Aleksandar Stevic - Assistant Professor of English - Lingnan University (https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/people/details/Sasha) Abstract We 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 […]