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  • 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 […]

  • Virtual Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021

    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)!

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