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  • (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 […]

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    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 […]

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  • Plagues, barricades and the shadow of Spain: An historical exploration of language choice and identity in Gibraltar

    via Zoom

    Dr. Daniel Weston - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/88/Dr_Daniel_Weston) Abstract This talk will explore language use from a historical perspective in one of the few remaining British colonies: the Rock of Gibraltar. Located on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, Gibraltar has absorbed linguistic and cultural influences not just from the United Kingdom, […]