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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200305
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SUMMARY:Anglo-French Poetic Exchanges in the Little Magazines\, 1908-1914
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sarah Lee – Hong Kong Baptist University
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/anglo-french-poetic-exchanges-in-the-little-magazines-1908-1914/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200303
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies 2020-2021 (MAES) Full-time is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:Second round deadline: 12.00 noon (HKT)\, March 27\, 2020
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-2020-2021-maes-full-time-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200228
DTSTAMP:20200129T181438Z
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SUMMARY:Post-fictional Performance and the Public Sphere
DESCRIPTION:Professor Christopher Balme – LMU\, Munich
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/post-fictional-performance-and-the-public-sphere/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200220
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SUMMARY:‘That Old Man Making Fun of Me?’: Humour in the Writings of Aboriginal and Asian Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Dr Daozhi Xu – The University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/that-old-man-making-fun-of-me-humour-in-the-writings-of-aboriginal-and-asian-relationships/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200214
DTSTAMP:20200326T102607Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: MFA Part-time Lecturer (several posts) (Ref.: 499608)
DESCRIPTION:Applications close: May 30\, 2020 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-mfa-part-time-lecturer-several-posts-ref-499608/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200214
DTSTAMP:20200129T181301Z
CREATED:20200129T181301Z
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SUMMARY:Disturbing Conventional Narratives of National Belonging: Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary Italy and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Dr Caterina Romeo – Sapienza University of Rome
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/disturbing-conventional-narratives-of-national-belonging-transnational-trajectories-in-contemporary-italy-and-europe/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200207
DTSTAMP:20200129T181202Z
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UID:2613-1580947200-1581033599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Animals and Communication: An Overview of the Field
DESCRIPTION:Professor Don Kulick – Uppsala University
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/animals-and-communication-an-overview-of-the-field/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200123T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200123T183000
DTSTAMP:20200129T180401Z
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SUMMARY:Literature and Complicity: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ivan Stacy – Beijing Normal University \nSeminar Series\, 2019-2020 Second Semester \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will explore the relationship between literature and complicity in postwar fiction. I will begin by defining complicity\, and by describing the various forms that it can take. I will then outline what I see as the general relationship between narrative and complicity\, and the specific relationship between literary fiction and complicity: I suggest that narrative can be complicit with wrongdoing when it enacts or impels individuals into positions of culpable ignorance and connivance (i.e. looking the other way)\, and that literary fiction tends to draw attention and to critique such forms of complicity by thematising and embodying them within a reflexive textual framework.\nIn the second part of the talk\, I will examine three postwar writers form whom complicity is a central concern. Albert Camus’ The Plague and The Fall represent a shift from the notion of testimony as a form of resistance to a more troubled examination of failures of witnessing. The protagonists of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels tend to obfuscate and elide the details of their own complicity with wrongdoing\, but both The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans invite us to read past these narrative failings to identify the narrators’ culpability. Finally\, Margaret Atwood’s dystopias in The Handmaid’s Tale and The MaddAddam trilogy represent situations in which non-complicity is simply not an option. For this reason\, she explores forms of compromise as a means of negotiating non-deal circumstances in which complicity with wrongdoing is unavoidable. \n ||  \nBiography\nIvan Stacy is associate professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University. The main focus of his research is complicity in postwar fiction\, and he is also interested in the carnivalesque. He has published articles on these themes in the work of Kazuo Ishiguro\, W. G. Sebald and China Miéville\, and on the American television series The Wire. He co-edited (with Arin Keeble) The Wire and America’s Dark Corners\, and he is currently working on a monograph provisionally titled Literature and Complicity which is scheduled for publication with Lexington in 2020. He has taught in China\, Thailand\, the UK\, Bhutan\, Libya\, and South Korea.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/literature-and-complicity-failures-of-witnessing-in-postwar-fiction/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191208
DTSTAMP:20200310T162950Z
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UID:2499-1575590400-1575763199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Nineteenth-Century Formations
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/nineteenth-century-formations/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191206
DTSTAMP:20200310T162828Z
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UID:2498-1575504000-1575590399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Navigating the Transnational Academic Job Market​
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/navigating-the-transnational-academic-job-market/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191129
DTSTAMP:20200130T102503Z
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SUMMARY:Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Women’s Visibility and the Turkish Modernist Novel
DESCRIPTION:Dr Kaitlin Staudt – Education University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/beauty-queens-on-the-global-stage-womens-visibility-and-the-turkish-modernist-novel/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191122
DTSTAMP:20200130T102359Z
CREATED:20200130T102359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102359Z
UID:2834-1574294400-1574380799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Disturbing Conventional Narratives of National Belonging: Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary Italy and Europe
DESCRIPTION:Dr Caterina Romeo – Sapienza University of Rome
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/disturbing-conventional-narratives-of-national-belonging-transnational-trajectories-in-contemporary-italy-and-europe-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191113
DTSTAMP:20200130T102313Z
CREATED:20200130T102313Z
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UID:2825-1573516800-1573603199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Stories We Can't Tell (PEN Hong Kong Literature and Human Rights Lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Mohammed Hanif (http://www.penhongkong.org/pen-hong-kong-literature-human-rights-lecture-november-2019-mohammed-hanif-stories-we-cant-tell/)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/stories-we-cant-tell-pen-hong-kong-literature-and-human-rights-lecture/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191108
DTSTAMP:20200130T102222Z
CREATED:20200130T102222Z
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UID:2812-1573084800-1573171199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Liquid Power: A Social Semiotics of the Infinity Pool
DESCRIPTION:Professor Crispin Thurlow – University of Bern (https://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/prof_dr_thurlow_crispin/index_eng.html) \nAbstract\nThe prime technique of power is now escape\, slippage\, elision and avoidance …\nZygmunt Bauman (2000: 11) \nThe infinity pool is currently an epitomic\, ubiquitous marker of distinction and prestige in so-called luxury tourism. Arguably the supreme example of these vanishing-edge illusions is to be found atop the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore\, but Hong Kong evidently has its fair share of them. In this talk\, I develop a social semiotics of the infinity pool using a three-part analytic structure. I first demonstrate how the infinity pool is mediatized as a status marker which is thereby circulated and normalized. I then consider the semiotic and ideological ways these pools emerges as a mediated practice\, paying particular attention to their spatial and embodied logics. I then examine how the infinity pool is distinctively remediated in Instagram. In this regard\, digital media offer two very good opportunities for researchers: we find empirical evidence for the ubiquity of tourist practices and also for tourists’ reflexivity and ‘creativity’ – the ways they themselves take up and make sense of their practices. Ultimately\, my contention is that the infinity pool materializes a strategically\, euphorically (dis)ordered vision of space; this\, in turn\, tells us something important about both the social semiotics of privilege/inequality and the raw politics of contemporary power relations. \n ||  \nBiography\nCrispin Thurlow is Professor of Language and Communication in the Department of English at the University of Bern\, Switzerland. His publications include Elite Discourse: The Rhetorics of Status Privilege and Power (2018\, Routledge) and Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media (2011\, Oxford). His most recent books are The Business of Words: Wordsmiths\, Linguists and Other Language Workers (2020\, Routledge) and Vizualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional\, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives (2020\, De Gruyter). He is on the editorial board of journals like Language in Society; Discourse\, Context & Media; Critical Discourse Studies; Visual Communication; Linguistic Landscape; and the Journal of Language and Sexuality. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/liquid-power-a-social-semiotics-of-the-infinity-pool/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191025
DTSTAMP:20200130T102137Z
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SUMMARY:Sociolinguistics not-as-usual: lessons from Victor Klemperer
DESCRIPTION:Professor Monica Heller – University of Toronto (https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/1615/Monica_Heller.html) \nAbstract\nA few years ago\, the University of Toronto Press approached me and Bonnie McElhinny with a proposal that we produce a new introductory text to linguistic anthropology and an accompanying reader. Faced with what we were experiencing as a disconnect between the role of language in contemporary makings of social difference and social inequality and the depoliticized tools we had been trained to use\, we produced something entirely different. The book we wrote (Heller and McElhinny 2017) was — is — an attempt to\, as Raymond Williams put it\, “walk backwards into the future” – to trace a genealogy of ideas about language and society that might help us grasp how and why approaches to that relationship got extracted from connections to material relations of power\, in order to learn how to practice a sociolinguistics that centres those connections. In this talk\, I will focus on one example: Victor Klemperer (1881-1960)\, a German philologist whose writings during the Nazi period have attracted increasing attention (Klemperer 1947\, 1998). I will use that example to ask why and how Klemperer used his philological approach to address the changes of his era; why his work was somewhat sidelined in the German Democratic Republic\, where he spent his last years; why we are interested now; and finally\, what we might learn from his story about practicing sociolinguistics in our own time. \n ||  \nBiography\nMonica Heller is a Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Department of Anthropology\, University of Toronto. She is a Past President of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Professor Heller’s research focuses on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality in the post-nationalist\, globalizing new economy\, with an ethnographic focus on francophone Canada. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sociolinguistics\, and has published extensively in journals such as Language in Society\, Langage et société and Language Policy. Her most recent books include: Language\, Capitalism\, Colonialism: Towards a Critical History (2018\, University of Toronto Press\, with Bonnie McElhinny)\, and Critical Sociolinguistic Research: A Methods Manual (2018\, Routledge\, with Sari Pietikäinen and Joan Pujolar).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sociolinguistics-not-as-usual-lessons-from-victor-klemperer/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191011
DTSTAMP:20200130T102046Z
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UID:2787-1570665600-1570751999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Avoidance as Love: Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff
DESCRIPTION:Dr Nicholas Luke – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr%20Nicholas%20Luke) \nAbstract\nThis paper challenges one of the most influential readings of Shakespeare in the last half-century: that of the “ordinary language” philosopher Stanley Cavell.  It critiques Cavell’s notions of avoidance\, acknowledgment\, and recognition through an analysis of the discontinuous\, fragmentary character of Edgar (King Lear). On Dover Cliff\, Shakespeare brings us to a mode of theatre that works through seemingly negative movements of avoidance and evasion\, thereby throwing the parameters of ordinary language philosophy into confusion. Drawing on negative theology and work concerned with the phenomenology of theatre\, I make a case for the creative possibilities of avoidance in theatre and in love.  \n ||  \nBiography\nNicholas Luke is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU.  Nick's work focuses on early modern literature\, how we receive it\, and why it still matters.  His first book\, Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)\, argues that contemporary criticism fails to do justice to the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s tragic characters and seeks to re-establish the concept of character on new philosophical and theatrical foundations.  Nick’s current research re-examines the vexed question of Shakespeare’s engagement with religion through the theme of resurrection. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/avoidance-as-love-evading-cavell-on-dover-cliff/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191006
DTSTAMP:20200310T162717Z
CREATED:20200310T162717Z
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UID:2497-1570147200-1570319999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA)
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/coalition-of-english-departments-in-asia-coeda/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191004
DTSTAMP:20200130T101945Z
CREATED:20200130T101945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T101945Z
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SUMMARY:Is Your Child Learning Singlish? Attitudes\, Exposure\, and Acquisition of Variation Among Local and Expatriate Children in Singapore
DESCRIPTION:Dr Rebecca Starr – National University of Singapore (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/ell/People_Faculty_SRL.html) \nAbstract\nAlthough orientation towards local linguistic norms is increasing in Singapore\, Singapore English (SgE) is still perceived by some as a non-native variety. Variation in attitudes towards SgE may shape acquisition of SgE features by both Singaporean and expatriate children\, who increasingly attend government schools. The present study investigates how the -t/d deletion patterns of 60 children reflect their attitudes and school setting. Significant correlations are observed between deletion rate\, attitude towards SgE\, and accent self-perception among Singaporean children\, highlighting that this variety is undergoing endonormative stabilization. However\, while some expatriates in local schools delete more than peers in international schools\, expatriate children generally do not acquire local -t/d deletion rates or constraints\, regardless of familiarity with SgE or attitudes towards the variety. This gap between locals and expatriates reflects the persistence of ideologies that delegitimize SgE\, as well as the growing prominence of SgE as a marker of local identity. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Rebecca Starr is an assistant professor studying variation phenomena in English\, Mandarin\, Cantonese\, Japanese\, Korean\, and Irish Gaelic. She is primarily interested in the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge among children\, particularly those growing up in a bilingual environment. Currently she is leading the Voices of Children in Singapore project investigating how children here learn about language variation. Dr. Starr is also beginning work on the Singapore Multilingual Corpus\, which seeks to document the language use patterns of multilingual Singaporeans\, including documentation of Southern Chinese varieties such as Cantonese and Hokkien. She also studies teachers' stylistic variation in the classroom and sociolinguistic variation in the media\, as well as sociolinguistic variation in Singapore more generally.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/is-your-child-learning-singlish-attitudes-exposure-and-acquisition-of-variation-among-local-and-expatriate-children-in-singapore/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191003
DTSTAMP:20200224T174415Z
CREATED:20200224T174415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T174415Z
UID:2920-1569974400-1570060799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Mind Hong Kong PhD Scholarship is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:Deadline for proposals:\nDecember 1\, 2019 or until a suitable candidate is identified\, but not later than 30 April\, 2020.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mind-hong-kong-phd-scholarship-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190927
DTSTAMP:20200130T101834Z
CREATED:20200130T101834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T101834Z
UID:2769-1569456000-1569542399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Eliteness Strategies: Recognising Eliteness and the Semiotics of ‘Artisanal’ Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Andre Joseph Theng – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nIn recent years\, sociolinguistic research has been increasingly concerned with the notion of the discursive construction of eliteness. ‘Elite discourse’ can refer to the ways in which ‘superior’ class identities are represented\, stylized and performed in different domains with the effect of reinforcing social\, political and economic hierarchies. One area of social life increasingly dominated by eliteness is commerce\, with traditionally mundane commodities\, such as coffee\, being marketed as luxuries – specialty products requiring connoisseurship. In this paper\, I discuss ways in which eliteness is enregistered in the design choices of ‘artisanal’ coffee shops through examining multimodal signage in three contexts: the shops’ exterior\, interior\, and online. Café facades (the exterior) are characterized by a coalescence of semiotic features which become enregistered as ‘elite’. I elaborate upon four categories of features\, namely\, (1) orthography and typography\, (2) visual images and colour\, (3) materiality and layout\, and (4) emplacement. Café interiors often feature a type of spectacular ‘language objects’ (Jaworski\, 2015)\, namely neon signage as a form of text art. Finally\, I discuss ways in which eliteness is performed online\, where a discursive display of the tension between ‘egalitarian’ and ‘elite’ stances can be observed on the social networking site Instagram. This is played out by the businesses juxtaposing differently scaled (Blommaert\, 2007) images referencing their ‘local communities’ and images referencing ‘aesthetic connoisseurship’ (Silverstein\, 2016) required for the appreciation of speciality coffee. In sum\, I argue that the enregisterment of elitism in these coffee shops is indicative of broader urban processes of growing inequality and social exclusion.  As a global semiotic of gentrification (Lyons\, 2018; Trinch & Snajdr\, 2017) begins to emerge\, the proliferation of high-end coffee shops is a site where the relationship between semiotic forms and privileged positions can be observed in large metropolitan areas. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eliteness-strategies-recognising-eliteness-and-the-semiotics-of-artisanal-coffee/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190927
DTSTAMP:20200130T101742Z
CREATED:20200130T101742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T101742Z
UID:2758-1569456000-1569542399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Semiotic Emblems\, Indexicality and Eliteness in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Militello – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nScholars in sociolinguistics tend to study inequality by focusing on people at the lower end of the power and economic spectrum\, rather than those at the higher end\, but by attending to those who are the most privileged and powerful\, the so-called ‘elites’\, we can better understand the reproduction of the macro social and economic order (Thurlow & Jaworski\, 2017). Beyond the economic and political capital wielded by elites\, their impact winds its way down through society by establishing and maintaining standards and norms that generate an aspirational ideology against which everyone [else] is persuaded to position (Thurlow & Jaworski\, 2017). Past Social Sciences research has demonstrated how being ‘elite’ in cosmopolitan societies is associated with certain educational institutions (Khan\, 2011\, 2012; Kenway & Lazarus\, 2018)\, pastimes\, (Rivera & Tilcsik\, 2016; Silverstein\, 2004)\, or business affiliations (Alvesson & Robertson\, 2006). Many of these studies are based in Anglo-western contexts comprised of interactants ‘with highly dependably shared intersubjective cultural understandings and values\, and impressively fluent and even efficient ways of articulating them’ (Silverstein\, 1998\, p. 300). However\, in the context of Hong Kong\, where not everyone shares the Anglo ‘indexical order’ (i.e. the conventional hierarchy of social meaning) (Silverstein\, 2003)\, there may be a discrepancy between the globally dominant signifiers of eliteness and locally cultivated values and ways of expressing them. Drawing on data from early stages of interactions in networking situations among (business) elite professionals in Hong Kong\, this presentation explores some of the resulting tensions in the choice\, salience and deployment of emblems of eliteness across differently scaled business contexts. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/semiotic-emblems-indexicality-and-eliteness-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time administrative position in the School of English
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-administrative-position-in-the-school-of-english/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190918
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SUMMARY:Autobiography as Topoanalysis: the Spatial Dimensions of Life-Writing
DESCRIPTION:Professor Laura Marcus – Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature – New College\, University of Oxford (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-marcus) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I explore the concept of topoanalysis – theorised most fully by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard and defined by him as ‘the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives’ – in relationship to works of C19 and C20 life-writing. Starting with John Ruskin’s autobiographical Praeterita\, I suggest that artists and art theorists (including Adrian Stokes\, Richard Wollheim and Michael Baxendall) have sought new\, often anti-narrative\, ways of representing the visual preoccupations which have structured their lives and have frequently found these though models of intimate space and charged ‘images’\, at times framed through psychoanalytic perspectives. The talk then turns to the autobiographical writings of Walter Benjamin\, taking up the theme of childhood perception and of memory and extending the focus to questions of life-writing\, exile and place. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf\, Vladimir Nabokov and Orhan Pamuk. \n ||  \nBiography\nLaura Marcus's research and teaching interests are predominantly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture\, including life-writing\, modernism\, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture\, contemporary fiction\, and litereature and film. Her book publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory\, Criticism\, Practice (1994)\, Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)\, The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and\, as co-editor\, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004). \nHer current research projects include a book on British literature 1910-1920\, and a study of the concept of 'rhythm' in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries\, in a range of disciplinary contexts.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/autobiography-as-topoanalysis-the-spatial-dimensions-of-life-writing/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190912
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DTSTAMP:20200310T180031Z
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SUMMARY:Announcement of Winners - School of English Logo Competition
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/announcement-of-winners-school-of-english-logo-competition/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190807
DTSTAMP:20200326T103155Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Adjunct teaching positions in MA programme
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-adjunct-teaching-positions-in-ma-programme/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190625
DTSTAMP:20200310T201330Z
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SUMMARY:Stance-taking and Affective-Discursive Practice: Enregistering Gender/Sexual Identities
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Scott F. Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/stance-taking-and-affective-discursive-practice-enregistering-gender-sexual-identities/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190614
DTSTAMP:20200310T201243Z
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SUMMARY:What Actually Dies When a Language Dies?
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Don Kulick (Uppsala University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/what-actually-dies-when-a-language-dies/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190611
DTSTAMP:20200310T201158Z
CREATED:20200310T201158Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Remainder: Adding Value to Quantitative Analyses of Variation
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington )
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exploring-the-remainder-adding-value-to-quantitative-analyses-of-variation/
CATEGORIES:Events
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