Dr. Beth Harper - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/89/Dr%20Beth%20Harper) Abstract This talk offers a meditation on the terror of singularity as it manifests in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1611). It emphasizes the centrality of the child to ideas of futurity and argues that the source of Lear and Macbeth’s tragedy is bound […]
Dr. Daniel Orrells - King’s College London (https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/daniel-orrells(0bf6454d-f1d8-4718-9320-20c723ba5997).html) Abstract In the nineteenth century, Europe looked back to Ancient Greece in search of its own identity. Europe celebrated itself by looking back to the achievements of the Greeks. Athens in the fifth century BCE was viewed as a miracle of Enlightenment. At the end of the […]
Dr. Michael Gadaleto - Pennsylvania State University (http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/mpg5394)
by Dr. Michael Gadaleto (Pennsylvania State University)
Dr. Nicholas Luke - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr%20Nicholas%20Luke)
by Dr. Nicholas Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner - The City University of New York
by Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner (The City University of New York)
Dr Yalız Akbaba - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (https://www.schulpaedagogik.uni-mainz.de/yalz-akbaba-m-a/) Abstract German discourses about migrants’ children in schools usually insinuate educational problems, social deviances and cultural incommensurability. Interestingly, this stigma becomes a capital when talking about teachers with the same ethnic minority background that is usually linked with problems: teachers whose descendants had immigrated to […]
Prof. Ian Duncan - The University of California, Berkeley (https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/21) Abstract The enormous cultural prestige of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory has eclipsed earlier and alternative versions of nineteenth-century evolutionary science, both (until recently) among historians of science and among literary scholars. As a result, critical discussions of Dickens’s fiction in relation to Victorian natural science […]
