Daryl Lim Wei Jie - Black Box Writers' Series (Spring 2026) Daryl Lim Wei Jie joins us to discuss his latest work, Mistranslations from a Future Vernacular, a collection which poses the provocation: “How many times can you rewrite a poem?” Using Oulipo techniques and newer technologies such as LLMs, Daryl rewrites a single […]
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Additional Content The School of English would like to invite you to attend our forthcoming Dream Big, Plan Smart Series – Career Talk by M+. Date: February 10, 2026 (Tuesday) Time: 4:30p.m. – 5:30p.m. Location: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Mr. Dicky Yeung (Associate Curator, Learning and Interpretation, M+) […]
Rajat Sharma - Black Box Writers' Series (Spring 2026) Rajat Sharma joins us to screen and discuss his short film Never Brooklyn, a documentary shaped by his search for housing in Hong Kong and his move into a subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po. Through encounters with its residents, the film reflects on working-class […]
Eric Choi - Black Box Writers' Series (Spring 2026) Eric Choi, a Hong Kong-born aerospace engineer, writer, and editor based in Canada, joins us to discuss his sci-fi story collection Just Like Being There. The collection features fifteen of his sci-fi and alternate history stories, including the Aurora Award-winning “Crimson Sky”. Each story is […]
Launch of Hong Kong Literary Review Date: March 5, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm Venue: HKU Black Box, Room 54, LG/F, Centennial Campus, HKU (Location map) You are warmly invited to the launch of Hong Kong Literary Review, a new journal of bold, original writing from Hong Kong and beyond. The inaugural issue, Voices, showcases […]
Emma Pei Yin - Black Box Writers' Series (Spring 2026) Emma Pei Yin, an Australian-Chinese writer and editor, joins us to discuss her novel When Sleeping Women Wake. The book follows the lives of three women who fled to Hong Kong under British colonial rule when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the city, and […]
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
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