Professor Isobel Armstrong - Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) Abstract Generally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets, mainly male, in critical discussion, I […]
Professor Johan van der Auwera - Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/) Abstract The talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites, i.e., the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing, […]
by Dr. Rashna Nicholson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
by Dr. Michael Bennett (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
by Dr. Arifani Moyo (Royal Holloway University of London)
by Dr. Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University)
Dr. Johan Siebers - Religious Studies Unit, Middlesex University London (https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/siebers-johan) Abstract One of the most conspicuous aspects of the Dao De Jing is its negative view of language. Language […]
Additional Content Organizers: Adrian Pablé (HKU) and Johan Siebers (Middlesex University) This international colloquium explores aspects of language philosophy with a focus on the relation between Eastern and Western paradigms. Contributions […]
Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra - School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/staff_list/complete_staff_list/adeline_johnsputra/) Abstract Some have recently argued that the age we now call the Anthropocene demands new understandings of […]
Dr. Chris Patterson - Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University (http://hum.hkbu.edu.hk/staff.php?staff_class=ts&staff_id=41) Abstract This presentation will discuss the major concepts of Dr. Patterson’s book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone […]
