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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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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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SUMMARY:Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA)
DESCRIPTION:
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190926
DTSTAMP:20200326T103045Z
CREATED:20200326T103045Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time administrative position in the School of English
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-administrative-position-in-the-school-of-english/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190918
DTSTAMP:20200130T101648Z
CREATED:20200130T101648Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190913
DTSTAMP:20200310T180031Z
CREATED:20200310T180031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T180031Z
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SUMMARY:Announcement of Winners - School of English Logo Competition
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/announcement-of-winners-school-of-english-logo-competition/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190807
DTSTAMP:20200326T103155Z
CREATED:20200326T103155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200326T103155Z
UID:2927-1565049600-1565135999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Job Opening: Adjunct teaching positions in MA programme
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-adjunct-teaching-positions-in-ma-programme/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190625
DTSTAMP:20200310T201330Z
CREATED:20200310T201330Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190614
DTSTAMP:20200310T201243Z
CREATED:20200310T201243Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190611
DTSTAMP:20200310T201158Z
CREATED:20200310T201158Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190609
DTSTAMP:20200310T162558Z
CREATED:20200310T162558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T162558Z
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SUMMARY:Launch of Research & Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH): Roundtable on Talking Together: Making Sense of Health Communication Research
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/launch-of-research-impact-initiative-on-communication-in-healthcare-hku-riich-roundtable-on-talking-together-making-sense-of-health-communication-research/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTSTAMP:20200310T162453Z
CREATED:20200310T162453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T162453Z
UID:2495-1559865600-1560124799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Old Lands\, New Ground: A Symposium of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/old-lands-new-ground-a-symposium-of-the-association-for-the-study-of-the-arts-of-the-present/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190529
DTSTAMP:20200310T201115Z
CREATED:20200310T201115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T201115Z
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SUMMARY:Pecuniary Media from Cowries to Bitcoin
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Asif Agha ( University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/pecuniary-media-from-cowries-to-bitcoin/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190518
DTSTAMP:20200310T162359Z
CREATED:20200310T162359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T162359Z
UID:2494-1558051200-1558137599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The 1st Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-1st-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190503
DTSTAMP:20200310T201003Z
CREATED:20200310T201003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T201003Z
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SUMMARY:Auditor Design and Digital Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Rodney H. Jones (University of Reading)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/auditor-design-and-digital-surveillance/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190501
DTSTAMP:20200310T162156Z
CREATED:20200310T162156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T162156Z
UID:2493-1556582400-1556668799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Studying the street: An interdisciplinary symposium on global hip hop
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/studying-the-street-an-interdisciplinary-symposium-on-global-hip-hop/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20200130T103910Z
CREATED:20200130T103910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103910Z
UID:2876-1555545600-1555631999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Replotting the Harlot’s Progress: Motherhood and Moral Agency in Gaskell's Ruth”
DESCRIPTION:Anneliese Ng – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nThis talk examines how Elizabeth Gaskell offers an alternative plot for the fallen woman in her 1853 novel Ruth. Gaskell reworks the dominant plot of the fallen woman genre by revoking what Amanda Anderson calls “the downward-path principle.” It dictates that once a woman has sex outside the sanctified confines of marriage\, she will continue her moral decay and sink into prostitution\, disease and death. In Ruth\, however\, Gaskell departs from this convention. This talk argues that Gaskell reconfigures the fallen woman as an autonomous being capable of moral action\, instead of being locked in moral regress. Through examining the role of motherhood in Ruth’s moral agency\, this talk elucidates the maternal underpinnings of Ruth’s moral existence. Motherhood fortifies Ruth against succumbing to individual desire; it strengthens her capacity to act according to her moral beliefs. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/replotting-the-harlots-progress-motherhood-and-moral-agency-in-gaskells-ruth/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20200130T103829Z
CREATED:20200130T103829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103829Z
UID:2875-1555545600-1555631999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Her Shadow: Killing Off the Female Double in Realist and Gothic Fiction”
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Mo – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nThe doppelganger is a recurring character across literary history. Within nineteenth-century British literature\, it is most commonly associated with gothic fiction in which it functions as an externalization of the protagonist’s transgressive desires. This paper argues that this character type is common not only in gothic fiction but in realist fiction as well\, reflecting overarching Victorian ideologies surrounding women and the domestic sphere. \nSandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Madwoman in the Attic argues the dark double is as much a projection of the Victorian female author’s rage and anxiety towards her position\, as an antagonist or foil to the heroine. My paper differs slightly in that I focus particularly on the female doppelganger’s lack of selfhood and interiority. She is an extension of the heroine and must ultimately be sacrificed\, either by death or other misfortune\, to symbolically fulfill her bildungsroman. This occurs in both gothic and non-gothic works. For instance\, in Charlotte Brontë’s gothic novel\, Jane Eyre\, Rochester’s first wife\, Bertha Mason leaps to her death at Thornfield Hall. In Jane Austen’s realist novel\, Emma\, Mrs. Augusta Elton is sidelined in Highbury by the end. The doppelganger is valued for her utility to the plot over anything else. I contend that this structural denial of personhood echoes the ideological contradiction regarding women’s place in Victorian society. Just as they were required to be domestic\, self-sacrificing moral guardians\, the doppelganger’s selfhood is suppressed in favor of the heroine\, despite possessing the potential to be a protagonist and rounded character. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/her-shadow-killing-off-the-female-double-in-realist-and-gothic-fiction/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20200130T103744Z
CREATED:20200130T103744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103744Z
UID:2874-1555545600-1555631999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Below the Line: The Construction of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ in YouTube Comments”
DESCRIPTION:John Scott Daly – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nUsing a critical discourse studies approach\, here I analyse YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street\, a Channel 4 documentary series about welfare recipients. Having qualitatively analysed over 3\,000 comments\, I argue that commenters use vari-directional double-voicing and enregistered emblems to co-construct a stereotypical\, embodied\, and othered ‘underclass’ figure. This character is cast as permanently unemployed. Conceptions of a ‘permanent underclass’ are harmful\, because they can lead British voters to back policies of austerity\, which are not in most people’s interests (Hills\, 2017). They are also inaccurate\, as unpredictable stints of precarious work are more common than long-term unemployment\, which is comparatively rare in the UK – around half the EU average. Despite this\, British people are twice as likely as other Europeans to agree that benefits make people ‘lazy.’ Jensen & Tyler (2015\, p. 1) call for more research which examines everyday ‘mechanisms of consent’ that help form anti-welfare attitudes. By analysing social class discourses found in YouTube comments\, this paper takes a modest step in that direction. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/below-the-line-the-construction-of-a-permanent-underclass-in-youtube-comments/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:What's the Matter? Thinking with Shakespeare's Stuff
DESCRIPTION:Professor Helen Smith – University of York (https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/helen-smith/) \nAbstract\n'What's the matter?'\, Polonius asks Hamlet. But what exactly does he mean? This paper gets to grips with early modern understandings of matter as\, variously\, the stuff of the world\, the subject of thought and language\, the central principle of a legal case\, the excremental substances of the body. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic works\, this paper asks how Shakespeare got to grips with substance of various kinds\, dismantling and reconstructing the boundaries between human bodies and the physical world\, the shifting incarnations of matter\, and the stuff of thought. \n ||  \nBiography\nHelen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on material texts\, women's writing and work\, and the publishing trade in Shakespeare's time. Her current book project explores early modern understandings of matter\, and their material incarnations. Helen is also founding co-director of Thin Ice Press\, the Department of English and Related Literature's new on-site letterpress studio.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/whats-the-matter-thinking-with-shakespeares-stuff/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190328
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DTSTAMP:20200130T103608Z
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SUMMARY:“Charles Dickens\, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel.”
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ian Duncan – The University of California\, Berkeley (https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/21) \nAbstract\nThe 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 have tended to assimilate it to a Darwinian model – even though most of the novels were written before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. My paper will make the case for Dickens’s commitment to an evolutionary vision of the natural and human world\, drawn however from Robert Chambers’s best-selling synthesis of pre-Darwinian transformist speculation\, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844). Focusing on Dickens’s boldest aesthetic experiment\, Bleak House (1852-53)\, I argue that this transformist natural history accounts for the novel’s distinctive formal features: grotesque or monstrous characters\, the division of the narrative\, and an allegorical rather than realist representation of the world as a total system. \n ||  \nBiography\nIan Duncan studied at King's College\, Cambridge (B.A.\, 1977) and Yale University (Ph.D.\, 1989). He taught for several years in the English department at Yale\, before being appointed Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Oregon in 1995. He came to the University of California\, Berkeley in 2001\, where he was appointed to the Florence Green Bixby Chair in English in 2011. He is a recipient (2017) of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. \nDuncan is the author of Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (Cambridge University Press\, 1992)\, Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton University Press\, 2007)\, and a new book\, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution (forthcoming from Princeton University Press in September 2019). Other books include several co-edited volumes\, including Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge UP\, 2004) and The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (Edinburgh UP\, 2012)\, and editions of Walter Scott’s Rob Roy and Ivanhoe\, James Hogg’s Winter Evening Tales and Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner\, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped\, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World\, and Travel Writing 1700-1800 (coedited). He is currently writing a short book for Cambridge University Press on Scotland and Romanticism. \nDuncan is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, a member of the editorial board of Representations\, a General Editor of the Collected Works of James Hogg\, and co-editor of a new book series\, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of British Columbia and Konstanz\, Boğaziçi University\, Ludwig Maximilians University\, Munich\, and Princeton University.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/charles-dickens-transformist-popular-science-and-the-victorian-novel/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190321
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DTSTAMP:20200130T103521Z
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SUMMARY:“Make Migration Great Again: Discourse Ethnography on the Double-bind for Migrant Teachers in Germany”
DESCRIPTION:Dr Yalız Akbaba – Johannes Gutenberg University\, Mainz\, Germany (https://www.schulpaedagogik.uni-mainz.de/yalz-akbaba-m-a/) \nAbstract\nGerman 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 Germany as guest workers from countries such as Turkey\, Greece or Italy. These teachers are discursively imagined as a solution to educational problems in German schools. \nThe paper identifies the discourses on ‘migration as problem’ and ‘migrant teachers as enrichment’ as constitutive parts of the same symbolic order that stereotypically represents those to be excluded. I present central results from my research in schools that combined field participation with discourse analysis. A postcolonial reading of the ethnographic data digs deep to see how the discourses double bind the teachers in situ: while the teachers are implicitly requested to capitalize on their ‘foreignness’\, they are called upon to do so within reference frames that (threaten to) marginalize them. \n ||  \nBiography\nYalız Akbaba\, PhD\, works as a postdoctoral researcher for the Institute of Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz\, Germany. Her research and teaching areas are Education and (Postcolonial) Migration Studies\, Critical Race Theory\, Teacher Professionalization\, School and Class Research\, Inclusion\, as well as Qualitative Methodologies\, especially (Discourse) Ethnography and Hermeneutics. Yalız’ current projects focus on anti-pluralistic discourses within critical university teaching.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/make-migration-great-again-discourse-ethnography-on-the-double-bind-for-migrant-teachers-in-germany/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190314
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DTSTAMP:20200310T200919Z
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SUMMARY:Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner (The City University of New York)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/pirate-encounters-negotiating-risk-in-shakespeare-and-early-east-india-company-accounts/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190314
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DTSTAMP:20200130T103428Z
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SUMMARY:“Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner – The City University of New York
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/pirate-encounters-negotiating-risk-in-shakespeare-and-early-east-india-company-accounts-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTSTAMP:20200310T200837Z
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SUMMARY:Resurrection Events in Shakespeare's Late Plays
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Nicholas Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/resurrection-events-in-shakespeares-late-plays/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
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DTSTAMP:20200130T103344Z
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SUMMARY:“Resurrection Events in Shakespeare's Late Plays”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Luke – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr%20Nicholas%20Luke)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/resurrection-events-in-shakespeares-late-plays-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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