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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190611
DTSTAMP: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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190609
DTSTAMP: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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190610
DTSTAMP:20200310T162453Z
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20200130T103829Z
CREATED:20200130T103829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103829Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTSTAMP:20200130T103744Z
CREATED:20200130T103744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103744Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190412
DTSTAMP:20200130T103652Z
CREATED:20200130T103652Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190329
DTSTAMP:20200130T103608Z
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UID:2872-1553731200-1553817599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190322
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190315
DTSTAMP:20200310T200919Z
CREATED: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/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190315
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTSTAMP:20200310T200837Z
CREATED:20200310T200837Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTSTAMP:20200130T103344Z
CREATED:20200130T103344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103344Z
UID:2869-1552435200-1552521599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTSTAMP:20200310T200755Z
CREATED:20200310T200755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200755Z
UID:2580-1552348800-1552435199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Spenser’s “Vnperfite” Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and “Mingled” History in the “Saluage Iland”
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Michael Gadaleto (Pennsylvania State University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/spensers-vnperfite-nationhood-transnational-intimacy-and-mingled-history-in-the-saluage-iland/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTSTAMP:20200130T103302Z
CREATED:20200130T103302Z
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UID:2868-1552348800-1552435199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Spenser’s 'Vnperfite' Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and 'Mingled' History in the 'Saluage Iland'”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Gadaleto – Pennsylvania State University (http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/mpg5394)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/spensers-vnperfite-nationhood-transnational-intimacy-and-mingled-history-in-the-saluage-iland-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:20190219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190220
DTSTAMP:20200130T103148Z
CREATED:20200130T103148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103148Z
UID:2867-1550534400-1550620799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Greek Love and Orientalism”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Orrells – King’s College London (https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/daniel-orrells(0bf6454d-f1d8-4718-9320-20c723ba5997).html) \nAbstract\nIn 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 nineteenth century\, certain radical intellectuals in Europe argued that Greece also provided a critique of modern\, Victorian sexual mores. In particular\, ancient Greece looked like a haven for same-sex sexuality in contradistinction to nineteenth-century society. This paper examines\, however\, how the nineteenth-century construction of Greek love was framed by orientalizing ideas about race and empire. This paper argues that this orientalist framework should make us pause before using ancient Greece as an example for queer politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nI studied Classics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Cambridge. I taught at the University of Warwick for eleven years\, including two years as a Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. I joined King’s College London in 2015. My research focuses on the history of the interpretation of classical literature. More specifically\, I examine the literary\, scholarly and cultural receptions of Greek and Latin literature from the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century. I am the author of three monographs: Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011); Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy (2015) and Visualizing Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/greek-love-and-orientalism/
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:20190214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190215
DTSTAMP:20200130T103053Z
CREATED:20200130T103053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T103053Z
UID:2866-1550102400-1550188799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“‘A disease that’s in my flesh that I must needs call mine’: Lear\, Macbeth and the fear of futurity”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Beth Harper – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/89/Dr%20Beth%20Harper) \nAbstract\nThis 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 up with ambivalence about the relationship between children and selfhood. Drawing upon Levinasian philosophy and psychoanalytic and queer theory\, the talk approaches the tragedies as resources for understanding the different yet intertwined fears of handing power over to a future generation (King Lear) and of contending with the bleakness of mortality when you face the future in the absence of heirs (Macbeth). Through the figure of the tormented father (or would-be father) king\, the talk traces the dark power of the parent-child relation especially by attending to characters who do not acknowledge that power. \n ||  \nBiography\nBeth Harper is a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She works across classical and early modern European literature\, and premodern Chinese literature and thought\, with a special interest in form and aesthetics. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare\, English Studies\, Comparative Literature: East & West and Postmedieval. She is at work on a book manuscript entitled The Lost Children of European Tragedy. Beth holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies from Yale\, an MA in Classics and an MPhil in European Literature and Culture from St John’s College\, Cambridge\, and an MA in Sinology from SOAS\, University of London where she was an HSBC scholar.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-disease-thats-in-my-flesh-that-i-must-needs-call-mine-lear-macbeth-and-the-fear-of-futurity/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190131T191100
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190131T192000
DTSTAMP:20200130T102918Z
CREATED:20200130T102918Z
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SUMMARY:“Decolonizing Linguistics”
DESCRIPTION:Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla – The University of Cape Town (http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/cas/staff/mabandla/) \nAbstract\nOn 9 April 2015\, more than twenty years after the liberation of South Africa and following persistent pressure from the #rhodesmustfall movement\, the statue of Cecil John Rhodes was taken down and moved to a storage facility. In a statement read out on the day\, the students called for the ‘radical decolonization’ of the university\, the systematic dismantling of colonial institutions\, knowledges and practices. Two weeks later\, at a public panel discussion\, the sociologist Zine Magubane echoed the students’ voices when she argued that the academy in its current form ‘emerged in and through the colonial project’. \nDebates about the legacy of colonialism in the academy are not new. In anthropology\, especially\, there is a long tradition of critiquing and interrogating the history of the discipline\, its status as a ‘child of imperialism’ (Gough 1968) and ‘handmaiden of colonialism’ (Asad 1973). Similar discussions have also surfaced among sociologists\, economists\, archaeologists\, geographers and historians. Linguists\, however\, have been strangely immune to these discussions\, and while critical texts have been published\, they have had little impact on how the discipline is taught and research is conducted. In this seminar/workshop\, we would like to reflect on the colonial history of the discipline of linguistics and explore ways in which linguistics can be decolonized. Can we imagine a decolonial linguistics? And what would it look like? \n \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/decolonizing-linguistics/
LOCATION:Room 735\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower Centennial Campus
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190125
DTSTAMP:20200310T200652Z
CREATED:20200310T200652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200652Z
UID:2579-1548288000-1548374399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Illuminating Cambridge Admissions
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Daniel Weston (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/illuminating-cambridge-admissions/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190125
DTSTAMP:20200130T102836Z
CREATED:20200130T102836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102836Z
UID:2863-1548288000-1548374399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Illuminating Cambridge Admission”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Weston – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/daniel.weston)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/illuminating-cambridge-admission/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190123
DTSTAMP:20200310T200515Z
CREATED:20200310T200515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200515Z
UID:2578-1548115200-1548201599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Discursive Agency in Negatively Anchored Marriage Fraud Investigations in Belgium
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke (Ghent University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/discursive-agency-in-negatively-anchored-marriage-fraud-investigations-in-belgium/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190123
DTSTAMP:20200130T102745Z
CREATED:20200130T102745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102745Z
UID:2862-1548115200-1548201599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Discursive Agency in Negatively Anchored Marriage Fraud Investigations in Belgium”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke – Ghent University (https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/mieke.vandenbroucke)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/discursive-agency-in-negatively-anchored-marriage-fraud-investigations-in-belgium-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190118
DTSTAMP:20200310T200433Z
CREATED:20200310T200433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200433Z
UID:2577-1547683200-1547769599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Disinventing Language\, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of 'Korea' in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Jerry Won Lee (University of California\, Irvine)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/disinventing-language-reconstituting-nation-the-location-of-korea-in-the-semiotic-landscape-of-east-asia/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190118
DTSTAMP:20200130T102701Z
CREATED:20200130T102701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102701Z
UID:2860-1547683200-1547769599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Disinventing Language\, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of ‘Korea’ in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jerry Won Lee – The University of California\, Irvine (https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6072)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/disinventing-language-reconstituting-nation-the-location-of-korea-in-the-semiotic-landscape-of-east-asia-2/
LOCATION:4:30 pm in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190116
DTSTAMP:20200310T200352Z
CREATED:20200310T200352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200352Z
UID:2576-1547510400-1547596799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Loudness Registers: Normalising Cosmopolitan Identities in Narratives of Ethnic Othering
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Jaspal Singh (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/loudness-registers-normalising-cosmopolitan-identities-in-narratives-of-ethnic-othering/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190116
DTSTAMP:20200130T102613Z
CREATED:20200130T102613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102613Z
UID:2854-1547510400-1547596799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:“Loudness Registers: Normalising Cosmopolitan Identities in Narratives of Ethnic Othering”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jaspal Singh – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/62/Dr%20Jaspal%20Naveel%20Singh)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/loudness-registers-normalising-cosmopolitan-identities-in-narratives-of-ethnic-othering-2/
LOCATION:4:30 pm in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR