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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190411
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190412
DTSTAMP: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
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190322
DTSTAMP:20200130T103521Z
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UID:2871-1553126400-1553212799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
LAST-MODIFIED: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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190315
DTSTAMP:20200130T103428Z
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UID:2870-1552521600-1552607999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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UID:2581-1552435200-1552521599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190314
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTSTAMP:20200310T200755Z
CREATED:20200310T200755Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
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
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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
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190131T191100
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190131T192000
DTSTAMP:20200130T102918Z
CREATED:20200130T102918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T102918Z
UID:2865-1548961860-1548962400@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181214
DTSTAMP:20200130T105310Z
CREATED:20200130T105310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T105310Z
UID:2888-1544659200-1544745599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Language\, Education\, and Linguistic Entrepreneurship: A Critical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Peter I. De Costa – Michigan State University (http://pdecosta.msu.domains/) \nAbstract\nIn light of the growing influence of neoliberalism (Block et. al\, 2012) and enterprise culture (Ong\, 2006)\, independence and a willingness to take risks are increasingly emphasized as societal values that individuals and organizations are expected to cultivate. Building on the neoliberal turn in applied linguistics and more specifically De Costa\, Park and Wee’s (2016) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship\, which is defined as “the act of aligning with the moral imperative to strategically exploit language-related resources for enhancing one’s worth in the world” (p. 696)\, I take a critical perspective in examining how linguistic entrepreneurship is instantiated in a range of education contexts and relate it to a broader embrace of audit culture (De Costa\, Park & Wee\, in press). In particular\, I investigate (1) the material conditions that have enabled and constrained the emergence of linguistic entrepreneurship\, and (2) its impact on individuals from China and Nepal as they negotiate the complex dynamics surrounding calls for greater accountability\, competitiveness\, and profit. \n ||  \nBiography\nPeter De Costa is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His primary areas of research are identity and ideology in SLA. He is the author of The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning (Springer\, 2016). He also recently edited Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research (Routledge\, 2016).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/language-education-and-linguistic-entrepreneurship-a-critical-perspective/
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:20181206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181209
DTSTAMP:20200310T162036Z
CREATED:20200310T162036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T162036Z
UID:2492-1544054400-1544313599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The Space Between: Creativity\, Performance and Impact in Contemporary Island Societies
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-space-between-creativity-performance-and-impact-in-contemporary-island-societies/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181130
DTSTAMP:20200130T105226Z
CREATED:20200130T105226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T105226Z
UID:2887-1543449600-1543535999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation: Exploring the Work of Atxaga\, Kundera and Semprú​n
DESCRIPTION:Dr Harriet Hulme – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/ethics-and-aesthetics-of-translation-exploring-the-work-of-atxaga-kundera-and-semprun/
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:20181122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181123
DTSTAMP:20200130T105139Z
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SUMMARY:Cartoons\, Creativity\, Censorship
DESCRIPTION:Larry Feign – Author and Cartoonist (https://larryfeign.com/author.html) \nAbstract\nLike most political cartoonists\, Larry Feign doesn’t back down from sensitive subjects. His hardheadedness has gotten him fired before – from the South China Morning Post – but it’s won him ample credibility. His cartoons have appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, The Economist\, Fortune\, the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Der Spiegel\, and Pravda\, to name a few\, and he’s produced animated cartoons for Cartoon Network and Disney. He’s also published fifteen books and received a number of awards. \nAt this wide-ranging talk\, he’ll touch upon the career of a cartoonist\, using satire as a form of expression and dissent\, differences between Chinese and Western humor\, self-censorship (both in China and abroad)\, and the roadblocks ahead for satirical cartoons in Hong Kong and abroad. The presentation is amply illustrated with many cartoons. \n ||  \nBiography\nLarry Feign is an award-winning writer and artist\, author of 20 books of humour and cartoons for adults and children\, who has also directed animated cartoons for Cartoon Network and Disney Television. He lives on Lantau Island with his wife\, two dogs\, and the occasional uninvited snake. His mother still wishes he were a doctor.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/cartoons-creativity-censorship/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181116
DTSTAMP:20200130T105055Z
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SUMMARY:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and its Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:Professor Daniel Anlezark – The University of Sydney (https://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/daniel-anlezark.html) \nAbstract\nAccording to all available evidence\, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was the most widely disseminated vernacular text in early medieval England. The Chronicle was composed in Old English some time in the late ninth century\, and its earliest versions are closely associated with King Alfred the Great. The complex textual history of the Chronicle is difficult to unravel\, from the earliest versions to the latest\, when it was still being copied and added to in the twelfth century. This presentation will discuss the surviving versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the relationships between them\, as well as exploring the ways in which textual additions and deletions modify the ways in which early English history is to be understood and interpreted by readers. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-anglo-saxon-chronicle-and-its-afterlives/
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:20181113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181114
DTSTAMP:20200310T200233Z
CREATED:20200310T200233Z
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SUMMARY:Time Public Lecture Series on Health Communication Inaugural Public Lecture: "Ending the Stigma around Mental Health Worldwide"
DESCRIPTION:by Sue Baker OBE (Global Director of Time to Change)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/time-public-lecture-series-on-health-communication-inaugural-public-lecture-ending-the-stigma-around-mental-health-worldwide/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181109
DTSTAMP:20200130T105016Z
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SUMMARY:Iterations of the Microeconomic Mode
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jane Elliott – King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/english/about/people) \nAbstract\nThis talk examines what transpires when the economic dynamics of primitive accumulation are transposed into what I call ‘the microeconomic mode’\, a dominant contemporary aesthetic formation that brings together abstraction\, extremity\, and painful\, life-or-death choices made by individual agents. I focus on The Revenant—both the recent film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and the novel on which it was based—in order examine the way in which a specific history of settler-colonial capital expansion becomes resignified via the microeconomic mode as a story of attrition for settler rather than indigenous lives. Building out from this reading\, I evaluate the implicit political positions enabled and foreclosed when problems of scarcity\, accumulation and relative plenitude are rendered in the microeconomic mode\, in which the only meaningful currency seems to be life itself. In conclusion\, I consider why it is that an either/or choice between lives\, or what I call ‘binary life’\, has emerged as such a consistent trope in recent contemporary culture—and what happens to arguments for material justice when necropolitical decisions are reimagined as inevitable\, recurrent acts of individual choice. \n ||  \nBiography\nJane Elliott is Reader in Contemporary Literature\, Culture and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. She is author of The Micro-economic Mode: Political Subjectivity and Contemporary Popular Aesthetics (Columbia UP 2018) and Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time (Palgrave 2008) and co-editor of the ‘Genres of Neoliberalism’ issue of Social Text (2013) and Theory after Theory (Routledge 2011). Her essays on contemporary literature and culture have appeared in Novel\, Modern Fiction Studies\, PMLA\, and Social Text.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/iterations-of-the-microeconomic-mode/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181106
DTSTAMP:20200130T104925Z
CREATED:20200130T104925Z
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SUMMARY:The British Library\, Digital Humanities and Your Research
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anya Adair – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr%20Anya%20Adair) || Dr Luisa Mengoni and Ms Alexandra Ault – The British Library (https://www.bl.uk/people/experts/alexandra-ault) \nAbstract\nScholarly work that is enabled\, supported or disseminated to a wider audience via the tools and platforms of the digital humanities is an increasingly important part of grant applications\, knowledge exchange efforts\, and the successful completion of research projects.  But incorporating the digital humanities into new work can be a challenge: successful DH research involves thoughtful planning and the strategic use of existing tools and databases – as well as the development of new digital platforms.  For PhD students and early-career scholars\, the digital humanities also represents a field of enormous opportunity: postdoctoral job opportunities for DH-trained scholars far exceed the number of qualified applicants\, making the skills of the digital humanities an important part of professional development. \nThe British Library has long been at the forefront of emerging methods in digitisation and online dissemination\, and has supported numerous digital humanities projects undertaken by scholars from across the globe. Visiting scholars Dr. Luisa Mengoni\, Head of Asian and African Collections at the British Library\, and Ms. Alexandra Ault\, Lead Curator of Western Manuscripts 1601-1950 at the British Library will lead this exciting workshop session on the digital humanities for HKU students and researchers.  The session will introduce current opportunities in digital humanities research at HKU\, outline the impact of digital humanities on literature\, and discuss what digital humanities means for scholarly research in general.  The session will also introduce and model diverse projects across the British Library Asian sections\, including Hebrew\, Indian Print\, and the Dunhuang Project. Participants will be invited to consider questions relating to digital research\, and will have the opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field. \nLight refreshments will be served.  The workshop is open to HKU students and faculty.  All are welcome to attend\, but places may fill quickly: to register for the event\, please email Anya Adair (adair@hku.hk).  \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-british-library-digital-humanities-and-your-research/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181104
DTSTAMP:20200310T181048Z
CREATED:20200310T181048Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2018
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2018/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181102
DTSTAMP:20200130T104806Z
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SUMMARY:On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: The Impact of Developmental Funding on Palestinian Drama
DESCRIPTION:Dr Rashna Darius Nicholson – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/87/Dr%20Rashna%20Darius%20Nicholson) \nAbstract\nThis presentation offers an outline of the impact of non-governmental and governmental funding on theatre with additional examples from the visual arts and music in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Foreign aid to both the Palestinian Authority through the Ministry of Culture as well as non-governmental organizations has played a key role in determining the ways in which the Palestinian cultural sector has developed over the last two decades. However\, this transformation has not been viewed by local actors as an unmixed good. By using the arts as a means of promoting development\, international donor agencies contributed towards the ‘NGOization’ of the Palestinian cultural sector. In the aftermath of the Oslo agreement\, the sudden and enormous influx of foreign funding impelled a race amongst local associations to secure public grants and private endowments. This lead not only to a proliferation of minor organizations working with smaller budgets and staff but also to the transformation of informal fine arts companies into NGOs executing short-term programs based on social inclusion\, democracy building\, gender equality\, and children and youth activities. By tracing this development through the differential influence of three organizations: SIDA (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)\, NORAD (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and the European Union\, this presentation delineates how the inflow of international aid has come at the expense of not only longer term\, sustainable strategies that promote the arts for the sake of the arts but also the economic stability and social acceptance of the sector as a whole. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/on-the-impossibilities-of-a-free-theatre-the-impact-of-developmental-funding-on-palestinian-drama/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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