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  • Internationalising Drama

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr Peter Jordan - City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/peter-edward-rees-jordan(8c512b7d-e06c-441f-a886-528f7d22580f).html) Abstract Live drama performance encompasses many forms not only as an art, but also in diverse applications, such as, public speaking, counselling, psychotherapy, corporate training, professional role play, and education. In this sense it is a highly transferrable skill. This presentation will outline and discuss the speaker’s […]

  • The Minutiae of Otiose Strokes in Medieval Scribal Practice

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr Anya Adair - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr%20Anya%20Adair) Abstract An otiose stroke in the world of medieval scribal practice is a mark added to a letter that has no linguistic signification – these marks are common in English manuscripts of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, and are reproduced even in early English printed […]

  • Locating the Subject Theatre: Efforts in Southern India during the Colonial Period

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Professor Balakrishnan Ananthakrishnan - University of Hyderabad (http://snscomm.uohyd.ac.in/theatrearts/Ananthakrishnan.html) Abstract Nationalism and modernity played a crucial role in creating the sense of modern Indian theatre in colonial India. Both, with mutual association, functioned together to locate theatre in Indian context as a subject which require domain knowledge and proficiency in practice different from the ongoing models. […]

  • Listening to Beckett: Sounds and the Event of Literature

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr Bobo Wong - The University of Hong Kong Abstract This paper offers a close reading on Beckett’s Watt with special attention paid to its audio qualities in an attempt to rehearse the reading experience as an aesthetic event. Taking cue from recent view of literature as event, and the call for reinstatement of aesthetic […]

  • The FRANKENREADS: An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Halloween 2018

    Additional Content On October 29, come celebrate Halloween and the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with the School of English and the English Society. The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in CPD-LG.10.  Refreshments included. Come dressed up as your favorite monster – prizes for best costumes. 6 to 6:30 p.m. Frankenreads Read, watch, or listen to excerpts from Frankenstein and its adaptations. […]

  • On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: The Impact of Developmental Funding on Palestinian Drama

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr Rashna Darius Nicholson - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/87/Dr%20Rashna%20Darius%20Nicholson) Abstract This 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 […]

  • The British Library, Digital Humanities and Your Research

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    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) Abstract Scholarly 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 […]

  • Iterations of the Microeconomic Mode

    Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

    Dr Jane Elliott - King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/english/about/people) Abstract This 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 […]