Disinventing Language, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of ‘Korea’ in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia
by Dr. Jerry Won Lee (University of California, Irvine)
by Dr. Jerry Won Lee (University of California, Irvine)
Dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke - Ghent University (https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/mieke.vandenbroucke)
by Dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke (Ghent University)
Dr. Daniel Weston - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/daniel.weston)
by Dr. Daniel Weston (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim)
Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla - The University of Cape Town (http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/cas/staff/mabandla/) Abstract On 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 […]
Dr. Beth Harper - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/89/Dr%20Beth%20Harper) Abstract This 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 […]
Dr. Daniel Orrells - King’s College London (https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/daniel-orrells(0bf6454d-f1d8-4718-9320-20c723ba5997).html) Abstract In 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 […]
Dr. Michael Gadaleto - Pennsylvania State University (http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/mpg5394)
by Dr. Michael Gadaleto (Pennsylvania State University)