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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190215
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
CREATED:20200130T105139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T105139Z
UID:2886-1542844800-1542931199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181116
DTSTAMP:20200130T105055Z
CREATED:20200130T105055Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
LAST-MODIFIED: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
CREATED:20200130T105016Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181106
DTSTAMP:20200130T104925Z
CREATED:20200130T104925Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181104
DTSTAMP:20200310T181048Z
CREATED:20200310T181048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T181048Z
UID:2513-1541203200-1541289599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
CREATED:20200130T104806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T104806Z
UID:2882-1541030400-1541116799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181030
DTSTAMP:20200310T173805Z
CREATED:20200310T173805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T173805Z
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SUMMARY:The FRANKENREADS: An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Halloween 2018
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nOn 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.  \nRefreshments included. Come dressed up as your favorite monster – prizes for best costumes. \n6 to 6:30 p.m. Frankenreads\nRead\, watch\, or listen to excerpts from Frankenstein and its adaptations. Bring your own short reading or video clip\, or simply come to watch and listen! \n6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Frankenfest\nSocialize with English students at a Frankenstein-themed celebration.   \nRegistration is not required\, but you can register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=60437 \nPlease contact jvaldez@hku.hk with questions. For more information about the international celebration\, see http://frankenreads.org.​
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-frankenreads-an-international-celebration-of-the-200th-anniversary-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein-for-halloween-2018/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181026
DTSTAMP:20200130T104335Z
CREATED:20200130T104335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T104335Z
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SUMMARY:Listening to Beckett: Sounds and the Event of Literature
DESCRIPTION:Dr Bobo Wong – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nThis 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 in the critical discourse\, the paper suggests that a responsible reading giving due attention to the literary work’s audio qualities (e.g. tone\, rhythm\, resonance) will provide a critical position out of the after-theory impasse. This suggestion is further backed up with the idea of parergon with respect to proper noun and tone in Derrida’s Signéponge. By reopening discussion of overlooked aspects of language as essential components of the reading experience\, this paper hopes to add to the growing body of after-theory critical works that calls for deeper engagement with the aesthetic of literature. It also hopes to open up further discussion on the aesthetic of sound\, and its role in knowledge production. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/listening-to-beckett-sounds-and-the-event-of-literature/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181019
DTSTAMP:20200130T104245Z
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UID:2880-1539820800-1539907199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Locating the Subject Theatre: Efforts in Southern India during the Colonial Period
DESCRIPTION:Professor Balakrishnan Ananthakrishnan – University of Hyderabad (http://snscomm.uohyd.ac.in/theatrearts/Ananthakrishnan.html) \nAbstract\nNationalism 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. The efforts towards this initiated by the cultural and theatre activists (nationalists) were focusing on generating theatre literacy among the discerned. The southern region of India was not exposed to the idea of modern theatre unlike in Calcutta (Kolkata) or Bombay (Mumbai). There were series of discussions and talks organised by the Amateur Dramatic Association (ADA) in Bangalore to locate theatre as a subject in Indian context. My presentation would be on the two talks organised by ADA in 1818 and 1919 delivered by C. Ramalinga Reddy and James H Cousins respectively\, which are not reflected in any of the written historical documents on theatre in India. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Balakrishnan Ananthakrishnan is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts\, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication\, University of Hyderabad.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/locating-the-subject-theatre-efforts-in-southern-india-during-the-colonial-period/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181012
DTSTAMP:20200130T104150Z
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UID:2879-1539216000-1539302399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The Minutiae of Otiose Strokes in Medieval Scribal Practice
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anya Adair – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr%20Anya%20Adair) \nAbstract\nAn 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 books. They have long been explained as mere decorative flourishes. This talk searches for a fuller explanation using the tools of palaeography\, historical linguistics\, and the study of medieval reading. Analysis of the deployment of these strokes in the vernacular production of the Carthusian scribe William Darker (working c.1481-1512) reveals semantic behaviours and patterns of use that suggest the marks had significant meaning: they appear to have performed a surprisingly robust range of linguistic functions. While these “otiose” strokes remain resistant to full explication\, the patterns here uncovered suggest a scribal intention to encode detailed linguistic information via the conscious placement of calligraphic marks. Close examination of their deployment by scribes like Darker\, and by the printer William Caxton\, makes possible a reappraisal of scribal method across the late medieval period\, the reading practices these methods imply\, and the role of the scribe and printer in the creation of textual meaning. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Anya Adair is Assistant Professor in Law and Humanities at The University of Hong Kong.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-minutiae-of-otiose-strokes-in-medieval-scribal-practice/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180928
DTSTAMP:20200130T104053Z
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UID:2878-1538006400-1538092799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Internationalising Drama
DESCRIPTION: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) \nAbstract\nLive 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 long experience as a professional practitioner and instructor in the United Kingdom\, Italy and\, over the past 20 years\, in Hong Kong. From the first professionals of the so-called Commedia dell’Arte\, whose use of masks and improvisation still inform theatre practice today\, the talk will highlight how drama can be deployed to gain a more nuanced understanding of language\, psychology and history\, as well as to examine and engage with socio-cultural issues that continue to challenge mainstream norms and practices. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Jordan is Assistant Professor of Drama and Literature at the City University of Hong Kong.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/internationalising-drama/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180921
DTSTAMP:20200130T104013Z
CREATED:20200130T104013Z
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UID:2877-1537401600-1537487999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Modernity and Mechanical Reproduction in Gift-Annual Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Dr Clara Dawson – The University of Manchester \nAbstract\nThis paper addresses the absence of gift-annual poetry from critical accounts of the transition from Romantic to Victorian aesthetics. The close analysis of a number of gift-annual poems demonstrates that they are fundamental to our understanding of the literary history of the early-nineteenth century. It argues that gift-annual poetry extends the characteristic self-reflexivity of Romantic poetry to the technological moment of the 1820s and to questions of value raised by the materiality of books in the commercial marketplace. By scrutinising the aesthetic interventions and experiments of gift-annual poems\, the paper argues that they are self-consciously engaging with the accelerated mechanical reproduction and the increased circulation of literary books for profit in a capitalist marketplace. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Clara Dawson is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on poetry and poetic form across the long-nineteenth century. She has published a two-volume edition\, Critical Heritage: Elizabeth Barrett Browning\, anthologising periodical reviews of her poetry and is currently working on a monograph titled Poetry and Popularity in the Victorian Era.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/modernity-and-mechanical-reproduction-in-gift-annual-poetry/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180606
DTSTAMP:20200310T161917Z
CREATED:20200310T161917Z
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UID:2491-1528070400-1528243199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:New Directions in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nPoster\nProgramme
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/new-directions-in-philosophy-of-language-and-linguistics/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180523
DTSTAMP:20200213T172021Z
CREATED:20200213T172021Z
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UID:2893-1526947200-1527033599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Language and The Problem of Women’s Authority
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Deborah Cameron – Faculty of English Language & Literature\, University of Oxford (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-deborah-cameron) \nAbstract\nThe under-representation of women in public discourse and public life—in politics\, in the corporate world\, in the academy and in many parts of the media—is a significant real-world problem\, which has persisted in spite of the removal of formal barriers to equality in many societies around the world. While many factors contribute to it\, one factor that is widely held to play an important role is language; but there is a division between the mainstream\, common sense view that the problem lies in women’s own linguistic behaviour (their socialised tendency to speak in a way that ‘lacks authority’)\, and the alternative view that the real problem is the public silencing of women\, which results from a combination of overt and implicit sexist bias. In this lecture I’ll consider what light research evidence can shed on this debate. How should we understand the problem\, and is there a way to solve it? \n ||  \nBiography\nDeborah Cameron is a sociolinguist who currently holds the Murdoch Chair of Language and Communication in the Faculty of Linguistics at Oxford University. Since she began her career in the 1980s she has also worked at the universities of London and Strathclyde in the UK\, and held visiting positions in the US\, Australia and Sweden. She is the author of numerous books\, including Verbal Hygiene(1995)\, Good To Talk (2000)\, The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)\, and most recently\, with Sylvia Shaw\, Gender\, Power and Political Speech (2016). She regularly comments on linguistic topics on BBC radio\, and presents research on language and gender for a general audience through her blog Language: a feminist guide.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/language-and-the-problem-of-womens-authority/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520
DTSTAMP:20200310T161436Z
CREATED:20200310T161436Z
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UID:2490-1526601600-1526774399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Remedying Distance: the Drive to Bring Closer in the Long Nineteenth Century
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/remedying-distance-the-drive-to-bring-closer-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
DTSTAMP:20200213T173141Z
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UID:2326-1524700800-1524787199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Why Verse? Aurora Leigh and the Rise of the Verse-Novel
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Chan Man Long Johnson – RPg\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nIn 1856\, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her masterpiece Aurora Leigh\, her “novel-poem” conceived as early as 1845. This decade-long work remains as one of the few examples of a little-researched literary genre in the Victorian era – the verse-novel. Using Aurora Leigh as my prime example\, my talk aims to provide an answer as to why verse-novelists chose to write their novels in verse rather than in prose. By examining both poetic and novelistic conventions employed in Aurora Leigh\, we can come to understand Barrett Browning’s purpose in choosing verse as the medium of narrating what would otherwise be a tale fit for the novel. As we will see\, the various properties of verse contribute to Barrett Browning's critique of the conventional novel – and the very concept of realism – in mid-Victorian era. Barrett Browning uses verse’s historic prestige\, literary devices and formal logic to expose the problems of the realist novel\, how\, in its pursuit for the real\, is fundamentally unable to represent truth. \n ||  \nBiography\nJohnson Chan is currently a M.Phil candidate at the School of English in The University of Hong Kong. Previously\, he has obtained his B.A. in English Literature from The University of British Columbia and his J.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current academic interests include 18th century and 19th century poetry as well as Victorian verse-novels.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-verse-aurora-leigh-and-the-rise-of-the-verse-novel-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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