Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Professor Daniel Anlezark - The University of Sydney (https://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/daniel-anlezark.html) Abstract According 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. […]

Larry Feign - Author and Cartoonist (https://larryfeign.com/author.html) Abstract Like 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, […]

Dr Harriet Hulme - The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme)

Dr. Peter I. De Costa - Michigan State University (http://pdecosta.msu.domains/) Abstract In 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 […]