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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181105
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181104
DTSTAMP:20200310T181048Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2018
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2018/
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181030
DTSTAMP: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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181026
DTSTAMP: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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181019
DTSTAMP:20200130T104245Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181012
DTSTAMP:20200130T104150Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180928
DTSTAMP:20200130T104053Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180921
DTSTAMP:20200130T104013Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180606
DTSTAMP:20200310T161917Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180523
DTSTAMP:20200213T172021Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180520
DTSTAMP:20200310T161436Z
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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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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
DTSTAMP:20200213T172922Z
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SUMMARY:"At Last It Arrested Her": The Historical Portrait in Pride and Prejudice
DESCRIPTION:Ms. Xu Lingyi\, Olivia – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nWhen characters pause to look at portraits in nineteenth-century English novels\, they often learn key information about the depicted subjects. One of the most memorable examples is Elizabeth’s encounter of Mr. Darcy’s portrait at Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice. The painting softens the heroine’s harsh impressions of Darcy and thereby advances the novel’s central marriage plot. Scholars like Elizabeth Helsinger and Kamilla Elliott have agreed that fictional portraits in nineteenth-century novels often function as plot devices to impart knowledge of characters. This paper\, however\, seeks to complicate this observation by thinking how the novel draws upon different traditions of portraiture to challenge the idea that the process of knowing someone is linear\, progressive and accumulative. Through an analysis of the portrait scene in Pride and Prejudice\, this presentation argues that Elizabeth’s complex reactions towards Mr. Darcy’s picture suggest an ongoing conflict between her personal memories and a Reynoldsian historical representation of Mr. Darcy’s character. Recalling the “Grand Style” portrait advocated by Sir Joshua Reynolds\, probably the most prominent English portraitist of the eighteenth century\, the painting of Darcy consolidates his individualized smile with his aristocratic ancestry. Susceptible to this historically authoritative version of Mr. Darcy\, Elizabeth therefore edits and alters her past memories of their acquaintance to validate the picture’s likeness. In doing so\, Elizabeth further undermines the novel’s painstaking depictions of her gradual trajectory in knowing others. \n ||  \nBiography\nLingyi (Olivia)\, Xu is a M.Phil. student at the University of Hong Kong\, where she received her B.A. in English studies and Fine Arts. Her MPhil thesis examines the ubiquitous presence of fictional portraits in the nineteenth-century English novel and argues against the common “narrative reading” of visual arts in the novel. Her research interests are interdisciplinary\, located at the intersection of nineteenth-century English novel\, visual arts and aesthetic theories.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/at-last-it-arrested-her-the-historical-portrait-in-pride-and-prejudice-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180420
DTSTAMP:20200213T172705Z
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SUMMARY:'An act of welcome': writing as hospitality in Refugee Tales (2016)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Harriet Hulme – Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme) \nAbstract\nIn Refugee Tales\, its editor David Herd suggests that the asylum process symbolically dehumanises asylum seekers by restricting their ability to narrate their story on\, and in\, their own terms. Refugee Tales is itself an attempt to remedy this situation: mimicking the structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales\,the text presents us with a series of anonymous stories – The Detainee’s Tale\, The Interpreter’s Tale\, The Appellant’s Tale -\, each exploring an aspect of the experiences of those seeking asylum in the UK. While Chaucer’s prologue describes the physical and mental attributes of his tale-tellers\, Refugee Tales turns the focus onto us\, its readers\, with a powerful poetic call for us to develop an ethical and hospitable response to the refugee crisis. \nThis paper explores the ways in which Refugee Tales itself provides a shape for this hospitable response through its use of translation. Drawing upon Ricœur’s idea of linguistic hospitality\, an approach which seeks to bring the foreign and the domestic into open interaction rather than aggressive opposition\, I argue that the way in which the text translates the canonical Chaucer text into these 21st Century refugee stories challenges the traditional binaries between the foreign and the domestic. In so doing\, Refugee Tales offers us an opportunity to think hospitably about our own response to those who seek refuge on our shores. \n ||  \nBiography\nHarriet Hulme is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (2016) from University College London: her dissertation focused upon an ethics of translation through the work of three bilingual European authors. At HKU she is currently working on a project entitled On the Threshold: Locating an Ethics of Hospitality Between Home and Homelessness. Her research explores the ways in which the tension between the domestic and the nomadic shapes our contemporary understanding of hospitality.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-act-of-welcome-writing-as-hospitality-in-refugee-tales-2016-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180413
DTSTAMP:20200213T172513Z
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SUMMARY:Building Memory: Digital Place-Making in Zuni Icosahedron's Architecture of the City
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Joanna Mansbridge – Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/joanna-gwen-mansbridge(976997ed-c96f-4ba4-9053-ed96c55ff62c).html) \nAbstract\nThis talk emerges from two central questions: How do performance and performance technologies participate in constructing alternative spaces and building collective memory? How does the city itself – its architecture\, interactions\, artefacts – perform? With Zuni Icosahedron’s two recent productions\, The Architecture of the City (Dec. 2017) and "One Table\, Two Chairs: Belt-Road" performance workshop (Dec. 2017)\, as my primary points of departure\, I seek to explore the relationships among urban space\, collective memory\, and performance. Zuni’s co-Artistic Directors\, Mathias Woo and Danny Yung\, are both architects\, and their experiments with theatrical space consistently invite questions regarding the urban space outside the theatre\, while their experiments with technology – sound\, light\, image – defamiliarise habituated perceptions\, expand historical awareness\, and revise cultural forms. Both above-mentioned productions construct alternative spaces in order to reflect on how the city itself choreographs movements\, narrates histories\, builds (or demolishes) memories\, and produces interdependencies.The Architecture of the City transposes the urban theory of Italian architect Aldo Rossi into a Hong Kong landscape\, while the "One Table\, Two Chairs" workshop brought together choreographers from across Asia and Europe in a dance series centred around the notion of “crossover\,” a concept aimed at generating inclusive\, flexible\, and interactive public spaces (Yung). In addition\, both The Architecture of the City and the "One Table\, Two Chairs" workshop were implicitly framed as responses to 20th anniversary of handover. I will thus briefly engage with performances organised around that event as well\, in order to explore how the city itself can be made to perform national\, transnational\, global\, and local identities at once. \n ||  \nBiography\nJoanna Mansbridge is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research and teaching interests span contemporary US drama\, global performance\, film and visual culture\, gender studies\, and ecocriticism. Her published work appears in Theatre Topics (forthcoming)\, Theatre Research International\, Modern Drama\, Canadian Theatre Review\, Journal of Popular Culture and Comparative Drama\, as well as in various edited collections. Her monograph Paula Vogel (University of Michigan Press\, 2014) is the first book-length study of the playwright. She is on the international advisory board for the open source performance studies journal\, Performance Matters.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/building-memory-digital-place-making-in-zuni-icosahedrons-architecture-of-the-city-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180330
DTSTAMP:20200213T172320Z
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SUMMARY:Samoan ghost stories: John Kneubuhl and oral history
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Otto Heim – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nHailed as "the spiritual father of Pacific Island theatre" (Balme 2007: 194)\, John Kneubuhl is best known as a playwright and a Hollywood scriptwriter. Less well known is that after his return to Samoa in 1968 he also devoted much of his time to the study and teaching of Polynesian culture and history. The sense of personal and cultural loss\, which his plays often dramatize in stories of spirit possession\, also guided his investment in oral history\, in the form of extended series of radio talks and public lectures\, as well as long life history interviews. Based on archival recordings of this oral history\, this talk will consider Kneubuhl's sense of history and how it informs his most autobiographical play\, Think of a Garden. \n ||  \nBiography\nOtto Heim's research focuses on writing and performance in the Pacific\, with particular attention to ongoing processes of decolonization and ecological transformation. Recent publications have addressed the connection of sovereignty and ecology in Oceanian poetry\, island logic and poetic re-mappings of the Pacific\, and the forging of Oceanic communities in Pacific theatre. He is also working on a book-length study of the work of the first Polynesian playwright\, American Samoan John Kneubuhl.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/samoan-ghost-stories-john-kneubuhl-and-oral-history/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180315
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180316
DTSTAMP:20200213T171602Z
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SUMMARY:Bermuda on the Move: Origins and Typological Affinities of Bermudian English
DESCRIPTION:Dr. des. Nicole Eberle – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/staff/neberle.htm) \nAbstract\nIn this presentation\, I discuss results from both a qualitative and quantitative analysis of Bermudian English\, which form part of a research project on the origins\, dialect contact history and typological relationships of this “lesser-known variety of English” (Schreier et al. 2010). In an attempt to explore the origins and typological status of Bermudian English\, I rate selected morphosyntactic features adapted from Baker and Huber (2001) on the basis of the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (Kortmann and Lunkenheimer 2011) and compare these ratings to those of other varieties in the wider geographical region. Such a comparative approach allows to draw conclusions on traces of input varieties and structural affinities and provides a framework for the typological assessment of Bermudian English on morphosyntactic grounds. \nThe qualitative analysis is complemented by a presentation of selected results from a quantitative analysis of consonant cluster reduction. Based on a distributional and multivariate statistical analysis\, the total frequency of reduction as well as internal and external constraints rankings for this variable are discussed and the results compared to those established for other English varieties. Since consonant cluster reduction is one of the most studied variables\, it is possible to further contextualize the status of Bermudian English on the basis of these results\, so as to assess the amount of dialect and language contact when it formed (compare Schreier 2008). \nSuch a combination of analyses allows to anchor Bermudian English within the canon of other varieties in the wider geographical region and provides the framework to typologically assess and classify Bermudian English; it also aims to further our understanding of one of the most under-researched varieties of English and highlight its comparative potential. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. des. Nicole Eberle joins the School of English at HKU from January to June 2018. She completed her Ph.D. studies in English linguistics with a successful viva at the University of Zurich in December 2017; her dissertation focuses on Bermudian English\, provides a first description of morphosyntactic features and traces the origins and development of this variety as well as typological affiliations with contact-derived varieties in the wider geographical region. \nPrior to starting work at HKU\, she was employed as a teaching and research assistant at the English Department of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Since June 2013\, she is also working as an editorial assistant for English World-Wide. \nHer research interests include sociolinguistics\, language variation and change\, contact linguistics\, lesser-known varieties of English\, English varieties in the Caribbean\, dialect typology\, as well as sociolinguistics of mobility.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/bermuda-on-the-move-origins-and-typological-affinities-of-bermudian-english/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302
DTSTAMP:20200213T171416Z
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SUMMARY:Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Chris Patterson – Department of Humanities and Creative Writing\, Hong Kong Baptist University (http://hum.hkbu.edu.hk/staff.php?staff_class=ts&staff_id=41) \nAbstract\nThis presentation will discuss the major concepts of Dr. Patterson’s book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific\, which traces forms of racial governance from colonial-era racial pluralism to contemporary global multiculturalism through an exploration of Asian migrant narratives from Southeast Asia\, Hawaii\, and North America. Since the early 1990s\, Asian American Studies scholars have often read migrant texts as diasporic\, and have seen the Asian migrant as caught between a mythical homeland and an imperial host country. Transitive Cultures seeks to shift from diaspora as a framework that reinstitutes national categories\, to instead consider ways of reading migrant texts across nations and diasporic groups\, and against the binary of authentic and constructed racial identities. Transitive Cultures thus reframes Asian migrant texts from “diasporic” texts to “transpacific Anglophone” texts in order to archive works deemed "inauthentic" to both nationalist literatures and to American ethnic literatures. These inauthentic texts\, I argue\, speak to a transnational social formation that sees nationalist racial formations as part of a broader transnational form of “pluralist governmentality.” Rather than contrast the racial tolerance of the host country with the intolerance of the homeland\, these migrant stories show how pluralist governmentality\, since the colonial era\, has relied heavily upon hyper-visible and monolithic racial identities\, and has seen the multiplicity of identity\, rather than single nationalist identities\, as its main organizing logic. In response\, these texts work to express “transitive cultures\,” cultures defined not by race or origin\, but by the shared cultural practice of managing\, re-interpreting\, and transitioning among imposed racial identities. \n ||  \nBiography\nChristopher B. Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of games\, literature\, and films through the lens of empire studies\, Asian American studies\, and queer theory. His book\, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press 2018)\, treats transpacific anglophone literature as an alternative archive for following imperial routes and invoking strategies for everyday oppositions. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly\, Games and Culture\, M.E.L.U.S.\, and the anthologies Global Asian American Popular Cultures (New York University Press\, 2016) and Queer Sex Work (Routledge\, 2015). His fiction\, published under his alter ego Kawika Guillermo\, has appeared in The Cimarron Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Drunken Boat and Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism & Beyond. He writes monthly articles for Anomaly and serves as the Prose Editor for decomP Magazine.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/transitive-cultures-anglophone-literature-of-the-transpacific/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180209
DTSTAMP:20200213T171215Z
CREATED:20200213T171215Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Realism in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra – School of Literature and Languages\, University of Surrey (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/staff_list/complete_staff_list/adeline_johnsputra/) \nAbstract\nSome have recently argued that the age we now call the Anthropocene demands new understandings of human ontology and thus of history. I ask what such a renewed sense of history might mean for literary realism\, invested as it is in the depiction of the passing of time. What is the future of the realist novel when the very notion of human history is being impinged upon by the existential upheavals of the Anthropocene? If\, indeed\, as Dipesh Chakrabarty argues\, the Anthropocene requires the mixing of individual\, epochal\, and species histories\, then it demands something more than the human-historical dialectic that some\, such as Fredric Jameson\, identify as the hallmark of realism. Among the possibilities for a new literary realism is that offered by Walter Benjamin’s conceptualisation of history. For Benjamin\, a true understanding of history demands the recognition of the ‘image’ of history\, a recognition occurring in a moment of ‘arrest’ in the flow of time and of thought. I speculate on the emergence of an Anthropocenic literary realism that performs just such an arrest\, taking its reader beyond conventional understandings of (human) history and time. \n ||  \nBiography\nAdeline Johns-Putra is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She was President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UK and Ireland) from 2011 to 2015. Her articles on climate change and literature have been published in English Studies\, Modern Fiction Studies\, and Studies in the Novel\, among others. Her most recent monograph\, Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel\, and an edited volume\, Climate and Literature\,will be published by Cambridge University Press this year.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/literary-realism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180204
DTSTAMP:20200310T155631Z
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SUMMARY:International Colloquium: Philosophies of Communication - East and West
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nOrganizers: Adrian Pablé (HKU) and Johan Siebers (Middlesex University) \nThis international colloquium explores aspects of language philosophy with a focus on the relation between Eastern and Western paradigms. Contributions can be historical\, philosophical\, literary\, linguistic\, or related to media/communication\, but all in one way or another connected to the question if and how the intercultural perspective can be useful or informative for the study of language and communication in the broad sense. \n  \nFor inquiries\, please contact apable@hku.hk or J.Siebers@mdx.ac.uk \nPoster: Please click here. \nTentative Programme (updated on 2nd February): Please click here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/international-colloquium-philosophies-of-communication-east-and-west/
LOCATION:Seminar Room 745\, 7/F Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTSTAMP:20200213T162122Z
CREATED:20200213T162122Z
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SUMMARY:Saying and Renunciation in Chang Chung-yuan's Commentary to the Dao De Jing
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Johan Siebers – Religious Studies Unit\, Middlesex University London (https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/siebers-johan) \nAbstract\nOne of the most conspicuous aspects of the Dao De Jing is its negative view of language. Language is unable to express the full nature of being\, the Dao\, which is\, rather\, open only to an intuitive\, direct and ineffable\, spontaneous and creative awareness\, which has a transformative influence on the lives of those who reach it. Implicit in the text is a philosophy of language that explores how\, on the basis of this intuitive access to the Dao\, we can come to understand language itself as one of the Dao's manifestations. In recent years the attention for the relation between the Daoist view of language and Western philosophies (and theologies) of apophatic discourse has grown considerably. But it was the Hawaiian scholar Chung-yuan Chang (1904-1988) who first explored the deep connections between Daoism\, the history of German philosophy and in particular Heidegger's philosophy of language\, in his little-noted but masterly and sensitive translation and commentary of the Dao De jing (1975). In this paper I will read Chang's commentary in the light of Heidegger's reflections on the relation between Saying (Sagen) and renunciation (Versagen)\, starting from Heidegger's remark that "renunciation is itself a Saying". The way in which the Dao De Jing acts in a kenotic\, emptying\, non-acting\, nurturing but non-credit taking manner\, like the water to which Lao Tzu so often compares the Dao\, is an example of this renunciation at the heart of language. Interestingly\, Wang Bi (226-249) shows a very clear awareness of this aspect of the text in his classical commentary. Western philosophy reached this insight\, which moves far beyond the confines of negative theology\, only with Heidegger's\, still quite contentious\, linguistic speculations. \n ||  \nBiography\nJohan Siebers is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Middlesex University London and Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London. He has published widely on German philosophy\, especially Ernst Bloch\, the philosophy of communication and metaphysics. He is founding editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. He studied Philosophy\, Linguistics and Dutch language and Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen\, Leuven\, and Leiden Universities and holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from Leiden.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/saying-and-renunciation-in-chang-chung-yuans-commentary-to-the-dao-de-jing/
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:20180118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180119
DTSTAMP:20200310T200121Z
CREATED:20200310T200121Z
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SUMMARY:The Modernist Theatrum Mundi: Jean Cocteau's Around-the-World Performance
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-modernist-theatrum-mundi-jean-cocteaus-around-the-world-performance/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180117
DTSTAMP:20200310T200033Z
CREATED:20200310T200033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T200033Z
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SUMMARY:Filial Power
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Arifani Moyo (Royal Holloway University of London)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/filial-power/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180113
DTSTAMP:20200310T195948Z
CREATED:20200310T195948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195948Z
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SUMMARY:The World of the Play: Theatre as “Re-Creation”
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Michael Bennett (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-world-of-the-play-theatre-as-re-creation/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180111
DTSTAMP:20200310T195905Z
CREATED:20200310T195905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195905Z
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SUMMARY:From Diamonds to Samosas: The Uneven 'Global' Diffusion of Parsi Theatre
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Rashna Nicholson (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/from-diamonds-to-samosas-the-uneven-global-diffusion-of-parsi-theatre/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171201
DTSTAMP:20200213T175616Z
CREATED:20200213T175616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T175616Z
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SUMMARY:Englishes\, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites
DESCRIPTION:Professor Johan van der Auwera – Department of Linguistics\, University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/) \nAbstract\nThe talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites\, i.e.\, the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing\, in Englishes\, primarily the New Englishes\, and in English Creoles. Particular attention goes to "Negative Concord" ("NC")\, i.e.\, the exponence of negation through both a negative indefinite and a verbal negator. The study confirms that NC is widespread in both Englishes and English Creoles and claims that although this holds for both Englishes and English Creoles\, they have to be considered separately and that there is a lot of variation with respect to NC subtypes.  Important\, but mostly for the New Englishes\, is whether or not the British English input allowed NC. For Creoles special attention goes to the fact that they have typically created a new verbal negator (no). \n ||  \nBiography\nJohan van der Auwera is professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His student and postdoc days were spent in Antwerp\, Berkeley\, Stockholm\, Hannover and Nijmegen. Visiting and honorary appointments took him to Bangkok\, Gothenburg\, Hong Kong\, Kyoto\, Leuven\, Madrid\, Paris\, Princeton\, Rome and Santiago de Compostela. He was elected as the President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in 2004 and as member of the Academia Europaea in 2015. His research focuses on grammatical semantics with special reference to conditionals\, mood\, modality\, negation\, indefinites\, impersonals\, and similatives\, from a synchronic and diachronic as well as an areal perspective\, and occasionally from a historiographical point of view. Languages studied are English\, including New Englishes and Creoles\, Germanic languages\, European languages and samples of the totality of the world's languages. He is the editor-in-chief of Linguistics. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/englishes-english-creoles-and-their-negative-indefinites/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171123
DTSTAMP:20200213T175412Z
CREATED:20200213T175412Z
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SUMMARY:A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets - Hardy\, Field\, Meynell\, Kipling
DESCRIPTION:Professor Isobel Armstrong – Department of English and Humanities\, Birkbeck\, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) \nAbstract\nGenerally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets\, mainly male\, in critical discussion\, I suggest that late nineteenth-century poetry was more varied and experimental than our customary frameworks suggest. I work with late-century Darwin to provide another model for reading these poets. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Isobel Armstrong is a fellow of the British Academy\, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies and Professor Emeritus of what is now the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair. \nDuring her time at Birkbeck\, continuing the powerful tradition of nineteenth-century studies established by Geoffrey Tillotson\, Barbara Hardy and Michael Slater\, she founded the London seminar for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (of whose committee she is still a member). She has published widely on nineteenth-century studies (in particular Victorian Poetry: Poetry\, Poetics and Politics\, 1996) and theory (see The Radical Aesthetic\, 2000). Her book\, Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination (2008) won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize in 2009. She gave the British Academy Warton Lecture on Poetry in 2011. Her Novel Politics. Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction was published by Oxford in 2016. 'During retirement she has taught at the Universities of Harvard\, Johns Hopkins and Princeton and spoken at international conferences. She is a published poet. Isobel has recently been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-challenge-to-the-fin-de-siecle-poem-four-alternative-fin-de-siecle-poets-hardy-field-meynell-kipling/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.58\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171117
DTSTAMP:20200213T174607Z
CREATED:20200213T174607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T174607Z
UID:2331-1510790400-1510876799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:'Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Miles Link – Department of English\, Fudan University \nAbstract\nAfter Adam and Eve’s temptation in John Milton’s biblical epic Paradise Lost\, the Earth is drastically altered to reflect humans’ fallen state. The planet is knocked off its axis\, animals turn on one another\, and the character of existence itself changes: from now on\, life on Earth will no longer be harmonised\, or work towards wholeness. Against the perfect harmony of Eden\, the new character of the world is outrageous—a permanent state of disorder. \nThis presentation explores Milton’s novel concept of nature\, expressed not in terms of harmony and balance\, but of discontinuity and conflict. Standing at the crossroads between traditional and modern thought\, Milton is\, paradoxically\, a valuable figure for understanding the origins of our own disenchanted view of the natural world. From planetary weather systems to humans’ proper relationship with living and ‘liveless’ things\, the presentation will ask how Milton himself understood nature\, and how we can adapt Milton’s application of the ‘great chain of being’ to contemporary concerns about disaster and climate change. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Miles Link is a Research Associate in the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the works of H.G. Wells\, the British science fiction author John Wyndham\, and contemporary cinema. He is currently completing a monograph on integrating disaster into the philosophy of history.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thus-began-outrage-from-liveless-things-natures-hostile-turn-in-miltons-paradise-lost/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.58\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171110
DTSTAMP:20200213T174255Z
CREATED:20200213T174255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T174255Z
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SUMMARY:"Silas Mullett His Book His Hand & Pen": an unpublished MS song & ballad collection from 1806
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Simon Alderson – Cygnet Communications Ltd (https://www.cygnet.com.hk/about.html) \nAbstract\nFor a number of reasons\, the English ballad and popular song have always stood in an uncomfortable relationship with traditional literary history. This is partly because ballads and songs have mostly lacked the features of single authorship\, educated readership\, and mainstream printing and publishing validation that have typically characterised ‘literature’ as commonly defined.  This talk focuses on some of these issues through a description and discussion of a previously unknown manuscript collection of English songs and ballads in my possession that dates from 1806-08. Most extant ballads available to us are collections of old printed ballad sheets gathered by elite collectors like Samuel Pepys\, or recitations transcribed by ballad collectors in the 19th and 20th centuries. The manuscript notebook that I will be discussing is\, by contrast\, a ‘working collection’ of songs and ballads made by a rural worker in the early 19th century for practical personal use.  I will be paying close attention to the physical makeup and arrangement of the notebook (marginal notes\, handwriting\, ownership comments) in order to discover more about the original compiler and the context in which he was living. I will also explore the compiler's song and ballad choices and preferences (e.g. typical themes and contents) and his transcription styles and arrangements with the aim of throwing more light on how ballads were circulated\, used\, enjoyed\, valued\, shared and transmitted by relatively uneducated men and women in rural pre-industrial England.  \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Simon Alderson was Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU for 10 years from 1997 to 2006\, and an Honorary Professor from 2006 to 2017. In the past 10 years he has run his own English business in Hong Kong\, offering English writing and training services to government departments and large corporations. He has continued to pursue his intellectual interests in that time\, with a particular focus on the history of the book and the material culture of texts generally\, an interest which has seen him become a dedicated collector of early print and manuscript materials such as the one discussed in this talk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/silas-mullett-his-book-his-hand-pen-an-unpublished-ms-song-ballad-collection-from-1806/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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