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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170428
DTSTAMP:20200214T112109Z
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SUMMARY:Unauthorized Bonds: Shaw's Bond-type Films and The Problem of Genre
DESCRIPTION:Ms Jenn Gresham – School of English\, HKU \nAbstract\nIn their classic analysis of the James Bond phenomenon\, Bennett and Woollacott argue that the release of Goldfinger in 1964 “saw the establishment of the Bond films as a distinctive sub-genre” and further highlight how the notion of the “Bondian” was deployed by those involved in their production as “a specific formula\, a specific genre of film” (8\, 179-180). This seminar presentation will investigate some of the critical and theoretical issues surrounding the construction of Bond as film genre by turning its lens onto a body of works located outside the official\, authorized tradition\, specifically the Bond-type thrillers produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in the mid to late 1960s. The problem of genre as it relates to Shaw’s Bonds will be explored on two related fronts. First\, the notion of the Bond film as genre will be used to analyze how genre functions with respect to the films’ context of production and their encoded systems of meaning. This will be followed by a consideration of how the discursively constructed and textually enacted generic connections to the authorized tradition of Bond films mask and conceal other transnational and intertextual relationships and processes of remaking. The presentation will conclude by discussing the significance of these analytical observations in understanding the role of genre in canon formation and the transnational consumption of globalized popular culture. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/unauthorized-bonds-shaws-bond-type-films-and-the-problem-of-genre/
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:20170427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170428
DTSTAMP:20200214T111939Z
CREATED:20200214T111939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T111939Z
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SUMMARY:'In sha'Allah\, Masha'Allah\, Hopefully no martial law': the disciplining of transnationalism and the attempted self-legitimisation of the so-called Islamic State
DESCRIPTION:Mr Aaron Anfinson – School of English\, HKU \nAbstract\nSince 2001\, Muslim minority communities have been subjected to disproportionate disciplinary State power\, surveillance and legislation. Through the identity politics of the Global War on Terror\, the mapping and labelling of network and subjective transnationalism have rendered followers of Islam as suspect\, portrayed in a constant state of unbelonging. From the perspective of critical terrorism studies\, I review how this disciplining of transnationalism has perpetuated monolithic correlations of terrorism and identity\, setting the stage for the ‘transnational’ (self-)branding of the so-called Islamic State. This violent terrorist organisation’s founding declarations issue a call for immigration\, projecting itself as a borderless\, multilingual State for the transnational 'Islamic' Other. I scrutinise this projection through a multimodal Foucauldian discourse analysis of primary source materials published by the Islamic State. First\, I examine liturgical texts as an instance of transidiomatic practices or language crossing. Then\, I illustrate how these practices and their dissemination across social media platforms do the work of projecting the organisation’s legitimacy. I conclude discussing how\, in an era of intense mediatisation\, even the decentralisation of transnationalism can be reified and (re)packaged in the founding identifications of aspirational new ‘States’. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/in-shaallah-mashaallah-hopefully-no-martial-law-the-disciplining-of-transnationalism-and-the-attempted-self-legitimisation-of-the-so-called-islamic-state/
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:20170420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170421
DTSTAMP:20200214T111530Z
CREATED:20200214T111530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T111530Z
UID:2339-1492646400-1492732799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Gass - Tolstoy - Marx - Beethoven: A Retroactive Decryption of "Cartesian Sonata”
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ivan Delazari – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://buhk.me/category/ivan-delazari/) \nAbstract\n“Cartesian Sonata” (1998)\, a novella by William H. Gass (b. 1924)\, is assembled of three sections\, which were previously published as separate stories between 1964 and 1975. By recycling and re-titling his old material\, Gass suggests a structural analogy between the resulting piece and a three-movement sonata cycle in music. However\, seeking traces of “sonata forms” in a work of experimental metafiction is as pointless as imposing classical compositional rigors on twentieth-century musical avant-garde. To decrypt the second half of Gass’s title\, I undertake three degrees of retroactive reading to argue that the novella’s relation to music is mediated by a notorious 1889 literary narrative\, a gendered concept of sonata-allegro plot in musicology circa 1850\, and a troubled “extra burden” of tonal layout in one of the most celebrated pieces of classical music from 1803. In this paper\, I supplement traditional methods of comparative literature\, once seminal for intermediality and word and music studies\, with glimpses of cognitive approaches to metaphor in a poststructuralist seasoning. \n ||  \nBiography\nIvan Delazari is a HKPFS awardee and PhD Candidate at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of English\, working on musico-literary dimensions in contemporary novels. In 2004–2014\, he taught Literary History and American Studies at St. Petersburg State University. In 2009-2010\, he was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Mississippi. His recent publications include chapters in Faulkner and Film (UP of Mississippi\, 2014) and Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative (DeGruyter\, 2016). He is a member of the Modern Language Association (MLA)\, the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA)\, and the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)\, whose 2017 Alan Nadel Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper he has just collected in Lexington\, KY.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/gass-tolstoy-marx-beethoven-a-retroactive-decryption-of-cartesian-sonata/
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:20170419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170420
DTSTAMP:20200310T195355Z
CREATED:20200310T195355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195355Z
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SUMMARY:School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar Changing Meaning\, Moving Text\, and the Authority of Early English Legal Codes
DESCRIPTION:by Ms. Anya Adair (The University of Sydney)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-and-department-of-law-joint-seminar-changing-meaning-moving-text-and-the-authority-of-early-english-legal-codes/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170414
DTSTAMP:20200214T111335Z
CREATED:20200214T111335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T111335Z
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SUMMARY:The arrival of Oceania: ending extractivism\, politics of enactment\, and Pacific Island representations of a good life
DESCRIPTION:Dr Otto Heim – School of English\, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) \nAbstract\nThis paper is concerned with what Rob Nixon identifies as the representational challenges and imaginative dilemmas posed by slow violence\, violence enacted slowly\, almost imperceptibly\, over time. In Oceania\, this includes the long lasting effects of prolonged industrial mining\, nuclear testing\, and lately the impacts of global warming. Noting that the confrontation of slow violence questions the foundations of widely held ideas of a good life\, the paper addresses two questions. The first concerns the ending of an active mindset\, or attitude\, that drives unsustainable and destructive development\, and its reorientation toward a properly ecological attitude. The second concerns the political practice it might take to enact such an ecological reorientation at a scale that makes a difference. Both of these questions\, I will argue\, call for a reconceptualization of representation and both can find answers in Oceanian attitudes and responses to history. With reference to specific examples\, I will try to show how representational actions led by artists\, activists and educators from Oceania realize what Isabelle Stengers calls an ecology of practices\, at once expanding the scope of presentist democracy and offering an answer to Judith Butler’s question: “Can one lead a good life in a bad life?” \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-arrival-of-oceania-ending-extractivism-politics-of-enactment-and-pacific-island-representations-of-a-good-life/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170411
DTSTAMP:20200310T195307Z
CREATED:20200310T195307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195307Z
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SUMMARY:School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar A Lawful Magic: A New World of Precedent in Mabo No 2 and Shakespeare's Late Plays
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Nicholas Ian Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-and-department-of-law-joint-seminar-a-lawful-magic-a-new-world-of-precedent-in-mabo-no-2-and-shakespeares-late-plays/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170407
DTSTAMP:20200214T111113Z
CREATED:20200214T111113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T111113Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing\, Re-accenting\, and Othering Utterances on WeChat: A Bakhtinian Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Dr Todd L. Sandel – University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) \nAbstract\nWeChat is a popular social media application developed in China and designed for the mobile phone. Users may send and receive messages in a variety of systems\, including text\, emoji\, gif files\, pictures\, and audio messages. They may create messages in one or more languages and code systems\, and they may interact asynchronously\, or synchronously. Studying how young people in the Pearl River Delta of Macao and Zhuhai construct and communicate such messages on social media is the aim of this study. In particular\, I examine code-switching and code-mixing\, evident in the use of a variety of texts and codes\, including: Standard Chinese\, vernacular Cantonese\, English\, simplified and traditional characters\, Emoji\, and images. These message forms are analyzed via Bakhtin’s work on speech genres and addressivity. Finally\, implications for how such messages may reflect on identity and relationship construction among China’s youth are considered. \n ||  \nBiography\nTodd Lyle Sandel is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication\, associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction\, and author of Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Cross Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia\, for which he received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from the International & Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association. His research has appeared in Language in Society\, Research on Language & Social Interaction\, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research\, Journal of Contemporary China\, China Media Research\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/addressing-re-accenting-and-othering-utterances-on-wechat-a-bakhtinian-analysis/
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:20170330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170331
DTSTAMP:20200214T110851Z
CREATED:20200214T110851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T110851Z
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SUMMARY:From Iowa City to Kowloon City: The Cold War Origins of Hong Kong's First Creative Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Mr James Shea – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) \nAbstract\nThis talk explores the development of Hong Kong poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s through the prism of the University of Iowa’s creative writing program. It focuses on the historical relationship between the University of Iowa\, particularly its International Writing Program (IWP)\, and Hong Kong’s first Chinese-language poetry writing workshop. The poet Dai Tian\, who joined Iowa’s International Writing Program from 1967-1968\, returned to Hong Kong and led community-based classes that adopted not only Iowa’s pedagogical methods\, but also its aesthetic values\, including clarity\, concrete language\, and everyday experience. Given that Hong Kong was a site of the U.S. government’s support for individualist values over collectivism during the Cold War\, this talk argues that the IWP’s efforts against totalitarianism and communism met with a paradoxical twist in the case of Hong Kong writers who were resisting another form of hegemonic power\, namely\, British imperialism. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/from-iowa-city-to-kowloon-city-the-cold-war-origins-of-hong-kongs-first-creative-writing-workshop/
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:20170323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170324
DTSTAMP:20200214T110711Z
CREATED:20200214T110711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T110711Z
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SUMMARY:“Solemn Progress”: Woolf\, Burke\, and the Negotiation of Virtue
DESCRIPTION:Dr Nan Zhang – School of English\, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/116/Dr%20Nan%20Zhang) \nAbstract\nThis talk analyzes Virginia Woolf’s exploration of a public spirit exceeding both bourgeois egotism and narrow patriotic allegiances prescribed by the imperial state. Excavating hitherto unexamined affinities between Woolf and Edmund Burke\, the talk shows how Woolf’s vision of "solemn progress" in Mrs. Dalloway effectively conjoins a Burkean emphasis on the civilizing effects of aesthetic sentiments with a Renaissance humanist notion of virtù. Woolf’s re-imagining of solidarity involves two moves that are temporally divergent yet temperamentally complementary: a renewal of attention to older conceptions of civil society whose ethic was civilized rather than narrowly civic; and an extension of the domain of society to a cosmic realm of life beyond the purview of the political state. By realigning public spirit with moral responses to a view of shared fate\, Woolf seeks to relocate virtue in a collective experience across class and national boundaries. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/solemn-progress-woolf-burke-and-the-negotiation-of-virtue/
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:20170302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170303
DTSTAMP:20200214T110516Z
CREATED:20200214T110516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T110516Z
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SUMMARY:Migration\, Hyperlocality and the Politics of Dislocation
DESCRIPTION:Professor Saskia Witteborn – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (http://www.com.cuhk.edu.hk/en-GB/people/teaching-staff/witteborn-saskia) \nAbstract\nHow does the local become mobile? This central question shifts conventional discussions about migration and the Other as either an opportunity or a challenge to be managed towards the practices that (re)constitute the local\, social alliances\, and potential solidarities. When migrants travel across national borders\, their communicative practices travel too. By mapping the practices in time and space\, one can understand in which “name” those practices speak and which values\, emotions\, or materialities they evoke\, confirm\, or actualize.The talk discusses first how the local has been theorized and demonstrates the dominance of sedentarist definitions of place\, locality\, and cultural group (Amin\, 2012). Second\, the concept of the hyperlocal is introduced as a heuristic frame to understand how physical and discursive place is co-constituted by situated communicative practices. Third\, the talk illustrates by the example of Uyghur migrants from China to Europe and the U.S. that migrants (re)produce the local as ways of becoming\, a future-oriented process driven by aspirations and desires. Processes constituting the hyperlocal can be emancipatory as they foster social alliances against social injustice\, political authoritarianism\, and marginalization and transcend affiliations based on the nation and ethnicity. This emancipatory potential outweighs the dangers of a return into the boundaries of a well-defined territory\, cultural discourse\, and ethno-nationalism\, and a place that is understood as being more local than the local. \n ||  \nBiography\nSaskia Witteborn is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where she directs the M.A. program in Global Communication. She is also Associate Director of the Research Centre on Migration and Mobility at CUHK. Saskia specializes in transnational migration and communicative practice. She has written on collective identity and situated advocacy and the intersections between new technologies and transnational political advocacy. Digital technologies and forced migration is another important focus of her research. She has worked with and on forced migrants over the past 15 years in the U.S.\, Germany\, and Hong Kong and has been interested in how digital practice enables people arrested in space to mobilize socially and politically. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Communication\, Cultural Studies\, and Research on Language and Social Interaction\, or the Journal of Refugee Studies. She has also contributed to edited volumes\, such as Hegde’s Circuits of Visibility (NYU Press\, 2011) and Volkmer’s Handbook of Global Media Research (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2012). As Research Associate with the University of Washington Center for Local Strategy Research and the Center for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research at CUHK\, Saskia is very interested in comparative projects.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/migration-hyperlocality-and-the-politics-of-dislocation/
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:20170227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170228
DTSTAMP:20200310T194343Z
CREATED:20200310T194343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T194343Z
UID:2563-1488153600-1488239999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:An American Ancestor: Minor Settler Belonging in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and Hawai'i One Summer
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Huang Yu Ting (Amherst College)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-american-ancestor-minor-settler-belonging-in-maxine-hong-kingstons-china-men-and-hawaii-one-summer/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170305
DTSTAMP:20200310T181449Z
CREATED:20200310T181449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T181449Z
UID:2517-1487894400-1488671999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The HKU Black Box presents: Hansel & Gretel
DESCRIPTION:24\, 25 February\, 3\, 4\, March\, 2017
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-hku-black-box-presents-hansel-gretel/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170223
DTSTAMP:20200310T194238Z
CREATED:20200310T194238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T194238Z
UID:2562-1487721600-1487807999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Map-able: The Turn to the Map in Contemporary Fiction and Culture
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Elizabeth Ho (Lingnan University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/map-able-the-turn-to-the-map-in-contemporary-fiction-and-culture/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170222
DTSTAMP:20200310T194148Z
CREATED:20200310T194148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T194148Z
UID:2561-1487635200-1487721599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Articulating Alternative Cultural Identities: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Theatre Praxis in Singapore
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Lim Wah Guan (Bard College)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/articulating-alternative-cultural-identities-kuo-pao-kuns-multilingual-theatre-praxis-in-singapore/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170218
DTSTAMP:20200310T193916Z
CREATED:20200310T193916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193916Z
UID:2560-1487289600-1487375999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:"Would it Get Some Wind for the Sailboat": Christopher Knowles and Robert Wilson\, Toward a Theatre of Neurological Difference
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Leon Hilton (University of Pennsylvania)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/would-it-get-some-wind-for-the-sailboat-christopher-knowles-and-robert-wilson-toward-a-theatre-of-neurological-difference/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170214
DTSTAMP:20200310T193808Z
CREATED:20200310T193808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193808Z
UID:2559-1486944000-1487030399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Feeling One's Self: Onania and Eighteenth-Century Networks of Desire
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Leah Benedict (Washington State University)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/feeling-ones-self-onania-and-eighteenth-century-networks-of-desire/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170211
DTSTAMP:20200310T180855Z
CREATED:20200310T180855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T180855Z
UID:2511-1486684800-1486771199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Open House for The MFA in Creative Writing in English at The University of Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/open-house-for-the-mfa-in-creative-writing-in-english-at-the-university-of-hong-kong/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170209
DTSTAMP:20200310T193717Z
CREATED:20200310T193717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193717Z
UID:2558-1486512000-1486598399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Samuel Johnson\, the Journey (1775)\, and the Terror of Sight
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Anne M. Thell (National University of Singapore)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/samuel-johnson-the-journey-1775-and-the-terror-of-sight/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170208
DTSTAMP:20200310T193627Z
CREATED:20200310T193627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193627Z
UID:2557-1486425600-1486511999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Destiny Their Choice: Consent and Subjection in the Eighteenth Century Domestic Novel
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Brandon Chua (University of Queensland)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/destiny-their-choice-consent-and-subjection-in-the-eighteenth-century-domestic-novel/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170105
DTSTAMP:20200310T193539Z
CREATED:20200310T193539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193539Z
UID:2556-1483488000-1483574399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Performing Afro Asian Martial Arts
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Zachary Price\, Ph.D. (University of California\, Los Angeles)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/performing-afro-asian-martial-arts/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161204
DTSTAMP:20200310T153652Z
CREATED:20200310T153652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T153652Z
UID:2485-1480636800-1480809599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:2nd International Colloquium on Integrational Linguistics - Language\, Mind & Society: Semiological Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2nd-international-colloquium-on-integrational-linguistics-language-mind-society-semiological-perspectives/
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161202
DTSTAMP:20200217T095524Z
CREATED:20200217T095524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T095524Z
UID:2351-1480550400-1480636799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:When is consent not consent? Medical Ethics-in-Interaction
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hannah Shipman – School of English\, HKU \nAbstract\nInformed consent is held as the ethical and legal bedrock of clinical practice and research involving humans\, though there is ongoing debate about the extent to which it is attained. A paradigm of consent focusing on individual autonomy and self-determination is dominant. With increasing numbers of litigation cases and professional guidelines\, attention is focused on the question: Has informed consent been achieved? This paper takes an alternative perspective by investigating consent in practice in genetic contexts\, exploring how professionals discuss consent and how it unfolds during encounters. \nI draw on data from semi-structured interviews with professionals responsible for seeking consent (n = 28) and observations of encounters where consent was sought (n = 27). Rhetorical discourse analysis\, involving micro-examination of the discursive devices drawn on by participants in their talk led to the central finding of accountability; that is\, how consent is negotiated through often competing discourses of respect for autonomy and the responsibilities of relevant parties. This frequently gave rise to tensions in the accounts\, which I will explore in relation to the themes selected for detailed analysis (negotiations of informed consent; constructions of motivations and concerns; handling risk and uncertainty; professional challenges). I argue for a movement away from the impasse in discussions within the dominant paradigm of consent and suggest that opening up a dialogue that conceptualises consent as an interactive process involving complex moral negotiations within relationships is a more fruitful way forward. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/when-is-consent-not-consent-medical-ethics-in-interaction/
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:20161124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161125
DTSTAMP:20200217T094935Z
CREATED:20200217T094935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T094935Z
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SUMMARY:Radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar and the development of non-deontic be bound to
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dirk Noël – School of English\, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/83/Dr%20Dirk%20No%C3%ABl) \nAbstract\nEven when both use and cognition are incorporated in its theorizing about grammatical change\, research in the budding discipline of diachronic construction grammar which explicitly subscribes to a “usage-based” approach does not always distinguish between abstraction from the observed usage of a linguistic community and individual linguistic knowledge. Given that language change starts with innovations by individuals and that experientially constructed knowledge is necessarily diverse\, such a distinction crucially needs to be made to arrive at a realistic usage-based account of grammatical change. This paper first assesses the extent to which the conflicting models of Elizabeth Traugott and Olga Fischer succeed in teasing apart internal and external systems\, concluding that while the former’s reanalysis model results from an external semasiological perspective\, the latter’s analogy model is more radically usage-based in that it does not inherently entangle intra- and extra-individual knowledge. By way of an illustration of a radically usage-based approach\, the second part of the paper proposes an onomasiological account of how the pattern be bound to came to be used as a non-deontic/epistemic necessity marker\, offering an alternative to viewing it as a development from the historically prior deontic be bound to construction. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/radically-usage-based-diachronic-construction-grammar-and-the-development-of-non-deontic-be-bound-to/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161122
DTSTAMP:20200310T193448Z
CREATED:20200310T193448Z
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UID:2555-1479686400-1479772799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:An Evening with Professor Ellen W. Kaplan
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-evening-with-professor-ellen-w-kaplan/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161120
DTSTAMP:20200310T181347Z
CREATED:20200310T181347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T181347Z
UID:2516-1479513600-1479599999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Livy in the Garden
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/livy-in-the-garden/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161118
DTSTAMP:20200217T094723Z
CREATED:20200217T094723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T094723Z
UID:2349-1479340800-1479427199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Writing as spectacle
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Adam Jaworski – School of English\, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor%20Adam%20Jaworski) \nAbstract\nThis talk is a preliminary\, work-in-progress inquiry into the idea of writing as ‘spectacle’. I will discuss several examples of large scale\, extravagant\, immersive writing in art and public signage exemplifying three approaches to spectacle: ‘consumerist representation’ (Guy Debord)\, ‘visual pleasure’ (Laura Mulvey) and ‘grotesque ritual’ (Mikhail Bakhtin). Some of the artists to be discussed in the talk include Fiona Banner (1966–)\, Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994)\, Ahmet Güneştekinin (1966–)\, Robert Indiana (1928–)\, Roman Opałka (1931–2011)\, Cy Twombly (1928–2011) and Xu Bing (1955–). In conclusion\, I will reflect on how the scale\, repetition and materiality of spectacularization position writing somewhere between ‘an enigmatic projection of our own bodies’ (Barthes) and broader questions of signification and meaning-making. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-as-spectacle/
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:20161110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161111
DTSTAMP:20200217T094448Z
CREATED:20200217T094448Z
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SUMMARY:Transnational Adoption Literature: History\, Genre\, Representation
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Eli Park Sorensen – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (http://www.eng.cuhk.edu.hk/?page_id=1831) \nAbstract\nSince the Korean War (1950-1953)\, over half a million non-western children have been sent to western countries for transnational adoption — whereas there are very few examples of white children adopted to non-western countries by non-western populations. In my paper\, I will talk about the historical background of transnational adoption\, some of the political aspects involved\, and how this phenomen relates to the study of literature. I focus on Korean adoption\, primarily because the model of transnational adoption developed in the aftermath of the Korean War is unique: it represents the first real example of an institutionalized\, large-scale\, transnational adoption programme which subsequently has been and to some extent still is reproduced in other non-western countries. Furthermore\, I discuss autobiographical writing written by Korean-born adoptees — a corpus of texts that has emerged within the last three decades due to the fact that the generations of Korean children sent abroad during the sixties and seventies have now come of age — ready to speak for themselves\, to offer their own viewpoint\, in a public space that has typically been dominated by adoptive parents\, politicians\, journalists\, academics and social workers. \n ||  \nBiography\nEli Park Sorensen is assistant professor in Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He specializes in comparative literature\, postcolonial thought\, literary theory\, and cultural studies. He is the author of Postcolonial Studies and the Literary: Theory\, Interpretation and the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2010) and has published in journals such as NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction\, Journal of Narrative Theory\, Paragraph\, Modern Drama\, Research in African Literatures\, Partial Answers\, and Forum for Modern Language Studies.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/transnational-adoption-literature-history-genre-representation/
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:20161109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161110
DTSTAMP:20200310T193411Z
CREATED:20200310T193411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T193411Z
UID:2554-1478649600-1478735999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Wish Lanterns in the Umbrella City: A Conversation with Alec Ash
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/wish-lanterns-in-the-umbrella-city-a-conversation-with-alec-ash/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161104
DTSTAMP:20200217T094224Z
CREATED:20200217T094224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T094224Z
UID:2347-1478131200-1478217599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Enacted Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Matias Martinez – Bergische Universität Wuppertal (https://www.ndlmm.uni-wuppertal.de/) \nAbstract\nIn recent years narratologists have become increasingly aware of ways of telling stories that do not correspond to a narrow definition of narrative. Diverse phenomena such as ballets\, games\, buildings\, gardens and lifes are now taken to tell stories. These ‚embodied‘ narratives challenge classical narratological concepts of narrator\, reader\, story etc. They force us to reconsider the nature of narrative and the scope of narratology. In my talk I discuss current definitions of narrative and propose a conceptual framework that encompasses traditional as well as embodied varieties of storytelling.  \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/enacted-narratives/
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:20161029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161030
DTSTAMP:20200310T180801Z
CREATED:20200310T180801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T180801Z
UID:2510-1477699200-1477785599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2016
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2016/
CATEGORIES:Events
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