Events

Dr Todd L. Sandel - University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract WeChat 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 […]

Dr Otto Heim - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) Abstract This 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 […]

Dr Ivan Delazari - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://buhk.me/category/ivan-delazari/) Abstract “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 […]

Mr Aaron Anfinson - School of English, HKU Abstract Since 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 […]

Ms Jenn Gresham - School of English, HKU Abstract In 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 […]