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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171123
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171117
DTSTAMP:20200213T174607Z
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171110
DTSTAMP: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171105
DTSTAMP:20200310T181004Z
CREATED:20200310T181004Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2017
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2017/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171103
DTSTAMP:20200213T173947Z
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SUMMARY:Arts and the Language of Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Professor Paul Crawford – School of Health Sciences\, The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/paul.crawford) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, Professor Crawford will report on a key strand of his £1.5m Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery programme\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, UK.  In addition to outlining this innovative programme of work and its mixed methodology\, Professor Crawford will present findings from the study of the language of art and mental health recovery in policy discourse. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Paul Crawford is the world’s first Professor of Health Humanities and directs both the Centre for Social Futures (Institute of Mental Health) and Nottingham Health Humanities at The University of Nottingham – spearheading research into social and cultural aspects of health care and\, in particular\, mental health. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences\, Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health\, and has held Visiting Professorships in Norway\, Taiwan\, China and Australia. He is Co-Founder of the Health Language Research Group at the University of Nottingham\, a member of the senior team of the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Registered Nurse. \nProfessor Crawford has written over 100 publications including several books: Communicating Care (Nelson Thornes\, 1998); Politics and History in William Golding (University of Missouri\, 2003); Evidence Based Research (Open University Press\, 2003)\, which was Highly Commended in the BMA Book Competition for 2004; Storytelling in Therapy (Nelson Thornes\, 2004); Evidence Based Health Communication (Open University Press\, 2006); Communication in Clinical Settings (Nelson Thornes\, 2006); Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction (Palgrave\, 2010) and Health Humanities (Palgrave\, 2015). Crawford has written articles for national and regional newspapers and magazines.  His acclaimed novel about mental illness\, Nothing Purple\, Nothing Black\, resulted in various interviews in national media and an option for film by the British film producer\, Jack Emery (The Drama House\, London/ Florida).   \nProfessor Crawford has been PI or CI on various prestigious Research Council or major charity grants (The British Academy\, AHRC\, AHRC/RCUK\, ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust). These include PI on a new cross-disciplinary £1.5m large programme grant from AHRC/ RCUK Connected Communities (2013-18) to investigate Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery for Mental Health and Well-Being and a £830\,000 large grant from AHRC to investigate the work of Florence Nightingale.  He directs both the AHRC-funded Madness and Literature Network (www.madnessandliterature.org) and International Health Humanities Network (www.healthhumanities.org) which advance the application of arts and humanities to enhance social capital\, health and well-being.  He is also International advisor on trans-disciplinary research and health humanities at various institutions worldwide.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/arts-and-the-language-of-recovery/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171027
DTSTAMP:20200213T173748Z
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SUMMARY:“Cousin\, I am too young”: Age and Royalty in Shakespeare’s Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rudolph Glitz – Faculty of Humanities\, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/l/r.w.h.glitz/r.w.h.glitz.html) \nAbstract\nShakespeare’s second history tetralogy has long been recognised as centring round Prince Hal’s legendary coming of age. In the two parts of Henry IV\, after all\, Shakespeare repeatedly stages the prince’s surprising reformation from dissolute youngster to resolute adult ruler of the realm. The social and specifically age-political dimension of this reformation\, however\, has not been traced in much detail by scholars and neither have the various invocations of early modern age roles that prepare the ground for it in the first play of the Henriad. I aim to demonstrate that already the royal protagonist of Richard II is not only denounced as a mere ‘landlord of the realm’ by his opponents\, but also presented as woefully immature compared to his rival Bolingbroke. After briefly sketching my larger point about the Henriad as a whole\, this lecture will focus predominantly on Richard’s age-related shortcomings and thereby draw attention to Shakespeare’s keen awareness of contemporary age politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nRudolph Glitz is a Universitair Docent in English Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Amsterdam\, whose staff he joined after taking his graduate degrees at Cambridge (MPhil in European Literature) and Oxford (MSt and DPhil in English Literature) and teaching British Studies at Harlaxton College\, the British Campus of the University of Evansville. His monograph Writing the Victorians: The Early Twentieth-Century Family Saga was published in 2009 with the Universitaetsverlag Winter (Heidelberg). He has published articles on an eclectic range of topics\, including the Computer Game Civilization and contemporary Science Fiction media. Over the last few years\, however\, he has been preoccupied with a long-term research project on age-group and generation conflicts in literature – ranging from Shakespeare to the present day – of which the findings presented in this lecture form a part.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/cousin-i-am-too-young-age-and-royalty-in-shakespeares-richard-ii/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171013
DTSTAMP:20200213T173557Z
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SUMMARY:What’s behind variation with (A) LOT (OF)? A view from World Englishes
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marianne Hundt – English Department\, University of Zurich (https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/Subsites/Personal/mhundt.html) \nAbstract\nIn English\, lot is used in the complex quantifier a lot of (as in a lot of fun) and as a degree adverb (e.g. a lot more helpful\, a lot better). Both constructions show variation in contact varieties of English\, either in the way that elements from the construction are absent (as in (1) and (2))\, or in extended uses to novel contexts\, as in the use of the degree adverb with difficult in (3). \n\n(1) it's also fun but ø lot of influence eh? (ICE-Fiji\, S1A-079)\n(2) There’s a lot ø nice place you can to (ICE-HK\, S1A-094)\n(3) It looks a lot difficult now and we have to rely on Newcastle and Sunderland to lose games. (THE TIMES OF INDIA\, 7th May 2016)\n\nIn this talk\, using data from fieldwork and corpora\, I take local uses of a lot of constructions in varieties of Indian English as my starting point. The focus will be on the process of grammatical nativization in World Englishes. I will show that notions like ‘contact’ and ‘transfer’ sometimes provide only a partial view of the process. Instead\, taking a look at evidence from a broad range of Englishes (standard and non-standard) may provide us with a better understanding of local(?) uses of a global language. \n ||  \nBiography\nMarianne Hundt is Professor of English Linguistics at Zürich University. Her research interests range from grammatical change in contemporary and late Modern English to varieties of English as a first and second language (New Zealand\, British and American English; English in Fiji and South Asia) and language in the Indian Diaspora. She is the author of English Mediopassive Constructions (Rodopi\, 2007) and New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction? (Benjamins\, 1998) and co-author of Change in Contemporary English. A Grammatical Study (CUP\, 2009). She has edited various monographs\, and since 2013 has been co-editor of English World-Wide.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/whats-behind-variation-with-a-lot-of-a-view-from-world-englishes/
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:20171004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171111
DTSTAMP:20200310T195754Z
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Theatre: History and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays: October 4\, 11\, 25\, November 1\, 8; Fridays: October 6\, 13\, 27\, November 3\, 10
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-introduction-to-theatre-history-and-practice-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170930
DTSTAMP:20200310T155345Z
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SUMMARY:2nd HKU PhD Conference in Sociolinguistics: Multimodal and Mediated Discourse Analysis
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2nd-hku-phd-conference-in-sociolinguistics-multimodal-and-mediated-discourse-analysis/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170921
DTSTAMP:20200310T195650Z
CREATED:20200310T195650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195650Z
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SUMMARY:"The rights they claim over our bodies": Intersex experience and biomedical regimes of the normal
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Brian W. King (City University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-rights-they-claim-over-our-bodies-intersex-experience-and-biomedical-regimes-of-the-normal/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170916
DTSTAMP:20200310T195607Z
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SUMMARY:Tonal parameters for forensic speaker recognition
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Ricky Ka Wai Chan (City University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tonal-parameters-for-forensic-speaker-recognition/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170912
DTSTAMP:20200310T195526Z
CREATED:20200310T195526Z
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SUMMARY:Why theorise language?
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Jon Orman (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-theorise-language/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170528
DTSTAMP:20200310T153857Z
CREATED:20200310T153857Z
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SUMMARY:2nd International Conference on Documentary Linguistics (DLAP2)​
DESCRIPTION:Co-organising with the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2nd-international-conference-on-documentary-linguistics-dlap2/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170525
DTSTAMP:20200310T195443Z
CREATED:20200310T195443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T195443Z
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SUMMARY:School of English and Department of Linguistics\, School of Humanities: Joint Seminar Linguistics and social justice: De-colonizing Creole studies
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-and-department-of-linguistics-school-of-humanities-joint-seminar-linguistics-and-social-justice-de-colonizing-creole-studies/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170428
DTSTAMP:20200214T112109Z
CREATED: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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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
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170411
DTSTAMP:20200310T195307Z
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UID:2564-1491782400-1491868799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
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UID:2337-1491436800-1491523199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170331
DTSTAMP:20200214T110851Z
CREATED:20200214T110851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T110851Z
UID:2336-1490832000-1490918399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170324
DTSTAMP:20200214T110711Z
CREATED:20200214T110711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T110711Z
UID:2335-1490227200-1490313599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
UID:2334-1488412800-1488499199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170228
DTSTAMP:20200310T194343Z
CREATED:20200310T194343Z
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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