Prof. Adam Jaworski - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor%20Adam%20Jaworski) Abstract This 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 […]
Dr. Dirk Noël - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/83/Dr%20Dirk%20No%C3%ABl) Abstract Even 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 […]
Dr. Hannah Shipman - School of English, HKU Abstract Informed 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 […]
by Dr. Zachary Price, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
by Dr. Brandon Chua (University of Queensland)
by Dr. Anne M. Thell (National University of Singapore)
