School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar Changing Meaning, Moving Text, and the Authority of Early English Legal Codes
by Ms. Anya Adair (The University of Sydney)
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Gass – Tolstoy – Marx – Beethoven: A Retroactive Decryption of “Cartesian Sonata”
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr 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 […]
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‘In sha’Allah, Masha’Allah, Hopefully no martial law’: the disciplining of transnationalism and the attempted self-legitimisation of the so-called Islamic State
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUMr 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 […]
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Unauthorized Bonds: Shaw’s Bond-type Films and The Problem of Genre
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUMs 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 […]
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School of English and Department of Linguistics, School of Humanities: Joint Seminar Linguistics and social justice: De-colonizing Creole studies
by Professor Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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2nd International Conference on Documentary Linguistics (DLAP2)
Co-organising with the Department of Linguistics
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Why theorise language?
by Dr. Jon Orman (The University of Hong Kong)
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Tonal parameters for forensic speaker recognition
by Dr. Ricky Ka Wai Chan (City University of Hong Kong)
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“The rights they claim over our bodies”: Intersex experience and biomedical regimes of the normal
by Dr. Brian W. King (City University of Hong Kong)
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