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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 […]

Professor Marianne Hundt - English Department, University of Zurich (https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/Subsites/Personal/mhundt.html) Abstract In 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 […]