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SUMMARY:Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - MAES\, MACC & MFA Theatre Production
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe HKU School of English offers a unique opportunity to see a live theatre production of Hamlet\, by William Shakespeare. This condensed version of Shakespeare's original text combines the talents of eighty-eight students from the MAES\, MACC and MFA programmes. Now in its third year\, our Shakespeare Production Project promises visual and emotional intensity. Our version of Hamlet features forty-six actors and a contemporary\, multicultural setting for the secretive royal family of Denmark. \nPlease join us to see Shakespeare's immeasurably beautiful play within a stylish\, condensed\, modern staging. Seating is limited\, reservations are required\, and tickets are free. Running time is approximately 90 minutes without interval. Thank you for supporting the School of English production of Hamlet. \n \nPerformance times & Registration\nRegitration is required due to limited seating. \nThe performance is repeated across all three dates\, please choose the performance date you would like to attend. Registration is required and no walk-ins allowed. Successful registrants will be informed in due course. \n\nEach student may register for one ticket only for herself/himself\, but not for others;\nException: The crew and the acting cast are not required to register for a ticket\, though they may use their original quota to register one for an invited guest.\n\nDecember 3\, 2025 (Wed): 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n        For HKU members (HKU portal login is required):  https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103967 \nDecember 4\, 2025 (Thu): 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm  \n\nFor HKU members (HKU portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103963 \n\nDecember 5\, 2025 (Fri): 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n\nFor HKU members (HKU portal login is required):    https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103966 \n\nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nClick to view programme Book: Programme Booklet
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-hamlet-maes-macc-mfa-theatre-production/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251127T160000
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SUMMARY:The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Nighttime: Circumstantial Evidence in Early English Legal Culture
DESCRIPTION:Anya Adair – Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr_Anya_Adair) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn The Adventure of the Silver Blaze\, Sherlock Holmes' account of 'the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime' epitomises the imaginative leap of circumstantial reasoning: probable meaning is deduced from what physical evidence remains (or is conspicuously absent) after the crime. This talk traces the pre-history of such methods of reasoning in the legal culture of early medieval England. Old English law codes and poetry alike\, I argue\, disclose a subtle but consistent interest in traces\, signs\, and probabilities: what we would now call circumstantial evidence. Commentators on early English legal history typically emphasise the primacy of oaths and ordeals in fact-finding. These ritualised procedures\, it is claimed\, centralise God’s judgement\, and explicitly exclude human deduction and 'fact-finding' from the processes of law. Yet the Old English law codes preserve signs of a broader evidentiary culture: traces of stolen animals\, collateral facts of behaviour\, and expectations about likelihood and proof. Old English poetry\, too\, shows this intellectual habits at work. Narrative scenes in Beowulf pivot on the careful weighing of signs\, and on conclusions drawn from material traces. Early English law and literature together point to a legal imagination alive to the interpretive potential of circumstantial evidence\, anticipating by many centuries the processes of fact-finding that drive the modern jury trial\, and the genres of detective fiction that bring these processes so vividly into the modern cultural imagination. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Adair is Assistant Professor in Law and Humanities with the Faculties of Law and Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and graduate degrees in English from Melbourne\, Oxford and Yale. Her present research seeks to unite more closely the fields of medieval law and literature\, and to provide insight into the intellectual\, emotional and social dimensions of legal and literary production across the period.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-curious-incident-of-the-monster-in-the-nighttime-circumstantial-evidence-in-early-english-legal-culture/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251126
DTSTAMP:20251016T143329Z
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Professionalisation Workshop: Building your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Professionalisation Workshop\nBuilding your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences\nDate: 25th November\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103740\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103740\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nFaculty career development is an important matter\, and one that should be approached as early in a faculty member’s career as possible. Indeed\, it would be an advantage to begin thinking about these matters in graduate school\, as one chooses one’s dissertation topic\, and gains the early research and teaching experience that will shape one’s early career as a faculty member. The Humanities and Social Sciences pose particular challenges in research direction and evaluation\, given their greater thematic range and more subjective evaluation when compared to the more quantitative criteria and definitive research pathways of many STEM disciplines. \nIn this session\, I will speak about some of the principle considerations which I believe should guide early career faculty in their career development planning. In research\, these include thematic coherence; impact; collaboration; and intellectual independence/leadership. In teaching\, some considerations include (again) coherence; range; curricular leadership; and feedback. Recognising the range of teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences\, it would not be possible to be prescriptive about the different expectations and pathways\, but I hope to provide principles which should be generally useful in the different disciplines therein. \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-professionalisation-workshop-building-your-dossier-research-and-teaching-development-strategies-for-early-career-scholars-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251125
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Public Lecture: Foundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Distinguished Lecture Series\nFoundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture\nDate: 24th November\, 2025 (Monday) \nTea Reception (Optional)\nTime: 3:00pm – 4:00pm \nVenue: The Good Bridge\, 4/F\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nLecture\nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103739\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103739\n\n ||  \nAbstract\n“There is nothing new under the sun\,” says the author of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Christian Bible. This\, with some provocative simplification\, could well be the epigram for human cultural production\, in which we constantly see the phenomena of recurring symbols and archetypes\, narrative patterns\, allusion\, sampling\, and outright imitation. The recurrence of expression has been addressed to various extents and in various ways by a wide range of famous thinkers and scholars including Carl Jung\, Sigmund Freud\, Karl Marx\, Northrop Frye\, Joseph Campbell\, Noam Chomsky\, and Harold Bloom. This talk will critically examine recurrences and returns in cultural expression\, taking reference from the realms of literature\, film\, and popular culture. What\, as scholars\, producers and consumers of culture\, can we do about such commonalities? Can we consider taxonomies of recurrence as a helpful critical framework? Can this approach reveal anything significant about human society and the ways in which we interact with each other? To what academic disciplines and areas of human activity can this be applied? Last and certainly not least\, how do we avoid reductivity and oversimplification in this kind of approach? In short\, can foundations of expression be meaningful and not hollow\, and if so\, how do we do that? \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-public-lecture-foundations-of-meaningfulness-narrative-semiotics-culture/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251120T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251120T173000
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SUMMARY:Burgess’ Joyce: the influence of James Joyce on Burgess' novels
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Adjunct Associate Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAnthony Burgess (1917-1993) had a lifelong love of the writing of James Joyce (1882-1941).  He read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at 16. He took Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with him into the army in 1940. He wrote two critical studies of Joyce: Here Comes Everybody (1965) and Joysprick (1973) as well as many articles about him. He produced A Shorter Finnegans Wake (1966)\, presented a film on Joyce for the BBC (1965) and on Finnegans Wake for American television (1973). In 1982\, he wrote a musical version of Ulysses called The Blooms of Dublin. His novels were heavily influenced by Joyce’s writing. In this paper\, I will trace Joyce’s influence through a few of his 33 novels: Napoleon Symphony (1974)\, Nothing Like the Sun (1964)\, the Enderby tetralogy (1963-84) and his most well-known novel\, A Clockwork Orange (1962).  \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy has taught in Hong Kong since 1988. At HKU\, he teaches C20th poetry\, C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. A passionate Joycean\, he inaugurated the annual ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations in HK 25 years ago. He continues to deepen his understanding of Joyce (see\, for instance\, his piece in the James Joyce Quarterly\, 2021). He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland\, the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review) and Germany.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/burgess-joyce-the-influence-of-james-joyce-on-burgess-novels/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
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SUMMARY:Peter Kennedy (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nDr. Peter Kennedy will reflect on the creation of his second volume of verse HERE\, where poetry and prose converge. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: November 18\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Dr. Peter Kennedy\nDr. Peter Kennedy was born in the Roman city of Chester near the Welsh border. He is of Irish and Welsh extraction. He has worked in Hong Kong since 1988. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. \nPeter has taught in England\, Greece\, Czechoslovakia\, Romania\, Saudi Arabia\, China\, Brunei and Hong Kong and has been a (literature) teacher for 40 years. Until 2012\, he was Associate Professor at the School of Professional and Continuing Education\, HKU in charge of a broad range of programmes from Diploma to doctorate levels. Peter is now Honorary Associate Professor in the School of English\, HKU. He teaches modules in the (full-time) B.A. programme. These include: Joyce’s Voices\, Introduction to C20th English Poetry and C21st English Poetry. \nHis five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. Recent creative writing has appeared in the (London) Literary Review and the (US) James Joyce Quarterly. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nThe biography of Dr. Peter Kennedy can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/peter-kennedy-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251111T160000
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SUMMARY:From "vp=start Crow" to Upstart Crow: Shakespeare as Comical Character from 16th to 21st Century Biofiction
DESCRIPTION:Reto Winckler – Assistant Professor\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/ewinckle) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis paper investigates a long line of bio-fictional texts that portray Shakespeare as a comical character. The paper is grounded in the observation that the two earliest historical documents that seem to give some personal insight into Shakespeare's life and character are jokes. Robert Greene satirizes Shakespeare as a preposterous ‘vp=start Crow’ with a ‘Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde’ (1592); John Manningham's anecdote about Shakespeare's affair with a fan in which Shakespeare impersonates William the Conqueror (1602)\, meanwhile\, makes Shakespeare the protagonist of a mini-comedy that ends in a one-night-stand. Both texts already exhibit the comingling of fact and fiction that would come to characterize all later Shakespeare biofiction\, and indeed all Shakespeare biography. Equally remarkably\, the two different modes of humour employed by the two anecdotes\, the satirical and the romantic\, both closely reflect how humour operates in Shakespeare's comedies and foreshadows the use of humour in later biofictional comedic visions of Shakespeare. \nBuilding on this perspective\, this paper analyzes Alexandre Duval’s Shakespeare Amoureux (1804)\, George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)\, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Ben Elton’s Greene-inspired television sitcom Upstart Crow (BBC Two\, 2-16-2020). The comedic biofictional engagements with Shakespeares discussed in this paper open up unique routes of engagement with historical facts as well as popular and academic conceptions of Shakespeare. \n ||  \nBiography\nReto Winckler is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Shakespeare\, adaptation studies (particularly in television series\, digital media and AI) and contemporary popular culture. His articles have been published in Adaptation\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, Shakespeare\, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance\, Texas Studies in Literature and Language\, and Cahiers Élisabéthains\, among others. He is the co-editor of Television Series as Literature (Palgrave\, 2022) and the forthcoming “This America\, Man:” The Literary and Cultural Origins of 21st-Century American Television Series (Brill\, 2026)\," and the editor of the forthcoming special issue of Adaptation\, "Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI" (2026). He is a member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare and Adaptation.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/from-vpstart-crow-to-upstart-crow-shakespeare-as-comical-character-from-16th-to-21st-century-biofiction/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTSTAMP:20250930T153331Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2025
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nReady to explore the infinite worlds of English Studies? Join us on October 25 (Saturday) to learn more about our English Studies programme! Our teachers and student ambassadors are looking forward to welcoming you and introducing you to our undergraduate programme. Meet us at our information booth and information session\, and join our mock lectures to get a taste of the teaching and learning atmosphere at HKU. \nDon’t forget to scan the QR code on the poster and follow our social media platforms to redeem a gift at our booth. Stay tuned on our website and social media platforms for more information. See you there!\n  \n \nSchool of English Information Booth\n\nTime: 09:00 – 18:00\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, LG/F\, Central Podium Levels\, Centennial Campus (HKU MTR Exit C1) \nInformation Session and Mock Lectures\n\nTime: 14:00 – 15:30\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, 3/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \n\nIntroduction to English Studies Programme\nMock Lecture in English Language and Linguistics: Vocal Vibes Uncovered: Uptalk & Vocal Fry in New-Gen Talk\nMock Lecture in English Literature: Haunted by Literature
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2025/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T173000
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SUMMARY:Corrective Language and Neo-Homophobia
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Pak –  Assistant Lecturer\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/321/Dr_Vincent_Pak) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn societies where explicit homophobic discourses are met with pushback\, they must evolve to eschew mainstream criticism. They recently arrived\, in the case of Singapore\, as religionbased discourses that carry logics of change and transformation\, now observable as neohomophobia. These discourses coax change through the Christian idea of metanoia – spiritual transformation – that encourages an individualised transformation of the self. \nThis talk considers how language\, specifically discourse\, can be deployed as a corrective for nonnormative sexualities. Discourses in three forms – multimodal\, narrative\, and metapragmatic – are analyzed to demonstrate how correction can be achieved without relying on traditional modes of animus. Stories of ex-gay Christians\, circulated by a young\, non-denominational organization in Singapore\, are examined for their audiovisual and narrative qualities\, and ethnographic interviews conducted with religious queer individuals in Singapore evince language as a powerful technology for correction. \n ||  \nBiography\nVincent Pak is a sociocultural linguist at The University of Hong Kong\, working in the fields of gender\, sexuality\, and race. His work intersects with linguistic anthropology and discourse studies\, and his monograph\, Queer Correctives\, was recently published with Bloomsbury Academic. His articles can also be found in journals such as Journal of Sociolinguistics\, Language in Society\, and Signs and Society.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/corrective-language-and-neo-homophobia/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTSTAMP:20251003T122951Z
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SUMMARY:Sanjena Sathian (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sanjena Sathian – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nMs. Sanjena Sathian will reflect on the creation of her latest novel Goddess Complex (University of Iowa Press)\, a top anticipated book of 2025 by TIME. She will also engage in discussion about her broader creative practice. \nDate: October 21\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Ms. Sanjena Sathian\nSanjena Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Goddess Complex and Gold Diggers\, both published by Penguin Press. Goddess Complex\, released in March of 2025\, was named a top anticipated book of the year by TIME and has been named a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Gold Diggers was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Sanjena’s short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories\, The Atlantic\, One Story\, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times\, New York Magazine\, The Drift\, The Yale Review\, and NewYorker.com\, among other outlets. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nMore information about Ms. Sanjena Sathian from her official website here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sanjena-sathian-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTSTAMP:20251006T153926Z
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SUMMARY:HKU School of English Postgraduate Information Talks
DESCRIPTION:HKU School of English Postgraduate Information Talks\nOne Language\, Infinite Worlds.\nTaught Postgraduate Information Talk\n \n\nMaster of Arts in the field of English Studies (MAES\, 1-year\, full-time)\nMaster of Arts in the field of Creative Communications (MACC\, 1-year\, full-time)\nMaster of Fine Arts in the field of Creative Writing in English (MFA\, 1-year\, full-time)\n\nDate and Time: October 17\, 2025 (Fri)\, 3:00pm – 4:30pm (HKT) \nRegistration Open: October 6\, 2025 (Mon) 3:00pm – October 17\, 2025 (Fri) 12:00pm \nRegister NOW!\nZoom link will be sent via email. \n\nResearch Postgraduate (MPhil & PhD) Information Talk\n \n\nMaster of Philosophy (MPhil\, full-time/part-time)\nDoctor of Philosophy (PhD\, full-time/part-time)\n\nDate and Time: October 20\, 2025 (Mon)\, 8:00pm – 9:00pm (HKT) \nRegistration Open: October 6\, 2025 (Mon) 3:00pm – October 20\, 2025 (Mon) 12:00pm \nRegister NOW!\nZoom link will be sent via email. \n\nJoin us to explore programmes\, admission tips\, and career paths! \nFor enquiries\, please contact us at english@hku.hk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-school-of-english-postgraduate-information-talks/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251009T160000
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SUMMARY:Innovative Feedback for Creative Disciplines: Developing a Multi-Modal Peer Critique Tool for Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Kan Chi Poon –  Assistant Lecturer\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/307/Ms_Kan_Chi_Poon) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis presentation introduces the CAS Form (Care–All–Shape)\, an emerging peer feedback tool developed through practice in creative and communication-focused contexts. The CAS Form invites students to combine quick checks\, short takeaway words\, and a visual or diagrammatic response\, making feedback more tangible and engaging than traditional evaluation sheets. While designed for creative subjects\, its simple format adapts well to reflective writing and artist statements\, supporting students as they articulate ideas about their own and others’ work. Early use in design and exhibition courses suggests that students respond more actively when given space for visual and multi-modal feedback. \nThe session will outline the tool’s development\, classroom applications\, and student responses\, and invite discussion on adapting CAS for wider use. Participants will also have the opportunity to try the form themselves and consider how it might support reflective practice in their own teaching. \n ||  \nBiography\nKan Chi Poon is an educator and creative practitioner whose work is grounded in fine art practice while spanning contemporary art and exhibition practices. She sees art not only as solitary creation but as communication\, where peer feedback plays a vital role in shaping dialogue and insight. To support this process\, she developed the CAS Form\, a platform that makes feedback concrete\, reciprocal\, and constructive through both words and visual expression. At the School\, she is an Assistant Lecturer in Master of Arts in the field of Creative Communications (MACC)\, teaching exhibition\, installation\, and aesthetics\, and encouraging peers to “think like artists” through transformation\, transmodal traces\, and creative practice.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/innovative-feedback-for-creative-disciplines-developing-a-multi-modal-peer-critique-tool-for-higher-education/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:James Shea (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:James Shea – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nProfessor James Shea will reflect on the creation of his latest collection Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, winner of the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: September 30\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nAbout Professor James Shea\nProfessoor James Shea is the author of  Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye\, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean)\, a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing program at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Vermont Arts Council. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nThe biography of Professor James Shea can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/james-shea-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250925T160000
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SUMMARY:A Historical Survey of Hong Kong Anglophone Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Antony Huen –  MFA Programme Director\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/306/Dr_Antony_Huen) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHow is poetry classified as Hong Kong poetry? Records of poets writing in Chinese in Hong Kong date back to the 1940s. What about poetry written in English? From Auden’s oriental view of Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War to Blunden’s writing during his professorship at the University of Hong Kong\, and the debuts of ethnically Chinese poets in the 1970s and subsequent decades\, there were comparable and sometimes overlapping developments in the Anglophone poetry scene in Hong Kong. More recently\, with the emergence of an expanding diasporic group of young poets who have received major literary recognition\, including Eric Yip\, the youngest winner of the UK’s National Poetry Competition\, Hong Kong Anglophone poetry has begun to emerge from various literary peripheries. This paper investigates the emergence of a body of Hong Kong Anglophone poetry\, tracing its origins and charting its key developments to date. In doing so\, it spotlights a once-overlooked\, young tradition that is growing in momentum and visibility. \n ||  \nBiography\nAntony Huen directs the MFA in Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in contemporary poetry\, with a special focus on transcultural and transmedia contexts. He received the Award for Young Artist (Arts Criticism) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2025. He was the winner of the inaugural essay prize of Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing in 2022 and runner-up for that of Women: A Cultural Review in 2023. He was also shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize in 2023. He holds a PhD in English from the University of York.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-historical-survey-of-hong-kong-anglophone-poetry/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250904T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250904T180000
DTSTAMP:20250820T151004Z
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SUMMARY:Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About…
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Hutton – Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/47/Professor_Christopher_Hutton) || Don Kulick – Visiting Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nProfessors Chris Hutton and Don Kulick will present the chapters they have written for a book of short essays on language\, politics and power titled Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About… \nChris will talk about definition and the legal and social controversies surrounding authority over meaning. Future cultural historians will no doubt remark on the contemporary phase of ‘gotcha’ questioning in western political life\, when politicians and activists are asked to define the word woman (though rarely\, if at all\, the word man)\, or are required to explain how many sexes or genders there are. One notable feature of these controversies is the novel alignment between conservatives and so-called gender-critical feminists. A second is the resort to law\, making judges the uncomfortable arbiters of contentious public meanings\, as in the recent UK Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v the Scottish Ministers (2025).The question is: can disputes about meaning be settled by appeals to definition? \nDon will discuss the lust for naming among asexuals\, which is endlessly generative and which produces identity labels like myrsexual\, which asexuals.net explains as “Someone who…is on the asexual spectrum but might feel confused as to where exactly as they can experience multiple asexual identities at once. They can also rapidly fluctuate”. Or aegosexual\, “also (previously) known as autochorissexual. This label describes people on the asexual spectrum who have a disconnection between themself and the subject of arousal”. What does the invention and proliferation of such labels mean? What do they tell us about how identity is being articulated at the current moment\, the end of the 2020s?  \n ||  \nBiography\nChris Hutton is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a BA in Modern Languages (1980)\, a DPhil in General Linguistics from the University of Oxford (1988)\, an MA in Linguistics and Yiddish Studies from Columbia University\, New York (1985)\, and an LLB from Manchester Metropolitan University (2008). He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin from 1987-1989 before moving to Hong Kong. His research is concerned with the politics of language and linguistics\, particularly in the context of law\, and the history of Western linguistics in its relationship with race theory. His most recent book is The People that Never Were (OUP\, 2025). \nDon Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and Visiting Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His most recent books are two co-edited anthologies: Changing Vulnerability (with Michel Naepels\, School of Advanced Research Press\, 2026) and Clashing Vulnerabilities: Disability and Conflict (with Simo Vehmas\, Routledge\, 2026). He is currently directing a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant titled “Out of Sight”\, on people who are made to be\, or who want to be\, invisible.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/lets-stop-talking-bollocks-about/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250816
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SUMMARY:Dream Big\, Plan Smart (Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2025-26)
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nNavigating English Studies at HKU (for FIRST-YEAR students)\n \nOur Undergraduate Coordinator\, Professor Ricky Chan and members of the English Society will guide you through our programme\, English Studies\, and answer your questions or concerns regarding course selection and your academic interests and goals. \nDate: August 15\, 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 10:30 – 12:30\nVenue: Convocation Room\, Room 218\, Main Building\, HKU (HKU map) \nRegister for attending face-to-face HERE  \nNavigating Careers and Postgraduate Studies (for students in Second year or above)\n \nOur Undergraduate Coordinator\, Professor Ricky Chan and our teacher\, Professor Nicholas Luke will guide you through our English Studies (ENGL) programme and offer guidance on your academic pursuits in the School. Our internship partners from a range of industries and alumni who have pursued postgraduate degrees will share tips and insights on careers and further studies.  \nDate: August 15\, 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 14:00 – 16:30\nVenue: Convocation Room\, Room 218\, Main Building\, HKU (HKU map) \nRegister for attending face-to-face HERE  \n  \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/dream-big-plan-smart-briefing-sessions-on-english-majors-and-minors-2025-26/
LOCATION:Convocation Room\, Room 218\, Main Building\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250716
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SUMMARY:Follow Us on Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Find us on Facebook\, Instagram\, X\, LinkedIn\, YouTube\, Bluesky\, WeChat and Xiaohongshu!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/follow-us-on-social-media/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250719
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SUMMARY:Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n \nThe School of English is pleased to offer the following courses to high school students in the Summer Institute in the Arts & Humanities 2025. Spaces are limited. Please register ASAP by May 31!\n  \nENGL2025-1 An Introduction to English Poetry\n \nDate: July 14-18\, 2025 (Mon-Fri)\nTime: 09:30-12:30\nVenue: Room 151\, Main Building\, The University of Hong Kong \nCourse page \nENGL2025-2 Language and You: An Introduction to Linguistics\nDate: July 14-18\, 2025 (Mon-Fri)\nTime: 14:30-17:30\nVenue: Room 151\, Main Building\, The University of Hong Kong \nCourse page \nFor more information\, please scan the QR code or visit the Faculty of Arts website.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/summer-institute-in-the-arts-humanities-2025/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTSTAMP:20250606T095043Z
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SUMMARY:Bloomsday & Beyond: Celebrating Ireland\, Island of Writers
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nA Message From the Consulate General of Ireland\n \nDear colleagues\, students\, alumni and friends of the School of English\,  \n  \nGreetings from the Consulate General of Ireland.  \n  \nThe Consulate is excited to share the upcoming “Bloomsday & Beyond: Celebrating Ireland\, Island of Writers” events with you.  \n  \nBloomsday\, marked annually around the world on June 16th celebrates Irish writer James Joyce and his novel Ulysses\, which was set on that date in 1904. The day is named after the novel’s main character\, Leopold Bloom. It is also an iconic festival to celebrate Ireland’s rich contemporary and classic literary heritage. \n  \nIn collaboration with the HKU School of English\, the Consulate is pleased to present an exhibition about James Joyce and his book Ulysses on LG/F\, Centennial Campus (next to Lecture Hall II (LG.07)\, via MTR HKU Station Exit C1) from June 9th\, 2025 at 2pm to June 16th\, 2025 at 9:30am. Come and learn more about this legendary Irish author!  \n  \nThen on Monday June 16th\, 2025\, from 12nn to 7pm\, the Consulate will partner with Bookazine Social in Tai Kwun to mark Bloomsday itself. There will be a special feature of Irish books and authors\, with a book giveaway after 5pm. Remember to stop by and win a free book! \n  \nDon’t forget to follow our Instagram @IrelandinHK and sign up to our newsletter by sending an email to hknewsletter@dfa.ie for more updates.  \n  \nWe look forward to seeing you!  \n  \nThe Consulate General of Ireland
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/bloomsday-beyond-celebrating-ireland-island-of-writers/
LOCATION:LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250525
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SUMMARY:The 7th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nPoster\n \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstract of Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel and Poster Sessions \n ||  \nPhotos\nNote: "Right Click > Open Image in New Tab" to view/download the images in its original size
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-7th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
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SUMMARY:MFA Showcase 2025  X  Black Box Magazine Issue 1 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nMFA SHOWCASE 2025  X  BLACK BOX MAGAZINE ISSUE 1 LAUNCH \n \nPresented by students and staff from the  \nMFA in Creative Writing in English & MA in Creative Communications\,  \nSchool of English\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nDEBUT ORIGINAL SPOKEN-WORD AND DRAMA PERFORMANCES \nA FREE COPY OF THE BLACK BOX MAGAZINE* \nFREE CANAPÉS\, DRINKS AND MERCH* \nNETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES \n  \nMFA Showcase – Day 1 \n14 May 2025 (Wednesday)\, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (admission starts at 2:45 PM; with an intermission) \n  \nMFA Showcase – Day 2 \n15 May 2025 (Thursday)\, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (admission starts at 2:15 PM; with an intermission) \n  \nBlack Box Magazine Issue 1 Launch \n15 May 2025 (Thursday)\, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM (admission starts at 5:00 PM; with a reception) \n  \nVenue: SHOWCASE\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)\, \nUG/F\, Landmark South\, 39 Yip Kan Street\, Wong Chuk Hang \n  \nIN-HOUSE EVENT FOR ALL HKU MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS. \nFREE ENTRY. PRIOR REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED.  \n  \nEnquiries to mfahku@hku.hk / blackboxmagazine@hku.hk (DR ANTONY HUEN) \nRegistration\nRegistration required. HKU Portal login is required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. \nDeadline for registration: 13 MAY (TUES) 5:00 PM \nMFA SHOWCASE – PART 1 — 14 MAY 2025 (WEDS)\, 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM \nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=100273 \nMFA SHOWCASE – PART 2 & BLACK BOX MAGAZINE LAUNCH — 15 MAY 2025 (THURS)\, 2:30 PM – 6:30 PM \nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=100310
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mfa-showcase-2025-x-black-box-magazine-issue-1-launch/
LOCATION:SHOWCASE\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)\, UG/F\, Landmark South\, 39 Yip Kan Street\, Wong Chuk Hang
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SUMMARY:HKU JUPAS Information Sessions 2025
DESCRIPTION:HKU JUPAS Information Sessions 2025 (May 8 – 9\, 2025)\n \nFaculty of Arts – School of English \nPart 1: Information Booth on English Studies\nDate: May 8 – 9\, 2025 (Thursday – Friday) \nTime: 10:00am – 5:00pm \nVenue: Hallway on 3/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower Centennial Campus\, HKU (MTR Exit: C1) (map) \nPart 2: Mock Lectures on English Studies\nDate: May 8\, 2025 (Thursday) \nTimes: \n\n10:00am – 10:30am: Mock lecture in English Language and Linguistic: The Cooperative Principle (Professor Brian King\, Assistant Professor\, School of English)\n10:30am – 11:00am: Mock lecture in English Literature: Haunted by Literature (Professor Tara Lee\, Assistant Professor\, School of English)\n	 \n\nVenue: CPD-3.01\, accessed via Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (MTR Exit: C1) (map) \nFind more information about the event on the following websites:\nHKU Registry\nHKU Faculty of Arts \nregister now
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-jupas-information-sessions-2025/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501
DTSTAMP:20250416T122918Z
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SUMMARY:Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support Workshop\n \n  \nReady to boost your career but unsure where to start? Curious about AI’s role in the workplace or opportunities in the Greater Bay Area? Need some advice for further studies? Come and join us! \n  \nWorkshop 2: Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support \nDate: 30 April 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 15:00–17:00 \nLanguage: English \nFormat: Hybrid (In-person or Zoom) \nLocation: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nHighlights: \n\nInsights from employers & researchers on workplace trends and career strategies.\nAI applications in the workplace—learn to leverage useful tools and write effective prompts.\nMental health support for navigating career challenges.\nAdvice on further studies and opportunities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).\nRefreshments\, goodie bags\, and a certificate of attendance for all offline participants!\n\n  \nThis workshop is part of our project generously funded by the Collaborative Research Fund. Don’t miss this chance to gain actionable skills and confidence for your career journey! Scan the QR code or click here to register! (https://shorturl.at/3HtBK) \n  \nFor inquiries\, contact us at riich@hku.hk. We look forward to empowering your future!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thriving-at-work-honing-skills-and-finding-support-workshop/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250424T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250424T180000
DTSTAMP:20250109T175103Z
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SUMMARY:RPG Student/Graduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Aimee SHI Yu – PhD Graduate\, University College London (https://www.researchgate.net/directory/profiles) || Ruyu Yan – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Stephanie Ng – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nBecoming Happy: Discourse\, Transnational Higher Education\, and Spiritual Transformation of the Self\nAimee SHI Yu\, phd graduate\, university college london\nAbstract\nThis presentation focuses on the institutional discourse surrounding happiness and social interactions within Chinese diasporic communities at a UK-based cultural NGO\, where participants engaged in weekly activities\, including book discussions\, tea ceremonies\, and mindfulness practices\, understanding these as coping mechanisms for anxieties and struggles in their transnational lives. Data analysis reveals how these practices constitute values and social relations (e.g.\, care and happiness) as alternatives to neoliberal logics of profit-making and competition. These imaginaries function primarily at the discursive level yet are constrained by the material conditions of transnational mobility. \nBiography\nSHI Yu (Aimee) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education University of Hong Kong. She was trained in Applied Linguistics\, obtaining her PhD and MA from the Institute of Education at University College London and her BA in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the transnational experiences of Chinese international students and professionals in educational settings in the UK\, focusing on their language socialization and identity formation during the process of becoming. Her work employs institutional ethnography and in-depth case studies informed by sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. \ntranslingualism: Its Communication Ethics and Semiological Basis\nRUYU YAN\, PHD CANDIDATE\, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH\, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nAbstract\nAt the recent turn to translingual approaches in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics\, language is portrayed as a linguistic repertoire; this definition is made part of a discourse of consistency to reality\, which corresponds to the disciplinary pursuit for a scientific status. This paper instead draws attention to the investment of values in the explanation of language and communication by scholars of translingualism. Translingualism involves an ethic of communication that depends on the uniqueness of human subjects. Taking this quality of human subjects as the basis for a sign theory\, this presentation discusses potential difficulties for translingual analysts. \nBiography\nRuyu Yan is a PhD student working on a theoretical dialogue between integrationism and translingualism. Her research interests lie in multilingualism\, integrational semiology\, and communication philosophies.  \n"Most people don't want to hear it": Negotiating the tellability of mental health recovery narratives in a Hong Kong anti-stigma campaign\nSTEPHANIE NG\, PHD CANDIDATE\, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH\, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nAbstract\nIn Hong Kong\, mental illness is a culturally-sensitive and stigmatized topic\, impacting individuals and communities. To combat this stigma\, local campaigns like “More Than A Label (MTAL)” encourage individuals with lived experience to share their stories of mental health recovery. This session will present findings from a study analyzing recovery stories from 17 MTAL participants. Using narrative analysis\, the study reveals rhetorical strategies that transform personal stories into persuasive narratives\, exploring the construction of tellability and its implications for mental health anti-stigma efforts. \nBiography\nStephanie Ng is a final-year PhD candidate in the School of English and a member of the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH) in the Faculty of Arts. With a master’s degree in clinical psychology\, she adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her research. Her work combines psychology and sociolinguistic perspectives to examine how personal stories of mental health recovery help address stigma in Hong Kong society. She has published first-author articles in renowned academic journals\, including The International Journal of Eating Disorders\, BJPsych Open\, and BMC Psychology. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-graduate-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Thomas Bird (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Bird – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nThomas Bird reads from Harmony Express: Travel by Train Through China (Earnshaw Books\, 2023). \nDate: April 23\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. During the Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nPhotos Highlights\n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Thomas Bird from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thomas-bird-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Trauma and the Sublime in William Blake’s America a Prophecy (1793)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Otto – University of Melbourne (https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/13517-peter-otto) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAlthough America (1793) is usually read as a work of radical history and millennial prophecy\, it is framed by plates that collocate hope and despair\, peace and violence\, morning (paradise) and mourning (disaster). The dilemma this poses is typically managed by troping the second term in each of these pairs as a concomitant rather than contaminant of revolution\, that the journey to utopia soon leaves behind. To do otherwise\, it is implied\, would be to side with the forces of reaction rather than revolution. In contrast\, in this paper I argue that by hurrying to resolve the tension between morning and mourning critics eclipse the historical and visual/textual frame for the poem’s exploration of trauma\, the fragmentation it causes\, the desire for transcendence it provokes\, and its consequences for the imagination. Blake critics are still fond of tracing in Blake’s work a shift from politics to art\, and from critique of Christianity to more orthodox belief. However\, his later works look very different if\, building on the account of trauma first developed in America\, they are an attempt to describe a radical politics able to negotiate the space between feeling bodies and numbed minds. Read in this light\, they may still have much to say about the present in which we are living. \n ||  \nBiography\nPeter Otto is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In addition to two monographs on Blake\, his publications include Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism\, Modernity and the Emergence of Virtual Reality (OUP\, 2011); Innovations in Encompassing Large Scenes (Romantic Circles\, 2013); and\, as editor\, 21st Century Oxford Authors: William Blake (OUP 2018; paperback 2022) and\, as co-editor\, Varieties of Imagination\, Creativity\, and Wellbeing in Australia (Unlikely\, 2025). He is currently completing a book\, funded by the Australian Research Council\, on ‘Architectures of Imagination: Bodies\, Buildings\, Fictions\, and Worlds.’
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/trauma-and-the-sublime-in-william-blakes-america-a-prophecy-1793/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Sheung-King (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sheung-King – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nSheung-King reads from Batshit Seven (Penguin Canada\, 2024)\, winner of the 2024 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize. \nDate: April 9\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. During the Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Sheung-King from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sheung-king-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Romance\, Masnavi\, and Empire: Anglo-Ottoman Musings on Spectral Imperiality
DESCRIPTION:Arif Camoglu – NYU Shanghai (https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/arif-camoglu) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nBoth influenced by One Thousand and One Nights and placed in the intercultural history of romance\, John Keats’s “Endymion” and Şeyh Galib’s Hüsn ü Aşk happen to be connected also in their articulation of how empire masks its physical presences in its operations. Pairing the works of Keats and Galib by acknowledging their shared textual references and literary heritages\, as well as their poetic similitudes\, this talk spotlights not only the cultural but also the historical intersections that underpin the Anglo-Ottoman conjurations of a ghostly empire: it does so by recalling the existence of another “Endymion\,” a British warship that was dispatched to attack the Ottoman Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. The two Endymions\, this talk suggests\, represent the overlapping (historical and imaginative) layers of the affective imperialism that are foundational to the Anglo-Ottoman relations of the romantic century. \n ||  \nBiography\nArif Camoglu is Assistant Professor of Literature at NYU Shanghai. His research focuses on the British and Ottoman Turkish literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent writing appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies\, Global Nineteenth Century Studies\, and Essays in Romanticism. He is among the editors of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era. Currently Arif is at work on a book manuscript\, titled Specters of Empire: Anglo-Ottoman Narratives of Imperial Sovereignty in the Romantic Century.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/romance-masnavi-and-empire-anglo-ottoman-musings-on-spectral-imperiality/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:HKU Black Box Open Readings
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nHKU Black Box Open Readings\n\nThe open-mic readings create a safe and relaxed environment for MFA and MACC students to share their works-in-progress alongside pieces from their favourite authors. These sessions provide additional support for students to share their writing while fostering a sense of creative exploration. \nDate: April 2 & 16\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 2:30pm – 3:20pm \n  \nPHOTO HIGHLIGHTS\n\n      
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-black-box-open-readings/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Understanding Digital Narrative: Interpreting Configurable Stories
DESCRIPTION:Ben Horn – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/302/Dr_Benjamin_Horn) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk discusses the challenges and potential solutions for the study of digital narratives\, particularly narrative games such as The Witcher 3. Narrative games are tricky texts to unpack due to their size – it can take upwards of 50-100hrs of play to complete a modern story game – as well as their configurability: my playthrough of the game may not be the same as yours\, and in which case\, how can we be sure we are discussing the same narrative if we attempt to analyse it? Contemporary scholarship in the nascent field of game studies has attempted to wrestle with these questions with the use of methodologies inspired by literary theory and philosophy\, in which hermeneutics has played an important role. Given the tremendous influence that games now exert over the world – with millions of players logging in daily – now more than ever it is vital to understand how these complex interactive narratives are changing the way we interact with the world. \n ||  \nBiography\nBenjamin Horn is Lecturer at the School of English. He received his PhD in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong in 2021. A recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme\, his thesis presents a new model for the analysis of narrative games. His research interests are interdisciplinary\, reflecting the multimedia nature of the games he studies\, and include questions relating to the interpretation of games\, the history of games\, the study of ludonarrative artifacts\, and issues of cultural localization and translation. He has previously worked as chief writer for a Hong Kong independent game studio.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/understanding-digital-narrative-interpreting-configurable-stories/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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