Events
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Feeling One’s Self: Onania and Eighteenth-Century Networks of Desire
by Dr. Leah Benedict (Washington State University)
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“Would it Get Some Wind for the Sailboat”: Christopher Knowles and Robert Wilson, Toward a Theatre of Neurological Difference
by Dr. Leon Hilton (University of Pennsylvania)
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Articulating Alternative Cultural Identities: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Theatre Praxis in Singapore
by Dr. Lim Wah Guan (Bard College)
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Map-able: The Turn to the Map in Contemporary Fiction and Culture
by Dr. Elizabeth Ho (Lingnan University)
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The HKU Black Box presents: Hansel & Gretel
24, 25 February, 3, 4, March, 2017
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An American Ancestor: Minor Settler Belonging in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Hawai’i One Summer
by Dr. Huang Yu Ting (Amherst College)
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Migration, Hyperlocality and the Politics of Dislocation
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUProfessor Saskia Witteborn - The Chinese University of Hong Kong (http://www.com.cuhk.edu.hk/en-GB/people/teaching-staff/witteborn-saskia) Abstract How 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 […]
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“Solemn Progress”: Woolf, Burke, and the Negotiation of Virtue
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Nan Zhang - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/116/Dr%20Nan%20Zhang) Abstract This 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 […]
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From Iowa City to Kowloon City: The Cold War Origins of Hong Kong’s First Creative Writing Workshop
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUMr James Shea - Hong Kong Baptist University (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract This 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 […]
