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 […]
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Addressing, Re-accenting, and Othering Utterances on WeChat: A Bakhtinian Analysis
Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUDr Todd L. Sandel - University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) Abstract WeChat is a popular social media application developed in China and designed for the mobile phone. Users may send and receive messages in a variety of systems, including text, emoji, gif files, pictures, and audio messages. They may create messages in one or more languages […]
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School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar A Lawful Magic: A New World of Precedent in Mabo No 2 and Shakespeare’s Late Plays
by Dr. Nicholas Ian Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
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The arrival of Oceania: ending extractivism, politics of enactment, and Pacific Island representations of a good life
Dr Otto Heim - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) Abstract This paper is concerned with what Rob Nixon identifies as the representational challenges and imaginative dilemmas posed by slow violence, violence enacted slowly, almost imperceptibly, over time. In Oceania, this includes the long lasting effects of prolonged industrial mining, nuclear testing, and lately the impacts […]
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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)
