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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240426
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SUMMARY:Previous Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Click for details
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/previous-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240426
DTSTAMP:20210923T111303Z
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SUMMARY:School of English Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Second Semester\, 2023-24
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240120
DTSTAMP:20240119T160228Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Research Assistant I (2 posts) (Ref.: 524529)
DESCRIPTION:to commence on May 1\, 2024\, or as soon as possible thereafter on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Feb 29\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-research-assistant-i-2-posts-ref-524529/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240112
DTSTAMP:20240111T104328Z
CREATED:20240111T104328Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2\, 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2023-24/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231230
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231229T165150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091533Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, April 5\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-macc-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231230
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231229T164555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091533Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, April 5\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing-mfa-is-now-open-for-applications-3/
CATEGORIES:News
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231229
DTSTAMP:20260917T091533Z
CREATED:20231228T124951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091533Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 523617)
DESCRIPTION:to commence as soon as possible\, on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Jan 26\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-523617/
CATEGORIES:News
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231207
DTSTAMP:20260917T091530Z
CREATED:20231206T144926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091530Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Full-time / 2024-2026 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 28\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T115020Z
CREATED:20230829T115020Z
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SUMMARY:Interspatiality
DESCRIPTION:Sheila Hones – University of Tokyo & Swansea University (https://sheilahones.wordpress.com/) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \nAbstract\nAcademic literary geography today is often explained in terms of aggregation: literature and geography; texts and places; literary studies and human geography. While these X+Y formulations usefully suggest the interdisciplinary range of the field\, they less helpfully reinforce the idea that both the subject matter and the practice of literary geography depend on the stitching together of separate things. As a result\, contemporary definitions of literary geography typically emphasise intersections and interactions and interdisciplinarity while dodging the question of whether there is an identifiable object of inquiry specific to the field itself. The term ‘interspatiality’ has been designed to cut through this X+Y problem. Merging a geographical definition of ‘spatiality’ (as a way of talking about the social-spatial)\, and a literary understanding of ‘intertextuality’ (as a way of talking about texts as nodes in relational spatial networks)\, interspatiality is a way of naming the implied subject focus of much contemporary work in the field: the inseparability of writing\, reading and geography. The main theme of this talk on literary geography and interspatiality\, then\, is the idea that understandings of what literary geography is\, does\, and can do might usefully be reconfigured by a move away from the current emphasis on the accretion and interaction of separate things and towards a focus on an inhabited world in which the social\, the spatial\, and the textual are routinely and inextricably fused. \n ||  \nBiography\nSheila Hones is a literary geographer\, a professor emerita of The University of Tokyo\, and an honorary research fellow at Swansea University. She is one of the editors of the online journal\, Literary Geographies\, and co-editor for the book series\, Literary Geography: Theory and Practice (University of Wales Press). She is the author of Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (2014) and Literary Geography (2021\, Routledge New Critical Idiom). Her next book\, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography\, will be published in 2024. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95878115207?pwd=VThpSTZpbzhXNThWbVRYY0hKcGF5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 958 7811 5207\nPassword: 903130
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/interspatiality/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231125
DTSTAMP:20231115T105214Z
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SUMMARY:Love's Labours Found: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
DESCRIPTION:The HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. \nAdditional Content\nPlease join us for a festive conclusion to the semester with ‘Love’s Labours Found’: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio on Friday 24 Nov from 4:30-6:00pm in Seminar Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower. \nPublished in 1623\, Shakespeare’s First Folio presents 36 of his plays\, half of which appear for the first time. Dr. Nick Luke and Dr. Kristen Murray will host this event\, highlighting contested passages in plays we know well\, as well as peerless plays we might have missed. The talk will touch on the complex process that secured this collection for a print run of around 750 leather-bound books of continual global significance. \nThe HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. “Do you think because you are virtuous\, there will be no more cake and ale?” (Twelfth Night\, II\, iii\, 113). \n“Knowing aforehand of our merriment\,” please register here to attend (Love’s Labours Lost\, V\, ii\, 505).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/loves-labours-found-a-celebration-of-the-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-first-folio/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231123T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231123T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114846Z
CREATED:20230829T114846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T114846Z
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SUMMARY:Language Revival and Wellbeing: From the 'Promised Land' to the 'Lucky Country'
DESCRIPTION:Ghil’ad Zuckermann – Flinders University (https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/ghilad.zuckermann) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON) \nAbstract\nThis talk will explain why language revival is (1) right\, (2) beautiful\, and (3) beneficial. In our current world\, more and more groups are losing their intangible heritage. Language reclamation (e.g. Hebrew and the Barngarla Aboriginal language of South Australia)\, revitalization (e.g. Shanghainese and the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal language) and reinvigoration (e.g. Te Reo Māori and Welsh) are becoming increasingly relevant as more and more people seek to reconnect with their heritage\, recover their cultural autonomy\, empower their spiritual and intellectual sovereignty\, and improve their wellbeing and mental health. There is an urgent need to offer comparative insights\, for example from the Hebrew revival\, which resulted in a cross-fertilized Semito-European hybrid that I call "Israeli". \n ||  \nBiography\nGhil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil Oxford; PhD Cambridge\, titular; MA Tel Aviv\, summa cum laude) is Professor of Linguistics at Flinders University\, Adelaide\, Australia. Prof. Zuckermann is the author of Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (Oxford University Press\, 2020) and 多源造词研究 (A Study of Multisourced Neologization; East China Normal University Press\, 2021). Professor Zuckermann is the founder of Revivalistics\, a new global\, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation\, revitalization and reinvigoration. His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages\, has attracted 20\,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages): https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93741887377?pwd=RFp6ZmNwMEVkMER2REdCbjFteEF5QT09 \nMeeting ID: 937 4188 7377\nPassword: 165988
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/language-revival-and-wellbeing-from-the-promised-land-to-the-lucky-country/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231116T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114754Z
CREATED:20230829T114754Z
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SUMMARY:Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream\, a Peking Opera
DESCRIPTION:Qiong Zhang – Fudan University \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \nAbstract\nThe research examines Qing Qi’s Dream (2007)\, a jingju (Peking Opera) adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear by Shanghai Jingju Theatre. With a discussion of the adaptation\, the speaker probes into the related concerns on different art forms\, features of jingju performance\, its special stage styles\, and the variants of the adapted version. The research points out that the jingju adaptation of King Lear can be viewed as an attempt to participate in the thematic representation using one’s own unique discourse. Therefore\, the cultural source is inexhaustible in adaptation and active interations across time and space\, among which the personal ambition and lust\, ethic value and filiality\, as well as Lear’s self-quest or cultural reflection triggered thereafter are worth discussion. The research further points out that the unending interpretations of King Lear and its numerous spin-offs reveal the continuity of a canon’s vigorous life. Examining the tragic king as a jingju role demonstrates that the paradigm of theatrical splendor relies on its emotional truth\, philosophical quest\, and the potential of its artistic multiplicity. Finally\, the research tries to indicate that by breaking down cultural borders\, we in a more globalized world are facing cultural values which are mutually constitutive. \n ||  \nBiography\nJoan Qiong Zhang is Professor of English at Fudan University\, Shanghai\, China and a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley (2019-2020). Research interests include English fiction and Shakespeare. Her major publications include Shakespeare in Visual Age: a study on Shakespearean Movies (2009) and Singing Survivance: a Study of Contemporary Native American Poetry (2021). She has also published two collections of prose works on travel\, film and books. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98951%20844991?pwd=UnNUV1RUc%20G5EY2VTVkFZa1VqYSsz%20QT09 \nMeeting ID: 989 5184 4991\nPassword: 039433
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/continuity-in-the-floating-world-king-lear-in-king-qis-dream-a-peking-opera/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231110
DTSTAMP:20230829T114704Z
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SUMMARY:Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality
DESCRIPTION:Anjuli Gunaratne – The University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/miraculous-corpse-tragedy-and-postcoloniality/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231101
DTSTAMP:20231031T142901Z
CREATED:20231031T142901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T142901Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Executive Officer/Senior Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk I) (Ref.: 523615)
DESCRIPTION:Applications close:  Nov 30\, 2023 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-executive-officer-senior-executive-assistant-at-the-rank-of-clerk-i-ref-523615/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231029
DTSTAMP:20231019T163942Z
CREATED:20231019T163942Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2023
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n \nInformation Counter\n\nTime: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, Centennial Campus (map) \nIf you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes\, come and meet our student ambassadors. \nInformation Talk\n\nTime: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\nUndergraduate Coordinator\, School of English \nGraduate sharing on academic exchange\nMr. Angus Chan\nEnglish Studies graduate\nTeaching Assistant\, School of English\nFormer exchange student at the University of Oxford in 2021-22 \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Chloe Mak & Ms. Ariel Tam\nEnglish Studies major \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\nHead\, School of English \nMock lecture in English Linguistics\nDr. Brian King\nAssistant Professor\, School of English \n  \nPhoto Highlights
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2023/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231026
DTSTAMP:20231017T121017Z
CREATED:20231017T121017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T121017Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Session: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes in the School of English
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nRegister Now!\n  \n \nProgramme\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nProgramme(s)\nSpeaker(s)\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n \n\nTaught postgraduate programme: \n\nMaster of Arts in English Studies (MAES)\n\n\nDr. Otto Heim and Dr. Agnes Kang (MAES Programme Directors)\n\n\n5:30 – 6:00 p.m.\n \n\nResearch postgraduate programmes: \n\nMaster of Philosophy (MPhil)\nDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)\n\n\nDr. Daniel Weston (Chair\, Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee)\n\n\n6:00 – 6:30 p.m.\n \n\nTaught postgraduate programmes: \n\nMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English (MFA)\nMaster of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)\n\n\nDr. Page Richards (MFA and MACC Programme Director)\n\n\n\n\nEnquiries\nEmail: english@hku.hk     Tel: 3917-2749 \nRegister Now!\n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-session-applying-for-postgraduate-programmes-in-the-school-of-english/
LOCATION:Room 403\, T.T. Tsui Building\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114614Z
CREATED:20230829T114614Z
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SUMMARY:Iconicity\, virality and the intercorporeal speech chains of TikTok
DESCRIPTION:Rodney H. Jones – University of Reading (https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/professor-rodney-jones) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \nAbstract\nThis paper analyses the way lip-synching on TikTok contributes to the reproduction and circulation of racial stereotypes. Drawing on recent work on the role of iconicity in sociolinguistics\, it examines two ‘audio memes’ that feature the lip-synching of minoritized voices by mostly White creators. Understanding how these practices of ‘digitally assisted crossing’ operate ideologically\, it is argued\, requires that we go beyond traditional concerns with indexicality to examine the more sensuous\, embodied aspects of such performances\, especially the ways lip-synching allows creators to simultaneously embody the affect of both speaker and listener. The perspective offered in this paper contributes to our understanding of language crossing by accounting for the experiential\, and intercorporeal dimension of such practices as well as our understanding of how new forms of embodiment made possible by digital technologies are affecting semiotic and social practices around social categories like race. \n ||  \nBiography\nRodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. His research interests include language and digital media\, health communication\, language and sexuality\, and language and creativity. His recent books include Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction\, 2nd edition (Routledge\, 2021) Viral Discourse (Cambridge University Press\, 2022) Introducing Language and Society\, (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). In March 2022 he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/2262396829?pwd=WUhyZXc5YUx4TkNjd1VQeUJQeFNTQT09 \nMeeting ID: 226 239 6829\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/iconicity-virality-and-the-intercorporeal-speech-chains-of-tiktok/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231005T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231005T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114524Z
CREATED:20230829T114524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T114524Z
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SUMMARY:“Why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned”: Anglo-Québécois Writer Gail Scott’s Turn-of-the-Millennium Novel My Paris
DESCRIPTION:Simon Ng – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/69/Dr_Simon_Ng) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk offers a slice of my ongoing book project “Imperfect Flâneurs” (in contract with McGill-Queen’s UP) which studies reïnterpretations of the flâneur in contemporary novels. Baudelaire sketches the perfect flâneur as a cosmopolitan spectator who feels everywhere at home and sees the world from the privileged position at the centre. My project emerges from this simple question: can the flâneur be imperfect? \nMy example for the talk is Gail Scott’s 1999 novel My Paris – a fictional travel journal of the writer who won a six-month residency with studio space in Paris. Like many travellers and sojourners in Paris today\, during her stay\, the narrator is tempted to taste the pleasures of walking Paris as a flâneur. Her daily flânerie leads her to this unexpected question with a street slang in the predicate\, “why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned[?]” I propose an innovative reading of this novel by way of critical reflection on this rhetorical question. The profound implications behind it are relevant to Scott’s creative process and such unprecedented features in this novel as the conversion of most of the verbs into present participles and the fabrication of a narrative voice that can be described as porous and sutured. \n ||  \nBiography\nSimon Ng is a Full-time Lecturer in the School of English\, HKU. He obtained a PhD in English Studies in a francophone research university in Canada\, the University of Montreal. His primary field of specialization is literature and the city. The substance in this talk comes from the unique environment of his PhD study: the work of a Montreal-based literary writer who is committed to writing in English with the sound of French in her ear. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-shouldnt-the-flaneur-be-stoned-anglo-quebecois-writer-gail-scotts-turn-of-the-millennium-novel-my-paris/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230928T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230928T180000
DTSTAMP:20230829T114248Z
CREATED:20230829T114248Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Andre Theng – PhD Candidate – University of Edinburgh || Vincent Tse – PhD Candidate – Monash University & University of Warwick || Jasper Wu – PhD Candidate – National University of Singapore \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \nAbstract\nLanguage Policy as Spatial Production: Onions|Domains|Rhizomes\nJasper Wu (PhD candidate\, natIONAL UNIVERSITY of singapore)\nLanguage policy processes are intricately intertwined with spatial production. However\, the concept of space remains peripheral in the theorization of language policy. Two existing dominant models – the ‘onion’ and the ‘multi-domain’ models – have focused on contested policy interpretations and conflicted management strategies permeating language policy. I argue that a spatial theory of language policy needs to address these practical indeterminacies as well as the ontological indeterminacy in language ecology. I introduce the Deleuzo-Guattarian rhizome as a complementary concept for presenting this additional aspect. I demonstrate my theoretical argument through business language practices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. \n  \n“Today's Example is about Mirror”: Between Technologization of Epistemic Practice and Celebrity Tutors’ Semiotic Expertise\nVincent Tse (phd candidate\, Monash uNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF warwick) online\nUsing interactional and metapragmatic data from a 17-episode tutoring talent show\, I examine the employment and valorisation of humour and intertextual references to the entertainment industry as "discourse technologies" (Fairclough\, 1992) in Hong Kong's commodified shadow education. I demonstrate that the effective use of said resources depends on celebrity tutors' semiotic expertise in\, for example\, managing the duration of their use and interweaving them with subject or examination knowledge being taught. The analysis illuminates tutors' interdiscursive performance of edutainment and positioning of self as professional yet close to their students. \n  \nThe ‘Institutional Effect’ on Online Communities: Interactional dynamics of a Catholic Facebook Group in Singapore\nAndre theng (phd candidate\, UNIVERSITY OF edinburgh) online\nIn this paper\, I explore the online-offline relationship in the institutional context of the Catholic Church via my empirical case of a Facebook group for Catholics in Singapore. The analysis considers 129 threads from the group made in an eight-day period. I explore how ‘sharedness’ in the group results from 1) recurring discursive practices 2) the role of group administrators and ‘experts’ in ratifying viewpoints and 3) the sharing of personal and intimate experiences. The result is a degree of continuity with offline and historical modes of interaction\, whilst also demonstrating ways in which the interactional structure of the platforms allows for new means of knowledge production. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94596051244?pwd=Y2p5Wm81azQ4YnFNdFdUOThyWTFlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 9605 1244\nPassword: 664501
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/alumni-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230921T163000
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SUMMARY:Exchanging languages: Explaining language shift in Papua New Guinea
DESCRIPTION:Don Kulick – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis is a paper written together with American linguist Lise Dobrin (U Virginia) that attempts to account for the fact that languages in the country of Papua New Guinea seem to be disappearing at a dishearteningly rapid rate. I will briefly discuss the evidence for the widespread language shift and argue that the reasons behind it are the same dynamics that\, in the past\, led to country’s lush linguistic diversity (840 languages\, at last estimate)—a diversity that now is vanishing. I will suggest that both diversity and shift are crucially linked to the prominence and value of exchange throughout the country. Language traditionally has been regarded less as a conceptual system than as a material possession; a quality that makes it both available and desirable for exchange with others. When the conditions of exchange are altered (as has happened during the last century with the colonization and missionization of Papua New Guinea)\, the dynamics of exchange relationships remain\, but the consequences of those exchanges turn out to be dramatically different. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exchanging-languages-explaining-language-shift-in-papua-new-guinea/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230917
DTSTAMP:20230911T110711Z
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SUMMARY:Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA) 2023
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/coalition-of-english-departments-in-asia-coeda-2023/
LOCATION:Convocation Room MB-2.18\, Main Building\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231031
DTSTAMP:20230809T164424Z
CREATED:20230809T164424Z
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SUMMARY:Inter-Island Festival 2023: Rhythms of the Inter-Island
DESCRIPTION:An experiential learning opportunity funded by the Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund by contributing to the 2nd Inter-Island Festival\, will be held in Peng Chau\, Mui Wo\, Chi Ma Wan\, and Cheung Chau in November 2023. Students are invited to participate in one of the featured projects of the Festival\, entitled “Rhythms of the Inter-Island”.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/inter-island-festival-2023-rhythms-of-the-inter-island/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230823
DTSTAMP:20230822T122235Z
CREATED:20230822T122235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230822T122235Z
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 1\, 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-1-2023-24/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230818
DTSTAMP:20230706T101223Z
CREATED:20230706T101223Z
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Major and Minor 2023-24
DESCRIPTION:11:00 – 12:30 (for First-Year Students)\n14:00 – 15:30 (for Second-Year Students)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-major-and-minor-2023-24/
LOCATION:CPD-3.28\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230720
DTSTAMP:20230719T100041Z
CREATED:20230719T100041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T100041Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Full-Time Research Assistant in the School of English
DESCRIPTION:Commence as soon as possible\, for a period of 9 months.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-full-time-research-assistant-in-the-school-of-english/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230719
DTSTAMP:20230718T120200Z
CREATED:20230718T120200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T120200Z
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SUMMARY:MACC at HKU Teaching Opportunities Fall Semester 2023
DESCRIPTION:1. Part-time Lecturer/ Assistant Lecturer (1 post)\n2. Full-Time Teaching Assistant (3 posts)\n3. Part-Time MACC Tutor (2 posts) \nApplications close: August 22\, 2023  (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/macc-at-hku-teaching-opportunities-fall-semester-2023/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230706
DTSTAMP:20260917T091527Z
CREATED:20230705T104238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091527Z
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SUMMARY:2023-2024 Course Offerings and Time-table
DESCRIPTION:Course Offerings and time-table in 2023-2024 are available now.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2023-2024-course-offerings-and-time-table/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230704
DTSTAMP:20230703T170532Z
CREATED:20230703T170532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T170532Z
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SUMMARY:July 2023 edition of Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features a piece on a year in Graduate School by Shameera Nair Lin\, an interview with Professor Christopher Hutton by Jisu Bang and Tingcong Lin\, and a reflection on Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne's talk on applying to and presenting at conferences by Tingcong Lin.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/july-2023-edition-of-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230701
DTSTAMP:20260917T091527Z
CREATED:20230630T105337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091527Z
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2025 Part-time \nExtended Deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 28\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-6/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230614
DTSTAMP:20230613T173823Z
CREATED:20230613T173823Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Press Release: School of English\, HKU RIICH and IC4CH co-host the “Transitioning from University to the Workplace During and Post COVID-19” Interactive Panel
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-press-release-school-of-english-hku-riich-and-ic4ch-co-host-the-transitioning-from-university-to-the-workplace-during-and-post-covid-19-interactive-panel/
CATEGORIES:News
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