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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250403T163000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250327T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250327T180000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
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SUMMARY:Thriving at University: Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thriving at University: Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Workshop\n \n  \nAre you finding it hard to reach out for help? Not sure where to look for support? We’re here to assist you! \n  \nWorkshop 1: Thriving at University: Mental Health and Wellbeing Support  \nDate: 27 March\, 2025 (THUR) \nTime: 15:00-17:00  \nLocation: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nJoin us for research-based tips\, expert insights\, and shared experiences to support your mental health and wellbeing. Refreshments & Drinks provided! \n  \nDon’t miss out – use the link below or in our bio to register now! \nhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=TrX5QnckukG_CXoNKoP_CQ_nfHQYDy5DvFiSFWJRjYxUNFhETDdUMUxLMldOQVgzQ0FCNDlZOU80SS4u \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thriving-at-university-mental-health-and-wellbeing-support-workshop/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Pre-performance workshop on Wuthering Heights
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n \nAs the only novel written by British author Emily Brontë\, through powerful natural imagery\, Wuthering Heights vividly depicts complex characters and an intense atmosphere\, weaving a bold and forward-thinking narrative of love and conflict across three generations of two families. The workshop will look at the complex character of Heathcliff\, focusing on his emotions\, values\, and the consequences of his vengeful actions. Participants will also gain insights into Wise Children’s version of Wuthering Heights by understanding more about music theatre. \n  \nDate: March 25\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTimes: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nPhoto Highlights
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/pre-performance-workshop-on-wuthering-heights/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Handel's Island
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nHandel's Island \n\nFollowing the success of Figaro's Garden last year\, Opera Box is excited to bring Handel's Island to the HKU Black Box Theatre! Specially designed for babies and toddlers\, this immersive opera experience is created by professional opera singers\, using simple props and interactive movements to introduce little ones to the magical world of Handel's music. As part of Opera Box's groundbreaking O!Blox series\, Handel's Island combines the magic of Baroque opera with early childhood enrichment\, offering a unique and engaging experience for both children and their caregivers. \n\nFor ages 0-3 years \nDate: April 23\, 29 & 30\,  2025 (Saturday & Sundays)  \nTime: 10:00am – 10:40am & 4:00pm – 4:45pm \nPhoto Highlights
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/handels-island/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250320T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250320T180000
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SUMMARY:Looking Differently: Mrs. Dalloway at 100
DESCRIPTION:Anne Fernald – Fordham University (https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/english/faculty/anne-fernald/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nEarly in Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway\, Rezia Warren Smith implores her shell-shocked husband\, Septimus\, to look. Six paragraphs in a row begin with the command “look.” Critics of modernism have been preoccupied with looking in the sense of perception (e.g. connecting literary experiments to those in the visual arts\, exploring representations of time in narrative)\, but equally important to Woolf is the problem of attention. Shell-shocked and hallucinating in a London park\, Septimus is unable to redirect his attention to the sights around him (children playing cricket\, a few sheep)\, but the passage also calls out to us\, the reader. What are we being asked to look at? And how might we look differently? In witnessing Septimus and Rezia's distress\, we are to notice the ongoing effects of World War I; in recent years\, critics have been prolific in detailing those traces in the text. Today\, I will focus less on war and war trauma than on another of the novel’s enduring effects: its powerful attachment to beauty. After all\, Mrs. Dalloway begins with flowers and ends with a vision of a beautiful woman. This paper argues that Mrs. Dalloway responds to an early 20th century crisis in attention by teaching us how to focus in a world of overwhelming distraction. In so doing\, it reminds us how paying attention to beauty can\, in itself\, be a form of resistance and a strategy for survival. The presence of death may strike us with a shock at a party\, but the fact of beauty may equally stun us into remembering why we live. \n ||  \nBiography\nAnne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Fordham University in New York City. She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Mrs. Dalloway (2014) the Norton Critical Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (2021)\, and the Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf (2021). She is one of the editors of The Norton Reader\, a widely used anthology of essays. She was co-editor of Modernism/modernity 2019-23. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (2006) as well as articles and reviews on Woolf and feminist modernism. She is currently at work on a collective biography of eight modernist women writers.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/looking-differently-mrs-dalloway-at-100/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Sonia Leung (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Leung – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nSonia Leung reads from The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds (Blacksmith Books\, 2024). This reading is a collaboration with the Hong Kong International Literary Festival (Mar 1-8 2025). \nDate: March 7\, 2025 (Friday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT hong kong international literary festival\n\nThe Hong Kong International Literary Festival (HKILF) inspires the joy of reading by bringing the world’s writers and stories to Hong Kong’s diverse communities. A dynamic year-round programme and an annual festival offer dialogue\, entertainment and perspective\, while the Young Readers Festival (YRF) motivates students to engage with all aspects of the written word\, improving communication skills\, while nurturing the art of writing and storytelling. \nThe annual festival features established and emerging writers from around the world\, alongside local literary talents\, in a programme that includes panel discussions\, book talks\, readings\, workshops\, walks\, school programmes\, performances\, and more. \nWe are a registered charity non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing the best in the literary arts to Hong Kong. To find out more\, please visit their official website: https://www.festival.org.hk. \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. \nDuring 2025 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 Sonia Leung from her official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sonia-leung-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:“The Unfettered Hour” by Tang Shu-wing (鄧樹榮)
DESCRIPTION:“The Unfettered Hour” by Tang Shu-wing (鄧樹榮)\nPresented and Produced by Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio\nSponsored by HKU School of English\n \nScript/Direction/Performance: Tang Shu-wing (鄧樹榮)\n \nPerformance date: March 5\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nPerformance times: \nSession 1: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Cantonese)\nSession 2: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm (English) \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n \n\n\nRegistration\n\n\nRegistration required. Very limited seats. Please choose either Session 1 or Session 2\, but not both. No walk-in allowed. \nSession 1: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Cantonese) \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98638\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98638\n\n\nSession 2: 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm (English) \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98640\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98640\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n“The Unfettered Hour” Solo  \n\nDuring his break time\, a radio programme host talked to his wife residing overseas in order to save their marriage. Is he courageous enough? \n\n \n“The protagonist made an incisive point about the current situation of Hong Kong.” Ting Yu\, Theatre Critic\n \n“The theatre craft of Tang Shu-wing has been growing increasingly sophisticated and significant.” Kuh Fei\, Theatre Critic\n \nTang was adept at performing solo and duo works in the 1990s\, such as “Miss Margarida’s Way”\, “Two Civil Servants in a Skyscraper”\, “Two Men on a No Man’s Land” and “Millennium Autopsy”\, which are all pioneers of physical and devising theatre. He focused on directing after the millennium and only performed in a handful of ensemble works\, yet he was able to transform deftly abstract physical expression into genuine realistic vocabularies. He even won the Best Actor in a Leading Role in the Hong Kong Drama Awards with “Sunshine Station” in 2003. Uncovering some unseen sides of Tang\, the premiere of “The Unfettered Hour” received overwhelming critical acclaim among professionals and audience alike with three sold-out performances last year. Now\, the show returns\, with an additional English version made for international audiences. This is an opportunity that comes once in a blue moon\, don’t miss it!\n \nIn Cantonese/English\n\n*Running time approximately 1 hour \n\n\nTang Shu-wing's nominations with "The Unfettered Hour": \n\n\n2022 IATC Critics Awards\nScript/ Playwright of the Year\nPerformer of the Year \n \n2022 The Hong Kong Theatre Libre\nBest script\nBest leading actor \n\n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n    \n\n\n\nFor more information about “The Unfettered Hour” performance from Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio\, visit here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-unfettered-hour-by-tang-shu-wing-%e9%84%a7%e6%a8%b9%e6%a6%ae/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Accessibility\, Intercultural Mobility and Performance Exchange in the 2024 Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Jason Eng Hun Lee – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/academic-staff/dr-jason-lee/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThe first Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival (HKISF)\, organized by the Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio in 2024 with generous funding from the Hong Kong government\, was billed largely as an East-West cultural exchange\, raising concomitant issues of internationalism and mobility in the post-pandemic era. The festival line-up included an all-female theatrical production of Tang Shu-wing's King Lear (Hong Kong\, Romania)\, an all-male Sardinian language production of Macbeth (Italy)\, a one-man production of Henry V across the Henriad (Australia)\, a co-created dance-drama production on Lady Macbeth (Italy\, Hong Kong) and a humorous Korean clown adaptation of Hamlet (South Korea). In particular\, the distinctly non-verbal productions of King Lear and Lady Macbeth raised the prospect of improving Shakespeare’s accessibility across Hong Kong’s language and educational divide\, as well as the creation of a theatrical ‘safe space’ to better mediate the territory’s fraught socio-cultural environment. In this paper\, I consider the extent to which these two co-created and cross-disciplinary productions navigate the ‘glocalizing’ imperative of the HKISF and\, given the uneven dissemination of Shakespearean theatre across the world festival circuit\, Tang Shu-wing’s attempt to bridge the dynamic between a large\, well-funded ‘destination’ festival and the smaller-scale ‘community’ festival. These issues tie back to Shakespeare’s legacy in postcolonial Hong Kong\, his contemporary reception across different language audiences\, and amid ongoing attempts to reinforce the cultural projection of Hong Kong as China’s most ‘international’ city. \n ||  \nBiography\nJason Eng Hun Lee is a creative writer\, scholar\, performer and community advocate whose research and practice fields encompass postcolonial and diasporic Asian writing\, global Shakespeare\, performance studies and creative pedagogy. His articles have been published in Textual Practice\, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing\, Wasafiri\, and Shakespeare. His poetry collection includes Beds in the East (2019) and he is co-editor of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (2023). He serves as literary editor for Postcolonial Text and is chief organizer of OutLoud HK 隨言香港\, Hong Kong’s longest-running poetry collective. He is a Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/accessibility-intercultural-mobility-and-performance-exchange-in-the-2024-hong-kong-international-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T180000
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SUMMARY:Underwater with the Feminist Waves
DESCRIPTION:Yanbing Er – National University of Singapore (https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/11459-yanbing-er) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk stages an intervention in one of the most influential stories told about feminism—that of its progressive waves—such that its discursive legacy becomes reconfigured by modalities of racial capitalism. Moving past the familiar image of surface waves crashing on the shore\, I consider the oblique presence of the internal wave as a renewed paradigm for narrating feminism\, especially as an oceanic manifestation that has evaded the grasp of human perception. I offer a brief reading of Rivers Solomon’s 2019 novella The Deep to show how this conceptual submergence of the wave metaphor displaces frames of knowing predicated on human exceptionalism. In a gesture of speculative worldbuilding\, the text narrates a different story of the feminist waves: one that arises from a gathering of Black and queer forms of being acculturated to the depths of the sea. \n ||  \nBiography\nYanbing Er is Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. Her first book\, Feminism Enchanted\, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/underwater-with-the-feminist-waves/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
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SUMMARY:Events with Prof. Junot Díaz
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nWriting in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\nMasterclass: "Worldbuilding 101"\nDate: February 20\, 2025 (Thursday) \nTime: 10:00am – 12:00noon \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nBy Invitation only. \n\nAbstracts\nWorldbuilding — the creation of convincing “secondary" worlds — has become both an essential practice in storytelling across nearly all narrative medium and a defining feature of our global mass culture. Once a practice confined to genre nerds\, worldbuilding is now everywhere in our culture — from the books we read to the games we play to the vast narrative “universes" controlled by the likes of Disney\, Nintendo\, and Warner Brothers. For better or worse\, worldbuilding is how many of us come to understand our social / political worlds. \nIn our seminar we will discuss some of the strategies and principles common to the best secondary worlds in order to deepen our critical and creative understanding of this invaluable aesthetic practice. \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n\nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/events-with-prof-junot-diaz/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Tegan Smyth (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Tegan Smyth – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nTegan Smyth reads from Mountain Songs (Proverse Hong Kong\, 2023)\, winner of the 2022 Proverse Publishing Prize \nDate: February 19\, 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. \nDuring 2025 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\n\nPhoto Highlights \n       \n       \n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Tegan Smyth from her official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tegan-smyth-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250220
DTSTAMP:20250207T112101Z
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SUMMARY:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nProf. Junot Díaz\, Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\n  \nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-in-the-age-of-tiktok-a-conversation/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:A Contemporary and Regional(ising) Asia?
DESCRIPTION:C. J. W.-L. Wee – Nanyang Technological University (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/research/faculty-directory/detail/rp00282) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nNew cultural expression in East Asia – taken broadly to include Northeast and Southeast Asia – emerges in the 1990s. The 1980s economic ‘rise’ of Asia help support 1990s art exhibitions that curated Asian modern and contemporary art – then novel ideas – in Fukuoka\, Tokyo\, Brisbane and Singapore. An inter-Asian popular culture also circulated across borders first as a Japan Wave and then as the so-called Hallyu. Contemporary cultural expression is intertwined with Cold War-era conceptions of economic modernisation linked to 1950s and 1960s US Modernisation Theory – and\, perhaps unexpectedly\, a once-moribund idea of Asia is revivified. As Chen Kuan-Hsing observes\, ‘using Asia as an imaginary anchoring point can allow societies in Asia to become one another’s reference points’ (Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization [2010]\, xv)\, even as no new ideology congruent with regional economic integration has come about. Nevertheless\, what is notable aspect is that culture engaged with older modernist ideologies in ways not previously conceived. I draw upon my new book\, A Regional Contemporary: Art Exhibitions\, Popular Culture\, Asia\, to offer some consideration of what I describe as the ‘exhibitionary imagination’ as that transforms from the first exhibition of modern Asia as attempted in Fukuoka Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition\, the two-part Asian Artists Exhibition (1979–1980)\, into the Japan Foundation Asia Center’s Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art (2000–2002)\, a three-year project that tried to comprehend contemporary Asia as a region with transgressed national borders. I end with a reflection on the appearance Inter-Asia Cultural Studies in 2000 as a journal project that is part of the period’s cultural emergences. \n ||  \nBiography\nC. J. Wee Wan-ling is Professor of English at the Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has held Visiting Fellowships at (among other institutions) the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies\, Delhi\, India\, and the Society for the Humanities\, Cornell University. Wee is the author of Culture\, Empire\, and the Question of Being Modern and The Asian Modern: Culture\, Capitalist Development\, Singapore. He has recently completed A Regional Contemporary: Art Exhibitions\, Popular Culture\, Asia (in press\, MIT Press).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-contemporary-and-regionalising-asia/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:‘Well\, I saw the picture’: Semiotic ideologies and the unsettling of normative conceptions of heterosexuality in the Steubenville rape trial
DESCRIPTION:Susan Ehrlich – York University (https://www.yorku.ca/sehrlich/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nCultural norms surrounding heterosexuality have been shown to influence legal and popular understandings of rape. In particular\, Nicola Gavey (2005) has proposed that normative ideas about men’s aggressive\, hard-to-control sexuality and women’s passive\, acquiescing sexuality operate as a ‘cultural scaffold’ for rape – they provide a sense-making framework that allows rape to be understood as ‘just sex’. This paper\, a case study of the 2013 Steubenville (Ohio\, USA) rape trial\, attempts to show how the digital communication evidence in the trial\, especially the photographic evidence\, was able to unsettle some of these discourses surrounding heterosex. Following work by Crispin Thurlow (2017) on semiotic ideologies\, I argue that the special status assigned to the digital images by the trial participants\, relative to the linguistic representations\, had significant consequences for the outcome of the trial. Crucially\, it brought into stark relief the problematic nature of the defense’s claim that passivity and silence on the part of the complainant was tantamount to consent. \n ||  \nBiography\nSusan Ehrlich is Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at York University\, Toronto\, Canada.  She has worked extensively on language\, sexual violence and the law and is presently working on a project that investigates intertextual practices in the legal system\, demonstrating how such an investigation can shed light on broader patterns of social inequalities. Her book publications include Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (Oxford\, 2016\, co-edited with D. Eades and J. Ainsworth)\, The Handbook of Language\, Gender\, and Sexuality (Blackwell\, 2014\, co-edited with M. Meyerhoff and J. Holmes) and Representing Rape (Routledge\, 2001).  She is currently co-editor of the journal\, Language in Society\, with Tommaso Milani.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/well-i-saw-the-picture-semiotic-ideologies-and-the-unsettling-of-normative-conceptions-of-heterosexuality-in-the-steubenville-rape-trial/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare's Political Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Luke – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nI envisaged this talk as a mini book launch for Shakespeare’s Political Spirit: Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power.  Unfortunately\, a cyberattack at Cambridge University Press has delayed publication\, so it will be a book ‘preview’ instead.  The book looks to the creative potential of experiences of failure\, haunting\, estrangement\, impasse\, or dream in Shakespeare. It draws on the tradition of negative theology and subsequent philosophies of the negative (Hegel\, Kierkegaard\, Benjamin\, Adorno\, Derrida\, Badiou) in order to establish a negative political theology that challenges the official political theology that sacralises power.In this talk\, I will focus on the way Hamlet is thrown into a state of uncertainty about the eternal.  His famed “delay” is a response to the thought of eternity: he is given “pause” by imagining “what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil”.  The eternal is the “rub”.  I tackle this obscure rub by turning to Soren Kierkegaard\, who references Hamlet’s soliloquy in his Philosophical Fragments.  To be “born again” into the eternal\, according to Kierkegaard\, one must “become nothing and yet … not [be] annihilated”.  I suggest that Hamlet’s struggle with the eternal opens him to an expansive view of humanity – and politics – that goes beyond Claudius’s will to power or Laertes’s customary honour.  He negates Denmark’s violent\, dynastic politics and instead seeks what would seem to be impossible within a revenge tragedy: the incalculable.  The eternal here suggests an imaginary perspective that alienates or negates our current preoccupations and political economies. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-political-spirit/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH: Final-Year Students and Graduates Wanted for Survey
DESCRIPTION:Final-Year Students and Graduates Wanted for Survey\n \n CALLING Final Year Students & Recent Graduates in Hong Kong!  \nWe are conducting a survey to understand how you move into the workplace in a post-COVID era. We're interested in your career aspirations and the challenges you face. \nYour insights will provide us with valuable information to support future graduates entering the workforce during these unprecedented times. \nClick the link below now to join our survey. Your voice matters\, and we can't wait to hear your thoughts! \nhttps://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeYTQenHEDMNpsO \n[This project has received ethical approval from the HKU Human Research Ethics Committee (EA230432). The project is fully supported by the RGC Collaborative Research Fund (C7086-21G)]. \nThank you for helping us help you! For any questions or information\, please contact riich@hku.hk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-final-year-students-and-graduates-wanted-for-survey/
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SUMMARY:Romanticism and the Industrial Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haywood – University of Roehampton (https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ian-haywood) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk takes fresh look at the impact of the industrial revolution on British Romanticism by taking a primary visual approach. Eco-critics have argued that the ‘birth’ of the Anthropocene era in the late eighteenth century led to the simultaneous genesis of an oppositional ‘green’ Romanticism\, yet surprisingly little work has been done on the visual dimension of this confrontation\, even though paintings\, reproductive prints and illustrations provided some of the most spectacular evidence for what we now regard as carbon catastrophe. I will show how the Romantic construction of the idyllic Lake District is a deeply unreliable ‘guide’ (pun intended) to the historical reality of rural industrialization that connected the English countryside to global networks of commerce\, imperialism and enslaved labour. The ‘industrial gaze’ enables a fuller and richer understanding of the place of Romantic culture within this planetary upheaval\, and begs the counterfactual question: was there another way? \n ||  \nBiography\nIan Haywood is Professor of English at Roehampton University\, London. He has written extensively on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British radicalism and its impact on literary and visual culture. His publications include The Revolution in Popular Literature (2004)\, Bloody Romanticism (2006)\, Romanticism and Caricature (2013)\, Spain in British Romanticism (2018\, co-edited with Diego Daglia)\, Romanticism and Illustration (2019\, co-edited with Mary Shannon and Susan Matthews)\, The Rise of Victorian Caricature (2020) and Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England (2023). His next monograph project is Frankenstein and Romantic Visual Culture (contracted with Bloomsbury). He was the President of the British Association for Romantic Studies 2015-19\, and co-ordinates the Romantic Illustration Network (https://romanticillustrationnetwork.com).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/romanticism-and-the-industrial-gaze/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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