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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250326
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250331
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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
DTSTAMP:20250109T174002Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250307
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250306
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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
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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
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250221
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250206T163000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTSTAMP:20241119T143834Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241114T163000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241109
DTSTAMP:20241101T165034Z
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SUMMARY:Admissions Talk for MACC & MFA
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n\nADmissions talk: master of arts in the field of creative communications (macc) & master of fine arts in the field of creative writing in English (MFA)\n\nYou are cordially invited to the Admissions Talk of the two Taught Postgraduate Programmes offered by the School of English: Master of Arts in the Field of Creative Communications (MACC) and Master of Fine Arts in the Field of Creative Writing in English (MFA). \nAdmissions Talk for 2025-26 AdmissionS\nDate: Nov 8\, 2024 (Friday) \nTime: 11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON \nVenue: The Black Box\, LG. 54\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (map) \nFormat: Face-to-Face or Online \nAgenda\nIntroduction to MACC programme \nIntroduction to MFA programme \nIntroduction to co-programme activities \nSharing from programme alumni and current students \nQ&A session \n\nRegistration:\nPlaces are limited for both. Please visit the corresponding links below and complete the registration form by Nov 6\, 2024 (Wednesday). \nFace-to-Face:\nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=97308 \nOnline:\nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=97309 \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/admissions-talk-for-macc-mfa/
LOCATION:LG.54\, Black Box\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:RPG Student Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Tingcong Lin – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAN ARHAT MARCO POLO: DISTANCE AS A DISCURSIVE STRATEGY AND TRANSCULTURAL (RE)PRODUCTIONS OF A (HI)STORY IN BETWEEN. \nTingcong Lin\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis article shows how distance between localities becomes a discursive strategy in the global process of transculturation. It traces the creation and circulation of a mid-19th to early-20th century myth surrounding a Buddhist arhat (in Chinese\, Luohan) statue in Guangzhou\, China\, claimed to depict Marco Polo\, alongside its Venetian replica\, involving Chinese clerics\, tour guides\, and intellectuals\, and Western expatriates\, travelers\, geographers\, Sinologists\, and politicians. The history of the statues was adapted by various forces\, particularly Italian (and\, more generally\, Western) nationalists and imperialists\, and Chinese reformists. Among the diverse agents was a common discursive strategy: to legitimize their arguments\, mediating agents from both the West and China sought references and endorsements from the distant—and therefore immediately absent—Other\, thus positioning the statue’s transcultural (hi)story to the Other’s side. In this way\, they occupied an interpreting position themselves to turn historiography of the Other into historical teleology for the self. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-seminar-session-2/
LOCATION:CPD 2.45\, 2/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Malingerers\, Dangerous Hysterics\, and Effeminate Men: Insights into Medical Illegitimacy through the Lens of Functional Neurological Disorder
DESCRIPTION:Shelley Dawson – Victoria University of Wellington (https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/shelley.dawson) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nFunctional neurological disorder (FND) is a common and debilitating disorder that is beset with multifaceted stigma. A critical sociolinguistic approach illuminates the powerful and unexpected ways that language maintains this marginalisation. Previously known as hysteria and conversion disorder\, FND’s history is intricately connected to ideologies of gender and mental illness that are further complicated by the historical separation between diseases of the mind and body (medical dualism). Today\, people affected by the disorder face this medical legacy in discourses of blame\, suspicion\, and dismissal\, leading to the question: Is it real or is it all in my head? \nThis presentation explores how ‘the FND patient’ has been constructed as illegitimate over time. Through the lens of art and literature\, I examine tropes of the malingerer\, the dangerous hysteric\, and the effeminate man as sites of ideological and epistemological embodiment and show how\, far from being relics of the past\, these understandings continue to pervade and naturalise stigmatising FND discourses. I conclude by discussing implications for revalorising subjectivity\, and what this might mean for undoing the epistemic injustice that suffuses the FND experience. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Shelley Dawson is a critical sociolinguist whose research examines how language is used to reproduce and contest social inequalities. Working across interdisciplinary boundaries\, and with a specialisation in gender\, she uses qualitative ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to address questions of identity\, marginalisation\, and belonging in diverse research contexts. Her current research project investigates functional neurological disorder from a discourse perspective\, with a view towards challenging the taken-for-granted ‘truths’ about the disorder and the people affected by it. She works at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington\, New Zealand\, in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/malingerers-dangerous-hysterics-and-effeminate-men-insights-into-medical-illegitimacy-through-the-lens-of-functional-neurological-disorder/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241027
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2024
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\nProfessor Elizabeth Ho\nUndergraduate Coordinator\, Assistant Professor\, School of English \nGraduate sharing on academic exchange\nMs. Bianca Chan\nYear 4 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Bianca Chan\nYear 4 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMs. Chloe Mak\nYear 3 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMs. Ariel Tam\nYear 3 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\nHead\, School of English \nMock lecture in English language and Linguistics\nMr. Angus Chan\nProgramme Manager\, School of English \nPHOTO HIGHLIGHTS
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2024/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Vorticist Prose? Wyndham Lewis's “Enemy of the Stars” and “Tarr”
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn the early years of the 20th century\, there was a plethora of new\, experimental art movements: Fauvism & Cubism (in France)\, Futurism (in Italy)\, Supremism & Constructivism (in Russia)\, Expressionism (in Germany) and Vorticism (in England). Many artists were interested in a synthesis of the arts. Kandinsky foresaw a time when art forms would coalesce. Schoenberg & Scriabin explored the relationship between music and painting. Kandinsky had a synaesthetic ability to see colours when he heard music. From 1908\, his pictures are an opera of colour. The Futurists wrote poetry as well as painted. Later\, Joyce wrote prose aspiring to the condition of music (Episode 11 of Ulysses). To what extent was it possible to write prose fiction that resembled abstract (Vorticist) painting? This question will be considered in relation to Wyndham Lewis’s 1914 play\, Enemy of the Stars and his 1918 novel\, Tarr. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy is an adjunct associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He has been a teacher and academic administrator in Hong Kong since 1988: first in teacher education\, then running numerous courses for adult learners with HKU and latterly in the School of English. He introduced Irish Studies courses at HKU. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He teaches C20th poetry  and C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. He inaugurated the annual ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations in HK 25 years ago. He continues to deepen his understanding of Joyce (see\, for instance\, his piece in the James Joyce Quarterly\, 2021). He also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland and the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/vorticist-prose-wyndham-lewiss-enemy-of-the-stars-and-tarr/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T163000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Mind in Mindfulness: How Reactivity Can Be Transformed
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Chen – University of Macau (https://fah.um.edu.mo/katherine-chen/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n"What we contact\, we feel\nWhat we feel\, we perceive\nWhat we perceive\, we think about\nWhat we think about\, we proliferate\nWhat we proliferate becomes the shape of our mind and the shape of our world."\n—Christina Feldman\, 2015 \n  \nThis talk explores the researcher’s journey through the practice and research of mindfulness. I will begin by defining mindfulness and examining its effects through contemporary neuroscientific\, medical\, and psychological research\, as well as its broader applications. I will also trace the expansion of mindfulness interventions from medical contexts to a wide range of settings\, including workplaces\, educational institutions\, and community programs. \nThe next part focuses on the role of mindfulness in fostering decentering and self-compassion—qualities that can transform mental reactivity—by drawing on qualitative data from two original mixed-methods mindfulness intervention research with undergraduate and postgraduate students in Hong Kong and Macau. Using ethnographic methods and discourse analysis\, the research shows the moment-to-moment unfolding of mindful practices and transformation. The talk will also address current limitations of mindfulness interventions and future trends in the field. \nThe final section proposes a deeper exploration of early Buddhist concepts of mind and mindfulness. By revisiting these ancient teachings\, we can further enrich contemporary mindfulness practices\, revealing the potential of mindfulness to transform both “the shape our mind and the shape of our world” (Christina Feldman 2015). \n ||  \nBiography\nKatherine Hoi Ying Chen is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Director of the English Language Centre at the University of Macau\, and an Honorary Associate Professor of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She is a sociocultural linguist and linguistic anthropologist. Her interdisciplinary research integrates insights from linguistics\, anthropology\, psychology\, and neuroscience to explore the intersections of discourse\, identity\, and ideology. Her projects examine topics such as the discourse and practice of mindfulness\, language identities and ideologies in multilingual Hong Kong\, gender stereotypes surrounding "Hong Kong Girls\," and the autobiographical narratives of Indonesian-Chinese transnational. She is a trained teacher in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life and Interpersonal Mindfulness. Her research and teaching currently focus on the application of mindfulness in higher education. See her profile at bit.ly/kchen2024.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exploring-the-mind-in-mindfulness-how-reactivity-can-be-transformed/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T180000
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SUMMARY:The Multilingual Challenge in Digital Governance
DESCRIPTION:Janny Leung – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/51/Professor_Janny_Leung) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nFive billion people\, or approximately 60% of the world’s population\, are on social media. A few transnational media companies’ platforms moderate more speech than any government in the world. Given global linguistic diversity\, how do these companies serve\, and struggle to serve\, their multilingual users? \nThis talk will look at questions of digital inequality raised by language-related processes and policies in transnational media companies\, and ponder what we can reasonably expect from them\, balancing between their profit motive and outsized influence. Facebook (owned by Meta) will be used as a case study. The paper posits that language management is central to the product offered by social media companies and should be a critical component of digital governance. It encourages thinking about the role of private actors in exercising control and influence on the symbolic capital of languages in the global linguistic market (Bourdieu 1991). \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Janny Leung works in the intersection between linguistics and law. Her last monograph\, Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders\, won the Faculty Research Output Prize in 2020. The book focuses on challenges\, ideologies\, and paradoxes in multilingual legal practice. An author/editor of 3 books and 30+ scholarly articles and chapters\, Leung has written about language rights\, legal interpretation\, unrepresented litigation\, courtroom discourse\, legal translation\, and representations of law in the media. She had been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute\, a Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center (USA)\, and a RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellow.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-multilingual-challenge-in-digital-governance/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240919T180000
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SUMMARY:Boredom: A Profound Gift of Animals
DESCRIPTION:Dong Shin Yi – Seoul National University (https://humanities.snu.ac.kr/en/faculty?deptidx=3&md=view&profidx=54) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nObserving “the digitalization of distraction” that is turning distraction into “the rule rather than an exception\,” Dominic Pettman comments\, “matters of historic import\, like a civil rights issue … are now flattened into the same homogenous\, empty digital space as a cute critter or an obnoxious celebrity” (34). While the ‘flat ontology’ of the “digital space” may not be such a bad thing if animals become “matters of historic import\,” it is worrisome that they do so through distraction\, that is\, by diverting us from\, to borrow John D. Eastwood’s phrase\, “an endless dissatisfying present.” Drawing upon Martin Heidegger’s discussion of “profound boredom\,” which offers Dasein “the moment of vision as the properly authentic possibility of its existence\,” yet twisting the discussion with Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology that flattens Dasein’s existence\, this paper proposes that boredom is animals’ gift for humans that is of existential import for both. \n ||  \nBiography\nDongshin Yi is Professor of English at Seoul National University. His research interests include posthumanism\, contemporary American fiction\, science fiction and animal studies. He has published “Salvaging the Contemporary with Speculative Science Fiction” (Exposition\, 2024)\, “Indifference: An Imperative of Posthuman Life (Journal of Posthuman Studies\, 2022)\, Humans and Things: Three Streams of Posthumanism (Galmuri\, 2022)\, SF\, the Spirit of the Contemporary (Book21\, 2021)\, and From Boundary to Empathy: Humans and Animals (Edabooks\, 2021). \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/boredom-a-profound-gift-of-animals/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240912T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240912T180000
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SUMMARY:The Smugness of Privilege
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 talk is about the possibility\, and the value\, of knowing about people who are different from oneself. It is a critical analysis of cultural critic Susan Sontag’s review of photographer Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Sontag asserts that Arbus\, in depicting individuals whom Sontag regards as “ugly”\, necessarily is exploiting them. I disagree. I argue that Arbus’s photographs (and academic disciplines like anthropology) instead subvert the smug\, privileged protocol articulated by critics like Sontag\, who seem prepared to contemplate “ugly” people\, vastly different from themselves\, but only through an optic of pity\, or of vicarious indignation at the supposedly unrelentingly grim conditions under which such people are imagined to live their lives. The talk will be illustrated by Arbus’s photographs. \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). \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-smugness-of-privilege/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2024-25
DESCRIPTION:14:30 – 16:00 (for first year students)\n16:15 – 17:15 (for Second-Year Students)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-majors-and-minors-2024-25/
LOCATION:CPD-3.04\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Teaching Assistant in English Literary Studies in the School of English (Ref.: 527321)
DESCRIPTION:to commence on September 1\, 2024 for 4 months \nApplications close: Jul 31\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-teaching-assistant-in-english-literary-studies-in-the-school-of-english-ref-527321/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240612
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Assistant Programme Officer (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 526972)
DESCRIPTION:to commence as soon as possible\, on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Jul 26\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-assistant-programme-officer-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-526972/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240607
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SUMMARY:Irresistible Influences: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the Mesmerizing Trilby
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Isabel Stowell-Kaplan (The University of Bristol) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Isabel Stowell-Kaplan: \nIrresistible Influences: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the Mesmerizing Trilby \nDr. Isabel Stowell-Kaplan\, The University of Bristol \nJune 7\, 2024\, Friday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nWhen the glittering actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree set George Du Maurier’s bestselling novel on the stage in 1895\, he gave himself the starring role. Cast as Svengali\, the malignant hypnotist-musician\, Tree focused in one performance the fin-de-siècle fascination with influence. Beerbohm Tree’s magnetic performance as the aesthete and the Jew crystallized anxieties circulating about undue influence understood as threats not only to the individual Englishman but to the national culture and character. Svengali’s own successful and hypnotic performance was in fact the dark inverse of Tree’s radiating cultural influence. Tree’s own standing – he would go on to open his own theatre just two years later and was knighted in 1909 – symbolized the apotheosis of English cultural achievement and global influence. At the very same time\, Tree remained the susceptible actor who could transform himself all too easily into the so-called alien influencer. In this talk\, I will examine the at once intersecting and divergent iterations of influence contained within the dazzling performance and affecting figure of Tree himself as well as the ways in which theatre played a unique role in helping to shape the significance of influence at the turn of the century. \n  \nBiography\nDr Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a scholar of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American theatre with a further expertise in contemporary theatre and performance art. She has just completed a Horizon 2020 EU Marie Curie Research Fellowship in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol. Her first book\, Staging Detection\, from Hawkshaw to Holmes\, was published with Routledge in 2021 and her work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals including Performance Research\, TDR: The Drama Review\, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film and SHAW. Her current book project\, Presence: Theatre of Influence in the Fin-de-Siècle examines the theatre world’s fascination with “influence” in the late nineteenth century.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irresistible-influences-herbert-beerbohm-tree-and-the-mesmerizing-trilby/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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