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SUMMARY:2023-2024 Course Offerings and Time-table
DESCRIPTION:Course Offerings and time-table in 2023-2024 are available now.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/2023-2024-course-offerings-and-time-table/
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SUMMARY:July 2023 edition of Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features a piece on a year in Graduate School by Shameera Nair Lin\, an interview with Professor Christopher Hutton by Jisu Bang and Tingcong Lin\, and a reflection on Dr. Anjuli Gunaratne's talk on applying to and presenting at conferences by Tingcong Lin.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/july-2023-edition-of-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230630
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2025 Part-time \nExtended Deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 28\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-6/
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SUMMARY:HKU Press Release: School of English\, HKU RIICH and IC4CH co-host the “Transitioning from University to the Workplace During and Post COVID-19” Interactive Panel
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-press-release-school-of-english-hku-riich-and-ic4ch-co-host-the-transitioning-from-university-to-the-workplace-during-and-post-covid-19-interactive-panel/
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SUMMARY:Transitioning to The Workforce During and Post Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Transitioning to The Workforce During and Post Covid-19\nINTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION \nALL ARE WELCOME \nDate: 31 May 2023 (Wednesday) \nTime: 4:30 pm (HKT) \nHYBRID EVENT \nIn-person venue:\nSocial Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nREGISTRATION\nZoom Details\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/97652339520?pwd=eGNSNFhaa0wrRFdrK0xaaGpLQkJtZz09\nMeeting ID: 976 5233 9520\nPassword: 376887\nABSTRACT\nThe COVID-19 pandemic had profound social\, economic\, and health impacts on billions of people across the globe. Hong Kong in particular faced multiple waves of infections and strict anti-epidemic regulations. Despite the move to a new post-pandemic 'normal\,' many demographic groups in Hong Kong society are still dealing with the impacts of the pandemic. Young adults are a prime example as they have faced multiple challenges in relation to their education\, health and social lives. Our interactive panel discussion\, “Transitioning from University to the Workforce During and Post COVID-19\,” will present qualitative and quantitative research findings from our Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) project. The event will also focus on how we can apply our research findings to develop evidence-based support strategies and interventions to improve graduates’ university-to-workplace transitions during and after times of crisis. The event will also feature a panel discussion with the main stakeholders of our CRF project\, namely\, university students\, graduates\, university staff representatives and workplace representatives from across different industries. \nAcknowledgements\nThis event is part of a project funded by the Research Grants Council Collaborative Research Fund (CRF)\, Hong Kong (The Educational\, Social and Health Impacts of the COVID- 19 Pandemic on University Graduates Transitioning to the Workforce in Hong Kong; C7086- 21G). \nEVENT PROGRAMME:\nPlease click here. \nHKU Press Release\nSchool of English\, HKU RIICH and IC4CH co-host the “Transitioning from University to the Workplace During and Post COVID-19” Interactive Panel \nFor enquiries about the event\, please contact:\nMr. Angus Chan\nResearch Assistant\, HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare\nTel: +852 3917 7283\nEmail: anguscsm@hku.hk \n \n ||  \nMap\nSocial Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/transitioning-to-the-workforce-during-and-post-covid-19/
LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:The Hunger of the Republic: Panel Discussion with Ashish Rajadhyaksha
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-hunger-of-the-republic-panel-discussion-with-ashish-rajadhyaksha/
LOCATION:Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, 9 Justice Drive\, Admiratly
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SUMMARY:The 5th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Oral Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Projects\nPlease visit here for the MAES student creative projects and watch the video here. \n ||  \nFarewell video to MAES Class of 2023\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal) \n ||  \nPhotos\n \n ||  \nCampus Map
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-5th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH Seminar - Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care
DESCRIPTION:HKU RIICH Seminar – Between Autonomy and Abandonment: Reconsidering Patient-Centred Care\nPROFESSOR ALISON PILNICK\nUNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM\, UNITED KINGDOM\nDATE: 04 MAY 2023   TIME: 2:00PM (HKT)   HYBRID EVENT\n\nIN-PERSON VENUE:\n745\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\nZOOM LINK:\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/J/97834037231?PWD=REPFM0Z6QZFVWUT4ME84CWNLS1JSZZ09\nMeeting ID: 978 3403 7231 Password: 739037\nABSTRACT\nThe philosophy of patient-centred care (PCC) underpins the delivery of much healthcare globally. PCC is typically framed as a moral imperative\, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. However\, empirical research repeatedly fails to show a clear link between the adoption of PCC and improvement in health outcomes. These results are largely considered as professional failings\, to be remediated through more or 'better' training in PCC. \nIn this talk\, I will draw on research based on a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected over 25 years from a range of settings. Conceptualisations of PCC typically foreground the importance of patient autonomy\, to be exercised through choice and control; my analysis will highlight the problems with these consumerist underpinnings of PCC\, and show how the interactional consequence of attempting to enact them is often the sidelining of medical expertise that patients want or need. \nThis work highlights the importance of using analyses of healthcare interaction to inform healthcare policymaking at the outset\, rather than simply as a barometer of its success. \n  \nBIOGRAPHY\nAlison Pilnick is Professor of Language\, Medicine and Society at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests lie primarily in the field of the sociology of health and illness\, with a particular interest in interactions between health and social care professionals and their patients or clients. She has worked with a wide range of health professionals in a wide range of care settings both in the UK and overseas\, using audio and video recordings to examine interactions and to inform and develop communication skills training. This is linked to a broader interest in the use of qualitative methods in sociological research. \n  \nFor enquiries about the seminar\, please contact:\nMr. Angus Chan\nResearch Assistant\, HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare\nTel: +852 3917 7283\nEmail: anguscsm@hku.hk
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-seminar-between-autonomy-and-abandonment-reconsidering-patient-centred-care/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230427T163000
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Luisa Wan – MPhil Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Anneliese Ng – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Rowena Kwan – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nQueer poiesis: Reversing the other in Why Karen Carpenter Matters\nLuisa Wan\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn Queer Experimental Literature\, Tyler Bradway observes how the criticality of reading practices are often evaluated in terms of their affective charge. Accordingly\, they turn to formal experiments in queer literature to recuperate the usefulness of readerly affect in generating alternative social imaginaries. In this paper\, I read Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters to explore how Tongson experiments with the dialogical structure of the personal essay to reconfigure the oppositionality between the postcolonial self and the Other. Foregrounding her experience of what Lauren Berlant calls “cruel optimism”—a dialectical condition that exists when something one desires is the obstacle to one’s flourishing—Tongson reckons with the source of her feelings in the form of a literary dialogue with the singer Karen Carpenter. Analysing how Tongson weaves her biographical account with Carpenter’s\, I argue this dialogical exchange fosters a relationality that “queers” the dialectical double bind that “cruel optimism” sustains. \n  \nRethinking radicalism: the utilitarians’ democratic concept of political disinterestedness\nAnneliese Ng\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn the early nineteenth century\, millions in Britain joined the movement of radicalism\, demanding a “radical” reform of the parliament\, including universal (male) suffrage\, so that Members of Parliament would be chosen by all (adult males) in Britain. Coming from the middle and working classes\, these “radicals” contended that implementing democracy was the only way to protect their economic interests. Historians accordingly treated radicalism as an analysis of socio-economic problems in terms of distribution of political power\, versus Marxism which analysed social problems in terms of distribution of economic power or means of production. This talk foregrounds the utilitarians’ argument for democracy as an essential condition for realizing society’s greatest happiness or “utility”. I argue that\, more than providing a perspective on social problems\, radicalism provided the first theorization of political disinterestedness as a democratic ability possessable by the common people – not an elite quality possessable only by the aristocracy. \n  \nIdeas of fortune-telling after the Glorious Revolution in William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695)\nRowena Kwan\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines the meanings of experience and wisdom in William Congreve’s Love for Love. Produced 7 years after the triumph of the Glorious Revolution\, Love for Love\, exploring the themes of inheritance and different forms of governments\, is a representation of the reformed ideologies of its own time. Revolving around the comedy of the struggle over inheritance between a father and a son\, Love for Love responds\, the paper argues\, to the changing concepts of wisdom and the increasing demand for facts and scientific reasoning in the late-seventeenth century. Focusing on a discussion about travel experience in the play\, the paper argues that Love for Love suggests that the popularisation of empiricism challenged the lack of physical and observable proof in the practice of the traditional means of prognostication\, yet at the same time\, exposes the unreliability of the claims of bodily experience. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93961975799?pwd=cUFLdFN5VWZBN3lXOUlOQm80SlYzQT09 \nMeeting ID: 969 1683 2177\nPassword: 021538
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session-3/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:A genealogy of South Korean cinema: From the 50s cosmopolitan style to global Korean blockbusters
DESCRIPTION:Soo Yeon Kim – Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (http://elc.hufs.ac.kr/hufselc/8716/subview.do?enc=Zm5jdDF8QEB8JTJGcHJvZmwlMkZodWZzZWxjJTJGMTQ5JTJGMzM5JTJGYXJ0Y2xWaWV3LmRvJTNGcGFnZSUzRDElMjZzcmNoQ29sdW1uJTNEJTI2c3JjaFdyZCUzRCUyNg%3D%3D) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nMy presentation offers a genealogy of South Korean (hereafter Korean) cinema in the light of its paradoxical role of building and unsettling national narratives since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Throughout the dizzy history of rapid industrialization and modernization\, the Korean government used national cinema in a way to create an array of positive national images and identities. While nationalist narratives pervaded Korean cinema\, a number of filmmakers developed internationalist film styles which\, rather than remaining ancillary to narrative\, generated compelling aesthetics that belies and debunks nationalism. \nTo rephrase\, postwar Korean cinema portrays the clash of the two opposite desires of a young nation: constructing national identity founded upon traditional values\, on the one hand\, and breaking with the war-ridden past to become a land of the free and affluent\, on the other hand. This tension between the national and the global often translates to the division of male and female\, narrative and style\, and tradition and Americanization. Remembering these gaps and ironies\, this presentation briefly looks at each decade since the 1950s and its representative films in relation to genre\, narrative\, style\, national/sexual ideologies\, reception\, and industry. \n ||  \nBiography\nSoo Kim is Professor of English Literature & Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, Seoul\, South Korea. Kim’s research and teaching interests include contemporary Anglophone fiction\, film\, and sexuality studies. Kim has been published in English and Korean about post-2000 British and American novels\, theorists such as Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière\, and Korean queer cinema and other Korean films directed by Chan-wook Park and Joon-ho Bong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94503912243?pwd=RzFYOGNnV1pvSkREWG5FRVI5eDA4Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 0391 2243\nPassword: 788541 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-genealogy-of-south-korean-cinema-from-the-50s-cosmopolitan-style-to-global-korean-blockbusters/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230413T163000
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SUMMARY:Debilitating to capacitate: Discourses of innate sex characteristics in Hong Kong hospitals
DESCRIPTION:Brian King – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) \nAbstract\nThis study uses metapragmatic discourse analysis (i.e. analysis of talk about language use) to mitigate the appropriation of Southern ideas by the Global North\, treating interviewees as collaborators who analyse language and bring their knowledge into dialogue with the researcher’s knowledge. The data is drawn from interviews with two Hong Kong Chinese doctors (a gynaecologist and a paediatric urologist) who work with intersex children and their parents. In analysing their metapragmatic narratives about ‘what they say\, how and why\,’ I draw on Jasbir Puar’s ideas about biopolitics as an ableist mechanism with the right to maim\, which can debilitate any of us. Alternatively\, it capacitates others. Biomedical professionals\, regardless of diverse personal convictions\, work in a relationship with their patients that reflects the relationship between biomedicine and political economy\, one in which they are always potentially agents of biopolitical regulation. The doctors in this study report a reliance on scientifically outdated discourses to maintain a conversational boundary in which parents keep listening rather than despairing. There is a sense of a need to help manage parents’ emotions and therefore their perceptions of their child. Disorder is spoken of as a problematic framing and yet throughout their explanation\, the intersex body is referred to as a manifestation of disease or illness\, leaving little room for any non-medicalized interpretation. The doctors position themselves as capacitators of these babies. But to have a role to play they first must debilitate them. It is for their ‘welfare’. \n ||  \nBiography\nBrian is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong\, as well as a critical sociolinguist researching the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity\, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within healthcare communication\, sexuality education\, computer-mediated communication\, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically\, he draws on a number of traditions\, including interactional sociolinguistics\, corpus linguistics\, linguistic anthropology\, and critical discourse studies. His teaching career has spanned more than 20 years across three continents and multiple sectors. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n        Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99553996706?pwd=MXdBc2U2U3BzbkZpSThpOXdxSTFDQT09 \n        Meeting ID: 995 5399 6706 \n        Password: 693756
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/debilitating-to-capacitate-discourses-of-innate-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong-hospitals/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Linguistics\, writing and textualization: A semiological review
DESCRIPTION:Sinead Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/167/Dr_Man_Ka_Sinead_Kwok) \nAbstract\nA comprehensive way of formulating linguistics is to see it as a textualizing enterprise. This is to say that linguistics is created by humans’ continuous engagement in written communication\, and thus\, in textualization – the creation of texts\, via the human production of written signs\, in artifacts; whereas to look into how linguists maintain the appeal of their practices\, one has to see linguistics as a textualization theory – that is\, to study how linguists conceptualize text. It is contended that linguistics has moulded and been moulded by uneven attention to text and artifact where the existence of the latter is obscured or forgotten while the former has become an autonomous\, ‘detextualized’ entity called a linguistic/verbal text. In fact\, it is only through detextualization (abstraction of a written text from the artifact\, and the human textualizer from whose perspective the text and the artifact are integrated) that doing linguistics is possible: only a much-detached concept of writing can help formalise a scientific notion of a bipartite speech sign and of language. What are the complications of forgetting the artifact\, and what is a more illuminating understanding of the written sign\, texts\, artifacts and language? This topic will be deconstructed in my presentation. \n ||  \nBiography\nSinead Kwok is a full-time lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She is an early-career researcher whose research interests and published works lie in philosophy of language and communication\, history of linguistics\, semiology and semiotics\, as well as translation. After obtaining a PhD at the University of Hong Kong with a thesis which explores Western translation theories from a semiological and semiotic viewpoint\, Sinead is currently working on the relationship between textualization and sign theories\, which forms the topic of her upcoming talk. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n  Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98164272981?pwd=SWoyT2RIM2twdDdISkRUYnhPVjVFQT09 \n  Meeting ID: 981 6427 2981        \n  Password: 378180
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/linguistics-writing-and-textualization-a-semiological-review/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Selfish matter: William Blake and eighteenth-century sciences of the mind
DESCRIPTION:Tara Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/tara-lee) \nAbstract\nWhat do we do with Blake's abandoned manuscript poem\, The Four Zoas? Left unfinished with its various revisions\, deletions\, and insertions\, assembled into a heterogenous bundle of nearly 150 sheets with two versions of chapter seven left extant\, the manuscript poem has long confounded and intrigued scholars of Blake. In this paper\, I argue that Blake's engagements with eighteenth century materialist understandings of the mind can illuminate this difficult manuscript. Blake was fascinated and troubled by the evolutionist idea that the human mind might have emerged from fluid matter imbued with the powers of self-organisation. Reading scenes of mental and verbal dissolution in the manuscript against early evolutionary accounts of the development of animal intelligence\, I discuss the ways in which The Four Zoas's disorganised state formally registers how the nervous mind and the sinuous text collaborate in giving unreliable body to thought. Reading The Four Zoas against Erasmus Darwin's vibrant materialist poem The Temple of Nature (1803) on the one hand and Edward Young's important religious poem Night Thoughts (1742-45) on the other\, I show how Blake uses motifs of fluidity and plasticity to uniquely mediate between biology and spirituality in what Northrop Frye called '[t]he greatest abortive masterpiece in English Literature.' \n ||  \nBiography\nTara Lee is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford\, and has articles related to Blake and biology in European Romantic Review\, Studies in Romanticism\, and Romanticism on the Net. She is preparing a monograph on Blake's preformationist aesthetics and his relationship with the rise of organicism and historicism in the eighteenth century. Alongside this\, she is also developing a new project on how real and imaginary machines afforded visionary thinking about revolution\, progress\, and individual agency in the Romantic epic. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91353372784?pwd=OVJXMkU5dTBqUUpXZFc1RXR4WlBIZz09 \nMeeting ID: 913 5337 2784\nPassword: 716377
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/selfish-matter-william-blake-and-eighteenth-century-sciences-of-the-mind/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-macc-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing-mfa-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Connected parenting: Digital discourse and diverse family practices
DESCRIPTION:Jai Mackenzie – Newman University (https://www.newman.ac.uk/staff/jai-mackenzie/) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nThis presentation explores the role of social media in contemporary parenting and family practice. It takes its title from my forthcoming book (Bloomsbury\, 2023)\, and draws on digital and interview data from my research with single and/or LGBT parents who brought children into their lives through adoption\, donor conception\, surrogacy and/or co-parenting arrangements. In the talk I will propose that connection is the defining force in these parents’ social and support networks\, and that they construct their parenting and family practices in and through connection with others. This connected parenting practice has three core components: epistemic connection\, collective connection and affective connection. These forms of connection are often facilitated by new media technologies\, and integrated with other (non-digital) connective practices\, such as face-to-face meetings\, telephone calls and prayer. Using mediated discourse analysis (Jones\, 2005; Scollon\, 2001\, 1998) to focus my exploration on the mediated social action\, I elaborate these three dimensions of connected parenting\, using illustrative examples from my participants’ social media and mobile messaging data. I close by considering some of the implications of connected parenting for contemporary parenting and family practice\, especially in new and marginalised family forms. \n  \nReferences: https://tinyurl.com/2p9btpke \nBook: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connected-parenting-9781350262539/ \n ||  \nBiography\nJai is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Writing and Humanities at Newman University\, Birmingham. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which gendered\, sexual and familial roles\, relationships and practices are shaped and (re)produced in digital contexts. She has undertaken a range of collaborative and single-authored research in this area\, including the monographs Language\, Gender and Parenthood Online (Routledge\, 2019) and Connected Parenting (Bloomsbury\, 2023). Jai is convenor of the Language\, Gender and Sexuality special interest group\, which sits within the British Association of Applied Linguistics. She is a member of the editorial board for Discourse\, Context and Media. \nJones\, R.H.\, 2005. Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. Routledge\, London and New York. \nScollon\, R.\, 2001. Mediated Discourse: The nexus of practice. Routledge\, London and New York.  \nScollon\, R.\, 1998. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction. Longman\, London. \n  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98964286778?pwd=eGloS0w2WlRnZFI1SVo4eGZjTlMwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 989 6428 6778\nPassword: 415387 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/connected-parenting-digital-discourse-and-diverse-family-practices/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The application of digital humanities: A case study of Irish literature
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/280/Dr_Jenny_Kwok) \n4:30 pm – 6:00 pm\, Friday \nAbstract\nThe recent increasing demand to quantify the efficiency of research output poses a challenge to subjects such as the humanities\, which are arguably qualitative in nature. In this context\, humanities research can greatly benefit from digital humanities approaches in communicating the significance of our scholarly output in quantitative terms. In this seminar\, I will draw on my current research project\, which focuses on the classification of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature\, a classification that is often ambiguous and problematic. I will demonstrate how the use of digital tools can increase the efficiency of conducting this kind of research\, and present the three types of digital humanities projects I have identified. Finally\, I will discuss the possibility of reconsidering digital humanities as a practical tool for previously unthinkable projects\, and how its application can potentially increase the fundability of projects\, especially for early-career scholars. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Jenny Kwok specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-Irish writers and intellectual history\, particularly in relation to the tradition of liberal education and the post-World War I struggle between the humanities and the sciences. Dr Kwok was a Kilns Scholar in Residence of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and a recipient of the Werner Huber Fellowship of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). She has previously published on the Anglo-Irish poet Seamus Heaney and his seminal work Station Island. As well as developing her dissertation into a monograph\, she is working on publications on Irish literature as world literature and on applications of digital visualisation (in particular dispersion plot and VOS Viewer). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92167490113?pwd=L1phUmZFRkR4Z1lwdU1JaEttOU45Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 921 6749 0113\nPassword: 889616
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-application-of-digital-humanities-a-case-study-of-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Intertextuality and metadiscourse in an online community: “Fixing” posts and “locking” threads
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Gordon – Georgetown University (https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TpEoAAK/cynthia-gordon) \n(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am\, Friday \nAbstract\nIntertextuality – the idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations\, and that people make and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links – is fundamentally connected to metadiscourse\, that is\, discourse about discourse. In this talk\, I explore the specific ways in which\, and for what purposes\, these phenomena are intertwined at the micro-interactional level in one online community. Using the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics to examine users’ posts to discussion boards affiliated with a popular weight loss app\, I focus on two inherently metadiscursive activities: when a user “fixes” another poster’s post (i.e.\, by adjusting the content and adding some version of “I fixed it for you”) and when a discussion board moderator “locks” a thread that has violated one or more community guidelines (i.e.\, by posting a message that announces the guideline violation and indicates that future posts to the thread will be prohibited). I identify and explicate intertextual linking strategies that facilitate these activities\, both linguistic (e.g.\, word repetition\, deictic pronouns) and multimodal (e.g.\, emojis\, symbols\, and GIFs). I also highlight the role of these actions in constructing shared understandings\, interactional norms\, and engagement in the community. \n ||  \nBiography\nCynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on how meanings\, relationships\, and identities are constructed in digital discourse\, in food-related communication\, and in family interaction. Gordon is author of two books: Making Meanings\, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction and Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making in an Online Community (both Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Approaches to Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Press) and co-editor (with Alla Tovares) of Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts (Bloomsbury). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97158415907?pwd=K3paTStLVjR3L0N1eHFpa2w0OEREUT09 \nMeeting ID: 971 5841 5907\nPassword: 800333 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/intertextuality-and-metadiscourse-in-an-online-community-fixing-posts-and-locking-threads/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Irritative modernism and its stoic patients: Free indirect narration of illness  in British modernist literature
DESCRIPTION:Chloe Leung – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/271/Dr_Chloe_Leung) \nAbstract\n‘Illness’ has been discussed in British literary modernism almost exclusively in the medical sense of the word. Especially concerning authors who battled with chronic illnesses\, criticism tends to narrowly circumscribe the epistemology of illness by quoting biography and medical history while bypassing other implications that followed ‘illness’ in literary representations. Drawing on modernist narrative techniques in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys\, this talk seeks to disentangle ‘illness’ from medicine and explores the affective residues of diagnostic practice. I postulate free indirect discourse (FID) as a narrative technique these authors deploy to de-medicalise pain\, illness\, and disabilities since it reveals the slipperiness of formative elements in the diagnostic practice\, including patient’s autonomy\, pain receptivity\, subjective intentions\, and identity. Divulging distinct depths of consciousness while leaving its intention inaccessible and attention irretrievable\, FID irritates the expectation of a transparent pathogenesis as well as medical categorisation of bodyminds as either ‘pathological’ or ‘normal’. Being attentive to the narrativization of pain (rather than its symptoms) will generate new knowledge and identification when we are patient with our irritations. This talk would like to suggest that literary modernism\, contra the instrumental role Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine (2006) assigned to literary studies\, explicitly intervenes in pain\, depressive moods\, or other afflictions. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Chloe Leung graduated from her doctorate degree in English Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include modernist studies\, the medical humanities\, and dance studies. Dr Leung has published articles on Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence on how free indirect narration overturns assumptions about the relationship between body and feelings. Her latest publication is on Woolf and Eugenic Modernism\, which was recently published (Jan 2023) in Journal of Literary & Critical Disability Studies. Currently\, Dr Leung is a full-time lecturer at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91595494352?pwd=WWUvMnlnYmkxTXgvcUJkWkxPaEsvZz09 \nMeeting ID: 915 9549 4352\nPassword: 187052
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irritative-modernism-and-its-stoic-patients-free-indirect-narration-of-illness-in-british-modernist-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Constructions of identity and embodiment in the discourse of trans youth: A queer and trans linguistic approach
DESCRIPTION:Lucy Jones – The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lucy.jones) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I use discourse analysis informed by queer and trans theory to explain identity construction as it occurs in a conversation between young trans people. In this conversation\, the young people describe their experiences of being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation\, revealing cisnormative expectations around trans people’s embodiment. I argue that they resist these expectations by reframing the language used by others to describe their bodies\, and that they gain agency as a result. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Lucy Jones is Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham\, UK. She is a discourse analyst and linguistic ethnographer working on a range of topics relevant to language\, gender and sexuality. Her published research includes normativity and identity construction amongst LGBTQ+ youth\, homophobic discourse in relation to same-sex marriage and HIV prevention\, analysis of YouTube videos by trans vloggers\, and older lesbians’ identity construction. Her current projects include a study of identity and intersectionality in British LGBT+ youth groups and critical discourse analysis of how trans athletes in elite sport are represented within the news media. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95946877342?pwd=U2dRbEttTXJmekN2U3VRbENxVGI0dz09 \nMeeting ID: 959 4687 7342\nPassword: 915082 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/constructions-of-identity-and-embodiment-in-the-discourse-of-trans-youth-a-queer-and-trans-linguistic-approach/
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SUMMARY:Irish Orientalism from W. B. Yeats to Yan Ge
DESCRIPTION:Moonyoung Hong – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/267/Dr_Moonyoung_Hong) \nAbstract\nThis talk examines representations of Asia and Asian characters in contemporary Irish writing\, drawing on the discourse on Orientalism and other postcolonial theories. Orientalism in Irish studies has undergone multiple phases: from the Celtic-Oriental ties that stressed cross-colonial identification with Eastern countries as a way to bolster nationalist narratives during the Celtic Revival\, to the comparison with new and futuristic\, late capitalist East Asian “Tiger” societies from the 1990s to the present day. Irish Orientalism thus stands uneasily between traditional Anglo-European Orientalism\, which continues to reproduce certain stereotypes of the Other\, and anti-imperial agendas that challenge established colonial discourses. The talk deconstructs the Occident/Orient or West/East binary by focusing on the case of Irish literature\, from canonical writers such as W. B. Yeats and Brian Friel to contemporary works by Colum McCann\, Claire Keegan\, Daniel O’Hara (short film)\, and Naoise Dolan. Finally\, by introducing several short stories by Yan Ge\, an established Chinese writer residing in Ireland\, I want to offer a different perspective from the “Other” side. While differing from its British counterpart\, Irish literature has often been complicit in producing and sustaining Orientalist images\, especially in its representations of migrants. Yan Ge’s thematic and formal consideration of her status as an Asian outsider aims to dis-orient and re-orient Irish readers. By looking steadily back at the Orientalist gaze\, the portrayals of cross-cultural encounters in Yan Ge’s short fiction help to create more equitable and more fruitful conversations regarding Ireland’s role in the global order and its changing relationship with Asia. \n ||  \nBiography\nMoonyoung Hong is a full-time lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She specialises in Irish literature\, with an M.Phil. in Irish Writing and a Ph.D. in English from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include modern drama\, contemporary Irish theatre\, cross-cultural theories\, space and everyday life studies. She is currently working on converting her PhD thesis on Tom Murphy and everyday space into a monograph. She has published in The Yeats Journal of Korea\, Études Irlandaises\, Comparative Drama and Irish Studies Review (forthcoming 2023)\, and is editing a collection on the Irish Pub (Cork UP\, 2023). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99640347641?pwd=U2pVRVJaR0ZuSFF5V1FHVUtJekdXdz09  \nMeeting ID: 996 4034 7641\nPassword: 812801
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irish-orientalism-from-w-b-yeats-to-yan-ge/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Examining language loss through an ecolinguistic lens: The case of Hakka in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Sherman Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/281/Dr_Sherman_Lee) \nAbstract\nThis talk will examine language loss and language endangerment from an ecolinguistic perspective\, an approach which emphasises the interrelationships between a language\, its speakers\, and their sociocultural and natural environment. I focus on the situation of Hakka\, a Chinese fangyan ('dialect group') widely used in Hong Kong several decades ago but now a disappearing variety facing demise in this local setting. Every natural language reflects a unique worldview and embodies the cultural wealth and knowledge accumulated by a people or community\, and thus losing a language is more than merely losing the words used for communication. I attempt to illustrate this by discussing a few of the salient linguistic features and elements of the Hakka language that set it apart from other locally spoken Chinese varieties\, and by exploring some of the sociocultural practices and ecological traditions specific to the Hakka people. Through this presentation\, I hope to underscore the importance of valuing the diversity that still surrounds us today\, making a case for both the protection of biocultural diversity and the preservation of sociolinguistic heritage. \n ||  \nBiography\nSherman Lee is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU. She holds a BA from Manchester University\, MPhil from Cambridge University\, and PhD from City UHK. Her doctoral thesis examined language shift among Hong Kong’s Hakka community\, and received the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. She has taught at several universities in the UK and Hong Kong\, most recently Hong Kong Shue Yan University\, where she served as Programme Director of the BA in English programme. Her teaching and research interests cover areas in sociolinguistics\, discourse analysis\, intercultural communication\, and the enhancement of teaching and learning in higher education. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93142681566?pwd=ODgxbEwvRk1XRVBHdzJ4MGdMRXdXUT09  \nMeeting ID: 931 4268 1566\nPassword: 018418
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/examining-language-loss-through-an-ecolinguistic-lens-the-case-of-hakka-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2\, 2022-23
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the FIRST CLASS teaching arrangement only. Please keep checking the course moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2022-23/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221124T163000
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Emily Nicholls – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Firoz Ahsan – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nElsinore’s Absent Jesters: Hamlet’s Neurodiverse Resonance\nEmily Nicholls\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\n‘The Neurodiversity Paradigm’ challenges the dominant pathology model of mental disorder. This paradigm shift can alleviate the external and internal oppression suffered by subjects produced as deviants to ‘normate’ styles of embodiment\, cognition\, sensory perception\, and emotional response. I explore the implications of this critical paradigm shift for approaches to reading Hamlet  – a play which\, in content and form\, disturbs ideals of rational subjects. Seeking modes of neurodiverse reading which avoid inadvertently paralleling the pathology paradigm\, I experiment with an approach that draws out potential lines of resonance with today’s social and subjective conditions\, particularly those of exclusion and alienation. Sociologists working with neurodivergent individuals note ‘a kind of battle with the ethereal\, with unconscious attitudes that hem them in’ (Ida\, 2020).  Hamlet is hemmed in by the oppressive infrastructure of Denmark’s ‘prison.’  He is also plagued by a number of spectres – ‘moulds of form’ into which he cannot fit. \n  \nMaternal Ambivalence in Selina Hossain’s Kathkoilar Chobi\nFiroz Ahsan\, PhD candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nMy paper sets out to explore the double bind of maternal ambivalence as mirrored in Kathkoilar Chobi (Charcoal Portrait) by Bangladeshi author Selina Hossain. Published in 2001\, the novel recounts the homecoming of a war baby—born of the Bangladesh War in 1971—in search of his birth mother. Thanks to the maternal ambivalence expressed by the wartime rape victim\, the birth mother of the war baby\, his character goes through a dramatic shift. I shall present my argument as to how the desirous body of the rape victim by way of maternal ambivalence may leave space for both the mother and the child. While the author succeeds in forging a new identity for her heroine and thereby makes room for the child\, she spaces out whenever she shifts her focus from the female protagonist to the war baby. \n  \nTheatricality and Modes of Perception in the Colonial Parsi Theatre (Cancelled)\nAzhar Khadija\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nIn late-1885\, the Parsi Victoria Theatrical Company travelled from India to England to perform a series of plays in conjunction with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. In this historiographical project\, I show how these performances helped assert an indigenised mode of theatrical perception through their reliance on spectacular entertainment which disrupted the conventions of the English stage. In addition\, the performances helped contest orientalist refractions of the Indian subject produced at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition by emphasizing the heterogeneity of Indian culture. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96916832177?pwd=T0JrMXRndlBIa29jRllWZVgybTdVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 969 1683 2177\nPassword: 021538
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session-2/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:HKU Bulletin November 2022 issue
DESCRIPTION:Consuming Interests – Dr Hanwool Choe \nA study reveals that digital discourse about and involving food – including mukbang (livestreamed eating) and everyday vlogging – serves as a means of realising the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-bulletin-november-2022-issue/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:“Eat a Swede”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a Promotional Mockumentary for Swedish Food Production
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Helen Andersson – Senior Lecturer – Örebro University\, Sweden (https://www.oru.se/english/employee/helen_andersson) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nThis presentation is a part of the research I am conducting on food and nationalism within the research project Communication of "good" foods and healthy lifestyles that has been ongoing since 2018 at Örebro University. The project gathers studies with a critical approach to "good" foods – that is\, foods that appear as healthy\, ethical\, sustainable and/or as a part of a successful lifestyle. \nAt the seminar\, I will present an ongoing study of commercial realizations of national policy in the global arena\, in this case\, an analysis of a Swedish PR mockumentary aimed at a global audience\, Eat a Swede. The study is based on social semiotic theory (Kress & van Leeuwen 2006; Kress 2010) and MCDA (Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis) (Machin\, 2013; Ledin & Machin\, 2018). In the presentation I will focus on the multimodal constructions of dichotomies\, such as the representation of the national/global in relation to "good"\, sustainable\, and healthy food. I will discuss the use of the mockumentary genre\, narrative types\, modes\, settings\, characters\, and language to communicate discourses in relation to banal nationalism (Billig\, 1995) and food norms in an international arena (Ranta & Ichijo\, 2022). \n ||  \nBiography\nHelen Andersson is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University\,  Sweden. Her research interests are found in the field of multimodal (critical) discourse analysis and concerned with how commercial interests through the design of multimodal artefacts and events contribute to how we think and act in relation to food\, identity\, and everyday life. On-going studies look at commercial realizations of national policy in relation to food\, health\, and sustainability in the global arena. Helen has previously published on the topic of food\, national identity\, and nationalism in\, for example\, Critical Discourse Studies\, and Discourse Context & Media. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96222618275?pwd=MTl5d0M4TEJOdTR4VDdtWDBRYXdxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 962 2261 8275\nPassword: 276491 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eat-a-swede-a-multimodal-critical-discourse-analysis-of-a-promotional-mockumentary-for-swedish-food-production/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Islanding Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Otto Heim – Principal Lecturer – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) \nAbstract\nIn this talk I will show and discuss a selection of recent work by Hong Kong artists (ink\, photography\, video\, installation) that captures Hong Kong’s shifting island environment and experience. Approaching this work from an island studies perspective (an interdisciplinary approach to understanding islands “on their own terms”)\, I will try to situate and appreciate it in relation to the sense of islandness that has historically dominated Hong Kong’s development and identity. Whereas the conventional narrative of Hong Kong’s transformation into an island city may have privileged the land/water and island/mainland relationships that conceptually define the space of islands\, I will suggest that these artworks bring into view island-to-island relationships that have typically been overlooked by metropolitan perceptions but are perhaps most significant to the lives of islanders. Noting that Hong Kong’s integration/participation in the Greater Bay Area will be constrained by its traditional role as a regional gateway\, I will try to argue that the islanding imaginations represented in these artworks make important contributions to a hesitantly evolving planning vision that pays attention to Hong Kong’s island geography and vernacular culture. \n ||  \nBiography\nOtto Heim has been teaching English literary studies at the University of Hong Kong since 2001. His interest in island studies evolved from research on indigenous and postcolonial literature and culture in Oceania. He has served on the editorial boards of the Island Studies Journal\, Shima\, and Urban Island Studies and has co-organized several island-themed international conferences at HKU. He is currently the director of the full-time MA in English Studies programme in the School of English. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99179169795?pwd=VU44V2loUHdlZ0UvWXU4b0Q2bEo5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 991 7916 9795\nPassword: 655663
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/islanding-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Travel/Writing: Conservation/Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Professor Julia Kuehn – Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/46/Professor_Julia_Kuehn) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn the abstract sense\, this paper is about journeys into nature and into the self; journeys into literature and into new ways of thinking about and writing the human-environment relationship. It is about journeys into myth\, idealism and pragmatism and about humanity’s urge to love and to destroy. More specifically\, this paper is about tigers and tiger conservation\, as experienced and envisaged by poet\, novelist\, non-fiction writer and traveller Ruth Padel in her book Tigers in Red Weather (2005). \n ||  \nBiography\nJulia Kuehn is Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are the Victorian novel\, travel writing\, popular culture and critical theory. She has published monographs on Marie Corelli\, on colonial writing (about North Africa\, the Middle East and India) between 1870 and 1920\, and has edited a number of essay collections on the poetics and politics of travel writing. Julia is currently finishing a comparative study of nineteenth-century British and German realisms and has begun work on a new book on geopoetic forms in the travel genre. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94099741667?pwd=eWVXWk5DNlNlYzVQZzYxQTdGWU5UQT09 \nMeeting ID: 940 9974 1667\nPassword: 312777 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/travel-writing-conservation-poetics/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221104
DTSTAMP:20221103T120358Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 517267)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on January 1\, 2023 for six months. \nApplications close: November 30\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-lecturer-assistant-lecturer-in-english-language-and-linguistics-ref-517267/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221030
DTSTAMP:20221018T114207Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022
DESCRIPTION:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022\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. \n  \nInformation Talk \n\n\nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator\, School of English \nStudent sharing on academic exchange\nMr. Angus Chan\, English Studies major\, and outgoing exchange student at the University of Oxford in 2021-22 \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Rachel Lee & Ms. Sunniva Yim\, English Studies major \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\, Head\, School of English \nMock lecture in English Linguistics\nDr. Brian King\, Assistant Professor\, School of English \n  \nPhoto Highlights\n\n \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2022/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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