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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241128T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241121T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241121T180000
DTSTAMP:20240828T160213Z
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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
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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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DTSTAMP:20240828T160014Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241107T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241031T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241031T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241024T163000
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T180000
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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
DTSTAMP:20240828T154809Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240912T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240912T180000
DTSTAMP:20240828T154526Z
CREATED:20240828T154526Z
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UID:2755-1726158600-1726164000@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240817
DTSTAMP:20240805T105506Z
CREATED:20240805T105506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240805T105506Z
UID:2754-1723766400-1723852799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240720
DTSTAMP:20240722T184624Z
CREATED:20240722T184624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T184624Z
UID:3033-1721347200-1721433599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240613
DTSTAMP:20240612T094015Z
CREATED:20240612T094015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T094015Z
UID:3032-1718150400-1718236799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240608
DTSTAMP:20240605T093230Z
CREATED:20240605T093230Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240607
DTSTAMP:20240531T122101Z
CREATED:20240531T122101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T122101Z
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SUMMARY:Affecting Asianness and the Art of Restraint on American Stages
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Amy Huang (Bates College) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Amy Huang: \nAffecting Asianness and the Art of Restraint on American Stages \nDr. Amy Huang\, Bates College \nJune 6\, 2024\, Thursday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nBeginning in the late nineteenth century\, the performance of Asian stoicism and inscrutability on American stages engaged with questions about immigration and abjection while expanding the theatre’s capacities for expressing and constraining feelings. This talk traces how the representations of Asian reserve and restraint in Chester Bailey Fernald’s The Cat and the Cherub (1897) and David Henry Hwang’s The Dance and the Railroad (1981) worked to shape an intimate spectatorship attuned to psychic depth through the performance of emotional restraint. \n  \nBiography\nAmy B. Huang is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Bates College. Her book project\, Circuits of Secrets on British and American Stages\, focuses on how theatre’s secrecy engages with the power relations and racist imaginaries attached to slavery\, settler colonialism\, Orientalism\, and Chinese exclusion. Her recent research focuses on early Asian American and diasporic theatre artists’ conceptions of temporality and history. Her work has appeared in Theatre Survey\, Eighteenth-Century Studies\, and Milestones in Asian American Theatre. Her research has been inspired and supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia\, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania\, the Harrison Institute at the University of Virginia\, the Newberry Library\, and Winterthur Museum\, Garden & Library. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/affecting-asianness-and-the-art-of-restraint-on-american-stages/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240605
DTSTAMP:20240603T155322Z
CREATED:20240603T155322Z
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UID:2749-1717459200-1717545599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Thriving in a Workplace: Insights for Graduates
DESCRIPTION:HKU RIICH Webinar \nONLINE EVENT \nHKU RIICH Webinar – Thriving in a Workplace: Insights for Graduates\nALL ARE WELCOME \nDate: 4 June 2024 (Tuesday) Time: 4:00pm (HKT) ONLINE EVENT \nRegistration\nhttps://forms.office.com/r/EMX83j0UQN \nTopic: HKU RIICH Webinar | “Thriving in a Workplace: Insights for Graduates” \nTime: Jun 4\, 2024 04:00 PM Hong Kong SAR \nZOOM DETAILS\nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/95652905061 \nMeeting ID: 956 5290 5061 \n ||  \nAbstract\nGraduates transitioning from university to the workplace have historically been considered one of the vulnerable demographic groups in the workforce\, as they face many adjustments and changes. COVID-19 exacerbated many of the challenges for graduates. This webinar brings together academics\, workplace practitioners and graduates to discuss the results of a large-scale project that focused on the educational\, social and mental health impacts of the pandemic on graduates. Speakers will discuss topics related to essential skills\, employers’ expectations\, graduates’ preparedness\, and how their mental health could be supported during the transition period. Implications for post-COVID workplaces will also be considered. \n ||  \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). \n ||  \nFor enquiries about the event\, please contact:\nMr. Angus Chan\nProject Manager\, HKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare\nTel: +852 3917 1923\nEmail: anguscsm@hku.hk \n ||  \nEvent Programme\nPlease click here. \n ||  \nPoster
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thriving-in-a-workplace-insights-for-graduates/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240603
DTSTAMP:20240215T164758Z
CREATED:20240215T164758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240215T164758Z
UID:2738-1717113600-1717372799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Modernism between Past and Future
DESCRIPTION:The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/modernism-between-past-and-future/
LOCATION:The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTSTAMP:20260917T091536Z
CREATED:20240530T104612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091536Z
UID:3029-1717027200-1717113599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2026 Part-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 19\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-7/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTSTAMP:20240508T113722Z
CREATED:20240508T113722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T113722Z
UID:2742-1717027200-1717113599@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Conrad and Napoleon: Fiction and History
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Douglas Kerr (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/conrad-and-napoleon-fiction-and-history/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240528
DTSTAMP:20240523T105424Z
CREATED:20240523T105424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T105424Z
UID:2747-1716768000-1716854399@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Tom Murphy and Modern Theatre: Diasporic Tragedies and Everyday Space
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Moonyoung Hong (City University of Hong Kong) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Moonyoung Hong: \nTom Murphy and Modern Theatre: Diasporic Tragedies and Everyday Space \nDr. Moonyoung Hong\, City University of Hong Kong \nMay 27\, 2024\, Monday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nTom Murphy (1935-2018)\, widely recognised as one of the most significant Irish playwrights of the past fifty years\, is often acclaimed as a leading figure of his generation alongside Brian Friel. Despite the regular performances of his works both in Ireland and on international stages\, Murphy’s contributions to the development of modern tragedy remain relatively under-theorised in academic criticism. The talk explores his influence both on contemporary Irish theatre and modern drama more broadly\, focusing on his tragic plays in relation to diasporic experiences. By uncovering the distinctive links between Murphy’s tragic practice and the concept of diaspora\, I offer new perspectives in Murphy scholarship\, thereby filling a crucial gap in the current understanding and interpretation of his works. Displacement caused by physical and emotional detachment\, and by the new attachments that are forged in different places\, poses complex psychological questions about identity and modernity. In exploring these diasporic changes\, Murphy contributes to a wider trend to displace tragedy into the realm of everyday life. Murphy’s tragic plays deal with both the micro- and macro- experiences of migration\, from the familial tale of Irish labour migrants in England in A Whistle in the Dark (1961) to the Great Hunger in Famine (1968): the defining historical event that led to a mass exodus of the Irish population\, and the basis for foundational narratives of the Irish diaspora. I will showcase new ways of reading Murphy’s works\, using his manuscript papers (“avant-textes”) via genetic criticism and materials from the digitised theatre archives for performance analysis. These additional dimensions reveal new insights into the ethics and aesthetics of representing historical traumas\, contributing to the debate on “the death of tragedy” (Steiner\, 1961) in modern theatre. \n  \nBiography\nMoonyoung Hong is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. She specialises in Irish literature\, with an MPhil in Irish Writing and a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Drama\, Irish Studies Review\, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and Études Irlandaises. She is author of Tom Murphy's Theatre of Everyday Space (under contract with Routledge\, 2025) and co-editor of The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention (under contract with Cork University Press\, 2025).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tom-murphy-and-modern-theatre-diasporic-tragedies-and-everyday-space/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240525
DTSTAMP:20240522T163504Z
CREATED:20240522T163504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T163504Z
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SUMMARY:“All Stations Are Exactly Alike”: Déjà Vu and British Soft Power in Rudyard Kipling’s Urban Travel Narratives
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Brian Reinken (Rutgers University) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Brian Reinken: \n“All Stations Are Exactly Alike”: Déjà Vu and British Soft Power in Rudyard Kipling’s Urban Travel Narratives \nDr. Brian Reinken\, Rutgers University \nMay 24\, 2024\, Friday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nWriting after the foundation of the Indian National Congress in 1885\, a young Rudyard Kipling spent the earliest years of his career attacking the project of liberal-minded imperial reform. His urban travel narratives cultivate a sense of déjà vu to warn readers of a dismal future in which the global spread of British soft power has homogenized world cities from Lahore to London. In short stories like “The City of Dreadful Night” (1885) and The City of Dreadful Night (1889)\, Kipling’s reuse of titles\, character archetypes\, and plot lines strips travel of its novelty. These stories make it seem that every modern city has become identically corrupt\, classless\, and ungovernable because British institutions have exported liberal politics\, capitalist economics\, and English-language education to the word at large. Ultimately\, the pervasive déjà vu of Kipling’s early travel writing invites a new account of cognitive mapping in the era of monopoly capitalism. Far from an ungraspable totality\, the globalized world as Kipling portrays it is dismayingly small and familiar. Because every place increasingly resembles every other\, travelers who have seen one city have already seen them all.  \n  \nBiography\nBrian Reinken earned his PhD in English literature from Rutgers University in 2023. His research interests include British imperialism\, the nineteenth-century novel\, and literary form. His work has appeared\, or it is scheduled to appear\, in Victorian Review\, ELH\, Victorian Literature and Culture\, and SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/all-stations-are-exactly-alike-deja-vu-and-british-soft-power-in-rudyard-kiplings-urban-travel-narratives/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240525
DTSTAMP:20240509T111205Z
CREATED:20240509T111205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T111205Z
UID:2743-1716508800-1716595199@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Life as an English Studies Major at HKU
DESCRIPTION:May 24\, 2024 (Friday)\, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm\, Via Zoom \nAdditional Content\n \nLife as an English Studies Major at HKU\nMay 24\, 2024 (Friday)\, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm\, Via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to HKU Bachelor of Arts\, English Studies Major.\nStudents’ sharing on their experience as ENGL majors\, studying at HKU\, hall life\, study abroad\, extra-curricular activities and more!\nAlumni sharing on life and employment after HKU.\n\nRegister Now\nRegistration deadline: May 22\, 2024 \nZoom link will be sent to registered emails before the event.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/life-as-an-english-studies-major-at-hku/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240522
DTSTAMP:20240517T105447Z
CREATED:20240517T105447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T105447Z
UID:2744-1716249600-1716335999@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:‘Embryos we must be’: Embodiment\, Biopower\, and Biopoetics in William Blake
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Tara Lee: \n‘Embryos we must be’: Embodiment\, Biopower\, and Biopoetics in William Blake \nDr. Tara Lee\, The University of Hong Kong \nMay 21\, 2024\, Tuesday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nHow are Blake’s prophetic books shaped by different late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century visions of life? How do his mythopoetic works relate to broader speculations about vitality by Romantic-era writers as well as contemporary philosophers? This talk presents the argument that William Blake’s understandings of biology\, formulated in productive opposition to the pre-Darwinian theories of evolution that were gaining ground at the turn of the nineteenth century\, were indebted to a broader discourse in the life sciences that privileged the virtual existence in each being over material processes of change and development. Engaging with the wider subfield of Romantic literature and the life sciences\, this talk shows how Blake staged within his illuminated books a symbolic encounter between two competing biological paradigms (preformation and epigenesis) to ask unique questions about the nature of embodiment\, political power\, and poetics. Considering works such as The Book of Urizen (1794) and Jerusalem (1804-1820)\, it argues\, ultimately\, that the anti-evolutionist elements of Blake’s visual and verbal works present a radical critique of the monstrously materialist\, expansionist logic of empire and the definitions of vitality that come with it.  \n  \nBiography\nTara Lee is currently a Research Assistant Professor and a Fellow of the Society of Fellows in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She obtained her AHRC-funded DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford with a thesis on Blake and evolution. Her articles can be found in European Romantic Review\, Studies in Romanticism\, Romanticism on the Net and The Keats-Shelley Review. She is preparing a monograph tentatively titled Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution\, Species\, and Organic Form. Alongside this\, she is also developing an HKRCG-funded project titled ‘Visionary Machines: Technology and the Epic in Britain\, 1790-1830’\, which explores how real and imaginary machines afforded thinking about revolution\, progress\, and empire in the Romantic epic.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/embryos-we-must-be-embodiment-biopower-and-biopoetics-in-william-blake/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240519
DTSTAMP:20240507T111110Z
CREATED:20240507T111110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T111110Z
UID:2741-1715990400-1716076799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:The 6th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nFarewell video to MAES Class of 2024\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal) \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Components\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-6th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
CATEGORIES:Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240504
DTSTAMP:20260917T091535Z
CREATED:20240503T161600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T091535Z
UID:2928-1714694400-1714780799@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:March - April 2024 edition of HKU School of English Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features a piece on The 3rd International Conference of MSIA by Jisu Bang\, an interview with Dr. Otto Heim by Khadija Azhar & Luisa Wan\, an interview with Qiaona Jiang by Ruyu Yan.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/march-april-2024-edition-of-hku-school-of-english-alumni-magazine/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240425T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240425T180000
DTSTAMP:20231220T115509Z
CREATED:20231220T115509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T115509Z
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SUMMARY:RPG Student Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Lea Wu – PhD Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Shameera Lin – MPhil Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHopepunk: The Ideal of Virtuous Care and the Re-imagination of the Public\nLea Tong Wu\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines an emerging group of speculative fiction texts called "hopepunk" that have been voluntarily discussed\, selected and advocated by a group of speculative fiction writers\, readers\, media\, and publishers since 2017. In response to increasing discrimination and injustice around gender\, race\, class\, and religion\, exacerbated during the Trump administration\, hopepunk proponents are exploring an imagination of care to counter the prevailing cynicism and nihilism. In this presentation\, I suggest that while the specific imaginaries of care proposed by hopepunk texts are grounded in progressive principles of inclusion\, equality\, and anti-discrimination\, the construction of such care in hopepunk exposes the conflicts between a progressive imaginary of community-based care and the currently dominant neoliberal model of self-responsible care. Reading a representative hopepunk text\, the Wayfarer series (2014-2021) by Becky Chambers\, I discuss how attempts at a progressive imaginary of care can be limited by its focus on the moral education of care\, which obscures the complications caused by vulnerability and dependence on the social infrastructure that distributes resources and labor\, and redirects the duty of care back to the individual as the primary agent and the family as the primary site for all responsibilities of care. \n  \n“You are What You Eat”: Foodways in Malaysian Literature in English\nShameera Nair Lin\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation proposes reorienting the locus of Malaysian Literature in English (MLE)\, an emerging body of scholarship grounded in the national\, through reconsidering its mainstream methodological approach of authoritative canonicity\, suggesting a path beyond the “border barricades” of colonialism. Though a postcolonial field concerned with the formation of English-language writing in post-Independence Malaysia through nationalist\, anticolonialist strategies\, examinations of MLE have fallen into the trap of reproducing authoritative canonicity. Read through one of the symbols I associate with the nation-space of Malaysia –that of foodways — this presentation constructs what John Guillory would call an “alternative canon” as a strategy of resistance through its examination of the function of foodways in Malaysian Literature in English. Particularly\, I place a short story typically associated with Sinophone Malaysian literature\, Ng Kim Chew’s “Allah’s Will”\, in conversation with the writing of Nina Mingya Powles\, a New Zealand-born writer with ties to Malaysia\, as a means of speaking to the heteroglossic nature of Malaysian English\, simultaneously broadening what constitutes MLE. I assert the place of “Malaysia” as a literary space through the “geo-body\,” or what Thongchai Winichakul describe as a reified geographical space bearing “a component of the life of a nation […] a source of pride\, loyalty\, love\, passion\, bias hatred\, reason\, unreason.” Charting the components that form the “life of a nation”\, I suggest there is a Malaysian literary geo-body that troubles taxonomies based on citizenship and language in relation to the study of national literary traditions\, and it is through foodways as one of its constitutive symbols where such a geo-body takes shape. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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