Dr. Otto Heim - Principal Lecturer - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) Abstract In 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 […]
Consuming Interests - Dr Hanwool Choe
A 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.
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) Abstract Elsinore’s Absent Jesters: Hamlet’s Neurodiverse Resonance Emily Nicholls, PhD Candidate, School of English, The University of Hong Kong ‘The Neurodiversity Paradigm’ challenges the dominant pathology […]
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Sherman Lee - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/281/Dr_Sherman_Lee) Abstract This 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 […]
Moonyoung Hong - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/267/Dr_Moonyoung_Hong) Abstract This 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 […]
Chloe Leung - The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/271/Dr_Chloe_Leung) Abstract ‘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 […]
(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am, Friday
