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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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240912T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240912T180000
DTSTAMP:20240828T154526Z
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SUMMARY:The Smugness of Privilege
DESCRIPTION:Don Kulick – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk is about the possibility\, and the value\, of knowing about people who are different from oneself. It is a critical analysis of cultural critic Susan Sontag’s review of photographer Diane Arbus’s 1972 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Sontag asserts that Arbus\, in depicting individuals whom Sontag regards as “ugly”\, necessarily is exploiting them. I disagree. I argue that Arbus’s photographs (and academic disciplines like anthropology) instead subvert the smug\, privileged protocol articulated by critics like Sontag\, who seem prepared to contemplate “ugly” people\, vastly different from themselves\, but only through an optic of pity\, or of vicarious indignation at the supposedly unrelentingly grim conditions under which such people are imagined to live their lives. The talk will be illustrated by Arbus’s photographs. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \n ||  \nAdditional Content\nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-smugness-of-privilege/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240817
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SUMMARY:Briefing Sessions on English Majors and Minors 2024-25
DESCRIPTION:14:30 – 16:00 (for first year students)\n16:15 – 17:15 (for Second-Year Students)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/briefing-sessions-on-english-majors-and-minors-2024-25/
LOCATION:CPD-3.04\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240720
DTSTAMP:20240722T184624Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Teaching Assistant in English Literary Studies in the School of English (Ref.: 527321)
DESCRIPTION:to commence on September 1\, 2024 for 4 months \nApplications close: Jul 31\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-teaching-assistant-in-english-literary-studies-in-the-school-of-english-ref-527321/
CATEGORIES:News
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240613
DTSTAMP:20240612T094015Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Assistant Programme Officer (at the rank of Clerk II) (Ref.: 526972)
DESCRIPTION:to commence as soon as possible\, on a two-year fixed-term basis with contract-end gratuity \nApplications close: Jul 26\, 2024 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-assistant-programme-officer-at-the-rank-of-clerk-ii-ref-526972/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240608
DTSTAMP: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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240607
DTSTAMP: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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240605
DTSTAMP:20240603T155322Z
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTSTAMP:20240508T113722Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240528
DTSTAMP:20240523T105424Z
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240525
DTSTAMP: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
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240522
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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
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240503
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240425T163000
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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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SUMMARY:Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect
DESCRIPTION:Tong King Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/292/Professor_Tong_King_Lee) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nKongish is an emerging hybrid urban dialect that is affiliated to but not co-extensive with Hong Kong English. Starting with an English(-Cantonese) poem published in an anthology by the Facebook initiative KongPoWriMo (Hong Kong Poetry Writing Month)\, we will look at how colloquial Cantonese is represented in the written word (or numeral)\, sometimes to the effect of disfiguring what is ostensibly English. Examples will be used to illustrate three aspects of Kongish\, namely its fluidity\, multimodality\, and self-reflexivity. It is suggested that Kongish\, possibly undergirded by what is dubbed MK (Mongkok) Culture\, exemplifies an ethos of translanguaging that seeks to continually transgress the boundary between named languages as well as between linguistic and nonlinguistic modalities. It is also highly amenable to commodification\, both on social media and in the commercial market. The seminar considers the extent to which we might consider Kongish to be based “off” rather than “on” English—more specifically\, as an innominate register that breaches institutionalised borders without settling into a code. \n ||  \nBiography\nTong King Lee is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of English\, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor of Culture\, Communication\, and Media at University College London. He was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center\, U.S. (2021)\, Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library\, Singapore (2022)\, and IAS Fellow at Durham University\, U.K. (2023). He is the author of Kongish (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Choreographies of Multilingualism (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, and Translation as Experimentalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/kongish-translanguaging-and-the-commodification-of-an-urban-dialect/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the 'English' in English-Language Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Wang – Williams College (https://american-studies.williams.edu/profile/dwang/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will discuss some of the assumptions foundational to the study of English poetics and poetry and suggest possible ways to rethink current norms and practices in the teaching of poetry\, poetics\, and poetry-writing. \n ||  \nBiography\nDorothy Wang is Professor of American Studies at Williams College. Her Thinking Its Presence: Form\, Race\, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford UP\, 2013) won the Association for Asian American Studies' 2016 award for best book of literary criticism. The only national conference on race and creative writing is named after it and has been convened four times. She also conceived of and co-founded the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) initiative. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry\, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature\, and The Boston Review\, among other places. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rethinking-the-english-in-english-language-poetics/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Mechanical Slavery: Freedom\, Subjection\, Automation
DESCRIPTION:Seb Franklin – King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/seb-franklin) \n*Friday* THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n\n\n\n\nThis talk is about the strikingly constant presence of slavery in theories of automation. So constant is this presence that\, I argue\, it must perform some essential structuring function in relation to automation’s principal subjects: labor and machinery. So multivalent are slavery’s appearances in the corpus of automation discourse that they must reveal something fundamental—something structural—about the form of society in which labor and machinery emerge\, interact\, and become meaningful. \nIn writings on automatic machinery from the early nineteenth century onwards one finds: machines analogized to slaves\, and sometimes simply called slaves; workers defined in contradiction to slaves and presented as slaves; intensified mechanization described as labor’s enslavement and emancipation; the absence of mechanization understood as enslavement and emancipation; ethical and practical appeals to democratize the production process underscored by way of references to slavery; and\, perhaps most jarring\, capitalists presented as slaves to labor. I name this bundle of metaphorical deployments mechanical slavery. \nIn the talk\, I will theorize mechanical slavery through a reading of a single popular text—a profile of the cybernetician Norbert Wiener by the novelist of white-collar ennui Sloan Wilson. In that profile\, the cover story for the March 1953 issue of The Saturday Review\, Wiener displaced the social relations mechanical slavery implies onto an anxiety about freedom of thought as the characteristic that separates free persons from computing machines and\, in his telling\, slaves. \n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nSeb Franklin is Reader in Literature\, Media\, and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is the author of The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatic of Value (2021) and Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic (2015). \n  \nThis is an IN-PERSON ONLY event and the event is held on *FRIDAY*.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mechanical-slavery-freedom-subjection-automation/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Stories from the Gay Games Hong Kong: Rethinking People/Place through Collaborative Linguistic Landscape Research
DESCRIPTION:Ben Rowlett – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/academic-staff/dr-benedict-rowlett/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk will report on how participatory fieldwork methods\, in this case a research/pedagogical collaboration between undergraduate students and their instructor\, allowed for a diverse and wide-ranging exploration of the linguistic landscape (LL) of the 2023 Gay Games Hong Kong. With the understanding that this LGBTQ+ event\, as it travels across cultural and socio-political borders\, would be shaped by diverse semiotic actions in its LL\, this present study aimed to investigate those actions from the perspectives of the research team who interacted with the LL by participating as on-site volunteers during the event. As such\, these collaborative methods were aimed at capturing and reflecting on the emergence of particular discursive and spatial formations via the researchers’ interactions with people and place. These formations are therefore examined through the experiential lens of this group of Hong Kong citizens (the students)\, whose stories from the games appear as integral to certain  understandings of the event’s potential reach and impacts.   \n ||  \nBiography\nBenedict J. L. Rowlett is an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University with research interests in queer (applied) linguistics and ethnographic methods. His recent work has focused on the intersections between language\, identity\, sexualities\, and social action in Asian contexts\, including discourse analytical research on Asian Pride events. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/stories-from-the-gay-games-hong-kong-rethinking-people-place-through-collaborative-linguistic-landscape-research/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Ben Rowlett
DESCRIPTION:Stories from the Gay Games Hong Kong: Rethinking People/Place through Collaborative Linguistic Landscape Research \n  \nTime: 16:30 – 18:00
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/ben-rowlett/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Checkpoints of Desire: Theorizing the Nexus of Multilingualism\, Sexuality and (In)securitization
DESCRIPTION:Tommaso Milani – The Pennsylvania State University (https://aplng.la.psu.edu/people/tommaso-milani/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn sociolinguistics\, the notion of (in)securitization has recently been proposed as a heuristic lens through which to better understand how everyday practices of surveillance and lived experiences of vulnerability are mediated through linguistic means (Rampton and Charalambous 2020). While sociolinguistic research informed by (in)securitization has offered nuanced analyses of the complex ways in which language(s) produce (in)security\, this body of work has largely neglected to consider how more intimate domains such as sexual and romantic relations may also become charged spaces of (in)securitization. Against this backdrop\, the aim of this talk is twofold. Firstly\, I will give empirical examples of the role played by multilingualism in the (in)securitization of sexual and romantic intimacy in the context of the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Palestine. Secondly\, on a more conceptual level\, I draw upon work in geography (Ritchie 2010) to advance the notion of the checkpoint as an analytical tool through which to theorize more precisely the discursive accomplishment of (self-)surveillance. The point I want to make is that checkpoints are not only external barriers that determine the kinetic regulation of people and goods; they can also be internalized “technologies of the Self” (Foucault 1988) and “structures of feeling” (Williams 1977) that regiment how people police themselves\, their identities and their emotional attachments to others in everyday interactions. And\, as I will show\, multilingualism can play a key function in regulating the interactional push-and-pull of desire in relation to (in)securitization.  \n ||  \nBiography\nTommaso M. Milani is George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics\, Jewish Studies\, African Studies\, and Women’s\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research aims to understand how power (in)balances are reproduced and contested through meaning-making resources (language\, visuality\, the body etc.). While identifying strongly with the intellectual tradition of critical discourse analysis\, he is not committed to a single theoretical paradigm. In his analyses of language and power he has drawn upon different theoretical frameworks\, which include language ideology\, intersectionality\, queer theory\, southern/decolonial perspectives and theories of affect. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/checkpoints-of-desire-theorizing-the-nexus-of-multilingualism-sexuality-and-insecuritization/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Eugene Onegin: The Greatest Novel in Verse in English. What is it? Why is it so Worth Bothering with?
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Barker – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/288/Dr_Andrew_Barker) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThe English speaker approaching Eugene Onegin for the first time has over a dozen translations to choose from. In this talk I will argue that the chosen translation will have a huge impact on appreciation of the poem\, and that the stanza Pushkin created to tell his verse novel within has been drastically under-utilized in English poetry since the first completed metrical and rhymed translations were achieved. The talk is the work of a fan of the poem\, and an attempt to increase the work's popularity among poetry enthusiasts through an analysis of the delights of a consistent structure in the novel length poem. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Andrew Barker holds a PhD in American Literature\, an MA in Anglo/Irish Literature and a BA (Hons) in English Literature. He has taught over twenty different literature courses at Hong Kong University\, Lingnan University\, Baptist University and for HKU SPACE. His interests include the poetry of Yeats and Heaney\, twentieth-century American Literature\, the plays of Martin McDonagh\, the novels of David Mitchell and Zadie Smith\, and the films of Christopher Nolan. He also pays close attention to literature written in and on Hong Kong\, and is a widely-published poet. Examples of his work and lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/mycroftlectures-andrewbarkerpoetry \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eugene-onegin-the-greatest-novel-in-verse-in-english-what-is-it-why-is-it-so-worth-bothering-with/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240202
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SUMMARY:Job Opening:  Professor/Associate Professor on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies (Drama\, Theatre\, and Performance) (Ref.: 524441)
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-professor-associate-professor-on-tenure-terms-or-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies-drama-theatre-and-performance-ref-524441/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Professor/Associate Professor on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century) (Ref.: 524440)
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-professor-associate-professor-on-tenure-terms-or-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies-the-long-nineteenth-century-ref-524440/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240201T163000
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SUMMARY:“Destroyer of Worlds”: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
DESCRIPTION:Jason Harding – City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jason-derrick-harding(da1b437f-65a2-46fb-ac30-530ffd398b3d).html) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis paper explores how the humanities shape our understanding of science and technology\, examining the example of the US physicist Robert Oppenheimer. It analyses how Oppenheimer raised questions about human values as a postwar public intellectual at a time when Cold War imperatives were driving scientists to develop weapons of mass destruction. The paper closes with a consideration of how novels and film – notably\, the recent biopic of Oppenheimer – frame imaginative and ethical reflections on the dilemma posed by Bertrand Russell: “Whether science will prove to have been a blessing or a curse to mankind\, is to my mind\, still a doubtful question.” \n ||  \nBiography\nJason Harding is Head of the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He arrived from Durham University\, where he had lectured since 2006 and was promoted to full Professor in 2017. He is the author or editor of seven books\, including a study of British literary journalism\, The Criterion (OUP 2002)\, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (CUP 2017) and he edited a volume in the award-winning The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot (Faber 2015). He is currently completing the first full-length book on Encounter magazine for Princeton University Press. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/destroyer-of-worlds-oppenheimer-and-the-bomb/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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