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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170407
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SUMMARY:Addressing\, Re-accenting\, and Othering Utterances on WeChat: A Bakhtinian Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Dr Todd L. Sandel – University of Macau (https://comm.fss.um.edu.mo/todd-lyle-sandel/) \nAbstract\nWeChat is a popular social media application developed in China and designed for the mobile phone. Users may send and receive messages in a variety of systems\, including text\, emoji\, gif files\, pictures\, and audio messages. They may create messages in one or more languages and code systems\, and they may interact asynchronously\, or synchronously. Studying how young people in the Pearl River Delta of Macao and Zhuhai construct and communicate such messages on social media is the aim of this study. In particular\, I examine code-switching and code-mixing\, evident in the use of a variety of texts and codes\, including: Standard Chinese\, vernacular Cantonese\, English\, simplified and traditional characters\, Emoji\, and images. These message forms are analyzed via Bakhtin’s work on speech genres and addressivity. Finally\, implications for how such messages may reflect on identity and relationship construction among China’s youth are considered. \n ||  \nBiography\nTodd Lyle Sandel is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication\, associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction\, and author of Brides on Sale: Taiwanese Cross Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia\, for which he received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from the International & Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association. His research has appeared in Language in Society\, Research on Language & Social Interaction\, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research\, Journal of Contemporary China\, China Media Research\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/addressing-re-accenting-and-othering-utterances-on-wechat-a-bakhtinian-analysis/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170411
DTSTAMP:20200310T195307Z
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SUMMARY:School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar A Lawful Magic: A New World of Precedent in Mabo No 2 and Shakespeare's Late Plays
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Nicholas Ian Luke (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-and-department-of-law-joint-seminar-a-lawful-magic-a-new-world-of-precedent-in-mabo-no-2-and-shakespeares-late-plays/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170414
DTSTAMP:20200214T111335Z
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SUMMARY:The arrival of Oceania: ending extractivism\, politics of enactment\, and Pacific Island representations of a good life
DESCRIPTION:Dr Otto Heim – School of English\, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr%20Otto%20Heim) \nAbstract\nThis paper is concerned with what Rob Nixon identifies as the representational challenges and imaginative dilemmas posed by slow violence\, violence enacted slowly\, almost imperceptibly\, over time. In Oceania\, this includes the long lasting effects of prolonged industrial mining\, nuclear testing\, and lately the impacts of global warming. Noting that the confrontation of slow violence questions the foundations of widely held ideas of a good life\, the paper addresses two questions. The first concerns the ending of an active mindset\, or attitude\, that drives unsustainable and destructive development\, and its reorientation toward a properly ecological attitude. The second concerns the political practice it might take to enact such an ecological reorientation at a scale that makes a difference. Both of these questions\, I will argue\, call for a reconceptualization of representation and both can find answers in Oceanian attitudes and responses to history. With reference to specific examples\, I will try to show how representational actions led by artists\, activists and educators from Oceania realize what Isabelle Stengers calls an ecology of practices\, at once expanding the scope of presentist democracy and offering an answer to Judith Butler’s question: “Can one lead a good life in a bad life?” \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-arrival-of-oceania-ending-extractivism-politics-of-enactment-and-pacific-island-representations-of-a-good-life/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170420
DTSTAMP:20200310T195355Z
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SUMMARY:School of English and Department of Law: Joint Seminar Changing Meaning\, Moving Text\, and the Authority of Early English Legal Codes
DESCRIPTION:by Ms. Anya Adair (The University of Sydney)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-and-department-of-law-joint-seminar-changing-meaning-moving-text-and-the-authority-of-early-english-legal-codes/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170421
DTSTAMP:20200214T111530Z
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SUMMARY:Gass - Tolstoy - Marx - Beethoven: A Retroactive Decryption of "Cartesian Sonata”
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ivan Delazari – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://buhk.me/category/ivan-delazari/) \nAbstract\n“Cartesian Sonata” (1998)\, a novella by William H. Gass (b. 1924)\, is assembled of three sections\, which were previously published as separate stories between 1964 and 1975. By recycling and re-titling his old material\, Gass suggests a structural analogy between the resulting piece and a three-movement sonata cycle in music. However\, seeking traces of “sonata forms” in a work of experimental metafiction is as pointless as imposing classical compositional rigors on twentieth-century musical avant-garde. To decrypt the second half of Gass’s title\, I undertake three degrees of retroactive reading to argue that the novella’s relation to music is mediated by a notorious 1889 literary narrative\, a gendered concept of sonata-allegro plot in musicology circa 1850\, and a troubled “extra burden” of tonal layout in one of the most celebrated pieces of classical music from 1803. In this paper\, I supplement traditional methods of comparative literature\, once seminal for intermediality and word and music studies\, with glimpses of cognitive approaches to metaphor in a poststructuralist seasoning. \n ||  \nBiography\nIvan Delazari is a HKPFS awardee and PhD Candidate at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of English\, working on musico-literary dimensions in contemporary novels. In 2004–2014\, he taught Literary History and American Studies at St. Petersburg State University. In 2009-2010\, he was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Mississippi. His recent publications include chapters in Faulkner and Film (UP of Mississippi\, 2014) and Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative (DeGruyter\, 2016). He is a member of the Modern Language Association (MLA)\, the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA)\, and the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)\, whose 2017 Alan Nadel Prize for the Best Graduate Student Paper he has just collected in Lexington\, KY.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/gass-tolstoy-marx-beethoven-a-retroactive-decryption-of-cartesian-sonata/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170428
DTSTAMP:20200214T111939Z
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SUMMARY:'In sha'Allah\, Masha'Allah\, Hopefully no martial law': the disciplining of transnationalism and the attempted self-legitimisation of the so-called Islamic State
DESCRIPTION:Mr Aaron Anfinson – School of English\, HKU \nAbstract\nSince 2001\, Muslim minority communities have been subjected to disproportionate disciplinary State power\, surveillance and legislation. Through the identity politics of the Global War on Terror\, the mapping and labelling of network and subjective transnationalism have rendered followers of Islam as suspect\, portrayed in a constant state of unbelonging. From the perspective of critical terrorism studies\, I review how this disciplining of transnationalism has perpetuated monolithic correlations of terrorism and identity\, setting the stage for the ‘transnational’ (self-)branding of the so-called Islamic State. This violent terrorist organisation’s founding declarations issue a call for immigration\, projecting itself as a borderless\, multilingual State for the transnational 'Islamic' Other. I scrutinise this projection through a multimodal Foucauldian discourse analysis of primary source materials published by the Islamic State. First\, I examine liturgical texts as an instance of transidiomatic practices or language crossing. Then\, I illustrate how these practices and their dissemination across social media platforms do the work of projecting the organisation’s legitimacy. I conclude discussing how\, in an era of intense mediatisation\, even the decentralisation of transnationalism can be reified and (re)packaged in the founding identifications of aspirational new ‘States’. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/in-shaallah-mashaallah-hopefully-no-martial-law-the-disciplining-of-transnationalism-and-the-attempted-self-legitimisation-of-the-so-called-islamic-state/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTAMP:20200214T112109Z
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SUMMARY:Unauthorized Bonds: Shaw's Bond-type Films and The Problem of Genre
DESCRIPTION:Ms Jenn Gresham – School of English\, HKU \nAbstract\nIn their classic analysis of the James Bond phenomenon\, Bennett and Woollacott argue that the release of Goldfinger in 1964 “saw the establishment of the Bond films as a distinctive sub-genre” and further highlight how the notion of the “Bondian” was deployed by those involved in their production as “a specific formula\, a specific genre of film” (8\, 179-180). This seminar presentation will investigate some of the critical and theoretical issues surrounding the construction of Bond as film genre by turning its lens onto a body of works located outside the official\, authorized tradition\, specifically the Bond-type thrillers produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in the mid to late 1960s. The problem of genre as it relates to Shaw’s Bonds will be explored on two related fronts. First\, the notion of the Bond film as genre will be used to analyze how genre functions with respect to the films’ context of production and their encoded systems of meaning. This will be followed by a consideration of how the discursively constructed and textually enacted generic connections to the authorized tradition of Bond films mask and conceal other transnational and intertextual relationships and processes of remaking. The presentation will conclude by discussing the significance of these analytical observations in understanding the role of genre in canon formation and the transnational consumption of globalized popular culture. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/unauthorized-bonds-shaws-bond-type-films-and-the-problem-of-genre/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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