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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171111
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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Theatre: History and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays: October 4\, 11\, 25\, November 1\, 8; Fridays: October 6\, 13\, 27\, November 3\, 10
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-introduction-to-theatre-history-and-practice-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171103
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SUMMARY:Arts and the Language of Recovery
DESCRIPTION:Professor Paul Crawford – School of Health Sciences\, The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/paul.crawford) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, Professor Crawford will report on a key strand of his £1.5m Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery programme\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, UK.  In addition to outlining this innovative programme of work and its mixed methodology\, Professor Crawford will present findings from the study of the language of art and mental health recovery in policy discourse. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Paul Crawford is the world’s first Professor of Health Humanities and directs both the Centre for Social Futures (Institute of Mental Health) and Nottingham Health Humanities at The University of Nottingham – spearheading research into social and cultural aspects of health care and\, in particular\, mental health. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences\, Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health\, and has held Visiting Professorships in Norway\, Taiwan\, China and Australia. He is Co-Founder of the Health Language Research Group at the University of Nottingham\, a member of the senior team of the Faculty of Health Sciences and a Registered Nurse. \nProfessor Crawford has written over 100 publications including several books: Communicating Care (Nelson Thornes\, 1998); Politics and History in William Golding (University of Missouri\, 2003); Evidence Based Research (Open University Press\, 2003)\, which was Highly Commended in the BMA Book Competition for 2004; Storytelling in Therapy (Nelson Thornes\, 2004); Evidence Based Health Communication (Open University Press\, 2006); Communication in Clinical Settings (Nelson Thornes\, 2006); Madness in Post-1945 British and American Fiction (Palgrave\, 2010) and Health Humanities (Palgrave\, 2015). Crawford has written articles for national and regional newspapers and magazines.  His acclaimed novel about mental illness\, Nothing Purple\, Nothing Black\, resulted in various interviews in national media and an option for film by the British film producer\, Jack Emery (The Drama House\, London/ Florida).   \nProfessor Crawford has been PI or CI on various prestigious Research Council or major charity grants (The British Academy\, AHRC\, AHRC/RCUK\, ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust). These include PI on a new cross-disciplinary £1.5m large programme grant from AHRC/ RCUK Connected Communities (2013-18) to investigate Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery for Mental Health and Well-Being and a £830\,000 large grant from AHRC to investigate the work of Florence Nightingale.  He directs both the AHRC-funded Madness and Literature Network (www.madnessandliterature.org) and International Health Humanities Network (www.healthhumanities.org) which advance the application of arts and humanities to enhance social capital\, health and well-being.  He is also International advisor on trans-disciplinary research and health humanities at various institutions worldwide.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/arts-and-the-language-of-recovery/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171105
DTSTAMP:20200310T181004Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2017
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2017/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171110
DTSTAMP:20200213T174255Z
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SUMMARY:"Silas Mullett His Book His Hand & Pen": an unpublished MS song & ballad collection from 1806
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Simon Alderson – Cygnet Communications Ltd (https://www.cygnet.com.hk/about.html) \nAbstract\nFor a number of reasons\, the English ballad and popular song have always stood in an uncomfortable relationship with traditional literary history. This is partly because ballads and songs have mostly lacked the features of single authorship\, educated readership\, and mainstream printing and publishing validation that have typically characterised ‘literature’ as commonly defined.  This talk focuses on some of these issues through a description and discussion of a previously unknown manuscript collection of English songs and ballads in my possession that dates from 1806-08. Most extant ballads available to us are collections of old printed ballad sheets gathered by elite collectors like Samuel Pepys\, or recitations transcribed by ballad collectors in the 19th and 20th centuries. The manuscript notebook that I will be discussing is\, by contrast\, a ‘working collection’ of songs and ballads made by a rural worker in the early 19th century for practical personal use.  I will be paying close attention to the physical makeup and arrangement of the notebook (marginal notes\, handwriting\, ownership comments) in order to discover more about the original compiler and the context in which he was living. I will also explore the compiler's song and ballad choices and preferences (e.g. typical themes and contents) and his transcription styles and arrangements with the aim of throwing more light on how ballads were circulated\, used\, enjoyed\, valued\, shared and transmitted by relatively uneducated men and women in rural pre-industrial England.  \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Simon Alderson was Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU for 10 years from 1997 to 2006\, and an Honorary Professor from 2006 to 2017. In the past 10 years he has run his own English business in Hong Kong\, offering English writing and training services to government departments and large corporations. He has continued to pursue his intellectual interests in that time\, with a particular focus on the history of the book and the material culture of texts generally\, an interest which has seen him become a dedicated collector of early print and manuscript materials such as the one discussed in this talk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/silas-mullett-his-book-his-hand-pen-an-unpublished-ms-song-ballad-collection-from-1806/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171117
DTSTAMP:20200213T174607Z
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SUMMARY:'Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Miles Link – Department of English\, Fudan University \nAbstract\nAfter Adam and Eve’s temptation in John Milton’s biblical epic Paradise Lost\, the Earth is drastically altered to reflect humans’ fallen state. The planet is knocked off its axis\, animals turn on one another\, and the character of existence itself changes: from now on\, life on Earth will no longer be harmonised\, or work towards wholeness. Against the perfect harmony of Eden\, the new character of the world is outrageous—a permanent state of disorder. \nThis presentation explores Milton’s novel concept of nature\, expressed not in terms of harmony and balance\, but of discontinuity and conflict. Standing at the crossroads between traditional and modern thought\, Milton is\, paradoxically\, a valuable figure for understanding the origins of our own disenchanted view of the natural world. From planetary weather systems to humans’ proper relationship with living and ‘liveless’ things\, the presentation will ask how Milton himself understood nature\, and how we can adapt Milton’s application of the ‘great chain of being’ to contemporary concerns about disaster and climate change. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Miles Link is a Research Associate in the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures in Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the works of H.G. Wells\, the British science fiction author John Wyndham\, and contemporary cinema. He is currently completing a monograph on integrating disaster into the philosophy of history.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thus-began-outrage-from-liveless-things-natures-hostile-turn-in-miltons-paradise-lost/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.58\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171123
DTSTAMP:20200213T175412Z
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SUMMARY:A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets - Hardy\, Field\, Meynell\, Kipling
DESCRIPTION:Professor Isobel Armstrong – Department of English and Humanities\, Birkbeck\, University of London (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/emeritus-staff/isobel-armstrong) \nAbstract\nGenerally dominated by the Aesthetic Movement and Decadent poets\, mainly male\, in critical discussion\, I suggest that late nineteenth-century poetry was more varied and experimental than our customary frameworks suggest. I work with late-century Darwin to provide another model for reading these poets. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Isobel Armstrong is a fellow of the British Academy\, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies and Professor Emeritus of what is now the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair. \nDuring her time at Birkbeck\, continuing the powerful tradition of nineteenth-century studies established by Geoffrey Tillotson\, Barbara Hardy and Michael Slater\, she founded the London seminar for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (of whose committee she is still a member). She has published widely on nineteenth-century studies (in particular Victorian Poetry: Poetry\, Poetics and Politics\, 1996) and theory (see The Radical Aesthetic\, 2000). Her book\, Victorian Glassworlds. Glass Culture and the Imagination (2008) won the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize in 2009. She gave the British Academy Warton Lecture on Poetry in 2011. Her Novel Politics. Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth Century Fiction was published by Oxford in 2016. 'During retirement she has taught at the Universities of Harvard\, Johns Hopkins and Princeton and spoken at international conferences. She is a published poet. Isobel has recently been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-challenge-to-the-fin-de-siecle-poem-four-alternative-fin-de-siecle-poets-hardy-field-meynell-kipling/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.58\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171201
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SUMMARY:Englishes\, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites
DESCRIPTION:Professor Johan van der Auwera – Department of Linguistics\, University of Antwerp (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/johan-vanderauwera/my-website/) \nAbstract\nThe talk reports on a typological study of negative indefinites\, i.e.\, the counterparts to standard English nobody and nothing\, in Englishes\, primarily the New Englishes\, and in English Creoles. Particular attention goes to "Negative Concord" ("NC")\, i.e.\, the exponence of negation through both a negative indefinite and a verbal negator. The study confirms that NC is widespread in both Englishes and English Creoles and claims that although this holds for both Englishes and English Creoles\, they have to be considered separately and that there is a lot of variation with respect to NC subtypes.  Important\, but mostly for the New Englishes\, is whether or not the British English input allowed NC. For Creoles special attention goes to the fact that they have typically created a new verbal negator (no). \n ||  \nBiography\nJohan van der Auwera is professor of General and English Linguistics at the University of Antwerp. His student and postdoc days were spent in Antwerp\, Berkeley\, Stockholm\, Hannover and Nijmegen. Visiting and honorary appointments took him to Bangkok\, Gothenburg\, Hong Kong\, Kyoto\, Leuven\, Madrid\, Paris\, Princeton\, Rome and Santiago de Compostela. He was elected as the President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in 2004 and as member of the Academia Europaea in 2015. His research focuses on grammatical semantics with special reference to conditionals\, mood\, modality\, negation\, indefinites\, impersonals\, and similatives\, from a synchronic and diachronic as well as an areal perspective\, and occasionally from a historiographical point of view. Languages studied are English\, including New Englishes and Creoles\, Germanic languages\, European languages and samples of the totality of the world's languages. He is the editor-in-chief of Linguistics. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/englishes-english-creoles-and-their-negative-indefinites/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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