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SUMMARY:Building Memory: Digital Place-Making in Zuni Icosahedron's Architecture of the City
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Joanna Mansbridge – Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/joanna-gwen-mansbridge(976997ed-c96f-4ba4-9053-ed96c55ff62c).html) \nAbstract\nThis talk emerges from two central questions: How do performance and performance technologies participate in constructing alternative spaces and building collective memory? How does the city itself – its architecture\, interactions\, artefacts – perform? With Zuni Icosahedron’s two recent productions\, The Architecture of the City (Dec. 2017) and "One Table\, Two Chairs: Belt-Road" performance workshop (Dec. 2017)\, as my primary points of departure\, I seek to explore the relationships among urban space\, collective memory\, and performance. Zuni’s co-Artistic Directors\, Mathias Woo and Danny Yung\, are both architects\, and their experiments with theatrical space consistently invite questions regarding the urban space outside the theatre\, while their experiments with technology – sound\, light\, image – defamiliarise habituated perceptions\, expand historical awareness\, and revise cultural forms. Both above-mentioned productions construct alternative spaces in order to reflect on how the city itself choreographs movements\, narrates histories\, builds (or demolishes) memories\, and produces interdependencies.The Architecture of the City transposes the urban theory of Italian architect Aldo Rossi into a Hong Kong landscape\, while the "One Table\, Two Chairs" workshop brought together choreographers from across Asia and Europe in a dance series centred around the notion of “crossover\,” a concept aimed at generating inclusive\, flexible\, and interactive public spaces (Yung). In addition\, both The Architecture of the City and the "One Table\, Two Chairs" workshop were implicitly framed as responses to 20th anniversary of handover. I will thus briefly engage with performances organised around that event as well\, in order to explore how the city itself can be made to perform national\, transnational\, global\, and local identities at once. \n ||  \nBiography\nJoanna Mansbridge is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research and teaching interests span contemporary US drama\, global performance\, film and visual culture\, gender studies\, and ecocriticism. Her published work appears in Theatre Topics (forthcoming)\, Theatre Research International\, Modern Drama\, Canadian Theatre Review\, Journal of Popular Culture and Comparative Drama\, as well as in various edited collections. Her monograph Paula Vogel (University of Michigan Press\, 2014) is the first book-length study of the playwright. She is on the international advisory board for the open source performance studies journal\, Performance Matters.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/building-memory-digital-place-making-in-zuni-icosahedrons-architecture-of-the-city-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180420
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SUMMARY:'An act of welcome': writing as hospitality in Refugee Tales (2016)
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Harriet Hulme – Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme) \nAbstract\nIn Refugee Tales\, its editor David Herd suggests that the asylum process symbolically dehumanises asylum seekers by restricting their ability to narrate their story on\, and in\, their own terms. Refugee Tales is itself an attempt to remedy this situation: mimicking the structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales\,the text presents us with a series of anonymous stories – The Detainee’s Tale\, The Interpreter’s Tale\, The Appellant’s Tale -\, each exploring an aspect of the experiences of those seeking asylum in the UK. While Chaucer’s prologue describes the physical and mental attributes of his tale-tellers\, Refugee Tales turns the focus onto us\, its readers\, with a powerful poetic call for us to develop an ethical and hospitable response to the refugee crisis. \nThis paper explores the ways in which Refugee Tales itself provides a shape for this hospitable response through its use of translation. Drawing upon Ricœur’s idea of linguistic hospitality\, an approach which seeks to bring the foreign and the domestic into open interaction rather than aggressive opposition\, I argue that the way in which the text translates the canonical Chaucer text into these 21st Century refugee stories challenges the traditional binaries between the foreign and the domestic. In so doing\, Refugee Tales offers us an opportunity to think hospitably about our own response to those who seek refuge on our shores. \n ||  \nBiography\nHarriet Hulme is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature (2016) from University College London: her dissertation focused upon an ethics of translation through the work of three bilingual European authors. At HKU she is currently working on a project entitled On the Threshold: Locating an Ethics of Hospitality Between Home and Homelessness. Her research explores the ways in which the tension between the domestic and the nomadic shapes our contemporary understanding of hospitality.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/an-act-of-welcome-writing-as-hospitality-in-refugee-tales-2016-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
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SUMMARY:"At Last It Arrested Her": The Historical Portrait in Pride and Prejudice
DESCRIPTION:Ms. Xu Lingyi\, Olivia – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nWhen characters pause to look at portraits in nineteenth-century English novels\, they often learn key information about the depicted subjects. One of the most memorable examples is Elizabeth’s encounter of Mr. Darcy’s portrait at Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice. The painting softens the heroine’s harsh impressions of Darcy and thereby advances the novel’s central marriage plot. Scholars like Elizabeth Helsinger and Kamilla Elliott have agreed that fictional portraits in nineteenth-century novels often function as plot devices to impart knowledge of characters. This paper\, however\, seeks to complicate this observation by thinking how the novel draws upon different traditions of portraiture to challenge the idea that the process of knowing someone is linear\, progressive and accumulative. Through an analysis of the portrait scene in Pride and Prejudice\, this presentation argues that Elizabeth’s complex reactions towards Mr. Darcy’s picture suggest an ongoing conflict between her personal memories and a Reynoldsian historical representation of Mr. Darcy’s character. Recalling the “Grand Style” portrait advocated by Sir Joshua Reynolds\, probably the most prominent English portraitist of the eighteenth century\, the painting of Darcy consolidates his individualized smile with his aristocratic ancestry. Susceptible to this historically authoritative version of Mr. Darcy\, Elizabeth therefore edits and alters her past memories of their acquaintance to validate the picture’s likeness. In doing so\, Elizabeth further undermines the novel’s painstaking depictions of her gradual trajectory in knowing others. \n ||  \nBiography\nLingyi (Olivia)\, Xu is a M.Phil. student at the University of Hong Kong\, where she received her B.A. in English studies and Fine Arts. Her MPhil thesis examines the ubiquitous presence of fictional portraits in the nineteenth-century English novel and argues against the common “narrative reading” of visual arts in the novel. Her research interests are interdisciplinary\, located at the intersection of nineteenth-century English novel\, visual arts and aesthetic theories.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/at-last-it-arrested-her-the-historical-portrait-in-pride-and-prejudice-2/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Why Verse? Aurora Leigh and the Rise of the Verse-Novel
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Chan Man Long Johnson – RPg\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nIn 1856\, Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her masterpiece Aurora Leigh\, her “novel-poem” conceived as early as 1845. This decade-long work remains as one of the few examples of a little-researched literary genre in the Victorian era – the verse-novel. Using Aurora Leigh as my prime example\, my talk aims to provide an answer as to why verse-novelists chose to write their novels in verse rather than in prose. By examining both poetic and novelistic conventions employed in Aurora Leigh\, we can come to understand Barrett Browning’s purpose in choosing verse as the medium of narrating what would otherwise be a tale fit for the novel. As we will see\, the various properties of verse contribute to Barrett Browning's critique of the conventional novel – and the very concept of realism – in mid-Victorian era. Barrett Browning uses verse’s historic prestige\, literary devices and formal logic to expose the problems of the realist novel\, how\, in its pursuit for the real\, is fundamentally unable to represent truth. \n ||  \nBiography\nJohnson Chan is currently a M.Phil candidate at the School of English in The University of Hong Kong. Previously\, he has obtained his B.A. in English Literature from The University of British Columbia and his J.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His current academic interests include 18th century and 19th century poetry as well as Victorian verse-novels.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-verse-aurora-leigh-and-the-rise-of-the-verse-novel-2/
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