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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181102
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SUMMARY:On the (Im)Possibilities of a Free Theatre: The Impact of Developmental Funding on Palestinian Drama
DESCRIPTION:Dr Rashna Darius Nicholson – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/87/Dr%20Rashna%20Darius%20Nicholson) \nAbstract\nThis presentation offers an outline of the impact of non-governmental and governmental funding on theatre with additional examples from the visual arts and music in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Foreign aid to both the Palestinian Authority through the Ministry of Culture as well as non-governmental organizations has played a key role in determining the ways in which the Palestinian cultural sector has developed over the last two decades. However\, this transformation has not been viewed by local actors as an unmixed good. By using the arts as a means of promoting development\, international donor agencies contributed towards the ‘NGOization’ of the Palestinian cultural sector. In the aftermath of the Oslo agreement\, the sudden and enormous influx of foreign funding impelled a race amongst local associations to secure public grants and private endowments. This lead not only to a proliferation of minor organizations working with smaller budgets and staff but also to the transformation of informal fine arts companies into NGOs executing short-term programs based on social inclusion\, democracy building\, gender equality\, and children and youth activities. By tracing this development through the differential influence of three organizations: SIDA (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency)\, NORAD (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) and the European Union\, this presentation delineates how the inflow of international aid has come at the expense of not only longer term\, sustainable strategies that promote the arts for the sake of the arts but also the economic stability and social acceptance of the sector as a whole. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/on-the-impossibilities-of-a-free-theatre-the-impact-of-developmental-funding-on-palestinian-drama/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181104
DTSTAMP:20200310T181048Z
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2018
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2018/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181106
DTSTAMP:20200130T104925Z
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SUMMARY:The British Library\, Digital Humanities and Your Research
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anya Adair – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr%20Anya%20Adair) || Dr Luisa Mengoni and Ms Alexandra Ault – The British Library (https://www.bl.uk/people/experts/alexandra-ault) \nAbstract\nScholarly work that is enabled\, supported or disseminated to a wider audience via the tools and platforms of the digital humanities is an increasingly important part of grant applications\, knowledge exchange efforts\, and the successful completion of research projects.  But incorporating the digital humanities into new work can be a challenge: successful DH research involves thoughtful planning and the strategic use of existing tools and databases – as well as the development of new digital platforms.  For PhD students and early-career scholars\, the digital humanities also represents a field of enormous opportunity: postdoctoral job opportunities for DH-trained scholars far exceed the number of qualified applicants\, making the skills of the digital humanities an important part of professional development. \nThe British Library has long been at the forefront of emerging methods in digitisation and online dissemination\, and has supported numerous digital humanities projects undertaken by scholars from across the globe. Visiting scholars Dr. Luisa Mengoni\, Head of Asian and African Collections at the British Library\, and Ms. Alexandra Ault\, Lead Curator of Western Manuscripts 1601-1950 at the British Library will lead this exciting workshop session on the digital humanities for HKU students and researchers.  The session will introduce current opportunities in digital humanities research at HKU\, outline the impact of digital humanities on literature\, and discuss what digital humanities means for scholarly research in general.  The session will also introduce and model diverse projects across the British Library Asian sections\, including Hebrew\, Indian Print\, and the Dunhuang Project. Participants will be invited to consider questions relating to digital research\, and will have the opportunity to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field. \nLight refreshments will be served.  The workshop is open to HKU students and faculty.  All are welcome to attend\, but places may fill quickly: to register for the event\, please email Anya Adair (adair@hku.hk).  \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-british-library-digital-humanities-and-your-research/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181109
DTSTAMP:20200130T105016Z
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SUMMARY:Iterations of the Microeconomic Mode
DESCRIPTION:Dr Jane Elliott – King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/english/about/people) \nAbstract\nThis talk examines what transpires when the economic dynamics of primitive accumulation are transposed into what I call ‘the microeconomic mode’\, a dominant contemporary aesthetic formation that brings together abstraction\, extremity\, and painful\, life-or-death choices made by individual agents. I focus on The Revenant—both the recent film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and the novel on which it was based—in order examine the way in which a specific history of settler-colonial capital expansion becomes resignified via the microeconomic mode as a story of attrition for settler rather than indigenous lives. Building out from this reading\, I evaluate the implicit political positions enabled and foreclosed when problems of scarcity\, accumulation and relative plenitude are rendered in the microeconomic mode\, in which the only meaningful currency seems to be life itself. In conclusion\, I consider why it is that an either/or choice between lives\, or what I call ‘binary life’\, has emerged as such a consistent trope in recent contemporary culture—and what happens to arguments for material justice when necropolitical decisions are reimagined as inevitable\, recurrent acts of individual choice. \n ||  \nBiography\nJane Elliott is Reader in Contemporary Literature\, Culture and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. She is author of The Micro-economic Mode: Political Subjectivity and Contemporary Popular Aesthetics (Columbia UP 2018) and Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time (Palgrave 2008) and co-editor of the ‘Genres of Neoliberalism’ issue of Social Text (2013) and Theory after Theory (Routledge 2011). Her essays on contemporary literature and culture have appeared in Novel\, Modern Fiction Studies\, PMLA\, and Social Text.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/iterations-of-the-microeconomic-mode/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181114
DTSTAMP:20200310T200233Z
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SUMMARY:Time Public Lecture Series on Health Communication Inaugural Public Lecture: "Ending the Stigma around Mental Health Worldwide"
DESCRIPTION:by Sue Baker OBE (Global Director of Time to Change)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/time-public-lecture-series-on-health-communication-inaugural-public-lecture-ending-the-stigma-around-mental-health-worldwide/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181116
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SUMMARY:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and its Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:Professor Daniel Anlezark – The University of Sydney (https://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/daniel-anlezark.html) \nAbstract\nAccording to all available evidence\, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was the most widely disseminated vernacular text in early medieval England. The Chronicle was composed in Old English some time in the late ninth century\, and its earliest versions are closely associated with King Alfred the Great. The complex textual history of the Chronicle is difficult to unravel\, from the earliest versions to the latest\, when it was still being copied and added to in the twelfth century. This presentation will discuss the surviving versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the relationships between them\, as well as exploring the ways in which textual additions and deletions modify the ways in which early English history is to be understood and interpreted by readers. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-anglo-saxon-chronicle-and-its-afterlives/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181123
DTSTAMP:20200130T105139Z
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SUMMARY:Cartoons\, Creativity\, Censorship
DESCRIPTION:Larry Feign – Author and Cartoonist (https://larryfeign.com/author.html) \nAbstract\nLike most political cartoonists\, Larry Feign doesn’t back down from sensitive subjects. His hardheadedness has gotten him fired before – from the South China Morning Post – but it’s won him ample credibility. His cartoons have appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, The Economist\, Fortune\, the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Der Spiegel\, and Pravda\, to name a few\, and he’s produced animated cartoons for Cartoon Network and Disney. He’s also published fifteen books and received a number of awards. \nAt this wide-ranging talk\, he’ll touch upon the career of a cartoonist\, using satire as a form of expression and dissent\, differences between Chinese and Western humor\, self-censorship (both in China and abroad)\, and the roadblocks ahead for satirical cartoons in Hong Kong and abroad. The presentation is amply illustrated with many cartoons. \n ||  \nBiography\nLarry Feign is an award-winning writer and artist\, author of 20 books of humour and cartoons for adults and children\, who has also directed animated cartoons for Cartoon Network and Disney Television. He lives on Lantau Island with his wife\, two dogs\, and the occasional uninvited snake. His mother still wishes he were a doctor.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/cartoons-creativity-censorship/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181130
DTSTAMP:20200130T105226Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation: Exploring the Work of Atxaga\, Kundera and Semprú​n
DESCRIPTION:Dr Harriet Hulme – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/90/Dr%20Harriet%20Hulme)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/ethics-and-aesthetics-of-translation-exploring-the-work-of-atxaga-kundera-and-semprun/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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