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SUMMARY:“‘A disease that’s in my flesh that I must needs call mine’: Lear\, Macbeth and the fear of futurity”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Beth Harper – The University of Hong Kong (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/89/Dr%20Beth%20Harper) \nAbstract\nThis talk offers a meditation on the terror of singularity as it manifests in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1611). It emphasizes the centrality of the child to ideas of futurity and argues that the source of Lear and Macbeth’s tragedy is bound up with ambivalence about the relationship between children and selfhood. Drawing upon Levinasian philosophy and psychoanalytic and queer theory\, the talk approaches the tragedies as resources for understanding the different yet intertwined fears of handing power over to a future generation (King Lear) and of contending with the bleakness of mortality when you face the future in the absence of heirs (Macbeth). Through the figure of the tormented father (or would-be father) king\, the talk traces the dark power of the parent-child relation especially by attending to characters who do not acknowledge that power. \n ||  \nBiography\nBeth Harper is a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She works across classical and early modern European literature\, and premodern Chinese literature and thought\, with a special interest in form and aesthetics. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shakespeare\, English Studies\, Comparative Literature: East & West and Postmedieval. She is at work on a book manuscript entitled The Lost Children of European Tragedy. Beth holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies from Yale\, an MA in Classics and an MPhil in European Literature and Culture from St John’s College\, Cambridge\, and an MA in Sinology from SOAS\, University of London where she was an HSBC scholar.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-disease-thats-in-my-flesh-that-i-must-needs-call-mine-lear-macbeth-and-the-fear-of-futurity/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:“Greek Love and Orientalism”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daniel Orrells – King’s College London (https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/daniel-orrells(0bf6454d-f1d8-4718-9320-20c723ba5997).html) \nAbstract\nIn the nineteenth century\, Europe looked back to Ancient Greece in search of its own identity. Europe celebrated itself by looking back to the achievements of the Greeks. Athens in the fifth century BCE was viewed as a miracle of Enlightenment. At the end of the nineteenth century\, certain radical intellectuals in Europe argued that Greece also provided a critique of modern\, Victorian sexual mores. In particular\, ancient Greece looked like a haven for same-sex sexuality in contradistinction to nineteenth-century society. This paper examines\, however\, how the nineteenth-century construction of Greek love was framed by orientalizing ideas about race and empire. This paper argues that this orientalist framework should make us pause before using ancient Greece as an example for queer politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nI studied Classics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Cambridge. I taught at the University of Warwick for eleven years\, including two years as a Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. I joined King’s College London in 2015. My research focuses on the history of the interpretation of classical literature. More specifically\, I examine the literary\, scholarly and cultural receptions of Greek and Latin literature from the Renaissance to the beginning of the twentieth century. I am the author of three monographs: Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (2011); Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy (2015) and Visualizing Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century (forthcoming).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/greek-love-and-orientalism/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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