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SUMMARY:Announcement of Winners - School of English Logo Competition
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/announcement-of-winners-school-of-english-logo-competition/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190918
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SUMMARY:Autobiography as Topoanalysis: the Spatial Dimensions of Life-Writing
DESCRIPTION:Professor Laura Marcus – Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature – New College\, University of Oxford (https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laura-marcus) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I explore the concept of topoanalysis – theorised most fully by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard and defined by him as ‘the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives’ – in relationship to works of C19 and C20 life-writing. Starting with John Ruskin’s autobiographical Praeterita\, I suggest that artists and art theorists (including Adrian Stokes\, Richard Wollheim and Michael Baxendall) have sought new\, often anti-narrative\, ways of representing the visual preoccupations which have structured their lives and have frequently found these though models of intimate space and charged ‘images’\, at times framed through psychoanalytic perspectives. The talk then turns to the autobiographical writings of Walter Benjamin\, taking up the theme of childhood perception and of memory and extending the focus to questions of life-writing\, exile and place. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf\, Vladimir Nabokov and Orhan Pamuk. \n ||  \nBiography\nLaura Marcus's research and teaching interests are predominantly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture\, including life-writing\, modernism\, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture\, contemporary fiction\, and litereature and film. Her book publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory\, Criticism\, Practice (1994)\, Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004)\, The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007) and\, as co-editor\, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004). \nHer current research projects include a book on British literature 1910-1920\, and a study of the concept of 'rhythm' in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries\, in a range of disciplinary contexts.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/autobiography-as-topoanalysis-the-spatial-dimensions-of-life-writing/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190926
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time administrative position in the School of English
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-administrative-position-in-the-school-of-english/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190927
DTSTAMP:20200130T101742Z
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SUMMARY:Semiotic Emblems\, Indexicality and Eliteness in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Militello – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nScholars in sociolinguistics tend to study inequality by focusing on people at the lower end of the power and economic spectrum\, rather than those at the higher end\, but by attending to those who are the most privileged and powerful\, the so-called ‘elites’\, we can better understand the reproduction of the macro social and economic order (Thurlow & Jaworski\, 2017). Beyond the economic and political capital wielded by elites\, their impact winds its way down through society by establishing and maintaining standards and norms that generate an aspirational ideology against which everyone [else] is persuaded to position (Thurlow & Jaworski\, 2017). Past Social Sciences research has demonstrated how being ‘elite’ in cosmopolitan societies is associated with certain educational institutions (Khan\, 2011\, 2012; Kenway & Lazarus\, 2018)\, pastimes\, (Rivera & Tilcsik\, 2016; Silverstein\, 2004)\, or business affiliations (Alvesson & Robertson\, 2006). Many of these studies are based in Anglo-western contexts comprised of interactants ‘with highly dependably shared intersubjective cultural understandings and values\, and impressively fluent and even efficient ways of articulating them’ (Silverstein\, 1998\, p. 300). However\, in the context of Hong Kong\, where not everyone shares the Anglo ‘indexical order’ (i.e. the conventional hierarchy of social meaning) (Silverstein\, 2003)\, there may be a discrepancy between the globally dominant signifiers of eliteness and locally cultivated values and ways of expressing them. Drawing on data from early stages of interactions in networking situations among (business) elite professionals in Hong Kong\, this presentation explores some of the resulting tensions in the choice\, salience and deployment of emblems of eliteness across differently scaled business contexts. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/semiotic-emblems-indexicality-and-eliteness-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190926
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SUMMARY:Eliteness Strategies: Recognising Eliteness and the Semiotics of ‘Artisanal’ Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Andre Joseph Theng – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nIn recent years\, sociolinguistic research has been increasingly concerned with the notion of the discursive construction of eliteness. ‘Elite discourse’ can refer to the ways in which ‘superior’ class identities are represented\, stylized and performed in different domains with the effect of reinforcing social\, political and economic hierarchies. One area of social life increasingly dominated by eliteness is commerce\, with traditionally mundane commodities\, such as coffee\, being marketed as luxuries – specialty products requiring connoisseurship. In this paper\, I discuss ways in which eliteness is enregistered in the design choices of ‘artisanal’ coffee shops through examining multimodal signage in three contexts: the shops’ exterior\, interior\, and online. Café facades (the exterior) are characterized by a coalescence of semiotic features which become enregistered as ‘elite’. I elaborate upon four categories of features\, namely\, (1) orthography and typography\, (2) visual images and colour\, (3) materiality and layout\, and (4) emplacement. Café interiors often feature a type of spectacular ‘language objects’ (Jaworski\, 2015)\, namely neon signage as a form of text art. Finally\, I discuss ways in which eliteness is performed online\, where a discursive display of the tension between ‘egalitarian’ and ‘elite’ stances can be observed on the social networking site Instagram. This is played out by the businesses juxtaposing differently scaled (Blommaert\, 2007) images referencing their ‘local communities’ and images referencing ‘aesthetic connoisseurship’ (Silverstein\, 2016) required for the appreciation of speciality coffee. In sum\, I argue that the enregisterment of elitism in these coffee shops is indicative of broader urban processes of growing inequality and social exclusion.  As a global semiotic of gentrification (Lyons\, 2018; Trinch & Snajdr\, 2017) begins to emerge\, the proliferation of high-end coffee shops is a site where the relationship between semiotic forms and privileged positions can be observed in large metropolitan areas. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/eliteness-strategies-recognising-eliteness-and-the-semiotics-of-artisanal-coffee/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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