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SUMMARY:(Gay) Panic Attack
DESCRIPTION:Professor David Eng\, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania\n9:30am\nRoom 434\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower (F2F)\nStreamed via Zoom: Please register for Zoom link
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/gay-panic-attack/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201105T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201105T180000
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SUMMARY:‘Take and Write These Words in Butter’: Reading and Writing Healing Words in Medieval England
DESCRIPTION:Dr Katherine Hindley – Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore (http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=KHINDLEY&CategoryDescription=literature) \nAbstract\nIn medieval England\, written words were expected to physically change the world. Written charms could heal disease or protect people from harm\, often without being read or even seen. Instead\, they might be dissolved into water and drunk\, sealed and hung around a patient's neck\, inscribed on food and eaten\, or written directly onto the body. Drawing on a collection of more than a thousand medieval charms\, this talk explores words at their most powerful\, highlighting complex relationships between orality\, textual materiality\, and language.  \n ||  \nBiography\nKatherine Hindley is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature in the Division of English at NTU Singapore. She holds degrees in Medieval Studies and English from Yale and the University of Oxford. Her current research project examines medical and protective uses of spoken and written charms in medieval England\, with a particular focus on language and materiality. This research has been supported by the Medieval Academy of America\, the Bibliographical Society of America\, and Singapore's Ministry of Education\, among others. Katherine is also the Director of the London International Palaeography Summer School.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98790607246?pwd=UVJXZHJnc0w5Y2hVaDBGaXA1SmtUQT09  \nMeeting ID: 987 9060 7246 \nPassword: 165203 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/take-and-write-these-words-in-butter-reading-and-writing-healing-words-in-medieval-england/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201107
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2021-2022 Full-time / 2021-2023 Part-time \nDeadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 26\, 2021
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201112T163000
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DTSTAMP:20200930T110353Z
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SUMMARY:TBC
DESCRIPTION:Dr Chris Heffer – Cardiff University\, UK
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tbc/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201119T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201119T180000
DTSTAMP:20200930T110558Z
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SUMMARY:‘The power of expression’: typography\, politics and place in late capitalist city branding
DESCRIPTION:Dr Johan Järlehed – University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/johanjarlehed) || Ms Maryam Fanni – University of Gothenburg\, Sweden (https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/maryamfanni) \nAbstract\nIn this paper\, we are interested in how city fonts\, as part of place-making practices\, work to sustain social difference and cohesion\, and we examine the ideologies that resonate both in their graphic form and in the design and promotional discourses that surround them. How are these fonts\, and typographic forms in general linked to place? 'Place' is then seen as an eminently social construct\, linking and ascribing cultural\, historical and political qualities to a specific geographic locale (Warnaby & Medway 2013). We are particularly interested in the ways in which politics is conditioning and being articulated in discursively mediated processes of linking type to place. What ‘graphic ideologies’ (Spitzmüller 2015) are invested in the city fonts and in the discursive and material place-making that they are being engaged in? In order to pursue this aim and answer the questions\, we build on the increasing body of work in sociolinguistics\, social semiotics and critical (type) design studies that conceptualize typography as a social practice and semiotic technology closely linked to ideology. The paper focuses on two city fonts: TilburgsAns by Sander Neijnens and Ivo van Leeuwen (2016) and Dubai Font by a Monotype team led by Nadine Chahine (2017). The two fonts are different in a number of ways and illustrate the complexities of typographic place-making and branding.  \n ||  \nBiography\nJohan Järlehed is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg\, Sweden. His research centres on the interaction of language\, images and space in processes of social change. To investigate this\, Johan works primarily with social-semiotic\, discourse-analytic and ethnographic concepts and methods.  \nMaryam Fanni is a graphic designer based in Stockholm and Gothenburg\, Sweden. PhD student at HDK Academy of Design and Crafts\, University of Gothenburg. Co-founder and member of collectives MMS\, SIFAV and Mapping the Unjust City.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97376993804?pwd=bDY4ZUlsY09GVWdkM2ZUTmI4UEU4Zz09  \nMeeting ID: 973 7699 3804\nPassword: 947310 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-power-of-expression-typography-politics-and-place-in-late-capitalist-city-branding/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201126T163000
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SUMMARY:Two Seminars by HKU School of English - Research Postgraduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Gloria Dou – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Xuekun Liu – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nPride before profit: language policing on Carousell\, an online classified platform in Hong Kong \nMs. Gloria Dou  \nIn this talk\, I investigate the direct communication that takes place between sellers and buyers on Carousell\, an online classified platform in Hong Kong. Drawing upon digital ethnographic and discourse analytic methods\, I demonstrate how Carousellers contest and rework the language ideologies of Hong Kong by positioning themselves as Cantonese-speaking\, ‘legitimate’ holders of authenticity whilst othering those who are accused of being ‘inauthentic’ in their speech because they insist on typing in English or simplified Chinese in mediated transactions. Exploring the co-occurrence of pride and profit in the discourses of globalized new economy\, typically situated in the global-local nexus\, I discuss how this bottom-up approach adds to the current literature.  \nHomonationalist and homocolonialist discourses in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests: Online evaluations and representations of LGBT rights \nMr. Xuekun Liu  \nIn this talk\, I introduce one case study from my PhD research project where I examine how some protesters perceived LGBT rights during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protest movement. Discourse analysis is deployed to scrutinize one discussion thread on the online forum LIHKG\, a thread mainly addressing the topic of an event announced as “protesting with you on Hong Kong tongzhi parade”. The analysis focuses on how participants in the discussion thread evaluate and represent the event\, LGBT rights\, and the dyads of supporters/opponents of the activity\, pro-democracy/pro-establishment Hong Kong citizens\, and Hong Kong/Mainland people. The findings illuminate that while most participants use the discourse of freedom and democracy to express their support for LGBT rights and contest hegemonic heteronormative and heterosexist values\, they largely enact and reproduce homonationalist and homocolonialist discourses\, which\, I argue\, can potentially limit the LGBT rights movement in Hong Kong.  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97785689803?pwd=eC9NT2R5bm53ZElrN3BhYmRvVk5tZz09  \nMeeting ID: 977 8568 9803\nPassword: 815580 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/two-seminars-by-hku-school-of-english-research-postgraduate-students/
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