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SUMMARY:The 3rd International E-symposium on Communication in Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Advancing Frontiers of Health Communication Research\, Education and Practice during the Pandemic \nThe 3rd International E-symposium on Communication in Health Care\nAdvancing Frontiers of Health Communication Research\, Education and Practice during the Pandemic\nDate: 1 – 2 March 2021\nTime: 0900 – 1900 HKT (please refer to the programme provided later for exact details) \nVenue: All presentations are conducted via Zoom \nIn no other time has effective health communication been as critical as during the ongoing health pandemic of COVID-19. A massive flow of ever-changing information\, conflicting views and advice\, and uncertainty and anxiety among the world’s populations have challenged many well-established practices of effective health communication. Medical and healthcare professionals face the daily reality of difficult conversations about deceases\, death and dying\, the need to establish rapport with patients and families in tele-medical consultations\, and extreme burnout\, among other challenges. Communication with chronically ill patients and those with acute diseases other than COVID-19 has been disrupted due to widespread restrictions on access to medical facilities and services. Medical educators have had to deal with new ways of providing students with practical exposure to real clinical contexts to achieve graduate competencies. Many medical students have been fast-tracked to graduation and had to join the frontline in this unprecedented fight. These are just a sample of the many issues brought to the fore by the pandemic. Meanwhile\, other critical issues related to effective health communication that have existed pre-pandemic\, have not gone away. \nHKU Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH) invites you to join us at the 3rd International E-Symposium on Communication in Health Care (co-organised by Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore) that will engage with critical issues in health communication pre-\, during and post- COVID-19. The two-day event brings together academics and practitioners from across relevant disciplines of health communication\, linguistics\, social sciences\, medical education\, and medicine to share their ongoing research and practical insights in a collaborative effort to address the challenges of health communication in the current times\, and what lessons could be learnt going forward.  \nHKU RIICH is a founding partner of the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare\n(IC4CH); other partners include the Australian National University\, Lancaster University\, Nanyang Technological University\, University College London\, and Queensland University of Technology. The consortium has been established with the aim to build a world-class collaboration between communication experts\, healthcare professionals and medical educators to translate health communication research to education and practice and to improve patient safety and the quality of healthcare practices around the world. For further details\, please visit www.hkuriich.org. \nLimited Seats. Registered Now.\nThose who successfully registered will receive an email with Zoom links three days before the event. Please visit www.hkuriich.org for the programme of the event. \nPlease download the poster here.
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SUMMARY:‘Purifying’ Hindi translanguaging from English and Urdu emblems: A sociolinguistic decolonisation of the Hindu right?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jaspal Singh – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/62/Dr_Jaspal_Singh) \nAbstract\nAs the right-wing Hindutva (Hinduness) movement is gaining political momentum\, exclusionary\, racist and nationalistic ideologies and practices become normalised and mainstreamed across Indian cultural spheres. Hindu enthusiasts\, both from the higher echelons of society and from the grassroots\, have made significant progress with ‘purifying’ social\, political\, legal\, discursive and sociolinguistic practices in everyday life by purging emblems perceived as un-Indian or anti-national. Their vision is to create a new Hindu Rashtra\, a Hindu Nation with the name of Bharat\, in the near future. I discuss several sociolinguistic ‘purifications’ of Hindi translanguaging; i.e. moments in which metapragmatic efforts are made to speak/write/learn a ‘pure’ (shuddh) register of Hindi\, which is free from what are perceived as historical impurities caused by Islamic rule (indexed by ‘Urdu’) and British colonialism (indexed by ‘English’). \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Jaspal Naveel Singh is a sociolinguist and linguistic ethnographer. His PhD thesis explored voice and narrative in hip hop dance\, music and art in Delhi\, India. Prior to coming to the University of Hong Kong\, he taught at Cardiff University in Wales\, UK\, and at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz\, Germany. He disseminated his research at numerous academic conferences and lectures across the world and through academic publications. Jaspal works ethnographically and is interested in the complex interconnections between language (languaging) and culture (transculturation). He takes inspiration from sociolinguistics\, discourse studies\, classic western and eastern philosophy\, hip hop and other Black diasporic traditions\, to arrive at a type of research that complexifies standard approaches in the social sciences and problematises research ethics and common-sense writing strategies. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93673208332?pwd=bExaRzRQakRjL2czVDB4UndBdDNWdz09 \nMeeting ID: 936 7320 8332\nPassword: 319501 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Mr. John Scott Daly – The University of Hong Kong || Ms. Giulia Usai – The University of Hong Kong || Mr. Sean Philip Smith  – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nInterdiscursive Intersections: Social Class\, Citizenship and Migration in YouTube Comments\nMr. John Scott Daly\nYouTube’s comment feature provides the affordance of persistent interdiscursivity\, as commenters can build on and intensify public debates with utterances that remain visible over time. Responding to an episode of Benefits Street\, a British documentary about welfare recipients\, commenters draw on and reinforce well-established discourses of social class\, welfare\, citizenship\, and migration to invoke two opposing characters: ‘the demotivated British citizen on welfare’ and ‘the ambitious migrant’. These polarised and polarising stereotypes help to shape and reinforce neoliberal\, post-welfare ideologies by painting welfare as stultifying and precarious mobility as motivational. \nAnalysing the ways these tropes and categories intersect in the comments provides insight into processes of social media polarisation. When sketching two opposing characters\, certain conflations are effected; for example\, ‘welfare as privilege’ and ‘migration as rebranding’. As the perception of social cohesion is integral for supporting the welfare state\, these polarising stereotypes can bring material consequences. \nThalassocorpographies: Conceptualising Mediterranean cinema in\nMy Love Awaits Me by the Sea and My Home\, in Libya\nMs. Giulia Usai\nAlthough the last two decades have seen an increased popularity of films with a Mediterranean setting\, the term Mediterranean cinema is often used descriptively and has rarely been conceptualized analytically. A geographical location\, however\, has a relevant impact on the film-making process\, the aesthetics\, and the creation of meaning of a cinematic work. This talk examines two documentaries\, My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Mais Darwazah\, 2013) and My Home\, in Libya (Martina Melilli\, 2018)\, envisioning them as part of a not-yet theorised Mediterranean film genre\, and exploring the ways in which the concept of the sea as borderscape is articulated on screen. If human movements across the Mediterranean tend to be visually narrated only within a Eurocentric framework – as migratory flows oriented towards the northern shore of the sea – these films\, on the other hand\, depict a variety of encounters\, trajectories and histories that are embodied and inscribed by individuals across the seascape\, and they investigate the role this space plays in challenging interpretations of identity and belonging as seen through a nation-state perspective. \nIn Search of the ‘Untouched’: How Tourist Discourses Facilitate Development\nMr. Sean Philip Smith\nWhen the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (Burma) began a transition from military dictatorship to civilian-led government\, a tourism boom ensued. From 2012 tourists sped to Myanmar in the interest of visiting a place allegedly ‘untouched’ by tourism or globalization. Drawing on my thesis fieldwork\, in this talk I show that these discourses of the ‘untouched’ foster the creation of tourism frontiers\, spaces that are highly desired by tourists and by industry actors who seek to reap the wealth contained in frontiers. The case of Myanmar illustrates how discourse enables forms of development that\, throughout the spaces of global tourism\, have dispossessed local residents through enclosure\, commodification\, and extraction. As the people of Myanmar struggle against the February 1\, 2021 military coup\, this study suggests that without a revaluation of the ‘untouched’\, new frontiers for dispossessive development will be created as global tourism moves past the COVID-19 pandemic. \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91279251117?pwd=NVorcHFyZGJDc1lLRFA4b3VsWllDQT09   \nMeeting ID: 912 7925 1117\nPassword: 218893 \nPlease note that the Live broadcast will be CANCELLED in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
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SUMMARY:“High culture at street level”:  Oslo’s Ibsen Sitat and the ethos of egalitarian nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Professor Adam Jaworski – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/48/Professor_Adam_Jaworski) \nAbstract\nTraditional monuments and commemorative structures used to be tall and domineering. Since the middle of the 20th century\, monuments have had their verticality diminished\, and their design has become more abstract\, or linguistic. In this talk\, I examine the three-dimensional semiotics of Ibsen Sitat\, a street-level monument commemorating Henrik Ibsen and his writing. The monument consists of 69 quotations from Ibsen’s plays embedded in the pavement of Oslo’s city centre. I suggest that\, as a national symbol\, the monument’s placement at street level espouses an egalitarian or democratic nationalist ethos\, in contrast\, for example\, to the aloof\, sacralised Norwegian flags flying atop of the grand\, state/ly buildings surrounding Ibsen Sitat. \n ||  \nBiography\nAdam Jaworski obtained his PhD (1985) and DPhil (1991) in English sociolinguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University\, Poznań\, where he taught as Assistant Professor until 1991. Between 1991–1992 he was Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck\, University of London. In 1993 he moved to the Centre for Language and Communication Research\, Cardiff University and in 2012 he joined the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include discursive and multimodal approaches to tourism\, mobility and globalization; display of languages in space; media discourse; nonverbal communication; and text-based art. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92561092574?pwd=bVZQVlowWDVlbm0wdFc2YjdtdnlKUT09 \nMeeting ID: 925 6109 2574\nPassword: 417749 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
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