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SUMMARY:Postcolonial Disjunctures: Variable Understandings of "Mother Tongue" in an Indian Higher Education Institute
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar (https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/hss/fac-nishaant) \nAbstract\nThe idea of ‘mother tongue’ is ubiquitous in South Asia\, both in policy and in people’s common-sense understanding of language. However\, in a highly plurilingual environment\, the concept of "mother tongue" is far from fixed and is articulated through a range of variable ideological positions that depend on one’s sociolinguistic location at particular moments in time. This talk will explore how students at a national higher education institution in western India\, who come from diverse linguistic backgrounds\, conceive of the idea of ‘mother tongue’ as they navigate (many for the first time) English-dominant education and manage their relations with peers from different regions. In the talk\, it is argued that the sociolinguistic milieu of the higher education institute affords possibilities for identification that are different from conventional understandings of "mother tongue." Within such a milieu\, spaces of “sociolinguistic disjuncture” (Meek 2010)\, where more creative linguistic practices result\, can emerge. \n**The ​research for this talk is done in collaboration with Chaise Ladousa (Hamilton College) and Christina Davis (Western Illinois University) \n ||  \nBiography\nNishaant Choksi received his PhD from University of Michigan in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar in Gujarat\, India. His research interests include the study of script\, writing\, language ideology\, education\, semiotics\, and indigenous communities in South Asia. He has published in journals such as Journal of Linguistic Anthropology\, Language and Society\, and Modern Asian Studies. His monograph\, Graphic Politics in eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy has recently been published by Bloomsbury. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93936175675?pwd=QVY5QURxVGdRYnhrVDVCY1pRVElFQT09 \nMeeting ID: 939 3617 5675\nPassword: 300995 \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/postcolonial-disjunctures-variable-understandings-of-mother-tongue-in-an-indian-higher-education-institute/
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SUMMARY:Deep Culture Memory: Performance and the Archive of Identity
DESCRIPTION:Professor Odai Johnson – School of Drama\, University of Washington (https://drama.washington.edu/people/odai-johnson) \n9:30 am \nAbstract\nThis talk explores how lost performance traditions of the past carried forward and bequeathed attitudes of the older world long after the performances themselves ceased. The archiving impulse of performance endured longer than the form itself and continues to shape cultural notions of identity; we know this from familiar tropes\, like black-face minstrel shows of the 19th century\, still emitting toxic notions of race a century after the form was discontinued. This talk will trace the long history of an older\, equally toxic memory that performance preserved: Crusader cannibalism. \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Odai Johnson is a widely published historian of past performance traditions. His most recent book is Ruins: Classical Theatre and Broken Memory ​(2018). This talk is from his current book project\, The Size of All That's Missing: Lost Performance and Deep Culture Memory. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96265927457?pwd=YWU2dWtlNG0veEl1b2k0ZXFjb3ZYZz09     \nMeeting ID: 962 6592 7457\nPassword: 692902 \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/deep-culture-memory-performance-and-the-archive-of-identity/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T163000
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SUMMARY:Engaging Future Parents: Activist Biocitizenship Practices and Intersex Transgression
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian King – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) \nAbstract\nThis study aims to explore a more fully theorised concept of biocitizenship as part of the teaching of intersex in critical approaches to sex education. In this more fully theorised version\, the options for students\, as future parents\, are not limited to compliance with biomedicine; rather\, formal education experiences might prepare them to be neighbours and parents who\, as allies of intersex family/community members\, can engage in political activism to effect change where deemed necessary. Drawn from a research project based in an Aotearoa/New Zealand secondary school\, the data is classroom talk. Transcripts of audio-recorded classroom interactions will be analysed using a version of critical discourse analysis that expands the attention paid to semiotic modes such as visual cues of bodies as well as affect. The findings reveal that biocitizenship can also include those who accept intersex bodies\, altering established practices to accommodate those bodies and the people who live them. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Brian W. King is a critical sociolinguist who researches the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity\, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within sexuality education\, healthcare communication\, computer-mediated communication\, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically he draws on a number of traditions\, including interactional sociolinguistics\, corpus linguistics\, linguistic anthropology\, and critical discourse studies. Brian leads the Communicating Sex Variation Research Cluster (CSV) in the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (RIICH) an interdisciplinary\, international collaboration housed in HKU's Faculty of Arts. He is a member of the board of trustees of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ)\, which strives to advocate dignity\, diversity and choice for people born with intersex traits. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97849120228?pwd=YlFJTTBFSDVzVU5VSkNGaU0yV3lCUT09 \nMeeting ID: 978 4912 0228\nPassword: 109158 \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/engaging-future-parents-activist-biocitizenship-practices-and-intersex-transgression/
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SUMMARY:Feminist Revolutions Out of Reach
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yanbing Er – Department of English Language & Literature\, National University of Singapore (https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elley/) \nAbstract\nHow might a feminist revolution be theorized to account for its dissonant coordinates of spatial and temporal struggle? In response to this question\, this talk develops what I call a feminist revolution out of reach: a concept that registers the transnational and transtemporal geometries intrinsic to a feminist revolution\, which are destined to remain perpetually beyond knowable grasp. I show how this concept takes shape in an analysis of Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being\, through which a revolutionary modality characterized by its multiple vanishing points is revealed. To this end\, this talk articulates another way of reading and representing a feminist revolution\, written both into and out of existence by literary strategies\, and fundamentally beyond reach in its true eventfulness. \n ||  \nBiography\nYanbing Er is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. Working at the intersections of feminist theory\, affect studies\, and twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture\, she is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Feminism Enchanted. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98778746417?pwd=a2NBR2FHRGg4dis4dkNlZ1hjWlZyZz09 \nMeeting ID: 987 7874 6417\nPassword: 558532 \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/feminist-revolutions-out-of-reach/
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SUMMARY:Postgraduate Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Man Ka Sinead Kwok – The University of Hong Kong || Shellie Hester Audsley – The University of Hong Kong || Xiaowei Li – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract\nTranslation in Signs: Semiology and Semiotics\nMs. Sinead Kwok\nWhile it may prima facie be regarded as a specialized and thus easily delineable activity\, translation is in fact a complex but fundamental activity constituted by its intricate connections with signs\, language and communication. This talk will compare three conceptualizations of signs in terms of their explanations of translation. One deep-seated sign that has corroborated translation theories for the longest time is the bipartite linguistic sign consisting of a form and a meaning; this sign has occupied a principal position from as early as the classical period and has become hackneyed since the Saussurean-semiological formulation was put forward. Gaining traction in recent decades is the semiotic sign\, which is purported to rid translation theories of their linguistic bias and offer a more dynamic account. This talk will instead propose an integrational-semiological sign as an alternative that will better illuminate translation by emancipating it from the abstract sign i.e.\, the stale semiological sign and the semiotic sign. \n\nLyricity and the Sublime in Byron’s “The Dream”\nMs. Shellie Hester Audsley\nIn light of the recent debate on the applicability of narratology in the study of the lyric\, this paper approaches Byron’s personal lyric\, “The Dream”\, with an attention to its lyric-narrative synthesis. By adapting Peter Hühn’s schema-based theory of eventfulness for the evaluation of the poem’s idealized representation of mental processes—particularly against the Wordsworthian tradition—I uncover Byron’s systematic inversion of lyric epiphany and the rendering of the sublime as narrative (anti)climax. This paper argues that narrative sequentiality is integrated with the lyric form to embody the poet’s conception of the sublime as well as to strengthen\, instead of undermine\, the poem’s lyricity. \n  \nSmart and Sassy: Construction of a Disabled Lesbian Persona\nMs. Xiaowei May Li\nDrawing on data from across multiple social media platforms\, this study investigates the identity construction of a self-identified\, disabled\, lesbian vlogger named Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. In my talk\, I focus on how she mobilizes verbal and visual semiotic resources to present herself as a “smart and sassy” ambassador for the LGBTQ+ and disabled communities. In particular\, I explore her construction of and stancetaking in two apparent\, imagined communities: an “in-group”\, conceived as a community of disabled and queer people\, and an “out-group”\, conceived as all the people espousing hegemonic able- and hetero-normative ideologies. These two groups constitute what DuBois (2007) calls the “stance object”\, and JKF aligns herself with the former through the celebratory stance and disaligns herself with the latter through the agonistic stance. She uses humor\, kinship terms and hashtags to enact the celebratory stance\, and varidirectional voicing (Bakhtin\, 1984) of her purported adversaries’ voices to enact the agonistic stance. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96718590457?pwd=REFUN3FmS2hCTnJ0ZklhdWlZSVhRUT09     \nMeeting ID: 967 1859 0457\nPassword: 940253 \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/postgraduate-session-2/
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