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SUMMARY:American Claimants: A Romance in New Clothes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Meer – Senior University Lecturer in English – Cambridge University (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Sarah.Meer/) \nAbstract\nI shall argue for the significance of a particular narrative or dramatic scenario in the nineteenth century\, on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the 'American Claimant' plot\, in which an American heir turns up to claim a British estate.  The premise allowed writers to dramatize culture clash\, often for comic purposes\, but also to contrast political systems\, to pit history and modernity\, or to examine colonialism and revolution. I'll discuss some manifestations in U.S.\, British Victorian\, and South African literature\, as well as in a transatlantic antislavery newspaper\, Frederick Douglass's Paper. I'll also try to talk a little bit about the process of writing\, and I hope that participants will bring their own reflections on this to the Q and A. \n ||  \nBiography\nSarah Meer is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge\, and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She teaches 19th and 20th-century literature – mainly British and American – and has published two monographs: Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery Minstrelsy\, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s (2005); and American Claimants: The Transatlantic Romance\, c. 1820-1920 (2020). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92832511494?pwd=V3dzdElTZVlQSERIamtPeXBzVVMvdz09 \nMeeting ID: 928 3251 1494\nPassword: 924295 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
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SUMMARY:Aestheticism on the Margins: Aesthetic Detachment and the Ethics of Testimony in Twentieth-Century Literature
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Aleksandar Stevic – Assistant Professor of English – Lingnan University (https://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/people/details/Sasha) \nAbstract\nWe usually associate aesthetic detachment with indifference to moral considerations. In the famous formulation of Oscar Wilde\, “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” Unsurprisingly\, such commitment to ethical indifference comes under pressure when literature turns to the representation of great historical traumas. Can we afford to say that a book is simply “well written or badly written” if it deals with such topics as the Holocaust or the transatlantic slave trade? Focusing on such diverse figures as Christopher Okigbo\, Danilo Kiš\, Caryl Phillips\, Milan Kundera\, and Boualem Sansal\, my ongoing project explores the ways in which these authors balance aesthetic and ethical considerations\, the kinds of theoretical arguments they produce in the process\, and the formal choices they make in the name of this dual commitment. \n ||  \nBiography\nAleksandar Stević is an assistant professor of English at Lingnan University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and has previously taught at the University of Belgrade\, Hampshire College\, King’s College\, Cambridge\, and Qatar University. His research focuses primarily on the intersections of the history of the novel with social and intellectual history across the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self Fashioning (University of Virginia Press\, 2020)\, co-editor of The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization and Its Discontents in Contemporary Literature (Routledge\, 2020)\, the editor of The Politics of Tragedy (Belgrade\, 2014)\, and the translator of a several works into Serbo-Croatian\, including\, most recently\, Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91682581132?pwd=MzQ4V0ovTGNCR3F4eFRIYW1GWkdudz09 \nMeeting ID: 916 8258 1132\nPassword: 308496 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday). Join the live chats (10:00am to 11:30am) and mock lectures on English Literature (11:30am)\, and English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication (12:15pm)! \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \nAdditional Content\n \nThe Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2021 will go virtual on October 30\, 2021 (Saturday).  \nWe look forward to meeting our prospective students and parents online soon. \n  \nInformation for Prospective Undergraduate Students\nVideo Presentation by Undergraduate Coordinator\, Dr. Elizabeth Ho \nPowerpoint of Admissions Information for 2022-23 \nNotes \n\nThe Language and Communication major programme will only be open to applicants admitted to Year 3 of the Bachelor of Arts programme via the Direct Admissions Scheme for 2022-23.\nThe Language and Communication major and minor programme will not be open to applicants admitted to Year 1 in 2022-23 and thereafter\, as the Language and Communication component has already been incorporated into the English Studies major and minor programme.\n\n  \nSchedule of Activities\n\n\n\n\nTime\n \nActivity\nSpeaker(s)\nLink\n\n\n10:00 am –\n			11:30 am\n \n\nLive Chatroom on English Studies Majors and Minors \nMore enquiries can be directed to english@hku.hk \n\n\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator and School Representatives \n\n\nJoin the live chatroom by registration on HKU webpage here \n\n\n\n11:30 am –\n			12:00 nn\n \nMock Lecture on English Literature:\n			“Reading like a Detective”\nDr. Jessica Valdez\, Associate Professor\n\nClick here \n\n\n\n12:15 pm –\n			12:45 pm\n \nMock Lecture on English Linguistics\, and Language and Communication\,   \n“It’s Time to Learn Englishes” \n\nDr. Daniel Weston\, Assistant Professor\n\nClick here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/virtual-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2021/
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