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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211104
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SUMMARY:Travelling Terminology and Variations of Sex Characteristics in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian King\, School of English \nTime: 5:00 PM
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/travelling-terminology-and-variations-of-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211105
DTSTAMP:20211022T171833Z
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SUMMARY:School of English Online Workshops: Applying for Postgraduate Programmes
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nThe School of English invites you to join us for two Postgraduate Information Workshops on “Applying for Postgraduate Programmes”\, featuring a range of programmes available to applicants. We welcome HKU students and other international students interested in our programmes. \nDo join us if you would like to learn more. \n  \nInformation Workshop 1: \nMaster of Arts in English Studies (MAES)\, MPhil\, and PhD\nNovember 3\, 2021 (Wednesday) \n4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Dr. Haewon Hwang\, Dr. Agnes Kang and Dr. Jessica Valdez \nThe first information session will focus on the MAES\, MPhil and PhD degrees. \n\nWhat are the differences between these degrees?\nHow do I apply for postgraduate studies in Hong Kong and internationally?\nHow do I find a supervisor?\nHow do I write a research proposal?\nCan I apply for financial aid or scholarships?\n\nWorkshop 1 Registration here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n  \nInformation Workshop 2\nMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in English (MFA)\, and Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC)\nNovember 4\, 2021 (Thursday) \n12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSpeakers: Page Richards\, Chair of Creative Writing & Theatre\, and Ms. Aarti Hemnani\, Theatre Manager\, HKU Black Box \nThe second information session will focus on the MFA and the new MACC degrees. \n\nWho applies for postgraduate studies in creative writing or creative communications?\nWhy choose one over the other?\nWhat is it like to study for an intensive creative degree among multilingual colleagues?\nWhat kinds of unique professional opportunities do creative postgraduate degree make possible?\n\nWorkshop 2 Registration Here\n(The Zoom link will be sent to registrants before each event.) \nPlease click here for the recorded workshop. \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-online-workshops-applying-for-postgraduate-programmes/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103258Z
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SUMMARY:Failure's Shared Unshareability in Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Irving Goh – Assistant Professor of Literature – National University of Singapore (http://www.irving-goh.com/) \nAbstract\nThis paper addresses an aspect of failure that I am calling “shared unshareability.” Highlighting this aspect of failure runs counter to the communitarian contour that “failure studies” and recent affect theory tend to give to contemporary understanding of failure\, but it brings us to the following reckoning: that even though failure can be a common phenomenon\, there is always something of failure that affects only the personal\, that never leaves the personal. I argue that articulating failure’s “shared unshareability” allows us to come to terms with the irreducibility of failure; it also helps us understand why some of us would want to keep the sense of failure to ourselves. In this paper\, I will elucidate failure’s “shared unshareability” through a selection of Yiyun Li’s texts\, which deal with the failure to want to live\, and which further show how melodrama and writing are also implicated.  \n ||  \nBiography\nIrving Goh is President's Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community\, Politics\, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham UP)\, which won the MLA 23rd Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies\, and L'existence prépositionnelle (Galilée). The Deconstruction of Sex\, a book he worked on with Jean-Luc Nancy\, was recently published by Duke UP. He is currently completing his third monograph\, Touching Literature\, or the Experience of the Limit (contracted by Cornell UP)\, and is beginning work on a new book project on rethinking failure. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97039615527?pwd=b2FKcHFYQlZ4eVl5WDZmSDBRQklCZz09 \nMeeting ID: 970 3961 5527\nPassword: 373540 \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/failures-shared-unshareability-in-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211112T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211112T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103606Z
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SUMMARY:Neo-Victorian Fashion in Singapore: The Intertwined Legacies of English Literature and Race
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Waiyee Loh – Assistant Professor of World Literature  – Kanagawa University\, Japan (https://www.waiyee-loh.com/) \nFriday 4:00pm \nAbstract\nThis paper examines the subcultural practices of young Singaporean women who dress up in highly stylised Victorian-inspired outfits as followers of Lolita fashion from Japan. Why do these women invest time\, effort\, and money in performing this highly mediated form of Victorian-ness\, and how does Singapore’s doubly colonial past as a former British and Japanese colony shape the fashion practices of these women? \nThis paper is based on interviews with a small group of Singaporean Lolita fans conducted in 2016 and 2019. While the sample size is not representative\, my interactions with the interviewees reveal that\, for this small group of women\, their choice of neo-Victorian fashion is inflected by the development and reification of racial thinking under both British and Japanese colonial rule\, from the early 19th century to the end of the Asia-Pacific War in 1945. While my interviewees profess an admiration for Englishness\, their desire for a physical mode of expressing this Englishness draws them to Japanese Lolita fashion. Because it is coded as both raceless and racially proximate to “East Asian” identities\, Japanese Lolita fashion allows these women to perform a version of Englishness that can accommodate their non-white bodies. \n ||  \nBiography\nWaiyee Loh is an Assistant Professor of World Literature at Kanagawa University in Yokohama\, Japan. She received her PhD from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to coming to Japan\, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore\, where she conducted the research that forms the basis of today’s presentation. Her work has appeared in the journals Textual Practice\, Neo-Victorian Studies\, Mechademia\, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93967993338?pwd=ZlMxYTg2SEcxS1NNUDBVQTJUcFpUQT09 \nMeeting ID: 939 6799 3338\nPassword: 011961 \nLive broadcast will be available in Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/neo-victorian-fashion-in-singapore-the-intertwined-legacies-of-english-literature-and-race/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211118T163000
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SUMMARY:Stella Benson\, Transnational Crossing\, and the Unconsoled
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Klaudia Lee – Associate Professor\, Department of English – City University of Hong Kong (http://www.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/hiuylee.htm) \nAbstract\nIn the opening of the chapter titled 'Manila – Macao – Hongkong' in her travelogue-memoir The Little World (1925)\, British writer Stella Benson (1892–1933) writes that there are 'three ways of occupying an alien place – first\, to absorb; second\, to be absorbed; third\, neither to absorb nor to be absorbed' (42). This observation undoubtedly relates to her own journeys and experiences in various parts of the world including America\, China\, Japan\, the West Indies\, and Hong Kong (first as a young lady wanting to explore the world\, then as the wife of a colonial official who resided in Asia). In this talk\, I will explore Benson's poetics of mobility. \nBenson has long been marginalized in the literary history of a period that has until recently been dominated and defined by a few high-profile modernist writers\, including Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)\, whom Benson met and corresponded with. Focusing on Benson’s novels\, I will discuss how she appropriates\, and at times parodies\, the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism that has gained much currency since the mid-nineteenth century so as to draw attention to its limits\, and to pinpoint the deep sense of isolation felt by individuals in a seemingly connected yet detached world. By drawing reference to her unpublished diaries that were written in Hong Kong\, where she completed her last novel\, Tobit Transplanted (1931)\, I will also show how her life story reflects the efforts and struggles of a female writer who strived to preserve her writerly identity and sensibility in various volatile environments. \n ||  \nBiography\nKlaudia Lee is an Associate Professor at the Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture\, spatiality\, translation and literature\, comparative and world literature. She published articles in international journals\, such as Journal of Victorian Culture\, Comparative Literature Studies\, English Studies and Victorian Periodicals Review. She is the author of Charles Dickens and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters\, 1895-1915 (Routledge\, 2017). She is currently working on a book project that explores the literary and journalistic connection between Hong Kong\, Britain\, and China from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92123437344?pwd=Z21wTVBta2hGdnlUOGdtUmdjRjIvUT09 \nMeeting ID: 921 2343 7344\nPassword: 789777 \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/stella-benson-transnational-crossing-and-the-unconsoled/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211111T093942Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the Near Occasion:
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Don Mee Choi\, and Feminist Translation as Historiographic Practice \n  \nby Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-the-near-occasion/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 4.04\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTSTAMP:20211122T152748Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies
DESCRIPTION:Applications close: Mar 15\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-associate-professor-assistant-professor-in-english-literary-studies/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211125T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211125T180000
DTSTAMP:20210923T103801Z
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing English(es): which statues must fall and why?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mario Saraceni – Reader in English Language & Linguistics\, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics – University of Portsmouth (https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/mario-saraceni) \nAbstract\nDebates are being held about decolonization and on how to deal with anything associated with Empire and its violence\, from what is very visible – e.g.\, urban landscapes\, museums – to what is less visible\, e.g.\, the curriculum. The approach to visible imperial markers is essentially one of removal: statues of slave traders\, stolen artefacts\, etc. The approach to the decolonization of the curriculum is more complex as it involves dynamics of knowledge production/diffusion\, the dominance of a certain view of the world and the suppression of others. As knowledge and worldviews are expressed largely through language\, and as English is currently the most dominant language\, it makes sense to discuss ways in which English itself can/should be decolonized. And this is what I do in this talk. Given that the status of English as a ‘global’ language is deeply embedded in Empire\, oppression\, suppression and inequality\, the questions that I ask are: what does it mean to decolonize English? How has it been done so far? What else can be done? My answers will not be definite\, but they will offer food for thought. \n ||  \nBiography\nMario Saraceni is a Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth\, UK. He previously taught at Assumption University in Bangkok\, Thailand. His main academic interest is in the area of the ideologies\, representations and roles of English in the world. He has worked extensively in this field\, and his publications include The Relocation of English (Palgrave\, 2010) and World Englishes: A Critical Analysis (Bloomsbury\, 2015\, winner of the 2016 BAAL Book Prize). He has recently edited the Bloomsbury World Englishes three-volume series: Paradigms\, Ideologies\, Pedagogies.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91471164097?pwd=VmdFVnBZUnhXL0VZWjQ3WWZVNGNtUT09 \nMeeting ID: 914 7116 4097\nPassword: 383261 \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/decolonizing-englishes-which-statues-must-fall-and-why/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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