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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220114
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SUMMARY:Commencement Dates and Teaching Mode (January 17-31) for the undergraduate courses at Semester 2 2021-22
DESCRIPTION:Please note that the information is for the teaching arrangement from January 17-31 ONLY. Please keep checking the course Moodle before each class.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/commencement-dates-and-teaching-mode-january-17-31-for-the-undergraduate-courses-at-semester-2-2021-22/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220125
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SUMMARY:How We Eat Online
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hanwool Choe\nPostdoctoral Fellow\, Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, HKU \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nHow We Eat Online\nDr. Hanwool Choe\nPostdoctoral Fellow\, Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, HKU \n  \nJanuary 24\, 2022 (Monday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time)\nRoom 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nWith live broadcast on Zoom:\nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/96628570157?pwd=VVFnUkE5YWgzNlJpcUhxbW52UU1KZz09 \nMeeting ID: 966 2857 0157\nPassword: 638644 \n  \nAbstract\nUsing interactional sociolinguistics and multimodality\, I investigate how practices of eating together and eating well are discursively and multimodally performed in two different online settings: eating together in mukbang (livestream of eating) and eating well in Korean expatriates’ everyday vlogs (video blogs of everyday lives). To accomplish online commensality\, mukbang participants make collaborative eating actions by incorporating spoken\, typed\, and bodily actions. Such collaborative eating actions contribute to framing mukbang as a shared mealtime\, while also constructing a virtual sense of togetherness. Just as mukbang provides an online space to eat together\, everyday vlogs provide a platform for vloggers to share how they eat well\, which is more than just healthful or luxurious eating styles. Rather\, it resonates with the ordinariness of what and how to eat in daily lives. The practice of eating well is also tightly linked to everyday identities of vloggers such as Koreans\, foreign nationals\, and local selves. Through highlighting how technologies connect food and eating practice to digital discourse\, my talk provides a better understanding of how digital communication about and involving food embodies the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well. \nBiography\nHanwool Choe is currently a postdoctoral fellow for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics\, with a specialization in Sociolinguistics\, at Georgetown University. Prior to her Ph.D.\, she was a recipient of a Fulbright Graduate Study Award for her M.A. in Language & Communication at Georgetown University. She is a discourse analyst who primarily focuses on digital discourse\, multimodal interaction\, language and food\, and life stories. Her works have appeared in journals such as Language in Society\, Journal of Pragmatics\, Discourse Studies\, and Narrative Inquiry. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/how-we-eat-online/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220126
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SUMMARY:Signs of the Time: Access\, Inclusion\, and Social Justice in Covid-19 Linguistic Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sarah Hopkyns\nAssistant Professor\, College of Education\, Zayed University\, United Arab Emirates \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nSigns of the Time: Access\, Inclusion\, and Social Justice in Covid-19 Linguistic Landscapes\nDr. Sarah Hopkyns\nAssistant Professor\, College of Education\, Zayed University\, United Arab Emirates \n  \nJanuary 25\, 2022 (Tuesday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nOn Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91720519424?pwd=K3VaZktKaE1LUnZtZStoY3pCNGZvUT09 \nMeeting ID: 917 2051 9424\nPassword: 082175 \nWith live broadcast in Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nAbstract\nAs the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year\, with the Omicron variant in full swing\, there is an ongoing need to reflect on language practices in multilingual contexts. Covid-induced disruptions to habituated social practices and familiarized communication patterns have shone a spotlight on linguistic diversity and issues of access\, inclusion\, and social justice. Linguistic hierarchies and power relations can be revealed through inclusion and exclusion of certain languages on public signage\, and especially locally produced impromptu messages are authentic ‘signs of the time’ (Kalman 2020). In a crisis\, often only official languages and English are used by default for communicating health warnings. The exclusion of peripheral languages from crisis communication\, known as ‘disaster linguicism’ (Uekusa\, 2019)\, has been found in multiple contexts globally. \nThis presentation shares findings from a linguistic landscaping study taking place in the multilingual city of Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the onset of the pandemic. Although the UAE has Arabic as its official language and English as a de facto lingua franca\, over 100 other languages are spoken in the nation due to transnational workers constituting approximately 89 per cent of the population. In the study\, two Abu Dhabi live-work contexts (a beachside community and an industrial site) were explored through ‘walking ethnographies’ with an analysis of a corpus of 326 top-down and bottom-up signs.  Through nexus analysis (Scollon & Scollon\, 2003)\, language\, images\, spacing\, prominence\, and location were analysed as well as intended audience and sociolinguistic implications. Key findings revealed mainly monolingual (English only) bottom-up Covid signage together with predominately bilingual (Arabic and English) top-down Covid signage. Although symbols aided understanding\, little inclusion of periphery languages could be seen. The findings shed light on existing inequalities in linguistically diverse contexts\, and the need to ensure access to information for all at a street level. The presentation concludes with future directions for Covid linguistic landscaping research and provides practical suggestions for greater linguistic inclusion in the Covid period and beyond. \nBiography\nSarah Hopkyns is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zayed University\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester\, UK. Her research interests include cultural identities\, language policy\, translingual practice\, linguistic landscaping\, and English as a global language. She has published widely in journals such as Asian Englishes\, Multilingua\, Policy Futures in Education\, and World Englishes\, and has contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes. Sarah is the author of The Impact of Global English on Cultural Identities in the United Arab Emirates (Routledge\, 2020) and co-editor of a forthcoming Routledge book: Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States: Waves of Change. \n  \nKalman\, J. (2020). Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City. Language on the Move\, 2020-05-14. https://www.languageonthemove.com/signs-of-the-times-small-media-during-covid-19-in-mexico-city/.\nScollon\, R.\, & Scollon\, S. W. (2003). Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World. London: Routledge.\nUekusa\, S. (2019). Disaster linguicism: Linguistics minorities in disasters. Language and Society 48(3). 353-375. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/signs-of-the-time-access-inclusion-and-social-justice-in-covid-19-linguistic-landscapes/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220128
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SUMMARY:Orchestrated Openings:  Establishing Intimacy-at-a-distance in Video Calls between  Left-behind Children and Their Migrant Parents
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \n4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time) \nOrchestrated Openings:  Establishing Intimacy-at-a-distance in Video Calls between  Left-behind Children and Their Migrant Parents\nDr. Christian Greiffenhagen\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \n  \nJanuary 27\, 2022 (Thursday)\, 4:30 p.m. (Hong Kong time)\nRoom 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nWith live broadcast on Zoom: \nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/96795658643?pwd=dmFrK3R2MUsvZ3hUQkNOYXl2dytIdz09 \nMeeting ID: 967 9565 8643\nPassword: 223131 \n  \nAbstract\nOpenings of interaction are critical for maintaining social relationships. In this work with Yumei Gan (Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Christian Licoppe (Télécom ParisTech)\, I explore the practices of managing openings in a situation where parents are separated from their children and they only encounter each other in a video-mediated environment. As a result of this\, these openings have a particular emotional significance. Based on detailed analysis of 56 video calls openings between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children\, we show that grandparents\, who are the caregivers of these children\, ‘orchestrate’ these openings. We demonstrate\, firstly\, that grandparents help to establish a parent-child ‘talking head’ configuration upon connection. We show\, secondly\, that after the establishment of mutual talking head\, both grandparents and parents expect the child to treat the production of this video-mediated configuration as sequentially implicative\, that is to speak and greet first\, and to greet largely. Our findings suggest that such orchestrated openings are an important component in the enactment of family bonding and intimacy across distances. \nBiography\nChristian Greiffenhagen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, where he leads the Video Analysis\, Science & Technology (VAST) Research Group. His research interests include conversation analysis (CA)\, video-mediated communication (VMC)\, human-computer interaction (HCI)\, and science & technology studies (STS). Current research projects are “The Practice of Peer Review in Mathematics” (GRF 14600218)\, which investigates the disciplinary specificity of peer review; and “Intimacy at a Distance: A Video-based Study of Video Calls between Migrant Workers and their Left-behind Children in China” (GRF 14602619)\, which studies the role of video calls in facilitating intimacy in multi-local families. \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/orchestrated-openings-establishing-intimacy-at-a-distance-in-video-calls-between-left-behind-children-and-their-migrant-parents/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220128
DTSTAMP:20220127T102457Z
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Project Associate (Ref.: 511737) (to commence as soon as possible for 1 year)
DESCRIPTION:Applicants should be Hong Kong residents and fresh graduates. \nApplications close: Feb 28\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-project-associate-ref-511737-to-commence-as-soon-as-possible-for-1-year/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220128
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SUMMARY:January's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Review of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro\nby WU Tong \nInterview with Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet\nby Khadija Azhar\, Lok Hang Vincent Chu\, and Rajesh Panhathodi
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/januarys-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
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