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SUMMARY:Between Abjection and Refusal: Yellow Feminism in The Bacchus Lady
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jerrine Tan – Assistant Professor – Department of English\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jerrine-eewen-tan(d1550de2-49b0-46e9-9efe-5f7eb53cf603).html) \nAbstract\nAnne Cheng notes in Ornamentalism that\, “We say black women\, brown women\, white women\, but not yellow women.” Cheng's statement\, which is as much an indictment as an observation\, serves as my starting point in asking: what does a yellow feminism look like? In attempting to craft one possible way of thinking about "yellow feminism\," and in beginning to build an archive for how we might examine and define it\, I turn to E J-yong’s 2016 film\, The Bacchus Lady\, about an elderly sex worker who comes to care for a Korean-Filippino (known as Kopino) child. Reading The Bacchus Lady alongside Bonnie Honig’s study of the Bacchae in her latest book\, A Feminist Theory of Refusal\, I adumbrate one form of radical yellow feminism\, rooted in a historically\, culturally\, and politically South Korean experience and practice. I argue that E J-yong’s film demonstrates its feminist commitments by crafting a complex woman heroine who embodies a radical politics of care in the face of cruel late-stage capitalism\, models a radical queer communitarian politics\, and\, finally\, self-reflexively takes to task not only the male director but also the voyeuristic viewer. \n ||  \nBiography\nJerrine Tan is an Assistant Professor in the English department at City University Hong Kong. She received her PhD from Brown University and was previously Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Her scholarly and public writing have been published or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro\, Lit Hub\, WIRED\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Asian American Writers' Workshop\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Post45. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91514525076?pwd=UXJpY3l2QldIVFBSUFVwdGVTb25Xdz09 \nMeeting ID: 915 1452 5076\nPassword: 533678 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Research Assistant I/II (2 posts) (Ref.: 512187)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on June 30\, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter for 1 year. \nApplications close: May 20\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-research-assistant-i-ii-2-posts-ref-512187/
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene Storytelling: Homecoming or Far from Home?
DESCRIPTION:Professor David Farrier – Professor of Literature and the Environment – School of Literature\, Languages and Culture\, The University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-farrier) \nAbstract\nThe collapse of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier—forecast to occur before the end of the decade—could raise global sea level by three metres. The grounding line\, eroded by currents of warm water\, is arguable the most important place on Earth right now\, yet it lies two kilometres beneath the ice’s surface and thousands of kilometres from the nearest human settlement. Thwaites shows that in Anthropocene stories\, the background is often the most critical location. Drawing on recent trends in environmental literature to bring the background to the foreground\, and focusing in particular on Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun (2021)\, I will explore the challenges of telling Anthropocene stories.  \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor David Farrier is the author of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020) and Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time\, Sacrifice Zones\, and Extinction (2019). He teaches at the University of Edinburgh. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97624487782?pwd=MlZkOGk2NldxUGl5MW0xMm9UV2dxUT09  \nMeeting ID: 976 2448 7782 \nPassword: 110980  \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/anthropocene-storytelling-homecoming-or-far-from-home/
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SUMMARY:Religious Conviction on the 18th Century Stage: Representing Confessional Commitment in an age of Toleration
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brandon Chua – Assistant Professor of English – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/85/Dr_Brandon_Chua) \nAbstract\nRecent studies of the British Enlightenment have turned to a site of cultural production traditionally overlooked in Enlightenment scholarship: the playhouses of Eighteenth Century London. This work-in-progress paper takes up this revisionist inquiry of Georgian theatrical entertainment by exploring the ways in which the medium of Georgian theatre was uniquely positioned to tackle one of the central quandaries posed by Enlightenment sociability: the contested place of religious conviction within a state established on principles of religious diversity. I take as a case study a body of early Hanoverian drama centred around plots of inter-faith marriage\, paying particular attention to the ways in which Georgian theatre contributed to debates about toleration by asking what new forms of gendered and sexual identities were attendant in a public landscape reconstituted by the imperatives of confessional pluralism. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Brandon Chua gained his PhD in English Literature from The University of Melbourne. He specialises in British Literature written in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries\, with a particular focus on the ways in which literary texts from this period explore the relationship between liberty and subjection. His recent monograph Ravishment of Reason: Government and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage (Bucknell University Press\, 2014) concentrates on dramatic texts by William Davenant\, John Dryden\, Aphra Behn\, Nathaniel Lee\, and John Crowne\, and demonstrates how emerging understandings of the human body and its affective drives generate new dramatic visions of sovereignty and subjection in the later seventeenth century. His new research project\, funded by the Research Grants Council’s Early Career Scheme\, studies early modern understandings of diversity in the context of religious schism and conflict. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99644367646?pwd=ZkVCNG96ZU5GamNDd2VZeHlvT0crdz09  \nMeeting ID: 996 4436 7646 \nPassword: 585447  \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/religious-conviction-on-the-18th-century-stage-representing-confessional-commitment-in-an-age-of-toleration/
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SUMMARY:Migration Discourses and Nostalgia
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Charlotte Taylor – Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (English) – School of Media\, Arts and Humanities\, University of Sussex (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I discuss the presence and role of nostalgia in contemporary discourses of migration in the UK. I start by examining nostalgia in immigration discourses and take the case-study of the Windrush generation to illustrate how we can empirically test for nostalgia in current representations by focussing on a single linguistic feature: metaphor. Through this analysis\, narratives such as the warm history of welcome are reconsidered as recurring rhetorical devices that legitimate hostility. In the second phase\, I focus on nostalgia around emigration from the UK\, identifying mismatches in how movement from the UK has been framed at different points in time\, including the erasure of forced mobility. I argue that nostalgia around past mobility is integral to the maintenance of hostile discourses of immigration because it backgrounds and elides shared experiences of migration between so-called static and mobile populations. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Charlotte Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and conflict using the methodologies of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse (with Anna Marchi)\, Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse (with Melani Schroeter)\, Mock Politeness in English and Italian\, and Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97904392360?pwd=MlRVQTZiT3JwOXgrRTFJNmZ1VnBudz09  \nMeeting ID: 979 0439 2360 \nPassword: 429877 \nIn view of the current pandemic situation\, all face-to-face events or activities shall be suspended in accordance to the notice issued by Task Force. As a matter of fact\, the upcoming seminar will be shifted from hybrid mode to online mode only.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/migration-discourses-and-nostalgia/
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