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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Post-doctoral Fellow (Ref.: 512190)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on June 30\, 2022 for one year\, with the possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability. \nApplications close: May 20\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-post-doctoral-fellow-ref-512190/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Novel Theory Beyond Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michaela Bronstein – Assistant Professor – Department of English\, Stanford University (https://english.stanford.edu/people/michaela-bronstein) \n9:30 am \nAbstract\nWhy do critics persistently seek the politics of fiction in novels about anything but politics? This talk argues that the novel of politics has been sidelined in theories of the novel because novels about political action foreground the limits of the novel’s ability to treat literary mimesis as a model of representative democracy. Rather than focus on the ways novels represent a more capacious vision of society\, novels of politics foreground a politics of action instead of representation or vision. They ask us to think not of the better world we might desire\, but of the compromised\, difficult means available to get us there. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Michaela Bronstein is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Stanford University. She works on modernism and 20th-century fiction more broadly in American\, British\, and African contexts. Her first book\, Out of Context (Oxford)\, was shortlisted for the MSA first book prize. Articles by her have appeared in Novel\, PMLA\, American Literary History\, the Journal of Modern Literature\, Modern Language Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Her book in progress examines novels about acts of revolutionary violence. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96357063374?pwd=MFhoc3FUL2p0VjNQaHJUT1U0c2l0UT09  \nMeeting ID: 963 5706 3374 \nPassword: 607408 \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/novel-theory-beyond-democracy/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220415
DTSTAMP:20220131T115945Z
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SUMMARY:Don Mee Choi’s Radical Historiographies
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Claire Gullander-Drolet – Postdoctoral Fellow – Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/243/Dr_Claire_Gullander-Drolet)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/don-mee-chois-radical-historiographies/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220419T163000
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SUMMARY:“The New Economy and the Old Morality”: Wells\, Forster\, and Edwardian Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nan Zhang – Associate Professor – Fudan University (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/116/Dr_Nan_Zhang) \nTuesday \nAbstract\nThis talk examines how the novels of H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster represent the transmutation of British liberalism at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes a strain of liberal thinking that connects to and diverges from the advocacies of both the New Liberalism and Fabian socialism\, reformist doctrines that reshaped the political topography of Edwardian England. Focusing on depictions of “the new economy and the old morality” by both writers\, I argue that Edwardian literature vividly captures the internal complexity and variability of British liberalism in the early twentieth century. The talk extends recent scholarship that calls attention to the affective and ethico-aesthetic dimensions of liberalism. It demonstrates how the mutually informing relationship between Edwardian liberalism and literature enriches our understanding of the subtleties of liberal culture in the twentieth century and beyond. \n ||  \nBiography\nNan Zhang is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Fudan University and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Johns Hopkins University. She has published a book on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group\, and is currently finishing her second monograph\, “Solemn Progress”: Modernism\, Social Constitution\, and the Politics of Cosmopolitan Virtue\, which explores global modernist negotiations with various forms of cosmopolitan virtue. Her new book project examines the interplay between Edwardian liberalism and literature and its transcultural implications. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Modernist Cultures\, Journal of East-West Thought\, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and currently chair of the Modernist Studies in Asia research network\, and has been awarded international fellowships for her research\, including the 2020 Humanities Research Centre Fellowship at the Australian National University and British Academy Seed Funding in 2019. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91794677602?pwd=ZmJSbndoZVJCUE1QYWJqakxKVGVXQT09 \nMeeting ID: 917 9467 7602\nPassword: 735745 \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/the-new-economy-and-the-old-morality-wells-forster-and-edwardian-liberalism/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220421
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DTSTAMP:20220131T120111Z
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare’s Political Spirit: Towards a Negative Political Theology
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Luke – Assistant Professor – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \nPostponed to September
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-political-spirit-towards-a-negative-political-theology/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220421T163000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Otherwise: Feminist Refusal\, Silence\, and Transnational Trauma in Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jerrine Tan – Assistant Professor\, Department of English – City University of Hong Kong (https://jerrinetan.squarespace.com/) \nAbstract\nThe assertion of national powers and enforcement of authority in wartime are often inscribed through the enactment of sexual violence on women’s bodies. This talk will read Korean American writer Chang-Rae Lee’s A Gesture Life\, which broaches the issue of military “comfort women” —women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during WWII— and their representation (or lack thereof) in Japanese (and global) memory. Analyzing the novel alongside theorists such as Barbara Johnson and Saidiya Hartman\, this talk examines the occlusion of the female voice to consider the impossibility of representation and the disingenuousness of discourse\, in order to offer a way of recuperating a silenced voice. In my larger project\, I draw attention to the figures of female suffering that lie at the center of certain transnational novels to show how these novels are powerful for their ability to make this pain into an allegory for other forms of historical violence while maintaining a feminist focus on the issue of misogyny. \n ||  \nBiography\nJerrine Tan was born and raised in Singapore. She received her BA in English and Economics from UC Berkeley and her MA and PhD in English from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor at City University Hong Kong and previously taught Global Anglophone Literature in the English department at Mount Holyoke College. Her research interests include Transnational Asian Literature and Film\, Contemporary Fiction\, 20th century American Literature\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and Film. Her international approach to research has been supported by various international fellowships\, including the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)\, the Japan Foundation\, Brown University\, and Fudan University. Her academic essays have been published or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies\, Wasafiri\, and the Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro. Her essays have also been featured on popular platforms such as Literary Hub\, WIRED\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Asian American Writers' Workshop. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94328637377?pwd=cnY0eVpaNm5DRmlFaE1UZkRDaitGdz09 \nMeeting ID: 943 2863 7377\nPassword: 735745 \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/speaking-otherwise-feminist-refusal-silence-and-transnational-trauma-in-chang-rae-lees-a-gesture-life/
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SUMMARY:Opium Addiction and Forms of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Menglu Gao – Visiting Assistant Professor\, English Department – Colby College (https://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/mgao/) \nFriday\, 9:30 am \nAbstract\nIn the essayist Thomas De Quincey’s notorious Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)\, the protagonist describes opium’s psychoactive effects as “found[ing] its empire on spells of pleasure.” In this and myriad other nineteenth-century writings\, the encounter between opium and “empire” serves as a significant rhetorical device that sparks questions about the connections among peoples\, nations\, and individual bodies. The seminar is built on a quite obvious premise: substance use was often politicized in the nineteenth century\, in the sense that it could be associated with “abnormal\,” marginalized groups marked by race\, gender\, class\, health status\, or other factors. Starting from this premise of modern individuals’ susceptibility to the power of normalization\, the seminar shows that addiction was a conduit for imagining the structure of empire instead of merely being an actual consequence of imperialism. In particular\, I will focus on one example: how Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) mimics and reflects on the method of imperial knowledge making\, including the way Orientalism and racialization work. \n ||  \nBiography\nMenglu Gao is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Colby College. She is the recipient of prizes and fellowships from\, among others\, the Buffett Institute\, the Midwest Victorian Studies Association\, and the Consortium for History of Science\, Technology and Medicine. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93305162283?pwd=eDc1Ny9aaldIdDVISXVkZXVuaHZpdz09 \nMeeting ID: 933 0516 2283\nPassword: 735745 \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/opium-addiction-and-forms-of-empire/
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SUMMARY:April's updates for Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features an interview with Dr. Hanwool Choe\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, where she delves into her research in food discourse. \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/aprils-updates-for-alumni-magazine/
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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Project Associate (Ref.: 512643) (to commence as soon as possible for 1 year)
DESCRIPTION:Applicants should be Hong Kong residents and fresh graduates of 2020 and 2021. \nApplications close: May 31\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-project-associate-ref-512643-to-commence-as-soon-as-possible-for-1-year/
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Tai – Mphil Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Fang Xuan – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Monirul Huq – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nWhat is Science?’ Discussion from an Integrationist Semiological Perspective\nJoseph Tai\, Mphil Candidate\, School of English\nThe question “what is science?”\, also known as the demarcation problem\, refers to the search for the criterion/criteria that separates science from non-science. However\, by the standards of philosophers of science\, no criteria proposed thus far have been able to definitively separate science from non-science. This talk proposes that the difficulty in solving the demarcation problem has a semiological basis\, and that it may be understood using linguist Roy Harris’ integrational semiology. Specifically\, from the perspective of integrational semiology\, how one understands science (as a thing)\, and by extension\, what activities one considers to be a part of science\, cannot be separated from how science (as a word) is defined. This talk proposes that one’s semiological leanings will affect how one answers the demarcation problem. \n\nFundamentals of Integrationism and Foundations of Meaning\nFang Xuan\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\nFor the seminar\, I will present a cursory outline of the research I have done for my PhD thesis. First\, I will explain the purpose of my thesis\, which is to address the long-standing issue of considering meaning from an integrational perspective: that is\, the discrepancy between the opaqueness of the nature of meaning\, and the transparency of meaning as a phenomenon. Secondly\, I will put forward the findings of my research: 1) that the meaning issue cannot be adequately handled by any semantic\, semiological\, or semiotic approach alone; 2) that every approach presupposes certain philosophical views. Thirdly\, I will discuss my studies of the impactful schools of thought about meaning that have held sway across the western academic tradition and disclose their latent philosophical positions. Finally\, I will delineate my reconstruction of an integrational philosophy and my construction of a corresponding integrational account of meaning.  \n  \nFinding Agency in the Face of Climate Change: Creative Expressions from the Sundarbans and the Pacific\nMonirul Huq\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\nThe Pacific Island states and the lower Bengal delta\, including the Sundarban\, are among the places most affected by planetary climate change. In response to the “slow violence” wrought on these places\, writers and activists hailing from them often resort to oral tradition and performative practices to emphasise the residents’ “environmental identities” and “environmental heritage\,” both connected to the land they inhabit. Acknowledging the essential differences in perceiving and reacting to the Anthropocene\, this paper discusses how creative expressions situate the residents of these two regions in relation to the land to reinforce their identities and to proclaim their agency as climate warriors. Despite the disparities between these practices and the distinct geographical positions of these places\, this paper highlights the way cultural productions from distant regions may complement each other and bring into view a new kind of cosmopolitics oriented toward a common world composed through agency distributed across ecological borders. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95537801179?pwd=cXYwSlh0bzZjSXpBNk5YNWtXZXREdz09 \nMeeting ID:    955 3780 1179\nPassword:      150496 \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/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session/
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