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SUMMARY:Test
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SUMMARY:Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Lunch Choice\n1) \n2) \n3) \n4)
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SUMMARY:When Serious is Funny
DESCRIPTION:Professor Don Kulick – Chair Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \n*Room CRT-4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower \nAbstract\nLove on the Spectrum is an Australian reality series that follows a number of young adults on the autism spectrum\, as they search for love and go on dates with others who also are on the spectrum. The show ran for two seasons\, in 2019 and 2021\, and was recently also made in a US version. The series was generally well-reviewed both by people who themselves are on the spectrum and by neurotypical viewers. Much of the charm of the series is that it evokes laughter\, frequently at the seriousness of the people it portrays. My talk will explore how the series invites viewers to find the protagonists’ serious behaviour funny. I will compare the laughter raised during Love on the Spectrum with laughter encouraged by British comedian Ricky Gervais’s 2012-2014 series Derek\, which is about a character whom many viewers identified as being on the autism spectrum. I will discuss similarities between the two series\, but will conclude by proposing that the laughter invited by seriousness during these two series in fact is structured very differently. \n ||  \nBiography\nDon Kulick is Chair Professor of Anthropology at HKU and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden. His books include A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019); Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex\, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement (with J. Rydström\, 2015); Language and Sexuality (with D. Cameron\, 2003) and Travesti: Sex\, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/2262396829?pwd=WUhyZXc5YUx4TkNjd1VQeUJQeFNTQT09 \nMeeting ID: 226 239 6829\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/when-serious-is-funny/
LOCATION:Room 4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
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SUMMARY:The language of trauma: Evidence from domestic migrant workers’ storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hans Ladegaard – Professor – Hong Kong Polytechnic University (https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-hans-j-ladegaard/) \nAbstract\nTrauma storytelling represents a break not just with a particular form of representation but with the very possibility of representation at all. Extreme suffering is an experience that goes beyond ‘ordinary’ words\, and since no vocabulary is available to account for extraordinary subhuman experiences\, storytelling which reports on human-inflicted trauma is characterized by voids in the narrative flow. Drawing on a large corpus of more than 400 domestic migrant worker narratives recorded at shelters in Hong Kong and among returnees in Indonesia and the Philippines\, this talk analyzes narratives of suffering and humiliation. The women talk about their painful encounters with verbal and physical assault\, sexual assault\, starvation\, and the fear and anxiety they experienced while working for an abusive employer. The talk outlines some of the characteristics of these stories of suffering\, including a broken disruptive style\, incoherent stories that break with ordinary logic\, and lack of appropriate vocabulary to account for extreme suffering. Finally\, I discuss how we as researchers (should) deal with other people’s stories of suffering. \n ||  \nBiography\nHans Ladegaard studied at the University of Southern Denmark and Cambridge University\, England. Prior to his present post as Professor (and Head until 2021) of the Department of English & Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University\, he taught at universities in Denmark and the UK. His research interests include intercultural communication\, language attitudes and stereotypes\, language and gender\, narratives of migration\, and pragmatics and discourse analysis. He is Editor-in-Chief of Language & Intercultural Communication (Routledge). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93659393176?pwd=azB0QnplSHRzOTlQUE5yQjkrYi8vdz09 \nMeeting ID: 936 5939 3176\nPassword: 438643
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-language-of-trauma-evidence-from-domestic-migrant-workers-storytelling/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:American Iconography of Macedonian Calls: Leung A-Fa’s Conversion to Print Evangelism and the Imperial Crosscurrents of the Canton Mission Press
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kendall Johnson – Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/50/Professor_Kendall_Johnson) \nAbstract\nAs a printer and distributor of evangelical tracts\, Leung A-Fa captured the imagination of the first US missionaries to China as they established and operated the Canton Mission Press in the decades leading to and through the Opium Wars. The Canton Mission Press was but one station in a global system of print communication administrated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) headquartered in Boston. The lecture considers the representation of Leung A-Fa in the ABCFM’s layered accounts of global print endeavours that stretched from the continental “Far West” to a circuit of printing stations in the “Far East.” His representation registers ideological “crosscurrents” of antebellum US imperialism in iconography of the Macedonian Call—an iconography that invoked trade reciprocity as a moral imperative and the free press as a vehicle of regulating revivalist enthusiasm. \n ||  \nBiography\nAs an interdisciplinary scholar of early American and British literatures\, Prof. Johnson researches material print culture in the historical contexts of commerce and diplomacy. He is the author of Henry James and the Visual (2007) and The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (2017). He has edited and co-edited several collections\, including Oceanic Archives (2019; with Otto Heim and Yuan Shu). His articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies\, American Literary History (ALH)\, American Quarterly\, Literature and History\, and elsewhere. A recent contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature (2022) addresses the affective charge of opium smoking in Emily Hahn’s review of George Santayana’s novel The Last Puritan.  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96451929348?pwd=Z3JIZTFHY3pEUlpYZ0FBRTRha01LZz09  \nMeeting ID: 964 5192 9348\nPassword: 012256 
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