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SUMMARY:Triangulating Practice and Discourse in Pick-up Artist Instructional Videos – From Voice-Over to Video Comments
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sofia Rüdiger – Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Chair of English Linguistics – University of Bayreuth\, Germany (https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/sofia-ruediger/index.php) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I investigate the discourse of instructional videos from the pick-up artist (PUA) community. PUAs are men who learn and practice short-term mating-oriented speed-seduction based on techniques and scripts as propagated by seduction ‘experts’. In doing so\, I focus on videos which feature explicit voice-over commentary by the PUA himself plus the comment section of the respective video. This allows for a threefold perspective on PUAs’ seduction performance: 1) the ‘seductive’ speech event itself\, 2) the PUA’s commentary\, which situates the speech event in their instructional paradigm\, and 3) the comments by the viewers of the video\, which provide an understanding of the uptake of the proposed strategies by the audience. In a case study analysis\, I show that PUAs’ discourse\, although ostensibly aimed towards seduction\, in fact pursues different aims: recruitment of new members\, promotion of the ideology\, and creation of power imbalance in conversations with women that tilts towards verbal coercion. The comments left by the audience demonstrate an ambivalent reception\, with the assessment of the PUA being questioned. In addition\, I address issues of informed consent and research ethics\, which come to the fore in dealing with such sensitive material and/or hostile informants. \n ||  \nBiography\nSofia Rüdiger is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Bayreuth with a research focus on digital communication\, World Englishes (part. in East Asia)\, language and food\, and (historical) pragmatics. She is editor of Corpus Approaches to Social Media (with Daria Dayter\, Benjamins\, 2020) and Talking about Food (with Susanne Mühleisen\, Benjamins\, 2020). Together with Daria Dayter\, she has published several articles on the discursive behavior of pick-up artists (e.g.\, in Applied Linguistics Review\, English Today\, Journal of Pragmatics); in 2022\, their research monograph The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry was published by Routledge. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99943621938?pwd=TlhiRWh3L2pJMjQ1WGovT2xPOU9ldz09 \nMeeting ID: 999 4362 1938\nPassword: 966145 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/triangulating-practice-and-discourse-in-pick-up-artist-instructional-videos-from-voice-over-to-video-comments/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221014
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language\, mental health\, and stigma”
DESCRIPTION:HKU RIICH & IC4CH Webinar: “Speaking our minds: Studies of language\, mental health\, and stigma”\n \nAs famously announced by the first Director-General of the WHO\, Dr Brock Chisholm\, back in 1951\, “without mental health there can be no true physical health”. Despite these remarks being made more than 70 years ago\, mental health remains to be surrounded by societal taboo and stigma. Mental health has gained a lot more prominence with the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar aims to showcase cutting-edge sociolinguistic research on mental health and stigma. This research centres on the lived experiences of those who go through mental health issues and stigma. The short papers presented in this webinar will focus on how people communicate about and make sense of their mental health experiences and stigma. The webinar will highlight research being conducted in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom in collaboration with Mind Hong Kong\, a mental health NGO\, and City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong\, a workplace mental health organization. Papers will address the topics of mental health and stigma amongst different populations such as end-of-life care workers; new university graduates entering the workforce; working mothers; and mental health ambassadors. It will also discuss media constructions of mental health pre- and post-pandemic. The webinar will consider the implications of sociolinguistic research for challenging our existing understandings of mental health and for developing practical advice for the healthcare and volunteer sectors. \n  \nSpeakers and topics\nDr. Olga Zayts\, HKU RIICH Director\, School of English\, HKU \nMental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19 \nDr. Zoe Fortune\, ‘Mental Health and Communication’ Research Cluster Leader\, HKU RIICH\, HKU \nUnderstanding graduates’ mental health during workplace transitions \nProf. Sylvia Jaworska\, University of Reading\, UK \nMedia constructions of mental health in Hong Kong: What has changed pre and during the pandemic \nDr. David Edmonds\, HKU RIICH\, School of English\, HKU \nSources of adverse emotions and mental health for end-of-life care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic \nMs. Stephanie Ng\, HKU RIICH\, School of English\, HKU \nExploring forms and functions of mental health recovery narratives and their implications for narrator wellbeing  \nDiscussant: Ms. Odile Thiang\, Mind HK Lead Clinical Advisor – Anti-Stigma Programme \n  \nRegistration\nThose who successfully registered will receive an email with Zoom link before the event.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-ic4ch-webinar-speaking-our-minds-studies-of-language-mental-health-and-stigma/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221020T163000
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SUMMARY:"Kill all the lawyers": Shakespeare's (Negative) Political Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Luke – Assistant Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \n(Face-to-face only) \nAbstract\nThis talk re-examines the notorious Jack Cade scenes of Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI\, which include the famous rebel cry\, “The first thing we do\, let’s kill all the lawyers”. I will argue that Shakespeare’s representation of the breakdown of the body politic\, including into the chaos of the so-called “mob scenes”\, raises the shadow of a more just political community.  The paper forms part of a larger project that seeks to read Shakespeare’s drama as a negative mode of political thought. It pursues something of a phenomenology of political spirit that looks to the creative potential of experiences of negativity\, failure\, impasse\, disruption\, and dreams. In pursuing Shakespeare’s negative spirit\, the project operates as a counterpoint and corrective to the often positivist way in which scholarship has discussed the intersection of Shakespearean drama and politics. \n ||  \nBiography\nNicholas Luke is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU. Nick’s work focuses on early modern literature\, how we receive it\, and why it still matters. His first book\, Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character (Cambridge University Press\, 2018)\, argues that contemporary criticism fails to do justice to the ongoing power of Shakespeare’s tragic characters and seeks to re-establish the concept of character on new philosophical and theatrical foundations. Nick’s current research re-examines the vexed question of Shakespeare’s engagement with religion through the theme of resurrection. \n(In-person Seminar Only)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/kill-all-the-lawyers-shakespeares-negative-political-spirit/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (In-person Seminar Only)
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221030
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SUMMARY:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022
DESCRIPTION:Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2022\n \nInformation Counter\n\nTime: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, Centennial Campus (map) \nIf you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes\, come and meet our student ambassadors. \n  \nInformation Talk \n\n\nTime: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nDr. Elizabeth Ho\, Undergraduate Coordinator\, School of English \nStudent sharing on academic exchange\nMr. Angus Chan\, English Studies major\, and outgoing exchange student at the University of Oxford in 2021-22 \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Rachel Lee & Ms. Sunniva Yim\, English Studies major \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\, Head\, School of English \nMock lecture in English Linguistics\nDr. Brian King\, Assistant Professor\, School of English \n  \nPhoto Highlights\n\n \n ||  \nGallery
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2022/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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