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SUMMARY:Job Opening: Part-time Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Ref.: 517267)
DESCRIPTION:Commence on January 1\, 2023 for six months. \nApplications close: November 30\, 2022 (HK Time)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/job-opening-part-time-lecturer-assistant-lecturer-in-english-language-and-linguistics-ref-517267/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:Travel/Writing: Conservation/Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Professor Julia Kuehn – Professor – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/46/Professor_Julia_Kuehn) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn the abstract sense\, this paper is about journeys into nature and into the self; journeys into literature and into new ways of thinking about and writing the human-environment relationship. It is about journeys into myth\, idealism and pragmatism and about humanity’s urge to love and to destroy. More specifically\, this paper is about tigers and tiger conservation\, as experienced and envisaged by poet\, novelist\, non-fiction writer and traveller Ruth Padel in her book Tigers in Red Weather (2005). \n ||  \nBiography\nJulia Kuehn is Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are the Victorian novel\, travel writing\, popular culture and critical theory. She has published monographs on Marie Corelli\, on colonial writing (about North Africa\, the Middle East and India) between 1870 and 1920\, and has edited a number of essay collections on the poetics and politics of travel writing. Julia is currently finishing a comparative study of nineteenth-century British and German realisms and has begun work on a new book on geopoetic forms in the travel genre. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94099741667?pwd=eWVXWk5DNlNlYzVQZzYxQTdGWU5UQT09 \nMeeting ID: 940 9974 1667\nPassword: 312777 \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/travel-writing-conservation-poetics/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221110T163000
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SUMMARY:Islanding Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Otto Heim – Principal Lecturer – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) \nAbstract\nIn this talk I will show and discuss a selection of recent work by Hong Kong artists (ink\, photography\, video\, installation) that captures Hong Kong’s shifting island environment and experience. Approaching this work from an island studies perspective (an interdisciplinary approach to understanding islands “on their own terms”)\, I will try to situate and appreciate it in relation to the sense of islandness that has historically dominated Hong Kong’s development and identity. Whereas the conventional narrative of Hong Kong’s transformation into an island city may have privileged the land/water and island/mainland relationships that conceptually define the space of islands\, I will suggest that these artworks bring into view island-to-island relationships that have typically been overlooked by metropolitan perceptions but are perhaps most significant to the lives of islanders. Noting that Hong Kong’s integration/participation in the Greater Bay Area will be constrained by its traditional role as a regional gateway\, I will try to argue that the islanding imaginations represented in these artworks make important contributions to a hesitantly evolving planning vision that pays attention to Hong Kong’s island geography and vernacular culture. \n ||  \nBiography\nOtto Heim has been teaching English literary studies at the University of Hong Kong since 2001. His interest in island studies evolved from research on indigenous and postcolonial literature and culture in Oceania. He has served on the editorial boards of the Island Studies Journal\, Shima\, and Urban Island Studies and has co-organized several island-themed international conferences at HKU. He is currently the director of the full-time MA in English Studies programme in the School of English. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99179169795?pwd=VU44V2loUHdlZ0UvWXU4b0Q2bEo5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 991 7916 9795\nPassword: 655663
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/islanding-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:“Eat a Swede”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a Promotional Mockumentary for Swedish Food Production
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Helen Andersson – Senior Lecturer – Örebro University\, Sweden (https://www.oru.se/english/employee/helen_andersson) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nThis presentation is a part of the research I am conducting on food and nationalism within the research project Communication of "good" foods and healthy lifestyles that has been ongoing since 2018 at Örebro University. The project gathers studies with a critical approach to "good" foods – that is\, foods that appear as healthy\, ethical\, sustainable and/or as a part of a successful lifestyle. \nAt the seminar\, I will present an ongoing study of commercial realizations of national policy in the global arena\, in this case\, an analysis of a Swedish PR mockumentary aimed at a global audience\, Eat a Swede. The study is based on social semiotic theory (Kress & van Leeuwen 2006; Kress 2010) and MCDA (Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis) (Machin\, 2013; Ledin & Machin\, 2018). In the presentation I will focus on the multimodal constructions of dichotomies\, such as the representation of the national/global in relation to "good"\, sustainable\, and healthy food. I will discuss the use of the mockumentary genre\, narrative types\, modes\, settings\, characters\, and language to communicate discourses in relation to banal nationalism (Billig\, 1995) and food norms in an international arena (Ranta & Ichijo\, 2022). \n ||  \nBiography\nHelen Andersson is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University\,  Sweden. Her research interests are found in the field of multimodal (critical) discourse analysis and concerned with how commercial interests through the design of multimodal artefacts and events contribute to how we think and act in relation to food\, identity\, and everyday life. On-going studies look at commercial realizations of national policy in relation to food\, health\, and sustainability in the global arena. Helen has previously published on the topic of food\, national identity\, and nationalism in\, for example\, Critical Discourse Studies\, and Discourse Context & Media. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96222618275?pwd=MTl5d0M4TEJOdTR4VDdtWDBRYXdxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 962 2261 8275\nPassword: 276491 \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/eat-a-swede-a-multimodal-critical-discourse-analysis-of-a-promotional-mockumentary-for-swedish-food-production/
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SUMMARY:HKU Bulletin November 2022 issue
DESCRIPTION:Consuming Interests – Dr Hanwool Choe \nA study reveals that digital discourse about and involving food – including mukbang (livestreamed eating) and everyday vlogging – serves as a means of realising the sociocultural values of eating together and eating well.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-bulletin-november-2022-issue/
CATEGORIES:News
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Emily Nicholls – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Firoz Ahsan – PhD Candidate – School of English\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nElsinore’s Absent Jesters: Hamlet’s Neurodiverse Resonance\nEmily Nicholls\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\n‘The Neurodiversity Paradigm’ challenges the dominant pathology model of mental disorder. This paradigm shift can alleviate the external and internal oppression suffered by subjects produced as deviants to ‘normate’ styles of embodiment\, cognition\, sensory perception\, and emotional response. I explore the implications of this critical paradigm shift for approaches to reading Hamlet  – a play which\, in content and form\, disturbs ideals of rational subjects. Seeking modes of neurodiverse reading which avoid inadvertently paralleling the pathology paradigm\, I experiment with an approach that draws out potential lines of resonance with today’s social and subjective conditions\, particularly those of exclusion and alienation. Sociologists working with neurodivergent individuals note ‘a kind of battle with the ethereal\, with unconscious attitudes that hem them in’ (Ida\, 2020).  Hamlet is hemmed in by the oppressive infrastructure of Denmark’s ‘prison.’  He is also plagued by a number of spectres – ‘moulds of form’ into which he cannot fit. \n  \nMaternal Ambivalence in Selina Hossain’s Kathkoilar Chobi\nFiroz Ahsan\, PhD candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nMy paper sets out to explore the double bind of maternal ambivalence as mirrored in Kathkoilar Chobi (Charcoal Portrait) by Bangladeshi author Selina Hossain. Published in 2001\, the novel recounts the homecoming of a war baby—born of the Bangladesh War in 1971—in search of his birth mother. Thanks to the maternal ambivalence expressed by the wartime rape victim\, the birth mother of the war baby\, his character goes through a dramatic shift. I shall present my argument as to how the desirous body of the rape victim by way of maternal ambivalence may leave space for both the mother and the child. While the author succeeds in forging a new identity for her heroine and thereby makes room for the child\, she spaces out whenever she shifts her focus from the female protagonist to the war baby. \n  \nTheatricality and Modes of Perception in the Colonial Parsi Theatre (Cancelled)\nAzhar Khadija\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong \nIn late-1885\, the Parsi Victoria Theatrical Company travelled from India to England to perform a series of plays in conjunction with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. In this historiographical project\, I show how these performances helped assert an indigenised mode of theatrical perception through their reliance on spectacular entertainment which disrupted the conventions of the English stage. In addition\, the performances helped contest orientalist refractions of the Indian subject produced at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition by emphasizing the heterogeneity of Indian culture. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/96916832177?pwd=T0JrMXRndlBIa29jRllWZVgybTdVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 969 1683 2177\nPassword: 021538
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/school-of-english-postgraduate-seminar-session-2/
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