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SUMMARY:Examining language loss through an ecolinguistic lens: The case of Hakka in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Sherman Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/281/Dr_Sherman_Lee) \nAbstract\nThis talk will examine language loss and language endangerment from an ecolinguistic perspective\, an approach which emphasises the interrelationships between a language\, its speakers\, and their sociocultural and natural environment. I focus on the situation of Hakka\, a Chinese fangyan ('dialect group') widely used in Hong Kong several decades ago but now a disappearing variety facing demise in this local setting. Every natural language reflects a unique worldview and embodies the cultural wealth and knowledge accumulated by a people or community\, and thus losing a language is more than merely losing the words used for communication. I attempt to illustrate this by discussing a few of the salient linguistic features and elements of the Hakka language that set it apart from other locally spoken Chinese varieties\, and by exploring some of the sociocultural practices and ecological traditions specific to the Hakka people. Through this presentation\, I hope to underscore the importance of valuing the diversity that still surrounds us today\, making a case for both the protection of biocultural diversity and the preservation of sociolinguistic heritage. \n ||  \nBiography\nSherman Lee is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of English at HKU. She holds a BA from Manchester University\, MPhil from Cambridge University\, and PhD from City UHK. Her doctoral thesis examined language shift among Hong Kong’s Hakka community\, and received the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. She has taught at several universities in the UK and Hong Kong\, most recently Hong Kong Shue Yan University\, where she served as Programme Director of the BA in English programme. Her teaching and research interests cover areas in sociolinguistics\, discourse analysis\, intercultural communication\, and the enhancement of teaching and learning in higher education. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93142681566?pwd=ODgxbEwvRk1XRVBHdzJ4MGdMRXdXUT09  \nMeeting ID: 931 4268 1566\nPassword: 018418
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/examining-language-loss-through-an-ecolinguistic-lens-the-case-of-hakka-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Irish Orientalism from W. B. Yeats to Yan Ge
DESCRIPTION:Moonyoung Hong – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/267/Dr_Moonyoung_Hong) \nAbstract\nThis talk examines representations of Asia and Asian characters in contemporary Irish writing\, drawing on the discourse on Orientalism and other postcolonial theories. Orientalism in Irish studies has undergone multiple phases: from the Celtic-Oriental ties that stressed cross-colonial identification with Eastern countries as a way to bolster nationalist narratives during the Celtic Revival\, to the comparison with new and futuristic\, late capitalist East Asian “Tiger” societies from the 1990s to the present day. Irish Orientalism thus stands uneasily between traditional Anglo-European Orientalism\, which continues to reproduce certain stereotypes of the Other\, and anti-imperial agendas that challenge established colonial discourses. The talk deconstructs the Occident/Orient or West/East binary by focusing on the case of Irish literature\, from canonical writers such as W. B. Yeats and Brian Friel to contemporary works by Colum McCann\, Claire Keegan\, Daniel O’Hara (short film)\, and Naoise Dolan. Finally\, by introducing several short stories by Yan Ge\, an established Chinese writer residing in Ireland\, I want to offer a different perspective from the “Other” side. While differing from its British counterpart\, Irish literature has often been complicit in producing and sustaining Orientalist images\, especially in its representations of migrants. Yan Ge’s thematic and formal consideration of her status as an Asian outsider aims to dis-orient and re-orient Irish readers. By looking steadily back at the Orientalist gaze\, the portrayals of cross-cultural encounters in Yan Ge’s short fiction help to create more equitable and more fruitful conversations regarding Ireland’s role in the global order and its changing relationship with Asia. \n ||  \nBiography\nMoonyoung Hong is a full-time lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She specialises in Irish literature\, with an M.Phil. in Irish Writing and a Ph.D. in English from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include modern drama\, contemporary Irish theatre\, cross-cultural theories\, space and everyday life studies. She is currently working on converting her PhD thesis on Tom Murphy and everyday space into a monograph. She has published in The Yeats Journal of Korea\, Études Irlandaises\, Comparative Drama and Irish Studies Review (forthcoming 2023)\, and is editing a collection on the Irish Pub (Cork UP\, 2023). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99640347641?pwd=U2pVRVJaR0ZuSFF5V1FHVUtJekdXdz09  \nMeeting ID: 996 4034 7641\nPassword: 812801
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irish-orientalism-from-w-b-yeats-to-yan-ge/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230216T163000
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SUMMARY:Constructions of identity and embodiment in the discourse of trans youth: A queer and trans linguistic approach
DESCRIPTION:Lucy Jones – The University of Nottingham (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lucy.jones) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I use discourse analysis informed by queer and trans theory to explain identity construction as it occurs in a conversation between young trans people. In this conversation\, the young people describe their experiences of being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation\, revealing cisnormative expectations around trans people’s embodiment. I argue that they resist these expectations by reframing the language used by others to describe their bodies\, and that they gain agency as a result. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Lucy Jones is Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham\, UK. She is a discourse analyst and linguistic ethnographer working on a range of topics relevant to language\, gender and sexuality. Her published research includes normativity and identity construction amongst LGBTQ+ youth\, homophobic discourse in relation to same-sex marriage and HIV prevention\, analysis of YouTube videos by trans vloggers\, and older lesbians’ identity construction. Her current projects include a study of identity and intersectionality in British LGBT+ youth groups and critical discourse analysis of how trans athletes in elite sport are represented within the news media. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95946877342?pwd=U2dRbEttTXJmekN2U3VRbENxVGI0dz09 \nMeeting ID: 959 4687 7342\nPassword: 915082 \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/constructions-of-identity-and-embodiment-in-the-discourse-of-trans-youth-a-queer-and-trans-linguistic-approach/
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SUMMARY:Irritative modernism and its stoic patients: Free indirect narration of illness  in British modernist literature
DESCRIPTION:Chloe Leung – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/271/Dr_Chloe_Leung) \nAbstract\n‘Illness’ has been discussed in British literary modernism almost exclusively in the medical sense of the word. Especially concerning authors who battled with chronic illnesses\, criticism tends to narrowly circumscribe the epistemology of illness by quoting biography and medical history while bypassing other implications that followed ‘illness’ in literary representations. Drawing on modernist narrative techniques in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys\, this talk seeks to disentangle ‘illness’ from medicine and explores the affective residues of diagnostic practice. I postulate free indirect discourse (FID) as a narrative technique these authors deploy to de-medicalise pain\, illness\, and disabilities since it reveals the slipperiness of formative elements in the diagnostic practice\, including patient’s autonomy\, pain receptivity\, subjective intentions\, and identity. Divulging distinct depths of consciousness while leaving its intention inaccessible and attention irretrievable\, FID irritates the expectation of a transparent pathogenesis as well as medical categorisation of bodyminds as either ‘pathological’ or ‘normal’. Being attentive to the narrativization of pain (rather than its symptoms) will generate new knowledge and identification when we are patient with our irritations. This talk would like to suggest that literary modernism\, contra the instrumental role Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine (2006) assigned to literary studies\, explicitly intervenes in pain\, depressive moods\, or other afflictions. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Chloe Leung graduated from her doctorate degree in English Literature at The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include modernist studies\, the medical humanities\, and dance studies. Dr Leung has published articles on Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence on how free indirect narration overturns assumptions about the relationship between body and feelings. Her latest publication is on Woolf and Eugenic Modernism\, which was recently published (Jan 2023) in Journal of Literary & Critical Disability Studies. Currently\, Dr Leung is a full-time lecturer at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91595494352?pwd=WWUvMnlnYmkxTXgvcUJkWkxPaEsvZz09 \nMeeting ID: 915 9549 4352\nPassword: 187052
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/irritative-modernism-and-its-stoic-patients-free-indirect-narration-of-illness-in-british-modernist-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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