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SUMMARY:Linguistics\, writing and textualization: A semiological review
DESCRIPTION:Sinead Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/167/Dr_Man_Ka_Sinead_Kwok) \nAbstract\nA comprehensive way of formulating linguistics is to see it as a textualizing enterprise. This is to say that linguistics is created by humans’ continuous engagement in written communication\, and thus\, in textualization – the creation of texts\, via the human production of written signs\, in artifacts; whereas to look into how linguists maintain the appeal of their practices\, one has to see linguistics as a textualization theory – that is\, to study how linguists conceptualize text. It is contended that linguistics has moulded and been moulded by uneven attention to text and artifact where the existence of the latter is obscured or forgotten while the former has become an autonomous\, ‘detextualized’ entity called a linguistic/verbal text. In fact\, it is only through detextualization (abstraction of a written text from the artifact\, and the human textualizer from whose perspective the text and the artifact are integrated) that doing linguistics is possible: only a much-detached concept of writing can help formalise a scientific notion of a bipartite speech sign and of language. What are the complications of forgetting the artifact\, and what is a more illuminating understanding of the written sign\, texts\, artifacts and language? This topic will be deconstructed in my presentation. \n ||  \nBiography\nSinead Kwok is a full-time lecturer in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She is an early-career researcher whose research interests and published works lie in philosophy of language and communication\, history of linguistics\, semiology and semiotics\, as well as translation. After obtaining a PhD at the University of Hong Kong with a thesis which explores Western translation theories from a semiological and semiotic viewpoint\, Sinead is currently working on the relationship between textualization and sign theories\, which forms the topic of her upcoming talk. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n  Zoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98164272981?pwd=SWoyT2RIM2twdDdISkRUYnhPVjVFQT09 \n  Meeting ID: 981 6427 2981        \n  Password: 378180
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/linguistics-writing-and-textualization-a-semiological-review/
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SUMMARY:Debilitating to capacitate: Discourses of innate sex characteristics in Hong Kong hospitals
DESCRIPTION:Brian King – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/61/Dr_Brian_King) \nAbstract\nThis study uses metapragmatic discourse analysis (i.e. analysis of talk about language use) to mitigate the appropriation of Southern ideas by the Global North\, treating interviewees as collaborators who analyse language and bring their knowledge into dialogue with the researcher’s knowledge. The data is drawn from interviews with two Hong Kong Chinese doctors (a gynaecologist and a paediatric urologist) who work with intersex children and their parents. In analysing their metapragmatic narratives about ‘what they say\, how and why\,’ I draw on Jasbir Puar’s ideas about biopolitics as an ableist mechanism with the right to maim\, which can debilitate any of us. Alternatively\, it capacitates others. Biomedical professionals\, regardless of diverse personal convictions\, work in a relationship with their patients that reflects the relationship between biomedicine and political economy\, one in which they are always potentially agents of biopolitical regulation. The doctors in this study report a reliance on scientifically outdated discourses to maintain a conversational boundary in which parents keep listening rather than despairing. There is a sense of a need to help manage parents’ emotions and therefore their perceptions of their child. Disorder is spoken of as a problematic framing and yet throughout their explanation\, the intersex body is referred to as a manifestation of disease or illness\, leaving little room for any non-medicalized interpretation. The doctors position themselves as capacitators of these babies. But to have a role to play they first must debilitate them. It is for their ‘welfare’. \n ||  \nBiography\nBrian is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong\, as well as a critical sociolinguist researching the discursive performance of identities and embodiments at the intersection of ethnicity\, gender and sexuality. His work on these themes sits within healthcare communication\, sexuality education\, computer-mediated communication\, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically\, he draws on a number of traditions\, including interactional sociolinguistics\, corpus linguistics\, linguistic anthropology\, and critical discourse studies. His teaching career has spanned more than 20 years across three continents and multiple sectors. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. \n ||  \nZOOM DETAILS\n        Zoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/99553996706?pwd=MXdBc2U2U3BzbkZpSThpOXdxSTFDQT09 \n        Meeting ID: 995 5399 6706 \n        Password: 693756
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/debilitating-to-capacitate-discourses-of-innate-sex-characteristics-in-hong-kong-hospitals/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:A genealogy of South Korean cinema: From the 50s cosmopolitan style to global Korean blockbusters
DESCRIPTION:Soo Yeon Kim – Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (http://elc.hufs.ac.kr/hufselc/8716/subview.do?enc=Zm5jdDF8QEB8JTJGcHJvZmwlMkZodWZzZWxjJTJGMTQ5JTJGMzM5JTJGYXJ0Y2xWaWV3LmRvJTNGcGFnZSUzRDElMjZzcmNoQ29sdW1uJTNEJTI2c3JjaFdyZCUzRCUyNg%3D%3D) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nMy presentation offers a genealogy of South Korean (hereafter Korean) cinema in the light of its paradoxical role of building and unsettling national narratives since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Throughout the dizzy history of rapid industrialization and modernization\, the Korean government used national cinema in a way to create an array of positive national images and identities. While nationalist narratives pervaded Korean cinema\, a number of filmmakers developed internationalist film styles which\, rather than remaining ancillary to narrative\, generated compelling aesthetics that belies and debunks nationalism. \nTo rephrase\, postwar Korean cinema portrays the clash of the two opposite desires of a young nation: constructing national identity founded upon traditional values\, on the one hand\, and breaking with the war-ridden past to become a land of the free and affluent\, on the other hand. This tension between the national and the global often translates to the division of male and female\, narrative and style\, and tradition and Americanization. Remembering these gaps and ironies\, this presentation briefly looks at each decade since the 1950s and its representative films in relation to genre\, narrative\, style\, national/sexual ideologies\, reception\, and industry. \n ||  \nBiography\nSoo Kim is Professor of English Literature & Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, Seoul\, South Korea. Kim’s research and teaching interests include contemporary Anglophone fiction\, film\, and sexuality studies. Kim has been published in English and Korean about post-2000 British and American novels\, theorists such as Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière\, and Korean queer cinema and other Korean films directed by Chan-wook Park and Joon-ho Bong. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94503912243?pwd=RzFYOGNnV1pvSkREWG5FRVI5eDA4Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 0391 2243\nPassword: 788541 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:School of English Postgraduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Luisa Wan – MPhil Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Anneliese Ng – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Rowena Kwan – PhD Candidate – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nAbstract\nQueer poiesis: Reversing the other in Why Karen Carpenter Matters\nLuisa Wan\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn Queer Experimental Literature\, Tyler Bradway observes how the criticality of reading practices are often evaluated in terms of their affective charge. Accordingly\, they turn to formal experiments in queer literature to recuperate the usefulness of readerly affect in generating alternative social imaginaries. In this paper\, I read Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters to explore how Tongson experiments with the dialogical structure of the personal essay to reconfigure the oppositionality between the postcolonial self and the Other. Foregrounding her experience of what Lauren Berlant calls “cruel optimism”—a dialectical condition that exists when something one desires is the obstacle to one’s flourishing—Tongson reckons with the source of her feelings in the form of a literary dialogue with the singer Karen Carpenter. Analysing how Tongson weaves her biographical account with Carpenter’s\, I argue this dialogical exchange fosters a relationality that “queers” the dialectical double bind that “cruel optimism” sustains. \n  \nRethinking radicalism: the utilitarians’ democratic concept of political disinterestedness\nAnneliese Ng\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nIn the early nineteenth century\, millions in Britain joined the movement of radicalism\, demanding a “radical” reform of the parliament\, including universal (male) suffrage\, so that Members of Parliament would be chosen by all (adult males) in Britain. Coming from the middle and working classes\, these “radicals” contended that implementing democracy was the only way to protect their economic interests. Historians accordingly treated radicalism as an analysis of socio-economic problems in terms of distribution of political power\, versus Marxism which analysed social problems in terms of distribution of economic power or means of production. This talk foregrounds the utilitarians’ argument for democracy as an essential condition for realizing society’s greatest happiness or “utility”. I argue that\, more than providing a perspective on social problems\, radicalism provided the first theorization of political disinterestedness as a democratic ability possessable by the common people – not an elite quality possessable only by the aristocracy. \n  \nIdeas of fortune-telling after the Glorious Revolution in William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695)\nRowena Kwan\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines the meanings of experience and wisdom in William Congreve’s Love for Love. Produced 7 years after the triumph of the Glorious Revolution\, Love for Love\, exploring the themes of inheritance and different forms of governments\, is a representation of the reformed ideologies of its own time. Revolving around the comedy of the struggle over inheritance between a father and a son\, Love for Love responds\, the paper argues\, to the changing concepts of wisdom and the increasing demand for facts and scientific reasoning in the late-seventeenth century. Focusing on a discussion about travel experience in the play\, the paper argues that Love for Love suggests that the popularisation of empiricism challenged the lack of physical and observable proof in the practice of the traditional means of prognostication\, yet at the same time\, exposes the unreliability of the claims of bodily experience. \n  \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93961975799?pwd=cUFLdFN5VWZBN3lXOUlOQm80SlYzQT09 \nMeeting ID: 969 1683 2177\nPassword: 021538
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