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SUMMARY:Inter-Island Festival 2023: Rhythms of the Inter-Island
DESCRIPTION:An experiential learning opportunity funded by the Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund by contributing to the 2nd Inter-Island Festival\, will be held in Peng Chau\, Mui Wo\, Chi Ma Wan\, and Cheung Chau in November 2023. Students are invited to participate in one of the featured projects of the Festival\, entitled “Rhythms of the Inter-Island”.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/inter-island-festival-2023-rhythms-of-the-inter-island/
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SUMMARY:Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA) 2023
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URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/coalition-of-english-departments-in-asia-coeda-2023/
LOCATION:Convocation Room MB-2.18\, Main Building\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Exchanging languages: Explaining language shift in Papua New Guinea
DESCRIPTION:Don Kulick – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis is a paper written together with American linguist Lise Dobrin (U Virginia) that attempts to account for the fact that languages in the country of Papua New Guinea seem to be disappearing at a dishearteningly rapid rate. I will briefly discuss the evidence for the widespread language shift and argue that the reasons behind it are the same dynamics that\, in the past\, led to country’s lush linguistic diversity (840 languages\, at last estimate)—a diversity that now is vanishing. I will suggest that both diversity and shift are crucially linked to the prominence and value of exchange throughout the country. Language traditionally has been regarded less as a conceptual system than as a material possession; a quality that makes it both available and desirable for exchange with others. When the conditions of exchange are altered (as has happened during the last century with the colonization and missionization of Papua New Guinea)\, the dynamics of exchange relationships remain\, but the consequences of those exchanges turn out to be dramatically different. \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). \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exchanging-languages-explaining-language-shift-in-papua-new-guinea/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Alumni Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Andre Theng – PhD Candidate – University of Edinburgh || Vincent Tse – PhD Candidate – Monash University & University of Warwick || Jasper Wu – PhD Candidate – National University of Singapore \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \nAbstract\nLanguage Policy as Spatial Production: Onions|Domains|Rhizomes\nJasper Wu (PhD candidate\, natIONAL UNIVERSITY of singapore)\nLanguage policy processes are intricately intertwined with spatial production. However\, the concept of space remains peripheral in the theorization of language policy. Two existing dominant models – the ‘onion’ and the ‘multi-domain’ models – have focused on contested policy interpretations and conflicted management strategies permeating language policy. I argue that a spatial theory of language policy needs to address these practical indeterminacies as well as the ontological indeterminacy in language ecology. I introduce the Deleuzo-Guattarian rhizome as a complementary concept for presenting this additional aspect. I demonstrate my theoretical argument through business language practices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. \n  \n“Today's Example is about Mirror”: Between Technologization of Epistemic Practice and Celebrity Tutors’ Semiotic Expertise\nVincent Tse (phd candidate\, Monash uNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF warwick) online\nUsing interactional and metapragmatic data from a 17-episode tutoring talent show\, I examine the employment and valorisation of humour and intertextual references to the entertainment industry as "discourse technologies" (Fairclough\, 1992) in Hong Kong's commodified shadow education. I demonstrate that the effective use of said resources depends on celebrity tutors' semiotic expertise in\, for example\, managing the duration of their use and interweaving them with subject or examination knowledge being taught. The analysis illuminates tutors' interdiscursive performance of edutainment and positioning of self as professional yet close to their students. \n  \nThe ‘Institutional Effect’ on Online Communities: Interactional dynamics of a Catholic Facebook Group in Singapore\nAndre theng (phd candidate\, UNIVERSITY OF edinburgh) online\nIn this paper\, I explore the online-offline relationship in the institutional context of the Catholic Church via my empirical case of a Facebook group for Catholics in Singapore. The analysis considers 129 threads from the group made in an eight-day period. I explore how ‘sharedness’ in the group results from 1) recurring discursive practices 2) the role of group administrators and ‘experts’ in ratifying viewpoints and 3) the sharing of personal and intimate experiences. The result is a degree of continuity with offline and historical modes of interaction\, whilst also demonstrating ways in which the interactional structure of the platforms allows for new means of knowledge production. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography\n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/94596051244?pwd=Y2p5Wm81azQ4YnFNdFdUOThyWTFlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 945 9605 1244\nPassword: 664501
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/alumni-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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