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SUMMARY:Miraculous Corpse: Tragedy and Postcoloniality
DESCRIPTION:Anjuli Gunaratne – The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi’s Dream\, a Peking Opera
DESCRIPTION:Qiong Zhang – Fudan University \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \nAbstract\nThe research examines Qing Qi’s Dream (2007)\, a jingju (Peking Opera) adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear by Shanghai Jingju Theatre. With a discussion of the adaptation\, the speaker probes into the related concerns on different art forms\, features of jingju performance\, its special stage styles\, and the variants of the adapted version. The research points out that the jingju adaptation of King Lear can be viewed as an attempt to participate in the thematic representation using one’s own unique discourse. Therefore\, the cultural source is inexhaustible in adaptation and active interations across time and space\, among which the personal ambition and lust\, ethic value and filiality\, as well as Lear’s self-quest or cultural reflection triggered thereafter are worth discussion. The research further points out that the unending interpretations of King Lear and its numerous spin-offs reveal the continuity of a canon’s vigorous life. Examining the tragic king as a jingju role demonstrates that the paradigm of theatrical splendor relies on its emotional truth\, philosophical quest\, and the potential of its artistic multiplicity. Finally\, the research tries to indicate that by breaking down cultural borders\, we in a more globalized world are facing cultural values which are mutually constitutive. \n ||  \nBiography\nJoan Qiong Zhang is Professor of English at Fudan University\, Shanghai\, China and a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley (2019-2020). Research interests include English fiction and Shakespeare. Her major publications include Shakespeare in Visual Age: a study on Shakespearean Movies (2009) and Singing Survivance: a Study of Contemporary Native American Poetry (2021). She has also published two collections of prose works on travel\, film and books. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98951%20844991?pwd=UnNUV1RUc%20G5EY2VTVkFZa1VqYSsz%20QT09 \nMeeting ID: 989 5184 4991\nPassword: 039433
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/continuity-in-the-floating-world-king-lear-in-king-qis-dream-a-peking-opera/
LOCATION:Zoom and Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Language Revival and Wellbeing: From the 'Promised Land' to the 'Lucky Country'
DESCRIPTION:Ghil’ad Zuckermann – Flinders University (https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/ghilad.zuckermann) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON) \nAbstract\nThis talk will explain why language revival is (1) right\, (2) beautiful\, and (3) beneficial. In our current world\, more and more groups are losing their intangible heritage. Language reclamation (e.g. Hebrew and the Barngarla Aboriginal language of South Australia)\, revitalization (e.g. Shanghainese and the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal language) and reinvigoration (e.g. Te Reo Māori and Welsh) are becoming increasingly relevant as more and more people seek to reconnect with their heritage\, recover their cultural autonomy\, empower their spiritual and intellectual sovereignty\, and improve their wellbeing and mental health. There is an urgent need to offer comparative insights\, for example from the Hebrew revival\, which resulted in a cross-fertilized Semito-European hybrid that I call "Israeli". \n ||  \nBiography\nGhil‘ad Zuckermann (DPhil Oxford; PhD Cambridge\, titular; MA Tel Aviv\, summa cum laude) is Professor of Linguistics at Flinders University\, Adelaide\, Australia. Prof. Zuckermann is the author of Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond (Oxford University Press\, 2020) and 多源造词研究 (A Study of Multisourced Neologization; East China Normal University Press\, 2021). Professor Zuckermann is the founder of Revivalistics\, a new global\, trans-disciplinary field of enquiry surrounding language reclamation\, revitalization and reinvigoration. His MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)\, Language Revival: Securing the Future of Endangered Languages\, has attracted 20\,000 learners from 190 countries (speakers of hundreds of distinct languages): https://www.edx.org/course/language-revival-securing-future-adelaidex-lang101x. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER IN PERSON). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93741887377?pwd=RFp6ZmNwMEVkMER2REdCbjFteEF5QT09 \nMeeting ID: 937 4188 7377\nPassword: 165988
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/language-revival-and-wellbeing-from-the-promised-land-to-the-lucky-country/
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SUMMARY:Love's Labours Found: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
DESCRIPTION:The HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. \nAdditional Content\nPlease join us for a festive conclusion to the semester with ‘Love’s Labours Found’: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio on Friday 24 Nov from 4:30-6:00pm in Seminar Room 7.45\, Run Run Shaw Tower. \nPublished in 1623\, Shakespeare’s First Folio presents 36 of his plays\, half of which appear for the first time. Dr. Nick Luke and Dr. Kristen Murray will host this event\, highlighting contested passages in plays we know well\, as well as peerless plays we might have missed. The talk will touch on the complex process that secured this collection for a print run of around 750 leather-bound books of continual global significance. \nThe HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray\, Nick Luke\, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow. “Do you think because you are virtuous\, there will be no more cake and ale?” (Twelfth Night\, II\, iii\, 113). \n“Knowing aforehand of our merriment\,” please register here to attend (Love’s Labours Lost\, V\, ii\, 505).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/loves-labours-found-a-celebration-of-the-400th-anniversary-of-shakespeares-first-folio/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Interspatiality
DESCRIPTION:Sheila Hones – University of Tokyo & Swansea University (https://sheilahones.wordpress.com/) \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \nAbstract\nAcademic literary geography today is often explained in terms of aggregation: literature and geography; texts and places; literary studies and human geography. While these X+Y formulations usefully suggest the interdisciplinary range of the field\, they less helpfully reinforce the idea that both the subject matter and the practice of literary geography depend on the stitching together of separate things. As a result\, contemporary definitions of literary geography typically emphasise intersections and interactions and interdisciplinarity while dodging the question of whether there is an identifiable object of inquiry specific to the field itself. The term ‘interspatiality’ has been designed to cut through this X+Y problem. Merging a geographical definition of ‘spatiality’ (as a way of talking about the social-spatial)\, and a literary understanding of ‘intertextuality’ (as a way of talking about texts as nodes in relational spatial networks)\, interspatiality is a way of naming the implied subject focus of much contemporary work in the field: the inseparability of writing\, reading and geography. The main theme of this talk on literary geography and interspatiality\, then\, is the idea that understandings of what literary geography is\, does\, and can do might usefully be reconfigured by a move away from the current emphasis on the accretion and interaction of separate things and towards a focus on an inhabited world in which the social\, the spatial\, and the textual are routinely and inextricably fused. \n ||  \nBiography\nSheila Hones is a literary geographer\, a professor emerita of The University of Tokyo\, and an honorary research fellow at Swansea University. She is one of the editors of the online journal\, Literary Geographies\, and co-editor for the book series\, Literary Geography: Theory and Practice (University of Wales Press). She is the author of Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (2014) and Literary Geography (2021\, Routledge New Critical Idiom). Her next book\, Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography\, will be published in 2024. \n  \nTHIS IS A HYBRID EVENT (SPEAKER ONLINE). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/95878115207?pwd=VThpSTZpbzhXNThWbVRYY0hKcGF5Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 958 7811 5207\nPassword: 903130
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/interspatiality/
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