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SUMMARY:School of English Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Second Semester\, 2023-24
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SUMMARY:Previous Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Mechanical Slavery: Freedom\, Subjection\, Automation
DESCRIPTION:Seb Franklin – King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/seb-franklin) \n*Friday* THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n\n\n\n\nThis talk is about the strikingly constant presence of slavery in theories of automation. So constant is this presence that\, I argue\, it must perform some essential structuring function in relation to automation’s principal subjects: labor and machinery. So multivalent are slavery’s appearances in the corpus of automation discourse that they must reveal something fundamental—something structural—about the form of society in which labor and machinery emerge\, interact\, and become meaningful. \nIn writings on automatic machinery from the early nineteenth century onwards one finds: machines analogized to slaves\, and sometimes simply called slaves; workers defined in contradiction to slaves and presented as slaves; intensified mechanization described as labor’s enslavement and emancipation; the absence of mechanization understood as enslavement and emancipation; ethical and practical appeals to democratize the production process underscored by way of references to slavery; and\, perhaps most jarring\, capitalists presented as slaves to labor. I name this bundle of metaphorical deployments mechanical slavery. \nIn the talk\, I will theorize mechanical slavery through a reading of a single popular text—a profile of the cybernetician Norbert Wiener by the novelist of white-collar ennui Sloan Wilson. In that profile\, the cover story for the March 1953 issue of The Saturday Review\, Wiener displaced the social relations mechanical slavery implies onto an anxiety about freedom of thought as the characteristic that separates free persons from computing machines and\, in his telling\, slaves. \n\n\n\n\n\n ||  \nBiography\nSeb Franklin is Reader in Literature\, Media\, and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is the author of The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatic of Value (2021) and Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic (2015). \n  \nThis is an IN-PERSON ONLY event and the event is held on *FRIDAY*.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/mechanical-slavery-freedom-subjection-automation/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the 'English' in English-Language Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy Wang – Williams College (https://american-studies.williams.edu/profile/dwang/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will discuss some of the assumptions foundational to the study of English poetics and poetry and suggest possible ways to rethink current norms and practices in the teaching of poetry\, poetics\, and poetry-writing. \n ||  \nBiography\nDorothy Wang is Professor of American Studies at Williams College. Her Thinking Its Presence: Form\, Race\, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford UP\, 2013) won the Association for Asian American Studies' 2016 award for best book of literary criticism. The only national conference on race and creative writing is named after it and has been convened four times. She also conceived of and co-founded the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) initiative. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry\, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature\, and The Boston Review\, among other places. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rethinking-the-english-in-english-language-poetics/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240418T163000
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SUMMARY:Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect
DESCRIPTION:Tong King Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/292/Professor_Tong_King_Lee) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nKongish is an emerging hybrid urban dialect that is affiliated to but not co-extensive with Hong Kong English. Starting with an English(-Cantonese) poem published in an anthology by the Facebook initiative KongPoWriMo (Hong Kong Poetry Writing Month)\, we will look at how colloquial Cantonese is represented in the written word (or numeral)\, sometimes to the effect of disfiguring what is ostensibly English. Examples will be used to illustrate three aspects of Kongish\, namely its fluidity\, multimodality\, and self-reflexivity. It is suggested that Kongish\, possibly undergirded by what is dubbed MK (Mongkok) Culture\, exemplifies an ethos of translanguaging that seeks to continually transgress the boundary between named languages as well as between linguistic and nonlinguistic modalities. It is also highly amenable to commodification\, both on social media and in the commercial market. The seminar considers the extent to which we might consider Kongish to be based “off” rather than “on” English—more specifically\, as an innominate register that breaches institutionalised borders without settling into a code. \n ||  \nBiography\nTong King Lee is Professor of Language and Communication in the School of English\, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor of Culture\, Communication\, and Media at University College London. He was Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center\, U.S. (2021)\, Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow at National Library\, Singapore (2022)\, and IAS Fellow at Durham University\, U.K. (2023). He is the author of Kongish (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, Choreographies of Multilingualism (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, and Translation as Experimentalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/kongish-translanguaging-and-the-commodification-of-an-urban-dialect/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:RPG Student Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Lea Wu – PhD Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Shameera Lin – MPhil Candidate\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHopepunk: The Ideal of Virtuous Care and the Re-imagination of the Public\nLea Tong Wu\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation examines an emerging group of speculative fiction texts called "hopepunk" that have been voluntarily discussed\, selected and advocated by a group of speculative fiction writers\, readers\, media\, and publishers since 2017. In response to increasing discrimination and injustice around gender\, race\, class\, and religion\, exacerbated during the Trump administration\, hopepunk proponents are exploring an imagination of care to counter the prevailing cynicism and nihilism. In this presentation\, I suggest that while the specific imaginaries of care proposed by hopepunk texts are grounded in progressive principles of inclusion\, equality\, and anti-discrimination\, the construction of such care in hopepunk exposes the conflicts between a progressive imaginary of community-based care and the currently dominant neoliberal model of self-responsible care. Reading a representative hopepunk text\, the Wayfarer series (2014-2021) by Becky Chambers\, I discuss how attempts at a progressive imaginary of care can be limited by its focus on the moral education of care\, which obscures the complications caused by vulnerability and dependence on the social infrastructure that distributes resources and labor\, and redirects the duty of care back to the individual as the primary agent and the family as the primary site for all responsibilities of care. \n  \n“You are What You Eat”: Foodways in Malaysian Literature in English\nShameera Nair Lin\, MPhill Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis presentation proposes reorienting the locus of Malaysian Literature in English (MLE)\, an emerging body of scholarship grounded in the national\, through reconsidering its mainstream methodological approach of authoritative canonicity\, suggesting a path beyond the “border barricades” of colonialism. Though a postcolonial field concerned with the formation of English-language writing in post-Independence Malaysia through nationalist\, anticolonialist strategies\, examinations of MLE have fallen into the trap of reproducing authoritative canonicity. Read through one of the symbols I associate with the nation-space of Malaysia –that of foodways — this presentation constructs what John Guillory would call an “alternative canon” as a strategy of resistance through its examination of the function of foodways in Malaysian Literature in English. Particularly\, I place a short story typically associated with Sinophone Malaysian literature\, Ng Kim Chew’s “Allah’s Will”\, in conversation with the writing of Nina Mingya Powles\, a New Zealand-born writer with ties to Malaysia\, as a means of speaking to the heteroglossic nature of Malaysian English\, simultaneously broadening what constitutes MLE. I assert the place of “Malaysia” as a literary space through the “geo-body\,” or what Thongchai Winichakul describe as a reified geographical space bearing “a component of the life of a nation […] a source of pride\, loyalty\, love\, passion\, bias hatred\, reason\, unreason.” Charting the components that form the “life of a nation”\, I suggest there is a Malaysian literary geo-body that troubles taxonomies based on citizenship and language in relation to the study of national literary traditions\, and it is through foodways as one of its constitutive symbols where such a geo-body takes shape. \n  \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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