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SUMMARY:March - April 2024 edition of HKU School of English Alumni Magazine
DESCRIPTION:This issue features a piece on The 3rd International Conference of MSIA by Jisu Bang\, an interview with Dr. Otto Heim by Khadija Azhar & Luisa Wan\, an interview with Qiaona Jiang by Ruyu Yan.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/march-april-2024-edition-of-hku-school-of-english-alumni-magazine/
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SUMMARY:The 6th Annual Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) Conference
DESCRIPTION:Poster\n \n ||  \nConference Programme\nPlease download below\, \nProgramme Booklet \nAbstracts of Presentations \nSchedule of Parallel Sessions \n ||  \nFarewell video to MAES Class of 2024\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal) \n ||  \nMAES Student Creative Components\nPlease watch here. (only access with HKU portal)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-6th-annual-master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-conference/
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SUMMARY:‘Embryos we must be’: Embodiment\, Biopower\, and Biopoetics in William Blake
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Tara Lee: \n‘Embryos we must be’: Embodiment\, Biopower\, and Biopoetics in William Blake \nDr. Tara Lee\, The University of Hong Kong \nMay 21\, 2024\, Tuesday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nHow are Blake’s prophetic books shaped by different late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century visions of life? How do his mythopoetic works relate to broader speculations about vitality by Romantic-era writers as well as contemporary philosophers? This talk presents the argument that William Blake’s understandings of biology\, formulated in productive opposition to the pre-Darwinian theories of evolution that were gaining ground at the turn of the nineteenth century\, were indebted to a broader discourse in the life sciences that privileged the virtual existence in each being over material processes of change and development. Engaging with the wider subfield of Romantic literature and the life sciences\, this talk shows how Blake staged within his illuminated books a symbolic encounter between two competing biological paradigms (preformation and epigenesis) to ask unique questions about the nature of embodiment\, political power\, and poetics. Considering works such as The Book of Urizen (1794) and Jerusalem (1804-1820)\, it argues\, ultimately\, that the anti-evolutionist elements of Blake’s visual and verbal works present a radical critique of the monstrously materialist\, expansionist logic of empire and the definitions of vitality that come with it.  \n  \nBiography\nTara Lee is currently a Research Assistant Professor and a Fellow of the Society of Fellows in Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She obtained her AHRC-funded DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford with a thesis on Blake and evolution. Her articles can be found in European Romantic Review\, Studies in Romanticism\, Romanticism on the Net and The Keats-Shelley Review. She is preparing a monograph tentatively titled Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution\, Species\, and Organic Form. Alongside this\, she is also developing an HKRCG-funded project titled ‘Visionary Machines: Technology and the Epic in Britain\, 1790-1830’\, which explores how real and imaginary machines afforded thinking about revolution\, progress\, and empire in the Romantic epic.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/embryos-we-must-be-embodiment-biopower-and-biopoetics-in-william-blake/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Life as an English Studies Major at HKU
DESCRIPTION:May 24\, 2024 (Friday)\, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm\, Via Zoom \nAdditional Content\n \nLife as an English Studies Major at HKU\nMay 24\, 2024 (Friday)\, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm\, Via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to HKU Bachelor of Arts\, English Studies Major.\nStudents’ sharing on their experience as ENGL majors\, studying at HKU\, hall life\, study abroad\, extra-curricular activities and more!\nAlumni sharing on life and employment after HKU.\n\nRegister Now\nRegistration deadline: May 22\, 2024 \nZoom link will be sent to registered emails before the event.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/life-as-an-english-studies-major-at-hku/
LOCATION:via Zoom
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SUMMARY:“All Stations Are Exactly Alike”: Déjà Vu and British Soft Power in Rudyard Kipling’s Urban Travel Narratives
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Brian Reinken (Rutgers University) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Brian Reinken: \n“All Stations Are Exactly Alike”: Déjà Vu and British Soft Power in Rudyard Kipling’s Urban Travel Narratives \nDr. Brian Reinken\, Rutgers University \nMay 24\, 2024\, Friday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nWriting after the foundation of the Indian National Congress in 1885\, a young Rudyard Kipling spent the earliest years of his career attacking the project of liberal-minded imperial reform. His urban travel narratives cultivate a sense of déjà vu to warn readers of a dismal future in which the global spread of British soft power has homogenized world cities from Lahore to London. In short stories like “The City of Dreadful Night” (1885) and The City of Dreadful Night (1889)\, Kipling’s reuse of titles\, character archetypes\, and plot lines strips travel of its novelty. These stories make it seem that every modern city has become identically corrupt\, classless\, and ungovernable because British institutions have exported liberal politics\, capitalist economics\, and English-language education to the word at large. Ultimately\, the pervasive déjà vu of Kipling’s early travel writing invites a new account of cognitive mapping in the era of monopoly capitalism. Far from an ungraspable totality\, the globalized world as Kipling portrays it is dismayingly small and familiar. Because every place increasingly resembles every other\, travelers who have seen one city have already seen them all.  \n  \nBiography\nBrian Reinken earned his PhD in English literature from Rutgers University in 2023. His research interests include British imperialism\, the nineteenth-century novel\, and literary form. His work has appeared\, or it is scheduled to appear\, in Victorian Review\, ELH\, Victorian Literature and Culture\, and SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/all-stations-are-exactly-alike-deja-vu-and-british-soft-power-in-rudyard-kiplings-urban-travel-narratives/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Tom Murphy and Modern Theatre: Diasporic Tragedies and Everyday Space
DESCRIPTION:by Dr. Moonyoung Hong (City University of Hong Kong) \nAdditional Content\n \nThe School of English cordially invites you to attend the following seminar offered by Dr. Moonyoung Hong: \nTom Murphy and Modern Theatre: Diasporic Tragedies and Everyday Space \nDr. Moonyoung Hong\, City University of Hong Kong \nMay 27\, 2024\, Monday\, 4:30 p.m. \nRoom 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \n  \nAbstract\nTom Murphy (1935-2018)\, widely recognised as one of the most significant Irish playwrights of the past fifty years\, is often acclaimed as a leading figure of his generation alongside Brian Friel. Despite the regular performances of his works both in Ireland and on international stages\, Murphy’s contributions to the development of modern tragedy remain relatively under-theorised in academic criticism. The talk explores his influence both on contemporary Irish theatre and modern drama more broadly\, focusing on his tragic plays in relation to diasporic experiences. By uncovering the distinctive links between Murphy’s tragic practice and the concept of diaspora\, I offer new perspectives in Murphy scholarship\, thereby filling a crucial gap in the current understanding and interpretation of his works. Displacement caused by physical and emotional detachment\, and by the new attachments that are forged in different places\, poses complex psychological questions about identity and modernity. In exploring these diasporic changes\, Murphy contributes to a wider trend to displace tragedy into the realm of everyday life. Murphy’s tragic plays deal with both the micro- and macro- experiences of migration\, from the familial tale of Irish labour migrants in England in A Whistle in the Dark (1961) to the Great Hunger in Famine (1968): the defining historical event that led to a mass exodus of the Irish population\, and the basis for foundational narratives of the Irish diaspora. I will showcase new ways of reading Murphy’s works\, using his manuscript papers (“avant-textes”) via genetic criticism and materials from the digitised theatre archives for performance analysis. These additional dimensions reveal new insights into the ethics and aesthetics of representing historical traumas\, contributing to the debate on “the death of tragedy” (Steiner\, 1961) in modern theatre. \n  \nBiography\nMoonyoung Hong is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. She specialises in Irish literature\, with an MPhil in Irish Writing and a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Drama\, Irish Studies Review\, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and Études Irlandaises. She is author of Tom Murphy's Theatre of Everyday Space (under contract with Routledge\, 2025) and co-editor of The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention (under contract with Cork University Press\, 2025).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tom-murphy-and-modern-theatre-diasporic-tragedies-and-everyday-space/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Conrad and Napoleon: Fiction and History
DESCRIPTION:by Professor Douglas Kerr (The University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/conrad-and-napoleon-fiction-and-history/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in English Studies (MAES) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2024-2026 Part-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, July 19\, 2024
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-english-studies-maes-is-now-open-for-applications-7/
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SUMMARY:Modernism between Past and Future
DESCRIPTION:The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
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LOCATION:The University of Hong Kong
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