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SUMMARY:The Multilingual Challenge in Digital Governance
DESCRIPTION:Janny Leung – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/51/Professor_Janny_Leung) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nFive billion people\, or approximately 60% of the world’s population\, are on social media. A few transnational media companies’ platforms moderate more speech than any government in the world. Given global linguistic diversity\, how do these companies serve\, and struggle to serve\, their multilingual users? \nThis talk will look at questions of digital inequality raised by language-related processes and policies in transnational media companies\, and ponder what we can reasonably expect from them\, balancing between their profit motive and outsized influence. Facebook (owned by Meta) will be used as a case study. The paper posits that language management is central to the product offered by social media companies and should be a critical component of digital governance. It encourages thinking about the role of private actors in exercising control and influence on the symbolic capital of languages in the global linguistic market (Bourdieu 1991). \n ||  \nBiography\nProfessor Janny Leung works in the intersection between linguistics and law. Her last monograph\, Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders\, won the Faculty Research Output Prize in 2020. The book focuses on challenges\, ideologies\, and paradoxes in multilingual legal practice. An author/editor of 3 books and 30+ scholarly articles and chapters\, Leung has written about language rights\, legal interpretation\, unrepresented litigation\, courtroom discourse\, legal translation\, and representations of law in the media. She had been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute\, a Luce East Asia Fellow at the National Humanities Center (USA)\, and a RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellow.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-multilingual-challenge-in-digital-governance/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T163000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Mind in Mindfulness: How Reactivity Can Be Transformed
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Chen – University of Macau (https://fah.um.edu.mo/katherine-chen/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\n"What we contact\, we feel\nWhat we feel\, we perceive\nWhat we perceive\, we think about\nWhat we think about\, we proliferate\nWhat we proliferate becomes the shape of our mind and the shape of our world."\n—Christina Feldman\, 2015 \n  \nThis talk explores the researcher’s journey through the practice and research of mindfulness. I will begin by defining mindfulness and examining its effects through contemporary neuroscientific\, medical\, and psychological research\, as well as its broader applications. I will also trace the expansion of mindfulness interventions from medical contexts to a wide range of settings\, including workplaces\, educational institutions\, and community programs. \nThe next part focuses on the role of mindfulness in fostering decentering and self-compassion—qualities that can transform mental reactivity—by drawing on qualitative data from two original mixed-methods mindfulness intervention research with undergraduate and postgraduate students in Hong Kong and Macau. Using ethnographic methods and discourse analysis\, the research shows the moment-to-moment unfolding of mindful practices and transformation. The talk will also address current limitations of mindfulness interventions and future trends in the field. \nThe final section proposes a deeper exploration of early Buddhist concepts of mind and mindfulness. By revisiting these ancient teachings\, we can further enrich contemporary mindfulness practices\, revealing the potential of mindfulness to transform both “the shape our mind and the shape of our world” (Christina Feldman 2015). \n ||  \nBiography\nKatherine Hoi Ying Chen is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Director of the English Language Centre at the University of Macau\, and an Honorary Associate Professor of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She is a sociocultural linguist and linguistic anthropologist. Her interdisciplinary research integrates insights from linguistics\, anthropology\, psychology\, and neuroscience to explore the intersections of discourse\, identity\, and ideology. Her projects examine topics such as the discourse and practice of mindfulness\, language identities and ideologies in multilingual Hong Kong\, gender stereotypes surrounding "Hong Kong Girls\," and the autobiographical narratives of Indonesian-Chinese transnational. She is a trained teacher in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life and Interpersonal Mindfulness. Her research and teaching currently focus on the application of mindfulness in higher education. See her profile at bit.ly/kchen2024.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/exploring-the-mind-in-mindfulness-how-reactivity-can-be-transformed/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Vorticist Prose? Wyndham Lewis's “Enemy of the Stars” and “Tarr”
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn the early years of the 20th century\, there was a plethora of new\, experimental art movements: Fauvism & Cubism (in France)\, Futurism (in Italy)\, Supremism & Constructivism (in Russia)\, Expressionism (in Germany) and Vorticism (in England). Many artists were interested in a synthesis of the arts. Kandinsky foresaw a time when art forms would coalesce. Schoenberg & Scriabin explored the relationship between music and painting. Kandinsky had a synaesthetic ability to see colours when he heard music. From 1908\, his pictures are an opera of colour. The Futurists wrote poetry as well as painted. Later\, Joyce wrote prose aspiring to the condition of music (Episode 11 of Ulysses). To what extent was it possible to write prose fiction that resembled abstract (Vorticist) painting? This question will be considered in relation to Wyndham Lewis’s 1914 play\, Enemy of the Stars and his 1918 novel\, Tarr. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy is an adjunct associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He has been a teacher and academic administrator in Hong Kong since 1988: first in teacher education\, then running numerous courses for adult learners with HKU and latterly in the School of English. He introduced Irish Studies courses at HKU. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. His five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. He teaches C20th poetry  and C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. He inaugurated the annual ‘Bloomsday’ celebrations in HK 25 years ago. He continues to deepen his understanding of Joyce (see\, for instance\, his piece in the James Joyce Quarterly\, 2021). He also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland and the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/vorticist-prose-wyndham-lewiss-enemy-of-the-stars-and-tarr/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2024
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n \nInformation Counter\n\nTime: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-LG.07\, Centennial Campus (map) \nIf you want to know more about the School of English and our programmes\, come and meet our student ambassadors. \nInformation Talk\n\nTime: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nVenue: CPD-3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus (map) \nCome and join us for introduction to English Studies programme\, student sharing on study and academic exchange\, and experience in mock lectures in Literature and Linguistics. \nIntroduction to English Studies programme\nProfessor Elizabeth Ho\nUndergraduate Coordinator\, Assistant Professor\, School of English \nGraduate sharing on academic exchange\nMs. Bianca Chan\nYear 4 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nStudent sharing from English Society\nMs. Bianca Chan\nYear 4 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMs. Chloe Mak\nYear 3 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMs. Ariel Tam\nYear 3 BA Student (Major in English Studies) \nMock lecture in Literature\nProfessor Kendall Johnson\nHead\, School of English \nMock lecture in English language and Linguistics\nMr. Angus Chan\nProgramme Manager\, School of English \nPHOTO HIGHLIGHTS
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-information-day-for-undergraduate-admissions-2024/
LOCATION:CPD-LG.07 & CPD-3.04\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Malingerers\, Dangerous Hysterics\, and Effeminate Men: Insights into Medical Illegitimacy through the Lens of Functional Neurological Disorder
DESCRIPTION:Shelley Dawson – Victoria University of Wellington (https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/shelley.dawson) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nFunctional neurological disorder (FND) is a common and debilitating disorder that is beset with multifaceted stigma. A critical sociolinguistic approach illuminates the powerful and unexpected ways that language maintains this marginalisation. Previously known as hysteria and conversion disorder\, FND’s history is intricately connected to ideologies of gender and mental illness that are further complicated by the historical separation between diseases of the mind and body (medical dualism). Today\, people affected by the disorder face this medical legacy in discourses of blame\, suspicion\, and dismissal\, leading to the question: Is it real or is it all in my head? \nThis presentation explores how ‘the FND patient’ has been constructed as illegitimate over time. Through the lens of art and literature\, I examine tropes of the malingerer\, the dangerous hysteric\, and the effeminate man as sites of ideological and epistemological embodiment and show how\, far from being relics of the past\, these understandings continue to pervade and naturalise stigmatising FND discourses. I conclude by discussing implications for revalorising subjectivity\, and what this might mean for undoing the epistemic injustice that suffuses the FND experience. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Shelley Dawson is a critical sociolinguist whose research examines how language is used to reproduce and contest social inequalities. Working across interdisciplinary boundaries\, and with a specialisation in gender\, she uses qualitative ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to address questions of identity\, marginalisation\, and belonging in diverse research contexts. Her current research project investigates functional neurological disorder from a discourse perspective\, with a view towards challenging the taken-for-granted ‘truths’ about the disorder and the people affected by it. She works at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington\, New Zealand\, in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/malingerers-dangerous-hysterics-and-effeminate-men-insights-into-medical-illegitimacy-through-the-lens-of-functional-neurological-disorder/
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