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SUMMARY:RPG Student Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Tingcong Lin – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAN ARHAT MARCO POLO: DISTANCE AS A DISCURSIVE STRATEGY AND TRANSCULTURAL (RE)PRODUCTIONS OF A (HI)STORY IN BETWEEN. \nTingcong Lin\, PhD Candidate\, School of English\, The University of Hong Kong\nThis article shows how distance between localities becomes a discursive strategy in the global process of transculturation. It traces the creation and circulation of a mid-19th to early-20th century myth surrounding a Buddhist arhat (in Chinese\, Luohan) statue in Guangzhou\, China\, claimed to depict Marco Polo\, alongside its Venetian replica\, involving Chinese clerics\, tour guides\, and intellectuals\, and Western expatriates\, travelers\, geographers\, Sinologists\, and politicians. The history of the statues was adapted by various forces\, particularly Italian (and\, more generally\, Western) nationalists and imperialists\, and Chinese reformists. Among the diverse agents was a common discursive strategy: to legitimize their arguments\, mediating agents from both the West and China sought references and endorsements from the distant—and therefore immediately absent—Other\, thus positioning the statue’s transcultural (hi)story to the Other’s side. In this way\, they occupied an interpreting position themselves to turn historiography of the Other into historical teleology for the self. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-seminar-session-2/
LOCATION:CPD 2.45\, 2/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241108
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SUMMARY:Admissions Talk for MACC & MFA
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n\nADmissions talk: master of arts in the field of creative communications (macc) & master of fine arts in the field of creative writing in English (MFA)\n\nYou are cordially invited to the Admissions Talk of the two Taught Postgraduate Programmes offered by the School of English: Master of Arts in the Field of Creative Communications (MACC) and Master of Fine Arts in the Field of Creative Writing in English (MFA). \nAdmissions Talk for 2025-26 AdmissionS\nDate: Nov 8\, 2024 (Friday) \nTime: 11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON \nVenue: The Black Box\, LG. 54\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (map) \nFormat: Face-to-Face or Online \nAgenda\nIntroduction to MACC programme \nIntroduction to MFA programme \nIntroduction to co-programme activities \nSharing from programme alumni and current students \nQ&A session \n\nRegistration:\nPlaces are limited for both. Please visit the corresponding links below and complete the registration form by Nov 6\, 2024 (Wednesday). \nFace-to-Face:\nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=97308 \nOnline:\nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=97309 \n 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/admissions-talk-for-macc-mfa/
LOCATION:LG.54\, Black Box\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241114T163000
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SUMMARY:Romanticism and the Industrial Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Ian Haywood – University of Roehampton (https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/ian-haywood) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk takes fresh look at the impact of the industrial revolution on British Romanticism by taking a primary visual approach. Eco-critics have argued that the ‘birth’ of the Anthropocene era in the late eighteenth century led to the simultaneous genesis of an oppositional ‘green’ Romanticism\, yet surprisingly little work has been done on the visual dimension of this confrontation\, even though paintings\, reproductive prints and illustrations provided some of the most spectacular evidence for what we now regard as carbon catastrophe. I will show how the Romantic construction of the idyllic Lake District is a deeply unreliable ‘guide’ (pun intended) to the historical reality of rural industrialization that connected the English countryside to global networks of commerce\, imperialism and enslaved labour. The ‘industrial gaze’ enables a fuller and richer understanding of the place of Romantic culture within this planetary upheaval\, and begs the counterfactual question: was there another way? \n ||  \nBiography\nIan Haywood is Professor of English at Roehampton University\, London. He has written extensively on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century British radicalism and its impact on literary and visual culture. His publications include The Revolution in Popular Literature (2004)\, Bloody Romanticism (2006)\, Romanticism and Caricature (2013)\, Spain in British Romanticism (2018\, co-edited with Diego Daglia)\, Romanticism and Illustration (2019\, co-edited with Mary Shannon and Susan Matthews)\, The Rise of Victorian Caricature (2020) and Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England (2023). His next monograph project is Frankenstein and Romantic Visual Culture (contracted with Bloomsbury). He was the President of the British Association for Romantic Studies 2015-19\, and co-ordinates the Romantic Illustration Network (https://romanticillustrationnetwork.com).
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/romanticism-and-the-industrial-gaze/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
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SUMMARY:HKU RIICH: Final-Year Students and Graduates Wanted for Survey
DESCRIPTION:Final-Year Students and Graduates Wanted for Survey\n \n CALLING Final Year Students & Recent Graduates in Hong Kong!  \nWe are conducting a survey to understand how you move into the workplace in a post-COVID era. We're interested in your career aspirations and the challenges you face. \nYour insights will provide us with valuable information to support future graduates entering the workforce during these unprecedented times. \nClick the link below now to join our survey. Your voice matters\, and we can't wait to hear your thoughts! \nhttps://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeYTQenHEDMNpsO \n[This project has received ethical approval from the HKU Human Research Ethics Committee (EA230432). The project is fully supported by the RGC Collaborative Research Fund (C7086-21G)]. \nThank you for helping us help you! For any questions or information\, please contact riich@hku.hk.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-riich-final-year-students-and-graduates-wanted-for-survey/
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare's Political Spirit
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Luke – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/86/Dr_Nicholas_Luke) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nI envisaged this talk as a mini book launch for Shakespeare’s Political Spirit: Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power.  Unfortunately\, a cyberattack at Cambridge University Press has delayed publication\, so it will be a book ‘preview’ instead.  The book looks to the creative potential of experiences of failure\, haunting\, estrangement\, impasse\, or dream in Shakespeare. It draws on the tradition of negative theology and subsequent philosophies of the negative (Hegel\, Kierkegaard\, Benjamin\, Adorno\, Derrida\, Badiou) in order to establish a negative political theology that challenges the official political theology that sacralises power.In this talk\, I will focus on the way Hamlet is thrown into a state of uncertainty about the eternal.  His famed “delay” is a response to the thought of eternity: he is given “pause” by imagining “what dreams may come / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil”.  The eternal is the “rub”.  I tackle this obscure rub by turning to Soren Kierkegaard\, who references Hamlet’s soliloquy in his Philosophical Fragments.  To be “born again” into the eternal\, according to Kierkegaard\, one must “become nothing and yet … not [be] annihilated”.  I suggest that Hamlet’s struggle with the eternal opens him to an expansive view of humanity – and politics – that goes beyond Claudius’s will to power or Laertes’s customary honour.  He negates Denmark’s violent\, dynastic politics and instead seeks what would seem to be impossible within a revenge tragedy: the incalculable.  The eternal here suggests an imaginary perspective that alienates or negates our current preoccupations and political economies. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/shakespeares-political-spirit/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:‘Well\, I saw the picture’: Semiotic ideologies and the unsettling of normative conceptions of heterosexuality in the Steubenville rape trial
DESCRIPTION:Susan Ehrlich – York University (https://www.yorku.ca/sehrlich/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nCultural norms surrounding heterosexuality have been shown to influence legal and popular understandings of rape. In particular\, Nicola Gavey (2005) has proposed that normative ideas about men’s aggressive\, hard-to-control sexuality and women’s passive\, acquiescing sexuality operate as a ‘cultural scaffold’ for rape – they provide a sense-making framework that allows rape to be understood as ‘just sex’. This paper\, a case study of the 2013 Steubenville (Ohio\, USA) rape trial\, attempts to show how the digital communication evidence in the trial\, especially the photographic evidence\, was able to unsettle some of these discourses surrounding heterosex. Following work by Crispin Thurlow (2017) on semiotic ideologies\, I argue that the special status assigned to the digital images by the trial participants\, relative to the linguistic representations\, had significant consequences for the outcome of the trial. Crucially\, it brought into stark relief the problematic nature of the defense’s claim that passivity and silence on the part of the complainant was tantamount to consent. \n ||  \nBiography\nSusan Ehrlich is Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at York University\, Toronto\, Canada.  She has worked extensively on language\, sexual violence and the law and is presently working on a project that investigates intertextual practices in the legal system\, demonstrating how such an investigation can shed light on broader patterns of social inequalities. Her book publications include Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (Oxford\, 2016\, co-edited with D. Eades and J. Ainsworth)\, The Handbook of Language\, Gender\, and Sexuality (Blackwell\, 2014\, co-edited with M. Meyerhoff and J. Holmes) and Representing Rape (Routledge\, 2001).  She is currently co-editor of the journal\, Language in Society\, with Tommaso Milani.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/well-i-saw-the-picture-semiotic-ideologies-and-the-unsettling-of-normative-conceptions-of-heterosexuality-in-the-steubenville-rape-trial/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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