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SUMMARY:HKU Black Box Open Readings
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\nHKU Black Box Open Readings\n\nThe open-mic readings create a safe and relaxed environment for MFA and MACC students to share their works-in-progress alongside pieces from their favourite authors. These sessions provide additional support for students to share their writing while fostering a sense of creative exploration. \nDate: April 2 & 16\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 2:30pm – 3:20pm \n  \nPHOTO HIGHLIGHTS\n\n      
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/hku-black-box-open-readings/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Romance\, Masnavi\, and Empire: Anglo-Ottoman Musings on Spectral Imperiality
DESCRIPTION:Arif Camoglu – NYU Shanghai (https://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/directory/arif-camoglu) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nBoth influenced by One Thousand and One Nights and placed in the intercultural history of romance\, John Keats’s “Endymion” and Şeyh Galib’s Hüsn ü Aşk happen to be connected also in their articulation of how empire masks its physical presences in its operations. Pairing the works of Keats and Galib by acknowledging their shared textual references and literary heritages\, as well as their poetic similitudes\, this talk spotlights not only the cultural but also the historical intersections that underpin the Anglo-Ottoman conjurations of a ghostly empire: it does so by recalling the existence of another “Endymion\,” a British warship that was dispatched to attack the Ottoman Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. The two Endymions\, this talk suggests\, represent the overlapping (historical and imaginative) layers of the affective imperialism that are foundational to the Anglo-Ottoman relations of the romantic century. \n ||  \nBiography\nArif Camoglu is Assistant Professor of Literature at NYU Shanghai. His research focuses on the British and Ottoman Turkish literatures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most recent writing appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies\, Global Nineteenth Century Studies\, and Essays in Romanticism. He is among the editors of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era. Currently Arif is at work on a book manuscript\, titled Specters of Empire: Anglo-Ottoman Narratives of Imperial Sovereignty in the Romantic Century.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/romance-masnavi-and-empire-anglo-ottoman-musings-on-spectral-imperiality/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Sheung-King (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sheung-King – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nSheung-King reads from Batshit Seven (Penguin Canada\, 2024)\, winner of the 2024 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize. \nDate: April 9\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. During the Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Sheung-King from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/sheung-king-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Trauma and the Sublime in William Blake’s America a Prophecy (1793)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Otto – University of Melbourne (https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/13517-peter-otto) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAlthough America (1793) is usually read as a work of radical history and millennial prophecy\, it is framed by plates that collocate hope and despair\, peace and violence\, morning (paradise) and mourning (disaster). The dilemma this poses is typically managed by troping the second term in each of these pairs as a concomitant rather than contaminant of revolution\, that the journey to utopia soon leaves behind. To do otherwise\, it is implied\, would be to side with the forces of reaction rather than revolution. In contrast\, in this paper I argue that by hurrying to resolve the tension between morning and mourning critics eclipse the historical and visual/textual frame for the poem’s exploration of trauma\, the fragmentation it causes\, the desire for transcendence it provokes\, and its consequences for the imagination. Blake critics are still fond of tracing in Blake’s work a shift from politics to art\, and from critique of Christianity to more orthodox belief. However\, his later works look very different if\, building on the account of trauma first developed in America\, they are an attempt to describe a radical politics able to negotiate the space between feeling bodies and numbed minds. Read in this light\, they may still have much to say about the present in which we are living. \n ||  \nBiography\nPeter Otto is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In addition to two monographs on Blake\, his publications include Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism\, Modernity and the Emergence of Virtual Reality (OUP\, 2011); Innovations in Encompassing Large Scenes (Romantic Circles\, 2013); and\, as editor\, 21st Century Oxford Authors: William Blake (OUP 2018; paperback 2022) and\, as co-editor\, Varieties of Imagination\, Creativity\, and Wellbeing in Australia (Unlikely\, 2025). He is currently completing a book\, funded by the Australian Research Council\, on ‘Architectures of Imagination: Bodies\, Buildings\, Fictions\, and Worlds.’
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/trauma-and-the-sublime-in-william-blakes-america-a-prophecy-1793/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Thomas Bird (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Bird – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nThomas Bird reads from Harmony Express: Travel by Train Through China (Earnshaw Books\, 2023). \nDate: April 23\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. During the Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nPhotos Highlights\n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Thomas Bird from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thomas-bird-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:RPG Student/Graduate Seminar Session
DESCRIPTION:Aimee SHI Yu – PhD Graduate\, University College London (https://www.researchgate.net/directory/profiles) || Ruyu Yan – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) || Stephanie Ng – PhD Candidate\, University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Research_Postgraduates) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nBecoming Happy: Discourse\, Transnational Higher Education\, and Spiritual Transformation of the Self\nAimee SHI Yu\, phd graduate\, university college london\nAbstract\nThis presentation focuses on the institutional discourse surrounding happiness and social interactions within Chinese diasporic communities at a UK-based cultural NGO\, where participants engaged in weekly activities\, including book discussions\, tea ceremonies\, and mindfulness practices\, understanding these as coping mechanisms for anxieties and struggles in their transnational lives. Data analysis reveals how these practices constitute values and social relations (e.g.\, care and happiness) as alternatives to neoliberal logics of profit-making and competition. These imaginaries function primarily at the discursive level yet are constrained by the material conditions of transnational mobility. \nBiography\nSHI Yu (Aimee) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Education University of Hong Kong. She was trained in Applied Linguistics\, obtaining her PhD and MA from the Institute of Education at University College London and her BA in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the transnational experiences of Chinese international students and professionals in educational settings in the UK\, focusing on their language socialization and identity formation during the process of becoming. Her work employs institutional ethnography and in-depth case studies informed by sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. \ntranslingualism: Its Communication Ethics and Semiological Basis\nRUYU YAN\, PHD CANDIDATE\, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH\, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nAbstract\nAt the recent turn to translingual approaches in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics\, language is portrayed as a linguistic repertoire; this definition is made part of a discourse of consistency to reality\, which corresponds to the disciplinary pursuit for a scientific status. This paper instead draws attention to the investment of values in the explanation of language and communication by scholars of translingualism. Translingualism involves an ethic of communication that depends on the uniqueness of human subjects. Taking this quality of human subjects as the basis for a sign theory\, this presentation discusses potential difficulties for translingual analysts. \nBiography\nRuyu Yan is a PhD student working on a theoretical dialogue between integrationism and translingualism. Her research interests lie in multilingualism\, integrational semiology\, and communication philosophies.  \n"Most people don't want to hear it": Negotiating the tellability of mental health recovery narratives in a Hong Kong anti-stigma campaign\nSTEPHANIE NG\, PHD CANDIDATE\, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH\, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\nAbstract\nIn Hong Kong\, mental illness is a culturally-sensitive and stigmatized topic\, impacting individuals and communities. To combat this stigma\, local campaigns like “More Than A Label (MTAL)” encourage individuals with lived experience to share their stories of mental health recovery. This session will present findings from a study analyzing recovery stories from 17 MTAL participants. Using narrative analysis\, the study reveals rhetorical strategies that transform personal stories into persuasive narratives\, exploring the construction of tellability and its implications for mental health anti-stigma efforts. \nBiography\nStephanie Ng is a final-year PhD candidate in the School of English and a member of the Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare (HKU RIICH) in the Faculty of Arts. With a master’s degree in clinical psychology\, she adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her research. Her work combines psychology and sociolinguistic perspectives to examine how personal stories of mental health recovery help address stigma in Hong Kong society. She has published first-author articles in renowned academic journals\, including The International Journal of Eating Disorders\, BJPsych Open\, and BMC Psychology. \n ||  \nBiography
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/rpg-student-graduate-seminar-session/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support Workshop\n \n  \nReady to boost your career but unsure where to start? Curious about AI’s role in the workplace or opportunities in the Greater Bay Area? Need some advice for further studies? Come and join us! \n  \nWorkshop 2: Thriving at Work: Honing Skills and Finding Support \nDate: 30 April 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 15:00–17:00 \nLanguage: English \nFormat: Hybrid (In-person or Zoom) \nLocation: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nHighlights: \n\nInsights from employers & researchers on workplace trends and career strategies.\nAI applications in the workplace—learn to leverage useful tools and write effective prompts.\nMental health support for navigating career challenges.\nAdvice on further studies and opportunities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).\nRefreshments\, goodie bags\, and a certificate of attendance for all offline participants!\n\n  \nThis workshop is part of our project generously funded by the Collaborative Research Fund. Don’t miss this chance to gain actionable skills and confidence for your career journey! Scan the QR code or click here to register! (https://shorturl.at/3HtBK) \n  \nFor inquiries\, contact us at riich@hku.hk. We look forward to empowering your future!
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/thriving-at-work-honing-skills-and-finding-support-workshop/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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