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SUMMARY:Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About…
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Hutton – Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/47/Professor_Christopher_Hutton) || Don Kulick – Visiting Chair Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/256/Professor_Don_Kulick) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nProfessors Chris Hutton and Don Kulick will present the chapters they have written for a book of short essays on language\, politics and power titled Let’s Stop Talking Bollocks About… \nChris will talk about definition and the legal and social controversies surrounding authority over meaning. Future cultural historians will no doubt remark on the contemporary phase of ‘gotcha’ questioning in western political life\, when politicians and activists are asked to define the word woman (though rarely\, if at all\, the word man)\, or are required to explain how many sexes or genders there are. One notable feature of these controversies is the novel alignment between conservatives and so-called gender-critical feminists. A second is the resort to law\, making judges the uncomfortable arbiters of contentious public meanings\, as in the recent UK Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v the Scottish Ministers (2025).The question is: can disputes about meaning be settled by appeals to definition? \nDon will discuss the lust for naming among asexuals\, which is endlessly generative and which produces identity labels like myrsexual\, which asexuals.net explains as “Someone who…is on the asexual spectrum but might feel confused as to where exactly as they can experience multiple asexual identities at once. They can also rapidly fluctuate”. Or aegosexual\, “also (previously) known as autochorissexual. This label describes people on the asexual spectrum who have a disconnection between themself and the subject of arousal”. What does the invention and proliferation of such labels mean? What do they tell us about how identity is being articulated at the current moment\, the end of the 2020s?  \n ||  \nBiography\nChris Hutton is Chair Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a BA in Modern Languages (1980)\, a DPhil in General Linguistics from the University of Oxford (1988)\, an MA in Linguistics and Yiddish Studies from Columbia University\, New York (1985)\, and an LLB from Manchester Metropolitan University (2008). He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas at Austin from 1987-1989 before moving to Hong Kong. His research is concerned with the politics of language and linguistics\, particularly in the context of law\, and the history of Western linguistics in its relationship with race theory. His most recent book is The People that Never Were (OUP\, 2025). \nDon Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, and Visiting Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His most recent books are two co-edited anthologies: Changing Vulnerability (with Michel Naepels\, School of Advanced Research Press\, 2026) and Clashing Vulnerabilities: Disability and Conflict (with Simo Vehmas\, Routledge\, 2026). He is currently directing a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant titled “Out of Sight”\, on people who are made to be\, or who want to be\, invisible.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/lets-stop-talking-bollocks-about/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:A Historical Survey of Hong Kong Anglophone Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Antony Huen –  MFA Programme Director\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/306/Dr_Antony_Huen) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nHow is poetry classified as Hong Kong poetry? Records of poets writing in Chinese in Hong Kong date back to the 1940s. What about poetry written in English? From Auden’s oriental view of Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War to Blunden’s writing during his professorship at the University of Hong Kong\, and the debuts of ethnically Chinese poets in the 1970s and subsequent decades\, there were comparable and sometimes overlapping developments in the Anglophone poetry scene in Hong Kong. More recently\, with the emergence of an expanding diasporic group of young poets who have received major literary recognition\, including Eric Yip\, the youngest winner of the UK’s National Poetry Competition\, Hong Kong Anglophone poetry has begun to emerge from various literary peripheries. This paper investigates the emergence of a body of Hong Kong Anglophone poetry\, tracing its origins and charting its key developments to date. In doing so\, it spotlights a once-overlooked\, young tradition that is growing in momentum and visibility. \n ||  \nBiography\nAntony Huen directs the MFA in Creative Writing in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in contemporary poetry\, with a special focus on transcultural and transmedia contexts. He received the Award for Young Artist (Arts Criticism) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2025. He was the winner of the inaugural essay prize of Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing in 2022 and runner-up for that of Women: A Cultural Review in 2023. He was also shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize in 2023. He holds a PhD in English from the University of York.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/a-historical-survey-of-hong-kong-anglophone-poetry/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:James Shea (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:James Shea – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nProfessor James Shea will reflect on the creation of his latest collection Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, winner of the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: September 30\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 7:30pm – 9:00pm \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 Professor James Shea\nProfessoor James Shea is the author of  Last Day of My Face (University of Iowa Press)\, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2024 Iowa Poetry Prize. His previous collections include The Lost Novel (Fence Books) and Star in the Eye\, selected by Nick Flynn for the Fence Modern Poets Series. He is the translator of Applause for a Cloud (Black Ocean)\, a collection of contemporary Japanese poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. He co-edited The Routledge Global Haiku Reader (Routledge) and co-translated Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong (Zephyr Press). He directs the bilingual creative writing program at Hong Kong Baptist University and has received grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Vermont Arts Council. \n\nABOUT BLACK BOX WRITERS' SERIES\nDuring the Autumn Semester\, the three featured writers join us in the HKU Black Box to reflect on the creation of their latest publications and engage in discussion about their broader creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\nThe biography of Professor James Shea can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/james-shea-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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