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SUMMARY:From "vp=start Crow" to Upstart Crow: Shakespeare as Comical Character from 16th to 21st Century Biofiction
DESCRIPTION:Reto Winckler – Assistant Professor\, City University of Hong Kong (https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/ewinckle) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis paper investigates a long line of bio-fictional texts that portray Shakespeare as a comical character. The paper is grounded in the observation that the two earliest historical documents that seem to give some personal insight into Shakespeare's life and character are jokes. Robert Greene satirizes Shakespeare as a preposterous ‘vp=start Crow’ with a ‘Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde’ (1592); John Manningham's anecdote about Shakespeare's affair with a fan in which Shakespeare impersonates William the Conqueror (1602)\, meanwhile\, makes Shakespeare the protagonist of a mini-comedy that ends in a one-night-stand. Both texts already exhibit the comingling of fact and fiction that would come to characterize all later Shakespeare biofiction\, and indeed all Shakespeare biography. Equally remarkably\, the two different modes of humour employed by the two anecdotes\, the satirical and the romantic\, both closely reflect how humour operates in Shakespeare's comedies and foreshadows the use of humour in later biofictional comedic visions of Shakespeare. \nBuilding on this perspective\, this paper analyzes Alexandre Duval’s Shakespeare Amoureux (1804)\, George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910)\, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Ben Elton’s Greene-inspired television sitcom Upstart Crow (BBC Two\, 2-16-2020). The comedic biofictional engagements with Shakespeares discussed in this paper open up unique routes of engagement with historical facts as well as popular and academic conceptions of Shakespeare. \n ||  \nBiography\nReto Winckler is Assistant Professor at the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Shakespeare\, adaptation studies (particularly in television series\, digital media and AI) and contemporary popular culture. His articles have been published in Adaptation\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, Shakespeare\, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance\, Texas Studies in Literature and Language\, and Cahiers Élisabéthains\, among others. He is the co-editor of Television Series as Literature (Palgrave\, 2022) and the forthcoming “This America\, Man:” The Literary and Cultural Origins of 21st-Century American Television Series (Brill\, 2026)\," and the editor of the forthcoming special issue of Adaptation\, "Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI" (2026). He is a member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare and Adaptation.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/from-vpstart-crow-to-upstart-crow-shakespeare-as-comical-character-from-16th-to-21st-century-biofiction/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Peter Kennedy (Autumn 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Black Box Writers’ Series (Autumn 2025)\n  \nDr. Peter Kennedy will reflect on the creation of his second volume of verse HERE\, where poetry and prose converge. He will also engage in discussion about his broader creative practice. \nDate: November 18\, 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 Dr. Peter Kennedy\nDr. Peter Kennedy was born in the Roman city of Chester near the Welsh border. He is of Irish and Welsh extraction. He has worked in Hong Kong since 1988. He holds degrees from the universities of Bristol\, Sussex\, Wales\, Essex and Trinity College Dublin. \nPeter has taught in England\, Greece\, Czechoslovakia\, Romania\, Saudi Arabia\, China\, Brunei and Hong Kong and has been a (literature) teacher for 40 years. Until 2012\, he was Associate Professor at the School of Professional and Continuing Education\, HKU in charge of a broad range of programmes from Diploma to doctorate levels. Peter is now Honorary Associate Professor in the School of English\, HKU. He teaches modules in the (full-time) B.A. programme. These include: Joyce’s Voices\, Introduction to C20th English Poetry and C21st English Poetry. \nHis five books and his journal articles have been mainly concerned with adult learning and learning English through literature. Recent creative writing has appeared in the (London) Literary Review and the (US) James Joyce Quarterly. \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 Dr. Peter Kennedy can be viewed from here.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/peter-kennedy-autumn-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Burgess’ Joyce: the influence of James Joyce on Burgess' novels
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kennedy – Adjunct Associate Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/104/Dr_Peter_Kennedy) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nAnthony Burgess (1917-1993) had a lifelong love of the writing of James Joyce (1882-1941).  He read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at 16. He took Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with him into the army in 1940. He wrote two critical studies of Joyce: Here Comes Everybody (1965) and Joysprick (1973) as well as many articles about him. He produced A Shorter Finnegans Wake (1966)\, presented a film on Joyce for the BBC (1965) and on Finnegans Wake for American television (1973). In 1982\, he wrote a musical version of Ulysses called The Blooms of Dublin. His novels were heavily influenced by Joyce’s writing. In this paper\, I will trace Joyce’s influence through a few of his 33 novels: Napoleon Symphony (1974)\, Nothing Like the Sun (1964)\, the Enderby tetralogy (1963-84) and his most well-known novel\, A Clockwork Orange (1962).  \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Peter Kennedy has taught in Hong Kong since 1988. At HKU\, he teaches C20th poetry\, C21st English poetry as well as a Ulysses course. A passionate Joycean\, 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 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 also writes poetry that has been published in HK\, Ireland\, the UK (e.g. in the London Literary Review) and Germany.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/burgess-joyce-the-influence-of-james-joyce-on-burgess-novels/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Public Lecture: Foundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Distinguished Lecture Series\nFoundations of Meaningfulness: Narrative\, Semiotics\, Culture\nDate: 24th November\, 2025 (Monday) \nTea Reception (Optional)\nTime: 3:00pm – 4:00pm \nVenue: The Good Bridge\, 4/F\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nLecture\nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103739\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103739\n\n ||  \nAbstract\n“There is nothing new under the sun\,” says the author of the book of Ecclesiastes in the Christian Bible. This\, with some provocative simplification\, could well be the epigram for human cultural production\, in which we constantly see the phenomena of recurring symbols and archetypes\, narrative patterns\, allusion\, sampling\, and outright imitation. The recurrence of expression has been addressed to various extents and in various ways by a wide range of famous thinkers and scholars including Carl Jung\, Sigmund Freud\, Karl Marx\, Northrop Frye\, Joseph Campbell\, Noam Chomsky\, and Harold Bloom. This talk will critically examine recurrences and returns in cultural expression\, taking reference from the realms of literature\, film\, and popular culture. What\, as scholars\, producers and consumers of culture\, can we do about such commonalities? Can we consider taxonomies of recurrence as a helpful critical framework? Can this approach reveal anything significant about human society and the ways in which we interact with each other? To what academic disciplines and areas of human activity can this be applied? Last and certainly not least\, how do we avoid reductivity and oversimplification in this kind of approach? In short\, can foundations of expression be meaningful and not hollow\, and if so\, how do we do that? \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-public-lecture-foundations-of-meaningfulness-narrative-semiotics-culture/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Professor Robbie B. H. Goh - Professionalisation Workshop: Building your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nProfessor Robbie B. H. Goh – Professionalisation Workshop\nBuilding your Dossier: Research and Teaching Development Strategies for Early Career Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences\nDate: 25th November\, 2025 (Tuesday) \nTime: 4:00pm – 5:30pm \nVenue: Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong \nRegistration is required. Seats are available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=103740\nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=103740\n\n ||  \nAbstract\nFaculty career development is an important matter\, and one that should be approached as early in a faculty member’s career as possible. Indeed\, it would be an advantage to begin thinking about these matters in graduate school\, as one chooses one’s dissertation topic\, and gains the early research and teaching experience that will shape one’s early career as a faculty member. The Humanities and Social Sciences pose particular challenges in research direction and evaluation\, given their greater thematic range and more subjective evaluation when compared to the more quantitative criteria and definitive research pathways of many STEM disciplines. \nIn this session\, I will speak about some of the principle considerations which I believe should guide early career faculty in their career development planning. In research\, these include thematic coherence; impact; collaboration; and intellectual independence/leadership. In teaching\, some considerations include (again) coherence; range; curricular leadership; and feedback. Recognising the range of teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences\, it would not be possible to be prescriptive about the different expectations and pathways\, but I hope to provide principles which should be generally useful in the different disciplines therein. \n ||  \nBiography\nRobbie B. H. Goh has been Professor and Provost of the Singapore University of Social Sciences since 2021. Prior to that he was Professor at the National University of Singapore\, where he held various leadership appointments including Head of the Department of English Language and Literature\, Deputy Director of the Asia Research Institute\, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He has published mainly in the fields of Indian Anglophone literature\, Christianity in Asia\, and the semiotics of popular culture. A literature scholar by original training\, much of his work also seeks to incorporate the methodologies of other disciplines such as linguistics\, human geography\, history and religious studies. Among his publications are the books Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher (2022\, Bloomsbury Academic); Language\, Space and Cultural Play (2020\, Cambridge University Press\, co-authored with Lionel Wee); Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018\, State University of New York Press); and Contours of Culture: Space and Social Difference in Singapore (2005\, Hong Kong University Press). He has also authored more than 100 academic articles\, in a wide range of edited volumes and journals including Studies in the Novel\, Journal of Commonwealth Literature\, Urban Studies\, Asian Studies Review\, Social Semiotics\, and others.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/professor-robbie-b-h-goh-professionalisation-workshop-building-your-dossier-research-and-teaching-development-strategies-for-early-career-scholars-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
LOCATION:Faculty Conference Room 436\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:The Curious Incident of the Monster in the Nighttime: Circumstantial Evidence in Early English Legal Culture
DESCRIPTION:Anya Adair – Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/84/Dr_Anya_Adair) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nIn The Adventure of the Silver Blaze\, Sherlock Holmes' account of 'the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime' epitomises the imaginative leap of circumstantial reasoning: probable meaning is deduced from what physical evidence remains (or is conspicuously absent) after the crime. This talk traces the pre-history of such methods of reasoning in the legal culture of early medieval England. Old English law codes and poetry alike\, I argue\, disclose a subtle but consistent interest in traces\, signs\, and probabilities: what we would now call circumstantial evidence. Commentators on early English legal history typically emphasise the primacy of oaths and ordeals in fact-finding. These ritualised procedures\, it is claimed\, centralise God’s judgement\, and explicitly exclude human deduction and 'fact-finding' from the processes of law. Yet the Old English law codes preserve signs of a broader evidentiary culture: traces of stolen animals\, collateral facts of behaviour\, and expectations about likelihood and proof. Old English poetry\, too\, shows this intellectual habits at work. Narrative scenes in Beowulf pivot on the careful weighing of signs\, and on conclusions drawn from material traces. Early English law and literature together point to a legal imagination alive to the interpretive potential of circumstantial evidence\, anticipating by many centuries the processes of fact-finding that drive the modern jury trial\, and the genres of detective fiction that bring these processes so vividly into the modern cultural imagination. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr. Adair is Assistant Professor in Law and Humanities with the Faculties of Law and Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne and graduate degrees in English from Melbourne\, Oxford and Yale. Her present research seeks to unite more closely the fields of medieval law and literature\, and to provide insight into the intellectual\, emotional and social dimensions of legal and literary production across the period.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-curious-incident-of-the-monster-in-the-nighttime-circumstantial-evidence-in-early-english-legal-culture/
LOCATION:Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
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