School of English Research Seminars: second semester 2011-12
09/02-26/04/2012
Seminar Series 2011-2012 (Second Semester)
Unless otherwise specified, all seminars are on Thursdays and will begin at 5:00pm in Room 113G, Main Building, HKU. Questions, corrections, or comments to Dr Adrian Pablé.
9 February 2012
Professor Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Trade Secrets: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and The Inheritors
23 February 2012
Professor Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland
Problems in stability and change: variation, migration and the linguistic system
1 March 2012 (CANCELLED)
Professor Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough University
Dickens, our contemporary? Or, towards a phenomenology of the Urban
15 March 2012
Mr Noël Christe, The University of Hong Kong
From language to cognition and identity: critical reflections
Mr Wang Dongqing, The University of Hong Kong
Despotism of Law: the Lady Hughes Case and the Sino-British Legal Encounter at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
20 March 2012 (TUESDAY)
(co-sponsored with the School of Humanities)
Professor David Eng, University of Pennsylvania
Reparations and the Human
22 March 2012 (CANCELLED)
Professor Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet, University of Lausanne
Batman as Gothic Icon
29 March 2012
Professor Andrew Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of London
James Joyce and the Irish University Question: A Portrait of the Artist Chapter 5
12 April 2012
Dr Michael Hadzantonis, Sungshin University, Seoul, South Korea
Manipulating Ethnolinguistic Vitality through a (neo)Vygotskian theoretical framework
17 April 2012 (TUESDAY)
Ms Giovanna Tang Yuen Man, The University of Hong Kong
Language and Identity Positionings of Southeast Asian Sojourn Students in Hong Kong
Mr Ricky Chan Ka Wai, The University of Hong Kong
Implicit Learning of L2 word stress rules
19 April 2012 (CANCELLED)
Professor John Corbett, University of Macau
Online Scottish corpora: exploring language and variety
26 April 2012
Professor Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida
Blushing to think: faces of shame and desire in the nineteenth century