School of English Research Seminars: first semester 2012-13
20/09-29/11/2012
Seminar Series 2012-2013 (First Semester)
Unless otherwise specified, all seminars are on Thursdays and will begin at 5:00 pm in Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU. Questions, corrections, or comm ents to Dr Olga Zayts.
20 September 2012
Professor Graham Huggan, University of Leeds
The Postcolonial Arctic
Professor Graham Huggan, University of Leeds
The Postcolonial Arctic
27 September 2012
Professor Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University
Anatomy of a False
Confession: The Linguistic and Psychological Characteristics of False
Confessions and Reforms to Prevent Conviction of the Innocent
Professor Janet Ainsworth, Seattle University
Anatomy of a False
Confession: The Linguistic and Psychological Characteristics of False
Confessions and Reforms to Prevent Conviction of the Innocent
18 October 2012
Professor Wlad Godzich, UC Santa Cruz
Modernism and the Problem of the Unfinished Novel (click here for more details)
Professor Wlad Godzich, UC Santa Cruz
Modernism and the Problem of the Unfinished Novel (click here for more details)
6 November 2012 (Tuesday)
Dr Anne M. Thell, National University of Singapore
Dampier’s ‘Mixt Relation’: Narrative versus Natural History in A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
Dr Anne M. Thell, National University of Singapore
Dampier’s ‘Mixt Relation’: Narrative versus Natural History in A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
8 November 2012
Professor Douglas Kerr, The University of Hong Kong
Joseph Conrad at the Music-Hall
Professor Douglas Kerr, The University of Hong Kong
Joseph Conrad at the Music-Hall
15 November 2012
Professor Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington, Seattle
Professor Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington, Seattle
Why I Hate Facebook: A Critical Discourse Analysis of “Web 2.0”
22 November 2012
Dr Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London
Title tba
Dr Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London
Title tba
29 November 2012
Seminar by research postgraduate students
Speakers and titles tbc
Seminar by research postgraduate students
Speakers and titles tbc