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2024

Irresistible Influences: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the Mesmerizing Trilby

by Dr. Isabel Stowell-Kaplan (The University of Bristol)

Affecting Asianness and the Art of Restraint on American Stages

by Dr. Amy Huang (Bates College)

Thriving in a Workplace: Insights for Graduates

HKU RIICH Webinar

ONLINE EVENT

Conrad and Napoleon: Fiction and History

by Professor Douglas Kerr (The University of Hong Kong)

Tom Murphy and Modern Theatre: Diasporic Tragedies and Everyday Space

by Dr. Moonyoung Hong (City University of Hong Kong)

Life as an English Studies Major at HKU

May 24, 2024 (Friday), 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Via Zoom

“All Stations Are Exactly Alike”: Déjà Vu and British Soft Power in Rudyard Kipling’s Urban Travel Narratives

by Dr. Brian Reinken (Rutgers University)

‘Embryos we must be’: Embodiment, Biopower, and Biopoetics in William Blake

by Dr. Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong)

2023

Love's Labours Found: a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio

The HKU School of English celebration will include brief readings (performed by Kristen Murray, Nick Luke, Peter Kennedy and other faculty) from several of the First Folio plays. A table of Elizabethan-inspired refreshments will follow.

Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2023