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Seminar Series
2017-2018 First Semester
Unless otherwise specified, all seminars are on Thursdays and will begin at 4:30 pm in Room CRT-7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU. Questions, corrections, or comments to Dr Hannah Shipman.
12 Oct 2017
Professor Marianne Hundt, English Department, University of Zurich
What’s behind variation with (A) LOT (OF)? A view from World Englishes
What’s behind variation with (A) LOT (OF)? A view from World Englishes
26 Oct 2017
Dr. Rudolph Glitz, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
“Cousin, I am too young”: Age and Royalty in Shakespeare’s Richard II
“Cousin, I am too young”: Age and Royalty in Shakespeare’s Richard II
02 Nov 2017
Professor Paul Crawford, School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham
Arts and the Language of Recovery
Arts and the Language of Recovery
16 Nov 2017
Dr. Miles Link, Department of English, Fudan University
'Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
'Thus Began Outrage from Liveless Things’: Nature’s Hostile Turn in Milton’s Paradise Lost
22 Nov 2017
Professor Isobel Armstrong, Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets - Hardy, Field, Meynell, Kipling
A Challenge to the fin de siècle poem: Four alternative fin de siècle poets - Hardy, Field, Meynell, Kipling
30 Nov 2017
Professor Johan van der Auwera, Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp
Englishes, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites
Englishes, English Creoles and their Negative Indefinites