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Seminar Series
2014-2015 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 comments to Dr Jessica Valdez.
18 Sep 2014
Professor Neal Norrick, Saarland University, Germany
Aggression in Conversational Storytelling Performance
Aggression in Conversational Storytelling Performance
25 Sep 2014
Dr Marco Wan, The University of Hong Kong
Literary Theory, Legal Texts: An Encounter
Literary Theory, Legal Texts: An Encounter
09 Oct 2014
Ms Caroline Jianqiao Huang, The University of Hong Kong
Implicit Learning of the L2 Overt Pronoun Constraints
Implicit Learning of the L2 Overt Pronoun Constraints
23 Oct 2014
Dr Nirmal Selvamony, Central University of Tamil Nadu
Ecocriticism, Envirocriticism and tiNai Criticism
Ecocriticism, Envirocriticism and tiNai Criticism
30 Oct 2014
Dr Janny Leung, The University of Hong Kong
Societal Multilingualism and the Law
Societal Multilingualism and the Law
07 Nov 2014
Dr Lucas Klein, The University of Hong Kong
Here’s Looking at Yu: Chinese Silences and the Trope of China in Contemporary American Poetry
Here’s Looking at Yu: Chinese Silences and the Trope of China in Contemporary American Poetry
13 Nov 2014
Dr Nan Zhang, Fudan University
Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and Transnational Modernism
Bloomsbury, the Crescent Moon Society, and Transnational Modernism
21 Nov 2014
Professor Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney and Stockholm University
Beauty in Search of Knowledge’: Eighteenth-Century Fashion and the Uses of Print
Beauty in Search of Knowledge’: Eighteenth-Century Fashion and the Uses of Print
27 Nov 2014
Dr Lauren Van Alsenoy, The University of Hong Kong
On the Frequency of Negative Concord
On the Frequency of Negative Concord