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Seminar Series
2018-2019 Second 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 Anya Adair.
15 Jan 2019
Dr. Jaspal Singh, The University of Hong Kong
“Loudness Registers: Normalising Cosmopolitan Identities in Narratives of Ethnic Othering”
“Loudness Registers: Normalising Cosmopolitan Identities in Narratives of Ethnic Othering”
17 Jan 2019
Dr. Jerry Won Lee, The University of California, Irvine
“Disinventing Language, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of ‘Korea’ in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia”
“Disinventing Language, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of ‘Korea’ in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia”
14 Feb 2019
Dr. Beth Harper, The University of Hong Kong
“‘A disease that’s in my flesh that I must needs call mine’: Lear, Macbeth and the fear of futurity”
“‘A disease that’s in my flesh that I must needs call mine’: Lear, Macbeth and the fear of futurity”
12 Mar 2019
Dr. Michael Gadaleto, Pennsylvania State University
“Spenser’s 'Vnperfite' Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and 'Mingled' History in the 'Saluage Iland'”
“Spenser’s 'Vnperfite' Nationhood: Transnational Intimacy and 'Mingled' History in the 'Saluage Iland'”
14 Mar 2019
Dr. Benjamin D. VanWagoner, The City University of New York
“Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts”
“Pirate Encounters: Negotiating Risk in Shakespeare and Early East India Company Accounts”
21 Mar 2019
Dr Yalız Akbaba, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
“Make Migration Great Again: Discourse Ethnography on the Double-bind for Migrant Teachers in Germany”
“Make Migration Great Again: Discourse Ethnography on the Double-bind for Migrant Teachers in Germany”
28 Mar 2019
Prof. Ian Duncan, The University of California, Berkeley
“Charles Dickens, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel.”
“Charles Dickens, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel.”
18 Apr 2019
John Scott Daly, The University of Hong Kong
“Below the Line: The Construction of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ in YouTube Comments”
“Below the Line: The Construction of a ‘Permanent Underclass’ in YouTube Comments”
18 Apr 2019
Natalie Mo, The University of Hong Kong
“Her Shadow: Killing Off the Female Double in Realist and Gothic Fiction”
“Her Shadow: Killing Off the Female Double in Realist and Gothic Fiction”
18 Apr 2019
Anneliese Ng, The University of Hong Kong
“Replotting the Harlot’s Progress: Motherhood and Moral Agency in Gaskell's Ruth”
“Replotting the Harlot’s Progress: Motherhood and Moral Agency in Gaskell's Ruth”