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Seminar Series
2019-2020 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 Nicholas Luke.

17 Sep 2019
Professor Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, New College, University of Oxford
Autobiography as Topoanalysis: the Spatial Dimensions of Life-Writing
26 Sep 2019
Jackie Militello, The University of Hong Kong
Semiotic Emblems, Indexicality and Eliteness in Hong Kong
26 Sep 2019
Andre Joseph Theng, The University of Hong Kong
Eliteness Strategies: Recognising Eliteness and the Semiotics of ‘Artisanal’ Coffee
03 Oct 2019
Dr Rebecca Starr, National University of Singapore
Is Your Child Learning Singlish? Attitudes, Exposure, and Acquisition of Variation Among Local and Expatriate Children in Singapore
10 Oct 2019
Dr Nicholas Luke, The University of Hong Kong
Avoidance as Love: Evading Cavell on Dover Cliff
24 Oct 2019
Professor Monica Heller, University of Toronto
Sociolinguistics not-as-usual: lessons from Victor Klemperer
07 Nov 2019
Professor Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern
Liquid Power: A Social Semiotics of the Infinity Pool
12 Nov 2019
Mohammed Hanif
Stories We Can't Tell (PEN Hong Kong Literature and Human Rights Lecture)
21 Nov 2019
Dr Caterina Romeo, Sapienza University of Rome
Disturbing Conventional Narratives of National Belonging: Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary Italy and Europe
*CANCELLED*
28 Nov 2019
Dr Kaitlin Staudt, Education University of Hong Kong
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Women’s Visibility and the Turkish Modernist Novel
*CANCELLED*