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Seminar Series
2019-2020 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 Nicholas Luke.
23 Jan 2020
Dr Ivan Stacy, Beijing Normal University
Literature and Complicity: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction
Literature and Complicity: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction
Seminar Series, 2019-2020 Second Semester
06 Feb 2020
Professor Don Kulick, Uppsala University
Animals and Communication: An Overview of the Field
Animals and Communication: An Overview of the Field
*POSTPONED*
13 Feb 2020
Dr Caterina Romeo, Sapienza University of Rome
Disturbing Conventional Narratives of National Belonging: Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary Italy and Europe
Disturbing Conventional Narratives of National Belonging: Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary Italy and Europe
*POSTPONED*
20 Feb 2020
Dr Daozhi Xu, The University of Hong Kong
‘That Old Man Making Fun of Me?’: Humour in the Writings of Aboriginal and Asian Relationships
‘That Old Man Making Fun of Me?’: Humour in the Writings of Aboriginal and Asian Relationships
*POSTPONED*
27 Feb 2020
Professor Christopher Balme, LMU, Munich
Post-fictional Performance and the Public Sphere
Post-fictional Performance and the Public Sphere
*POSTPONED*
05 Mar 2020
Dr Sarah Lee, Hong Kong Baptist University
Anglo-French Poetic Exchanges in the Little Magazines, 1908-1914
Anglo-French Poetic Exchanges in the Little Magazines, 1908-1914
*POSTPONED*
19 Mar 2020
Dr Benedict Rowlett, Hong Kong Baptist University
Tracing Queer Intra-Regional Discursive Flows via Pink Dot Events in Singapore and Hong Kong
Tracing Queer Intra-Regional Discursive Flows via Pink Dot Events in Singapore and Hong Kong
*POSTPONED*
26 Mar 2020
Professor Annabelle Mooney, University of Roehampton
The Human Face of Money: the Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
The Human Face of Money: the Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
*POSTPONED*
09 Apr 2020
Dr Joe Stadolnik, University of Chicago
Alchemy in Public
Alchemy in Public
*POSTPONED*
16 Apr 2020
Dr Nan Zhang, Fudan University
TBC
TBC
*POSTPONED*
23 Apr 2020
Dr Katherine Hindley, The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
TBC
TBC
*POSTPONED*
28 Apr 2020
Dr Elizabeth Anker, University of Chicago
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory
*POSTPONED*