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 January *TUESDAY*	Dr. Jaspal Singh, The University of Hong Kong “Loudness Registers: Normalising Cosmopolitan Identities in Narratives of Ethnic Othering”
17 January	Dr. Jerry Won Lee, The University of California, Irvine “Disinventing Language, Reconstituting Nation: The Location of ‘Korea’ in the Semiotic Landscape of East Asia”
22 January *TUESDAY*	Dr. Mieke Vandenbroucke, Ghent University “Discursive Agency in Negatively Anchored Marriage Fraud Investigations in Belgium”
24 January	Dr. Daniel Weston, Norwegian University of Science and Technology “Illuminating Cambridge Admission”
31 January	Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla, The University of Cape Town “Decolonizing Linguistics”
14 February	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”
19 February *TUESDAY*	Dr. Daniel Orrells, King’s College London “Greek Love and Orientalism” This talk will take place in Room CPD-3.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
28 March	Prof. Ian Duncan, The University of California, Berkeley “Charles Dickens, Transformist: Popular Science and the Victorian Novel”
18 April	Sean P. Smith, The University of Hong Kong “Landscape as Marketplace: Self-branding and Commodification in Instagram’s travel genre” John Scott Daly, The University of Hong Kong Title TBC

Last updated: 15 February 2019