Seminar Series

2017-2018 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 Hannah Shipman.


1 February 2018	Dr. Johan Siebers, Religious Studies Unit, Middlesex University London
	Saying and Renunciation in Chang Chung-yuan's Commentary to the Dao De Jing

8 February 2018	Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey
	Literary Realism in the Anthropocene

1 March 2018	Dr. Chris Patterson, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University
	Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

15 March 2018	Dr. des. Nicole Eberle, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
	Bermuda on the Move: Origins and Typological Affinities of Bermudian English

22 March 2018	Prof. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
	Language and The Problem of Women’s Authority
	17.30 - 19.00 Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, Jockey Club Tower Pre-talk reception 17.00 - 17.30

29 March 2018	Dr. Otto Heim, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
	Samoan ghost stories: John Kneubuhl and oral history

12 April 2018	Dr. Joanna Mansbridge, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
	Building Memory: Digital Place-Making in Zuni Icosahedron's Architecture of the City

19 April 2018	Dr. Harriet Hulme, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong
	'An act of welcome': writing as hospitality in Refugee Tales (2016)

26 April 2018	(1) Ms. Xu Lingyi Olivia, RPg, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
	"At Last It Arrested Her": The Historical Portrait in Pride and Prejudice
	(2) Mr. Chan Man Long Johnson, RPg, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
	Why Verse? Aurora Leigh and the Rise of the Verse-Novel

Last updated: 17 April 2018