Research Seminar Series 2011-12

Unless, otherwise indicated, seminars take place in the E-Zone, 3/F Fung King Hey Building, CUHK.

Second Term

January

 

17th
1:00 - 2:30pm

Aaron Chan, MPhil student, CUHK

"The Disney Never Land: Peter Pan from Stage to Screen"

 

February

 

14th
1 pm

Prof. David Ewick (Department of Literature & Culture in English,
Tokyo Woman's Christian University)

"Meeting Under a Difficult Law: Ezra Pound, Modernism, and Japan"

 

27th
11:30 am

Prof. Julian Wolfreys (Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University)

"Dickens, our contemporary? Toward a phenomenology of the urban subject"

 

March

 

6th
1:00 pm

Prof. Andrew Goatly (Associate Professor, Department of English, Lingnan University)

Title: To be confirmed

 

13th
1:00pm

Prof. Matthew DeCoursey (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hong Kong Institute of Education)

"Make-Believe as a Mode of Consciousness in Theatre: Redefining ¡§Aesthetic Distance"

 

April

10th
1:00 pm

Prof. Michael O¡¦Sullivan (CUHK)

"Bolano, Sebald and the ¡¥shameless¡¦ universities"

 

May

8th
1:00 pm

Prof. David Barton (Professor of Language and Literacy, Department of Linguistics and EnglishLanguage, Lancaster University)

Title: To be confirmed

 

First Term

September

 

20th
1:00 - 2:30pm

Prof. Jason Gleckman and Prof. David Huddart (CUHK)

"Completing a GRF grant application"

 

October

 

13th
4 pm

David Bridel (Associate Professor of Theatre Practice and Associate
Director of M.F.A. Acting at the University of Southern California)

"It's The Sound of Failure, or How Theatre Helped Me Express My Weakness"

 

November

 

2nd
1:00 - 2:30pm

Prof. Julian Lamb (CUHK)

"Subliming Uses: Language at the Scene of Instruction in Early Modern England"

 

8th
1:00 - 2:30pm

Ms Melissa Lam(CUHK)

"From Savages to Settlers: The Languages of Hospitality and Domesticity in the New American Frontier"

 

December

6th
1:00 - 2:30pm

Prof. Paisley Livingtson (Chair Professor of Philosophy and Department Head, Philosophy Dept., Lingnan University)

"On the appreciation of cinematic adaptations¡¨ (Vanity Fair, Nair
et al. (2004)"

 

 



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