ENDANGERED HUMANITIES AND ENDANGERED PLANET Professor Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University Date & time: Monday 3 June 2019; 16:30-18:00 Venue: OEM1008, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU [Click HERE to register.] Beginning with the shared dangers faced by the humanities and the planet earth, Wai Chee Dimock uses her PMLA editor’s column to propose a new…
Category: seminars
“Anti-Japanese Drama” by Benjamin Lam
‘A scene from a TV series that shows a Chinese man repelling a Japanese soldier with his fist.’ (Source: China Daily) Dr. Ruth Y.Y. Hung’s presentation on Monday 11 January 2016, entitled “Classic or Farce? Making a Spectacle of the Latest ‘Anti-Japanese Drama’” [abstract], touched upon the concept of the Anti-Japan shenju (神劇) — also…
“Urban Youth” by William Ng
. It was inspiring for me to attend the English Department seminar “Urban Youth, Language and Literacy Development in the Digital and Global Environments” [abstract] delivered by Dr. Myrrh Domingo from the Institute of Education, University College London on Monday 26th January 2015. Recently, the image of me approaching the classroom of my future students has…
Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University 