| Category | Date | Participant | Title | Venue |
| Seminar | 14-15 Nov | Prof Edwin Thumboo | Literatures in Englishes: Creation and criticism, and poetry reading | CityU |
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Literatures in Englishes: Creation and criticism, and poetry reading Date : 14-15 November 2005 |
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Workshop |
The Lecture on 14 November, Professer Edwin Thumboo addressed (1) the challenges faced by
writers belonging to nations where English, the ex-colonial language, is now a family of world
englishes and (2) the critical approaches that best enable the studt of such literatures.
On 15 November, there was a poetry reading in which he read several of his poems, including "Conjunction" and one he recently wrote entitled "Uncle Never Knew". The event was organized by Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, Department of English and Communication, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Application of Language Studies, and Run Run Shaw Library. |
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