Past Events
MALCS Class of 2023!!!
November 19, 2023
CONGRATULATIONS MALCS Class of 2023!!! We are so proud of you! The 211th Congregation for the Faculty of Arts, HKU took place on November 19, 2023 and we had a wonderful photo taking session. Click below to view photos of our graduates.
Thinking Islands: Exploring the Sea and the Land in Literature, Film and Philosophy
The University of Hong Kong
Department of Comparative Literature
organized by: Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS)
ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM
DATE: October 6, 2023 (Fri)
TIME: 15:00-17:45
VENUE: Learning Lab, RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU
At this symposium we study the lives the island gives rise to. At the threshold where land and sea meet, the island has always been seen as a place for a new fertility, the breeding ground for a life otherwise. Deleuze and Guattari emphasized that the Greek islands (and the Aegean Sea that connects them) that gave rise to philosophy as we know it. Glissant spoke of archipelagic thinking when he aimed to shed a light on the (unknown) powers of the Caribbean and its possible futures (beyond colonialism). With a special interest in the islands of East and Southeast Asia, the aim of this symposium is to study narratives in fiction and non-fiction and the kinds of island-lives these images and texts enable. In what way do they allow us to reread the many rich traditions in thought that have emerged from their liquid grounds? Which new directions in thought, are these un/known territories unfolding in out time and what can they teach us about the world of today and tomorrow?
MALCS 2023-2024 Orientation
August 28, 2023
WELCOME all students to the new academic year! On August 28, 2023, MALCS held an Academic Orientation for the incoming 2023-2024 cohort. Click on the link below to view the photo gallery of the event!
