FAH-DENG Conference: “Critical Island Studies Conference 2024”
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Language, identity, and language policy in Timor-Leste”
E21-G039Abstract: The legacy of Portuguese colonialism is evident in modern-day Timor-Leste, and frequently discussed in terms o ...
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ““Democracy? We Deliver”: Race, Morale, and Total War in the Pacific””
E21A-G049Abstract: In November 1945, the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) set out in jeeps across Hiroshima to find ...
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Resistance to Biologism since Malthus: An ethics of responsibility”
E21A-G049Abstract: This paper considers ways in which thinkers and writers of the nineteenth century encountered imperialism and ...
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: No to “Yellow Peril”, No to “Honorary Whites”: Race and Diaspora in Chinese South African Life Writing
E21-G016Abstract: Based on one of the central chapters of my book manuscript Yellow Peril Revisited: Mutations, Reactions, and R ...
FAH-DENG Seminar: Becoming a Transnational and Situated Junior Scholar: Tips on Publications and Career Building
E21-G035Abstract: Chinese scholars and students often find it difficult to break into Anglophone academia as the academic habits ...
FAH-DENG lecture by Distinguished Visiting Scholar: “Metaphor”
E21-G035Abstract: Metaphor is an ancient concern of poets, philosophers, rhetoricians and historians as well as speakers and aud ...
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘God in Gatsby – A Spiritual Odyssey’
E21-3118Abstract: The Great Gatsby might lay easily claim to be “the great” American novel of the 20th century. As we approach t ...
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: ‘From adversarialism to antagonism: challenges to the broadcast accountability interview in an age of conflict’
E21-G040Abstract: The accountability interview in which a public figure is held to account for their statements or actions is a ...
FAH-DENG ‘Best Essay in English Studies Competition 2025’
To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses The Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2025 ...
Lecture by UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prof. Binhua Wang: “Yan Fu’s Early Translation 20 Years before Proposing “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance”: His Translation of The Times’ Political Commentary on Sino-British Relations”
E21A-G049Abstract: Yan Fu, who translated eight major social science works into Chinese, is not only known as a prominent figure ...