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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 is now open. The Department looks forward to acknowledging student achievement by awarding a prize for the best essay in each year of the undergraduate degree, and in each of our three subject areas: Linguistics, Literary Studies, and Translation (for Translation this may be a translated passage). Please submit your most original, insightful, and/or best-researched work. The competition is open to all students enrolled in UM English Department courses. Each student may submit one piece of work, which should be an academic assignment in one of the Department’s courses in the current academic year (2024–25). If the work has already […]
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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”
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”
Abstract: Yan Fu, who translated eight major social science works into Chinese, is not only known as a prominent figure in "the spread of Western learning to the East" but also profoundly influential in modern Chinese translation studies for proposing "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance", which has been canonised as the criteria of translation even since. However, it is rarely mentioned in translation studies that before translating Western knowledge and proposing "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance", Yan Fu, as one of the first Chinese students studying in the UK, had actually translated a political commentary on Sino-British relations from The Times in 1878. That translation had also been very influential as an important document about Sino-British relations at the time, which revealed […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “John Polidori’s Geneva Journal (1816): Social Gatherings in Geneva and the Identity of the Mysterious Portuguese Lady”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “John Polidori’s Geneva Journal (1816): Social Gatherings in Geneva and the Identity of the Mysterious Portuguese Lady”
Abstract: In 1816, Lord Byron travelled to Switzerland with his physician John William Polidori. In Geneva they met Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her stepsister Claire Clairmont. During one of the group’s evenings at the Villa Diodati, Byron challenged his friends: “We will each write a ghost story”. Mary Shelley would start Frankenstein, and Polidori, influenced by the challenge, would later write his novella The Vampyre. The young author also kept a journal of the voyage which would only be published in 1911. This paper deals with the author’s description of the trip, the group’s social gatherings in Geneva and with the identity of a mysterious Portuguese lady and her daughters whom Polidori met at the Countess of Bruce’s […]
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FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Utopian Studies, Food Studies, Spatiality Studies and the Digital Humanities: Intersections and New Research Questions”
FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: “Utopian Studies, Food Studies, Spatiality Studies and the Digital Humanities: Intersections and New Research Questions”
Abstract: Societies evolve based on the questions they pose, and the same holds for utopian imagination. Over the past two decades, Utopian Studies has expanded through insights from emerging fields. When intersecting with Food Studies, the focus shifts to how societies can progress through the lens of food—examining sustainable and equitable production, distribution, and preparation. In dialogue with Spatiality Studies, particularly in the context of dystopias, emphasis is placed on material, social, and mental spaces and the body as a space—each serving as a site of resistance and signalling the possibility of a "light at the end of the tunnel." Meanwhile, as a research methodology, Digital Humanities unveils patterns that offer fresh perspectives. These interdisciplinary intersections generate new research questions, […]