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The Department of English Language and Literature and Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre of Hong Kong Shue Yan University organised – “Conference on Deleuze’s Cultural Encounters with the New Humanities”. Sponsored by Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Creative Writing and Humanities, Hong Kong Baptist University. The conference was held at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Baptist University with 50 participants attending the conference.

Organised by the Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society in conjunction with Caritas Institute of Higher Education and the Department of English Language and Literature of Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Held at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, the conference serves as an international forum for researchers, scholars, educators and practitioners in language and linguistics, to promote the exchange of ideas, research findings and good practices. Keynote speakers: Professor Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia) and Professor Icy Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); VIP speaker: Professor Fang Wei (Social Science Academy, Hebei Province, PRC).

Organised by the Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society in conjunction with Caritas Institute of Higher Education and the Department of English Language and Literature of Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Held at Caritas Institute of Higher Education, the conference serves as an international forum for researchers, scholars, educators and practitioners in language and linguistics, to promote the exchange of ideas, research findings and good practices. Keynote speakers: Professor Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Australia) and Professor Icy Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); VIP speaker: Professor Fang Wei (Social Science Academy, Hebei Province, PRC).

The Department of English Language and Literature organised “Linguistics Seminar: From corpus studies to complex system: What strict science methodology can reveal about language?” Speaker: Professor Michal B. Paradowski, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw Poland.

The Department of English Language and Literature, and the Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre, Hong Kong Shue Yan University organised: Academic Talk – ” Science Fiction is the Realism of Our Time”. Speaker, Dr. Kim Stanley Robinson, the author of the world-renowned Mars triology. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. He is acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fìciton writers.

Organised by the Chartered Institute of Linguists Hong Kong Society in conjunction with the Department of English Language and Literature of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, School of Humanities and Languages of Caritas Institute of Higher Education, and School of Education and Languages of The Open University of Hong Kong. Hosted by Hong Kong Shue Yan University, ICLLS 2016 addresses a diversity of key issues in the areas of language, linguistics and language teaching. Keynote speakers: Professor LUKE Kang Kwong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and Professor Angel LIN (The University of Hong Kong). There were around 80 participants attending the conference.

The Department of English Language and Literature organised – “Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Asian Literature and Culture” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The symposium was attended by scholars based in Hong Kong, India, Macau, the Philippines, and Singapore and the regions covered included Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Palestine, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. Hong Kong Shue Yan University students participated in the event as student helpers and as audience members. The symposium focused on Asian literary and cultural texts that respond to social and political conflict and environmental catastrophe. It sought to explore how different social and historical contexts have generated diverse strategies of literary and cultural representation during and following human suffering. The overarching aims of the symposium were to generate and share new knowledge about modern and contemporary Asian literature and culture and to contribute cross-cultural perspectives to trauma studies. The symposium also sought to provide an initial setting for scholars working in these research areas to develop a research network that may give rise to opportunities for future collaboration. It was a very successful event, enjoyed by all, that will certainly lead to future collaboration. The symposium was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS15/H10/14), to the project “Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Modern Asian Literature” run by Dr. Sharanya Jayawickrama.