Department of English, CityU

Wishing you a halcyon three-day weekend: calm and peaceful all the way 🌿✨🕊️

🎓Huge congratulations to the class of 2026 🎉✨
The College Commencement 2026 for the Department of English PhD, MA, and BA graduates was held on 18 June 2026. 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓
What an incredible milestone for all the graduates. Here’s to the next chapter, whether it involves academia, career pursuits, or entirely new adventures. Wish you all the best for the future. Good luck! 🍀👍

🎙️✨ You’re invited to a podcast workshop with Prof. Chris Holmes on 22 Jun 2026 (Mon), 3:00pm HKT. Join in person (EN Meeting Room for EN Staff & PhD students) or via Zoom 💻📚.

Registration link 🔗:

https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/zY_Cz8x7SlmCvXxlYVulxg #/registration

Timing is everything ✨⏰ Especially on campus.

We asked EN students: What’s the best time of day to be on campus? From quiet mornings to peaceful nights after 7pm — swipe to see their answers 👍

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The Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language and Health Communication concluded successfully today🌟

The one-day symposium brought together health communication researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds and represented a joint collaboration between the Department of English and the University of Chicago, Hong Kong. The symposium was held at The University of Chicago Hong Kong Campus. It featured insightful presentations by researchers who adopted experimental, discourse-analytic, multimodal, and computational approaches to language and health communication🎓📚

📢 The 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association officially kicked off yesterday, 12 June! Hosted by the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong, day 1 was filled with insightful presentations from our distinguished guests. The first day culminated in a series of performances at Freespace, West Kowloon.

The conference will continue for the next two days at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre (CityUHK). Join us for more enriching discussions and insightful exchanges! 🎊

Lectures may be over… but learning isn’t. 📚✨
Over the summer, we’ll be sharing a word of the week - a quick vocabulary upgrade to keep your English growing. ☀️🤓

How are you going to act in a supererogatory way in this coming week?

One day to go! The 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association lands at City University of Hong Kong (12–14 June 2026)! 🌏🎭

Featuring scholarly panels and theatrical performances, participants will explore how Shakespeare crosses geographical, cultural, and digital boundaries.

See you soon.

🚨Upcoming seminar alert🚨

Registration link 🔗:

https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/_4CRgU-YTBe_cYiH0iyXaQ #/registration

📣 We are pleased to invite you to this upcoming seminar as part of the Business Communication Series.

Registration links 🔗:

(in person): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGqruUgrYk-x1tJ5u5mF_A6H6_vI_c6-s_SSjwS0o_RzLntA/viewform

Zoom: https://cityu.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZO3OUDkoTF-gi-15ReJcjw #/registration