{"id":5571,"date":"2016-11-07T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2024-01-16T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T02:58:26","slug":"1595-eng-20161114115509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/en\/1595-eng-20161114115509\/","title":{"rendered":"16th English Departmental Seminar, by Prof Tom LUTZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"art-article\">\n<p><strong>7 November 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">On 7 November 2016, the Department of English hosted their 16th Departmental Seminar presented by Prof Tom LUTZ. The presentation lasted an hour with time for a Question &amp; Answer Session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"MsoTableGrid\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 5.4pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 57.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"76\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Date: <\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>7 November 2016 (Monday)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 57.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"76\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Time:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>3:30 pm \u2013 4:30 pm<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 57.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"76\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Venue:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>M405<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 57.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"76\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Speaker:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Prof Tom LUTZ<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 57.0pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"76\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Topic:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b>Writing the World<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><b>Prof Tom LUTZ<\/b><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">\u00a0is a senior Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California and the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His books have been translated into 12 languages and appeared on The New York Times and Los AngelesTimes bestseller lists. In the seminar, he talked about his two newly published travel books:\u00a0<i>Drinking Mare&#8217;s Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar\u00a0and\u00a0And the Monkey learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 38px;\">\n<div class=\"imagelist1595\" style=\"width: 640px; text-align: center; margin: 10px; margin-top: 0px; float: left;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/old\/images\/upload\/ENG\/8461d1584357b789ec5b7ebb4d0340e1.jpg\" alt=\"As a token of appreciation, Prof Luk, Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science and Head of Department of English, presented souvenirs to Prof Tom LUTZ\" width=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 110%; min-height: 45px;\">As a token of appreciation, Prof Luk, Dean of School of Humanities and Social Science and Head of Department of English, presented souvenirs to Prof Tom LUTZ<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imagelist1595\" style=\"width: 640px; text-align: center; margin: 10px; margin-top: 0px; float: left;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/old\/images\/upload\/ENG\/e4e555fa153a5a351fbe19f7dddb8b66.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Tom LUTZ shared about his two travel books\" width=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 110%; min-height: 45px;\">Prof Tom LUTZ shared about his two travel books<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imagelist1595\" style=\"width: 640px; text-align: center; margin: 10px; margin-top: 0px; float: left;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hsu.edu.hk\/old\/images\/upload\/ENG\/9b37796ebe17577b4d7490b4570a8d4c.jpg\" alt=\"Discussions among Prof Tom LUTZ and our fellow teachers\" width=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 110%; min-height: 45px;\">Discussions among Prof Tom LUTZ and our fellow teachers<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 1px; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7 November 2016 On 7 November 2016, the Department of English hosted their 16th Departmental Seminar presented by Prof Tom LUTZ. 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