The international conference ‘The Future of English in Asia: Perspectives on Language and Literature’ was held from April 19-21 at CUHK. The conference was organized by the Department of English and attracted leading international experts on English.
World-renowned writers, academics, and researchers on English were joined by poets, teachers, publishers, Education Bureau representatives, and members of the public in discussing the future of English in Hong Kong and across Asia. Speakers included Nicholas Ostler (author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World and The Last Lingua Franca: English Until The Return to Babel), Prof. Bill Ashcroft (Professor and ARC Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia), Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick (Professor in Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia), President. Prof. Way Kuo (President, City University of Hong Kong), Prof. Longxi Zhang (Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong), Prof. Bob Adamson (Head of International Education and Lifelong Learning Department at HKIEd), and Louise Ho (leading Hong Kong English-language poet). There were panels and talks on ‘Language through Literature’, ‘World Englishes’, ‘English past and future - just one more Asian lingua franca’, ‘Models of trilingual education in China’ and many more topics.
The conference also attracted speakers from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, the UK, Australia, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea and many other countries and it covered a wide variety of topics related to English literature, English linguistics, and English education.
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