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Workshop on International History and Lecture with Professor Erez Manela (Institute of Transnational History of China)
October 15, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Inaugural Events of the Institute of Transnational History of China
We are excited to announce that the workshop on international history and the lecture with Professor Erez Manela will mark the inaugural events of the newly established Institute of Transnational History of China.
Workshop on International History: A Conversation on the State of the Field and Publishing with Professor Erez Manela
Date: October 15, 2024
Time: 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Venue: Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKU
Speaker: Erez Manela, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard University
In Conversation with: Professor Guoqi Xu, Department of History, HKU
Join us for an enriching workshop with Erez Manela as he delves into International History and the intricacies of academic publishing within the field. The conversation between Professor Manela and Professor Xu will offer an excellent opportunity to discuss where the field of International History has come from and where it is going from two of its leading practitioners. The workshop will also offer a unique platform for graduate students and early-career scholars with a keen interest in international history to receive practical guidance on publishing in the field. An open Q&A session will provide attendees with the opportunity to interact directly with the speakers.
Lecture on “Race War: World War II and the Global Color Line”
Speaker: Erez Manela, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard University
Date: October 15, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKU
During World War II, many observers, in the United States and elsewhere, analyzed the conflict in terms of its implications for the reigning racial order in international society. This lecture traces the contours of that analysis, explains how it shaped views on the stakes of the war, and outlines its influence on visions for the postwar settlement and on the US posture in the world well into the Cold War era.
Register on HKUEMS here.
Contact: history@hku.hk for more information
Erez Manela is a Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the world and modern international history. He is a director at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, co-chairs the long-running Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS) and co-edits a book series on Global and International History at Cambridge University Press. He is the author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (2007), winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award.
Professor Xu Guoqi is a Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong and a leading authority on the international history of modern China. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English, including Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008, which received a prize for best book of 2008 by the International Society of Olympic Historians.