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History in the Making – Mapping History: The Confluence of Archaeology and Cartography in Southwest Asia (Elvan COBB, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological engagement for foreigners to make sense of Southwest Asia as a place, while also underpinning imperial and colonial ambitions. The epigraphic journeys of American classicist […]

14th Spring History Symposium – Global Encounters: Bodies, Commodities, and Technologies on the Move

The University of Hong Kong

Registration Now Open The modern world has been and is increasingly shaped by cross-border movements. People of various occupations and diverse gender, race, and national identities, in crossing paths beyond borders, have sparked some of the most significant creations and conflicts in history. The web of global movement, however, extends beyond people alone. Business exchanges […]

“Taking life too lightly”: Masculinity, suicide, and gender failure in the Qing (Yvon WANG, University of Toronto)

CPD 3.15

This talk, drawn from my ongoing research, focuses on several examples of male suicide from Qing period legal archives across the 18th & 19th centuries.  Unlike early modern European societies, suicide was not inherently sinful or criminal in China, creating a unique suicidal "necropolitics." Furthermore, in this era, there was unprecedentedly widespread positive state recognition of female suicide for “chastity” as analogy […]