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History in the Making – Mining, Myth, and Medicine: Gemstones in South Asian Healing (Dr. Patricia Sauthoff, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

Mining, Myth, and Medicine: Diamonds in South Asian Healing explores the mythologies and medical uses of diamonds withing the rasaśāstra (Indian alchemical) tradition. It centers around the 17th century Sanskrit Rasapaddhati and its verses on the use of diamonds and gemstones. Comparing the myths about the formation and mining of gems found in various Sanskrit […]

Pizza Night for History Students

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

Calling all History majors and minors! Come hang out with your peers and faculty members. Free Pizza & Drinks Meet your Professors Connect with fellow history students RSVP required: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=104779 See you there!

History in the Making – Banjo on the Black Ships: a Transpacific History of Black Performance on the Perry Expedition to Japan (Dr. Jason Petrulis, Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

This talk traces the travels of two African/American instruments, the banjo and jawbone, to tell a history of the mid-19th century Black Pacific. In March 1854, as the US Navy’s “Perry Expedition” to Japan anchored in Yokohama waters, White crew members celebrated a new Japan-US trade treaty by staging a racist blackface minstrel show for […]

History in the Making – Medicalizing Animals as Food and Drugs in Chinese Asia (Dr. Liz P.Y. Chee, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

This talk will discuss my current book project, tentatively titled Medicalizing Animals as Food and Drugs in Chinese Asia. As the title indicates, this project focuses on animals and their consumption at the nexus of  medicine and medicalized food in ‘Chinese Asia’ (the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and my native Singapore), from the 1970s until now.  I […]

History in the Making – Dormitories, Strikes and Beauty Pageants: Gendered Labor Regimes in Taiwan and Mexico’s Export Industries (Dr. Gabriel Antonio Solis, Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

In the early 1970s, global manufacturers rushed to Taiwan and the U.S.-Mexico Border to take advantage of new export-industrial zones. Mexico’s maquiladora industry and Taiwan’s Export Processing Zones promised transnational firms “an investor’s paradise,” with duty-free manufacturing zones, cheap utilities, and most importantly, access to local “low-cost” women workers as a readily available labor source.  Yet while […]

15th Spring History Symposium

The Department of History is pleased to announce that the 15th Spring History Symposium will take place at the University of Hong Kong on 7 and 8 May 2026 and will provide a venue for postgraduate students and early career scholars to share their research and form connections with an international community of historians. The theme of […]