[JUPAS Info Sessions 2025] Mock Lecture – Two is Enough: Class, Gender and the Nuclear Ideal in Cold War Hong Kong
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The Hardware of Soft Power: Radio, Decolonisation and the Projection of British Global Influence, c. 1939-1989 (Prof. Simon POTTER, University of Bristol)
Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)Soft power requires hardware. Radio can carry cultural content, news, and overt propaganda across national borders, seemingly effortlessly, but this requires substantial investment in infrastructure. Often, finding a place where that infrastructure can be built raises significant geopolitical complications. From the eve of the Second World War, British plans to project UK influence around the […]
Radio and the End of Empire: The BBC & Decolonisation in India (Prof. Chandrika KAUL, University of St. Andrews)
Faculty of Arts Conference Room, 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong KongBuilding on my monograph, Reporting the Raj, the British Press and India, the focus here is on radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over the climactic decades 1920s-1940s. It is based on extensive research undertaken for a forthcoming book, Broadcasting the Raj: The BBC and India (OUP 2026). The talk will examine the ways […]
[Switched to Zoom] Public Lecture with Elizabeth Lo, Director of Mistress Dispeller
Online EventDesperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle. Critically acclaimed, Mistress Dispeller has won 20 awards across 70 festivals since it debuted at Venice […]
Online Lecture (Via Zoom) with Saloni Mahajan (Bollywood costume designer/scholar): Representation of Sex Work in Bollywood film
Online EventSpeaker: Saloni Mahajan is an Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University, where she teaches a range of courses including Theatre Design, World Culture and Performance Studies, Page and Stage, and more. In addition to her teaching, she is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on costume design […]
Online Lecture (via zoom) with So Yun Um, director of Liquor Store Dreams (2022) on Immigration history and inter-generational values
Online EventLIQUOR STORE DREAMS is an intimate portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners who set out to bridge generational divides with their immigrant parents in Los Angeles. About the Speaker: So Yun Um is a Korean American Director and Producer born and based in Los Angeles. She explores intimate and challenging stories […]
Public Lecture – Film as Memoir: Cinema Strada (Dr. Donna Ong, Filmmaker)
CPD LG.08Synopsis: Cinema Strada is a poignant memoir tracing the life of Hong Kong film critic Law Kar, who has devoted his life to cinema and the arts. From wartime memories to Cold War tensions and Hong Kong’s cultural boom, Law Kar reflects on shifting eras and the challenge of discerning truth from fiction. As he revisits personal and cinematic milestones, the […]
History in the Making – A History of Aging in Qing China: Self-Representations in Personal Narratives of the Elderly (Dr. Clara Wing-chung Ho, Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)
CPD LG.63A History of Aging in Qing China examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid demographic growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China. Drawing on previously overlooked first-person accounts from the extensive collections authored by Qing men and women, it offers […]
History Lecture: Jay Winter on Thinking about Silence
Online EventJay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. Previously, Winter taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University. In 2001, he joined the faculty […]
Open Lecture – Stuntmen: Hong Kong’s Disappearing Identity (Albert Leung, Director)
CPD LG.08Albert Leung began his film career as an actor, later expanding his experience as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before moving into directing. His directorial debut, STUNTMAN, co-directed with his twin brother, is a tribute to classic Hong Kong action cinema. The film received nominations and awards. All are welcome. No registration required.
Public Lecture – Eileen Chang in Hong Kong (1939-42): Literature as History and History as Literature (Dr. Peter Cunich, Vice-Rector, St John’s College, University of Sydney)
KK102Eileen Chang spent less than three years living in Hong Kong, but her student days at the University of Hong Kong proved to be a formative experience that would help launch her literary career in Shanghai during the harsh days of Japanese occupation. Life-changing events during the brief Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941 […]
Public Lecture – Chinese Jeep Girls and American Soldiers (Prof. Chunmei Du, Associate Professor, Lingnan University)
KB132Between 1945 and 1949, up to 113,000 American soldiers were stationed in China for various missions. This talk analyzes the vibrant debate over “Jeep girls” (吉普女郎), a term coined to describe Chinese females who socialized, sometimes intimately, with American soldiers during and after World War II, revealing key features of gendered Chinese nationalism. Dr. Chunmei Du is […]