[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 Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)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 […]
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 […]