South Asia in the South China Sea In Pursuit of Royal Blue: Geographies of Relatedness in the Indian Ocean January 18, 2024 | 6 pm IST- 7:30 pm IST | ZOOM Speaker: Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, Sociocultural Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology Harvard University Abstract: In two […]
Speaker: Dr. Kalyani Ramnath (University of Georgia) Respondent: Dr. Christopher Roberts (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 7 March 2024, 8:00 pm For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war […]
South Asia in the South China Sea When Culture meets State Diplomacy: the Case of Cheena Bhavana March 21, 2024, Thursday | 6 pm IST- 7:30 pm IST | ZOOM Speaker: Brian Tsui teaches at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. A historian by training, he is interested in Chinese revolutionary politics, ideologies of the radical right […]
New format this semester! Sharpen your skills in reading and writing History with two hands-on sessions. Digging into primary sources (NEW TIME, NEW VENUE) 26 March, Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm (Venue: CPD4.16) Why do historians place such importance on primary sources? How might we look for relevant materials? How best are we to approach these documents? […]
Family, Law, and Politics in Asian Legal History: Book Discussion Speakers: Saumya Saxena (O.P. Jindal Global University), Mara Yue Du (Cornell University) Respondent: Michael Ng, Alastair McClure Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India This book captures the Indian state's difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion. By mapping the […]
South Asia in the South China Sea Beyond Determinism? Rethinking the Asian Monsoon as a Connecting Force April 18, 2024, Thursday | 6 pm IST- 7:30 pm IST | ZOOM Speaker: Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, with a secondary appointment as Professor at the Yale School of […]
Economic Warfare in East Asia and the Transformation of Hong Kong Industry, 1965-1988 In 1965 Taiwan set up a secret economic warfare unit inside the executive branch. For over two decades this unit worked to undermine China’s economy and obstruct its overseas trade through covert operations in Hong Kong. This talk draws on meeting notes […]
Public Lecture “Bringing Emotions into the City: History and Heritage” Speaker: Dr Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester Moderator: Professor Cole Roskam, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Date & Time: Friday 13 September, 16:00–17:30 (with Q & A) Venue: Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU […]
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 […]
In 1564, Nahua singers performed three protest songs in Mexico City in the lead up to street riots. This talk will show how colonial period Nahua singers used their song tradition, developed during the precolonial period, to communicate with their own Nahua nobility. The lyrics and performances, when contextualized with other documents, show us that […]
This presentation examines the filled milk controversy in the Philippines (1957–1961) and its impact on nutrition, public health, economic policy, and national self-sufficiency. Filled milk, a recombined dairy product using vegetable oils like coconut and corn oil instead of animal fats, was introduced as a cost-effective alternative to whole milk, particularly for low-income families. Its […]
At the turn of the twentieth century, radical utopian communities were built all around the world. They served as retreats, but they simultaneously constituted hubs for activists, reformers, and revolutionaries to meet, share, and develop new ideas and practices of community and human existence. The talk deliberately builds on different and seemingly unrelated case studies […]