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September 2024

Fri 13
September 13, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Public Lecture: “Bringing Emotions into the City: History and Heritage” – Speaker: Dr Toby Lincol

Lecture Hall, May Hall

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 […]

October 2024

Tue 15
October 15, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Workshop on International History and Lecture with Professor Erez Manela (Institute of Transnational History of China)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, 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 […]

February 2025

Wed 5
February 5 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

“History in the Making: Mexico City, 1564: Nahuatl Protest Songs During a Year of Crisis” by Dr. Peter Sorensen (HKBU)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

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 […]

Thu 6
February 6 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

“The Filled Milk Controversy: Debating Nutritional Security and National Self-Sufficiency in the Philippines, 1957-1961” by Dr. Nicolo Ludovice (HKUST)

Run Run Shaw Tower 7/F 7.58

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 […]

Tue 18
February 18 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

“Radical Utopian Communities in Jamaica, Japan, and South Africa: A Global History from the Margins, 1900–1950” by Dr. Robert Kramm (LMU)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKU 

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 […]

Mon 24
February 24 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

“American Popular Culture, Comic Strips, and Globalization in the Early Twentieth Century” by Professor Ian Gordon (NUS)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

In the early twentieth century Richard Outcault's American comic strip Buster Brown appeared in different forms in countries such as Brazil, Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, and Spain. This article discussed […]

Tue 25
February 25 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

“Café Marx: An Institutional and Intellectual History of the Institute of Social Research” by Philipp Lenhard (LMU)

Café Marx: this was the flippant name given to the Institute for Social Research by friends and foes alike. And indeed, the beginnings of critical theory and the Frankfurt School […]

March 2025

Wed 5
March 5 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

History in the Making: Trials of Sovereignty Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857–1922″, Alastair McClure (HKU)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKU 

Trials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, […]

Wed 19
March 19 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

History in the Making: Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians, 1945-1949 (DU Chunmei, Lingnan University)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

Everyday Occupation examines the everyday encounter between American soldiers and Chinese civilians from the end of World War II to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Drawing upon […]

April 2025

Wed 9
April 9 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

History in the Making – An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860-1950 (Devika SHANKAR, University of Hong Kong)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

This book probes why ecological instability has time and again emerged as a catalyst for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. It will do so by examining the genealogy […]

Wed 16
April 16 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Asian Legal History Seminar Series – Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (Dr Kristie FLANNERY, Australian Catholic University)

Online Event

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, […]

Thu 24
April 24 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminars – Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974

CPD LG.62

Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974   Jack Greatrex Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   Abstract A metal band from the leg of […]

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