Seminar

The Meaning of Czech History and World War II Pavel Krejčí HKU Historians who examine the root causes of the Czech turn towards socialism after the end of World War II ordinarily pay attention to external factors and forces, such as the Soviet advance into Europe, or the continent’s separation into Western and Eastern spheres […]

Chinese Banking and Everyday Practices in 1950s Southeast Asia Nathanael Lai University of Cambridge This paper scrutinises the way banking services and the everyday life of the overseas Chinese were interwoven in 1950s Southeast Asia. It examines, above all, loan initiatives conceived specifically to cater for Chinese communities in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Singapore. By […]

Dr. Ronald C. Po London School of Economics and Political Science China’s offshore islands played a unique and notable role as an interface between the mainland and the inner sea throughout the long eighteenth century. The interrelations between the central regime and these small, outlying, and seemingly peripheral islands were not necessarily weak. The Qing […]

Introducing international law to East Asia——The Formation of Wanguo Gongfa, the Chinese translation of Elements of International Law Yan Xingjian HKU This presentation examines how and why International Law as a world order was methodically introduced to East Asia through Wanguo Gongfa, the Chinese translation of Elements of International Law. It not only examines the […]

Frances O’Shaughnessy University of Washington Historians who have recognized Black self-emancipatory actions during the U. S. Civil War often narrate from the site of production, or when Black people departed from the estate and stopped the production of plantation commodities. “Black Revolution on the Sea Islands” considers what it would mean to understand Black liberation […]

Igor Fedyukin Associate Professor of History, ShanghaiTech University The Enlightenment on the Margins? Russia's Libertine Century The public perception of eighteenth-century Russia is dominated by the imagery of sexual license and debauchery, as two recent mini-series featuring Hellen Mirren and Elle Fanning, respectively, recently reminded us. Yet, amazingly, what we actually know about Russia's age of […]

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 […]