The Department of History at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the return of the annual Spring History Symposium. We invite research postgraduate students to submit abstracts for the 12th Spring History Symposium, which will be held on 5 May 2023. The one-day conference aims to provide postgraduates with the opportunity to […]
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 […]
Dr. Christine Walker Assistant Professor of Atlantic World history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore In this talk, Christine Walker will discuss her work on gender, slavery, and colonialism in early America. She will provide an overview of her first book, Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire. Recipient of the Best […]
HK Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) X HKU Department of History, University of Hong Kong The Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History 2023 is a two-day event on June 23-24, 2023, showcasing the latest research in Chinese history. Keynote speeches and discussions, convened by Professor Zhiwu Chen and Professor […]
Are you finding the transition from secondary school to university challenging? Worried about your first History classes? Doing History 101 is here to guide you every step of the way. Our interactive workshops are tailored to equip you with essential skills to excel in history assignments and essays. These workshops are designed to help students […]
Speaker: Dr. Nora Elizabeth (Stanford University) Respondent: Dr. Elvan Cobb (Hong Kong Baptist University) 16 November 2023 (12-1:30 pm) In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin […]
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 […]
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge with Dr. Joshua Ehrlich Respondent: Prof. James Fichter The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich […]
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 […]