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 […]
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 […]
Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776 Speaker: Professor James Fichter (HKU) Respondent: Dr. Noah Shusterman (CUHK) Chair: Dr. Staci Ford (HKU) In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped […]
13th Spring History Symposium Making Modern Identities The Department of History at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to host the 13th Spring History Symposium at HKU on 3 and 4 May 2024. The theme of this year’s Symposium is Making Modern Identities. The modern era has given rise to myriad systems for […]
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 […]
A Postgraduate Research Student Roundtable on Urban History Date & Time: Friday 13 September, 10:30–12:00 Lecture (with Q & A) Venue: Display Area, May Hall, HKU This roundtable provides a space to present and discuss your PhD topics. You will each be asked to do a short presentation (10 minutes) on either the main themes […]
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 […]
International Symposium “Cities in Crisis: Planning and Design, Governance, and Daily Operations” Date & Time Saturday 14 September 2024, 9:00–18:30 (in person) Venue Lecture Theatre, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong The symposium brings together a group of urban and planning historians and urban studies scholars from Asia and other regions to […]