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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 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 […]

South Asia in the South China Sea Workshop

CPD 2.19

Over the last few decades, scholars have explored South Asia’s longstanding and enduring connections with different parts of the world, with the Indian Ocean emerging as a particularly rich site for such studies. Placed just beyond the recognized limits of the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and its surroundings have occupied an ambiguous space […]

Doing History 101: Workshops for History Students

Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04

Doing History 101 Workshops for History students   First time taking a History course? Finding the transition from secondary school to university challenging? Doing History 101 is here to guide you every step of the way. These workshops are designed to help students develop practical skills in historical research and writing. All students are welcome, […]

Lecture: Internationalism, Identity, and Ideology in the Shaping of Postwar China, and the Legacy for Today by Prof. Rana Mitter

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

The Institute of Transnational History of China (ITHC), in collaboration with the Flourishing Cities: Past, Present, and Future Project (FGE), is delighted to invite you to a lecture by Professor Rana Mitter of Harvard University. Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Time: 4:00-6:00 PM Venue: Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, The University […]

“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 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 […]

“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 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 […]

“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 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 […]

“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 those appearances in light of Outcault’s attempts to preserve his intellectual property rights and his shift of the strip from the New York Herald to […]

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, and judicial sentencing practices, Alastair McClure argues that discretion represented a vital facet of colonial rule. In a bloody penal order, officials and judges consistently […]

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 extensive archives in both countries, this book reexamines the “loss of China” through the novel lens of everyday practice and politics. Focusing on the sensorial, […]