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“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, […]

Public Lecture: Choreographing History (Septime Webre)

CPD LG.10

How does the dancing body hold, transmit, and reimagine history? Join visionary Artistic Director of Hong Kong Ballet, Septime Weber in a free flowing conversation to dance through entanglements of history, cultural memory, and Hong Kong’s unique identity. Septime Webre is an internationally recognised ballet director, choreographer, educator and advocate. He joined Hong Kong Ballet […]

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 of a political and ecological crisis confronting the colonial state around the port of Cochin in the first quarter of the 20th century, and the […]

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, Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indigenous Filipinos and Chinese migrant settlers in the Southeast Asian archipelago […]