Café Marx: this was the flippant name given to the Institute for Social Research by friends and foes alike. And indeed, the beginnings of critical theory and the Frankfurt School lie in an engagement with Marxism. Philipp Lenhard uses a broad range of sources to tell the story of the people, networks, ideas, and places […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
How does one gaze into the past? Join us for a riveting discussion with historian Jay Winter as he illuminates how history is memorialized in curated spaces. Embracing a concept of horizontality, Winter offers a critical perspective and invites us to interrogate how museum spaces present and ultimately perform the past. Jay Winter is the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974 Jack Greatrex Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abstract A metal band from the leg of a shot heron was sent to US epidemiologist Elliott McClure in 1964. The bird had been killed in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, on the east coast […]
Join us for "RE-MEMBERING HISTORIES REIGNITED: FIRST LOOK AT STUDENT FILMS," presented by the students of HIST2212: Performing History. How do we remember? Students in this course have explored history through both the archival and the personal in their short films, with stories spanning from Hong Kong's historic villages to lands abroad, and from decades […]
Feeling stressed about your final assignments in History? We are here to help! Join us for an engaging session where we will share practical strategies for writing an effective history essay and answer your burning questions. The workshop is designed to help you refine your ideas and enhance your writing skills. Feel free to bring […]
The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological engagement for foreigners to make sense of Southwest Asia as a place, while also underpinning imperial and colonial ambitions. The epigraphic journeys of American classicist […]
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