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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 […]

Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminars – Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974

CPD LG.62

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 […]

RE-MEMBERING HISTORIES REIGNITED – A HIST2212 Student Film Presentation

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 […]

Doing History 101: Writing Lab

Run Run Shaw Tower 10/F 10.66

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 […]

History in the Making – Mapping History: The Confluence of Archaeology and Cartography in Southwest Asia (Elvan COBB, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

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 […]

14th Spring History Symposium – Global Encounters: Bodies, Commodities, and Technologies on the Move

The University of Hong Kong

Registration Now Open The modern world has been and is increasingly shaped by cross-border movements. People of various occupations and diverse gender, race, and national identities, in crossing paths beyond borders, have sparked some of the most significant creations and conflicts in history. The web of global movement, however, extends beyond people alone. Business exchanges […]

“Taking life too lightly”: Masculinity, suicide, and gender failure in the Qing (Yvon WANG, University of Toronto)

CPD 3.15

This talk, drawn from my ongoing research, focuses on several examples of male suicide from Qing period legal archives across the 18th & 19th centuries.  Unlike early modern European societies, suicide was not inherently sinful or criminal in China, creating a unique suicidal "necropolitics." Furthermore, in this era, there was unprecedentedly widespread positive state recognition of female suicide for “chastity” as analogy […]