Girls of the Empire: The Girl Guide Movement in Hong Kong, 1916-1930s Tracy Leung Department of History, HKU This presentation examines how and why the Girl Guide movement was introduced […]
Zach Fredman Assistant Professor of History and Associate Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University Zach Fredman’s The Tormented Alliance examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of […]
Dr. Ronald C. Po London School of Economics and Political Science China’s offshore islands played a unique and notable role as an interface between the mainland and the inner sea […]
The Department of History at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the return of the annual Spring History Symposium. We invite research postgraduate students to submit abstracts […]
Introducing international law to East Asia——The Formation of Wanguo Gongfa, the Chinese translation of Elements of International Law Yan Xingjian HKU This presentation examines how and why International Law as […]
Frances O’Shaughnessy University of Washington Historians who have recognized Black self-emancipatory actions during the U. S. Civil War often narrate from the site of production, or when Black people departed […]
Dr. Christine Walker Assistant Professor of Atlantic World history at Yale-NUS College in Singapore In this talk, Christine Walker will discuss her work on gender, slavery, and colonialism in early […]
HK Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) X HKU Department of History, University of Hong Kong The Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History 2023 is […]
Are you finding the transition from secondary school to university challenging? Worried about your first History classes? Doing History 101 is here to guide you every step of the way. […]
Speaker: Dr. Nora Elizabeth (Stanford University) Respondent: Dr. Elvan Cobb (Hong Kong Baptist University) 16 November 2023 (12-1:30 pm) In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill […]
Igor Fedyukin Associate Professor of History, ShanghaiTech University The Enlightenment on the Margins? Russia's Libertine Century The public perception of eighteenth-century Russia is dominated by the imagery of sexual license […]