Spring History Symposium 2023
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 […]
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[PGS] Introducing international law to East Asia——The Formation of Wanguo Gongfa, the Chinese translation of Elements of International Law
Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04Introducing 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 […]
Black Revolution on the Sea Islands by Frances H. O’Shaughnessy
Online EventFrances 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 […]
New Narratives of Empire: Gender, Slavery and Family in the Atlantic World by Christine M. Walker
Online EventDr. 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 […]
Symposium on New Frontiers and Directions in Chinese History HKIHSS X HKU History
Lecture Hall, May HallHK 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 […]
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Doing History 101: Workshop for History Students
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. […]
Online Book Talk: Bedouin Bureaucrats Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire
Online EventSpeaker: 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 […]
Research Seminar: The Enlightenment on the Margins? Russia’s Libertine Century
Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04Igor 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 […]
[South Asia in the South China Sea] In Pursuit of Royal Blue: Geographies of Relatedness in the Indian Ocean
Online EventSouth Asia in the South China Sea In Pursuit of Royal Blue: Geographies of Relatedness in the Indian Ocean January 18, […]
[Book Talk] The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge with Dr. Joshua Ehrlich
Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge with Dr. Joshua Ehrlich Respondent: Prof. James Fichter The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to […]
Postponed [Asian Legal History Seminar Series] Boats in a Storm Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962
Speaker: Dr. Kalyani Ramnath (University of Georgia) Respondent: Dr. Christopher Roberts (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 7 March 2024, 8:00 pm For more than century before World War II, traders, […]