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Asian Legal History – Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Dr. Chris Munn, Honorary Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong)

9.01, Chen Yu Tung Tower, Law Faculty

Abstract ‘We must have a procedure – if we are going to hang anyone – that is just,’ said Chief Justice Sir Francis Piggott in 1909, on discovering that Chinese persons accused of murder were being denied interpretation in Hong Kong’s courts. Due process, no matter how costly or inconvenient, was ‘one of the penalties […]

Open Lecture – Stuntmen: Hong Kong’s Disappearing Identity (Albert Leung, Director)

CPD LG.08

Albert Leung began his film career as an actor, later expanding his experience as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before moving into directing. His directorial debut, STUNTMAN, co-directed with his twin brother, is a tribute to classic Hong Kong action cinema. The film received nominations and awards. All are welcome. No registration required.

History Talk – A Matter of Life and Death: Relation Work in Wartime Hong Kong (Dr. Nadine Attewell, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

Talk abstract: On December 25th 1941, the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong became a temporary possession of the Japanese empire. The experiences of the thousands of white British and other Allied soldiers and civilians who were imprisoned in urban camps for the duration of the war have been extensively plumbed by memoirists and scholars […]

History in the Making – Mabel Williams, Racial Capitalism, and the Archive of Afro-Asian Solidarity (Dr. Zifeng Liu, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

The transnational and transracial alliances that marked the age of Bandung were often stratified along gender and sexual lines. This presentation will offer a feminist consideration of African American female activist Mabel Williams’s representation in China’s media and state archives. I will not only illuminate the reinforcement of heteropatriarchy in the production of those archival […]

History in the Making – Mining, Myth, and Medicine: Gemstones in South Asian Healing (Dr. Patricia Sauthoff, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

Mining, Myth, and Medicine: Diamonds in South Asian Healing explores the mythologies and medical uses of diamonds withing the rasaśāstra (Indian alchemical) tradition. It centers around the 17th century Sanskrit Rasapaddhati and its verses on the use of diamonds and gemstones. Comparing the myths about the formation and mining of gems found in various Sanskrit […]

Pizza Night for History Students

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

Calling all History majors and minors! Come hang out with your peers and faculty members. Free Pizza & Drinks Meet your Professors Connect with fellow history students RSVP required: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=104779 See you there!

History in the Making – Banjo on the Black Ships: a Transpacific History of Black Performance on the Perry Expedition to Japan (Dr. Jason Petrulis, Assistant Professor, The Education University of Hong Kong)

Faculty of Arts Lounge (4.30, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower)

This talk traces the travels of two African/American instruments, the banjo and jawbone, to tell a history of the mid-19th century Black Pacific. In March 1854, as the US Navy’s “Perry Expedition” to Japan anchored in Yokohama waters, White crew members celebrated a new Japan-US trade treaty by staging a racist blackface minstrel show for […]

Research Workshop – Women Talking: Researching the Lives of Women in Hong Kong

KK101

HIST2158 Research Workshop Theme: Women Talking: Researching the Lives of Women in Hong Kong Date & Time: 3 March 2026 (Tue) 10:00-11:50 Venue: KK101 Guest Speakers: Dr. Staci Ford, Dr. Crystal Kwok and Dr. Carol Tsang Facilitator: Dr. Alison So How do women tell their lived experiences through the historical texts they left behind? How […]

When Sleeping Women Wake: Workshop with Writer and Editor Emma Pei Yin

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When Sleeping Women Wake Workshop with Writer and Editor Emma Pei Yin Moderator: Crystal Kwok, Department of History, HKU Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time Venue: MB217, 2/F, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong All are welcome. Registration is required. Emma Pei Yin is an Australian-Chinese writer and editor. […]

Public Lecture – Eileen Chang in Hong Kong (1939-42): Literature as History and History as Literature (Dr. Peter Cunich, Vice-Rector, St John’s College, University of Sydney)

KK102

Eileen Chang spent less than three years living in Hong Kong, but her student days at the University of Hong Kong proved to be a formative experience that would help launch her literary career in Shanghai during the harsh days of Japanese occupation. Life-changing events during the brief Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941 […]