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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, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war […]

[Writing Lab] Doing History 101: Workshops in Historical Research

CPD 4.16

New format this semester! Sharpen your skills in reading and writing History with two hands-on sessions.   Digging into primary sources (NEW TIME, NEW VENUE) 26 March, Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm (Venue: CPD4.16) Why do historians place such importance on primary sources?  How might we look for relevant materials? How best are we to approach these documents? […]

[Asian Legal History Seminar Series] Family, Law, and Politics in Asian Legal History: Book Discussion

Online Event

Family, Law, and Politics in Asian Legal History: Book Discussion Speakers: Saumya Saxena (O.P. Jindal Global University), Mara Yue Du (Cornell University) Respondent: Michael Ng, Alastair McClure Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India This book captures the Indian state's difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion. By mapping the […]

[BOOK TALK] Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776

Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04

Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776 Speaker: Professor James Fichter (HKU) Respondent: Dr. Noah Shusterman (CUHK) Chair: Dr. Staci Ford (HKU) In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped […]

13th Spring History Symposium: Making Modern Identities

Jockey Club Tower 2/F CPD2.58

13th Spring History Symposium Making Modern Identities   The Department of History at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to host the 13th Spring History Symposium at HKU on 3 and 4 May 2024.   The theme of this year’s Symposium is Making Modern Identities. The modern era has given rise to myriad systems for […]

A Postgraduate Research Student Roundtable on Urban History (Display Area, May Hall, HKU)

Display Area, May Hall

A Postgraduate Research Student Roundtable on Urban History Date & Time: Friday 13 September, 10:30–12:00 Lecture (with Q & A)  Venue: Display Area, May Hall, HKU This roundtable provides a space to present and discuss your PhD topics. You will each be asked to do a short presentation (10 minutes) on either the main themes […]

Public Lecture: “Bringing Emotions into the City: History and Heritage” – Speaker: Dr Toby Lincol

Lecture Hall, May Hall

Public Lecture “Bringing Emotions into the City: History and Heritage”  Speaker: Dr Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester  Moderator: Professor Cole Roskam, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong Date & Time: Friday 13 September, 16:00–17:30 (with Q & A)  Venue: Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU […]

International Symposium “Cities in Crisis: Planning and Design, Governance, and Daily Operations”

Lecture Hall, May Hall

International Symposium  “Cities in Crisis: Planning and Design, Governance, and Daily Operations”    Date & Time  Saturday 14 September 2024, 9:00–18:30 (in person)    Venue  Lecture Theatre, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong  The symposium brings together a group of urban and planning historians and urban studies scholars from Asia and other regions to […]

Workshop on International History and Lecture with Professor Erez Manela (Institute of Transnational History of China)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKU 

Inaugural Events of the Institute of Transnational History of China We are excited to announce that the workshop on international history and the lecture with Professor Erez Manela will mark the inaugural events of the newly established Institute of Transnational History of China. Workshop on International History: A Conversation on the State of the Field […]