Public Lecture: Sexuality in Stanley Kwan Films
Jockey Club Tower 2/F CPD2.58All are welcome! No registration required.
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“Radical Utopian Communities in Jamaica, Japan, and South Africa: A Global History from the Margins, 1900–1950” by Dr. Robert Kramm (LMU)
Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKUAt the turn of the twentieth century, radical utopian communities were built all around the world. They served as retreats, but they simultaneously constituted hubs for activists, reformers, and revolutionaries […]
“American Popular Culture, Comic Strips, and Globalization in the Early Twentieth Century” by Professor Ian Gordon (NUS)
Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)In the early twentieth century Richard Outcault's American comic strip Buster Brown appeared in different forms in countries such as Brazil, Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, and Spain. This article discussed […]
“Café Marx: An Institutional and Intellectual History of the Institute of Social Research” by Philipp Lenhard (LMU)
Café Marx: this was the flippant name given to the Institute for Social Research by friends and foes alike. And indeed, the beginnings of critical theory and the Frankfurt School […]
History in the Making: Trials of Sovereignty Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857–1922″, Alastair McClure (HKU)
Faculty of Arts Conference Room, Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.36, HKUTrials of Sovereignty offers the first legal history of mercy and discretion in nineteenth and twentieth-century India. Through a study of large-scale amnesties, the prerogative powers of pardon, executive commutation, […]
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 […]
Public Lecture: Choreographing History (Septime Webre)
CPD LG.10How 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 […]
Public Lecture – The Geometry of memory: Performing the past in museums (Jay WINTER, Yale University)
CPD G.02How does one gaze into the past? Join us for a riveting discussion with historian Jay Winter as he illuminates how history is memorialized in curated spaces. Embracing a concept […]
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 […]
Asian Legal History Seminar Series – Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (Dr Kristie FLANNERY, Australian Catholic University)
Online EventPiracy 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, […]
Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminars – Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974
CPD LG.62Emergency 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 […]
Doing History 101: Writing Lab
Run Run Shaw Tower 10/F 10.66Feeling 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 […]