South Asia in the South China Sea Workshop

CPD 2.19

Over the last few decades, scholars have explored South Asia’s longstanding and enduring connections with different parts of the world, with the Indian Ocean emerging as a particularly rich site […]

Doing History 101: Workshops for History Students

Run Run Shaw Tower 4/F 4.04

Doing History 101 Workshops for History students   First time taking a History course? Finding the transition from secondary school to university challenging? Doing History 101 is here to guide […]

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, 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

Trials 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, […]