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 […]
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History in the Making – Mapping History: The Confluence of Archaeology and Cartography in Southwest Asia (Elvan COBB, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological […]
14th Spring History Symposium – Global Encounters: Bodies, Commodities, and Technologies on the Move
The University of Hong KongRegistration Now Open The modern world has been and is increasingly shaped by cross-border movements. People of various occupations and diverse gender, race, and national identities, in crossing paths beyond […]
“Taking life too lightly”: Masculinity, suicide, and gender failure in the Qing (Yvon WANG, University of Toronto)
CPD 3.15This talk, drawn from my ongoing research, focuses on several examples of male suicide from Qing period legal archives across the 18th & 19th centuries. Unlike early modern European societies, suicide was not inherently sinful […]