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May 2025

Tue 13
May 13 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

“Taking life too lightly”: Masculinity, suicide, and gender failure in the Qing (Yvon WANG, University of Toronto)

CPD 3.15

This 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 […]

Tue 27
May 27 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

The Hardware of Soft Power: Radio, Decolonisation and the Projection of British Global Influence, c. 1939-1989 (Prof. Simon POTTER, University of Bristol)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

Soft power requires hardware.  Radio can carry cultural content, news, and overt propaganda across national borders, seemingly effortlessly, but this requires substantial investment in infrastructure. Often, finding a place where […]

June 2025

Mon 2
June 2 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Radio and the End of Empire: The BBC & Decolonisation in India (Prof. Chandrika KAUL, University of St. Andrews)

Faculty of Arts Conference Room, 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

Building on my monograph, Reporting the Raj, the British Press and India, the focus here is on radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over the climactic decades 1920s-1940s. It […]

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