Monthly History Colloquium
The monthly history colloquium, initiated in 2023, brings together a community of historians from various departments at HKU and beyond. The colloquium provides a space to share works in progress, give and receive feedback on new writing, and discuss influential works by established scholars. Each session is led by one or two members, and most sessions take the form of reading groups or manuscript workshops. However, session leaders are welcome to develop their own formats as long as group discussion and collaboration remain at the forefront.
The colloquium welcomes postgraduate students and faculty members who use historical methods in their research regardless of discipline. If you are interested in joining or would like to lead a future session, please get in touch with Nicole Vaughan at histcoll@hku.hk
2025 Schedule
23 January 2025
Ailin Li
Spatial Transition and Power Dynamics: Child Labor in Republican Shanghai
20 February 2025
Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos
Readers in and on Manchu books
20 March 2025
Peng Jin
Manuscript Workshop: Transporting Tea by “Warships”: The “Odessa-Hankow-Vladivostok” Route and the Sino-Russian Maritime Trade in the Late 19th Century
24 April 2025
Vahith Nakka
TBD
22 May 2025
Alicia Le
Reading Group
Previous Sessions:
12 December 2024
Qingyun Zhao
Reading Group: Russian Emigres in Chinese Eyes, 1920s-1940s
21 November 2024
Jodie Cheng
Reading Group: Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
24 October 2024
Laurie Liu
Manuscript Workshop: La Condamine
26 September 2024
Iris Boyun Lei
Manuscript Workshop: The Stumbling Empire: The Qing Government’s Border Control of Chu-hua Trafficking
18 April 2024
Loretta Kim and Vahith Nakka
Research Presentation: English Schools Foundation
21 March 2024
Fang Yi
Manuscript Workshop: Rethinking Semicolonialism and Colonialism at the Jubilee Ceremony of the Opening of Shanghai and Hong Kong
22 February 2024
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Reading Group: James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine
25 January 2024
Pavel Krejčí
Manuscript Workshop: Open Sphere of Influence and Its Failure: The Case of Czechoslovakia during and after World War II
14 December 2023
Nicole Vaughan Reading Group: Christian Tagsold, Spaces in Translation