PAST EVENTS

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CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

2020-2021
26-8 Apr 2021Global Capitalism and the Worlds of Socialism
2017-2018
25 May 2018Children and Youth in a Global Age
3-4 May 2018Spring History Symposium 2018

HISTORY IN THE MAKING: PUBLIC LECTURES

2016-2017
25 May 2017Prof. David Pomfret, (HKU), “Difficult histories, Dangerous Pasts: Childhood, Disease and Emotion in Colonial Asia”

PUBLIC LECTURES

2018-2019
25 Oct 2018Prof. Leonard V. Smith, (Oberlin College), “History, International Relations Theory, and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919”
2017-2018
25 May 2018Prof. Colin Heywood, (University of Nottingham), “Images of Youth: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly “
4 May 2018Prof. Anthony Reid, (Australian National University), “Cosmopolis and Vernacular: Competing impulses in Asian history “

CHM / HISTORY COLLOQUIUM TALK

2020-2021
24 Nov 2020Dr. Julia Bowes, (HKU), “‘Corrupt Your Flesh and Blood With a Festering, Sickening Pus:’ The Politics of the Anti-Vaccination Movement in the United States, 1890-1920 “

WORKSHOPS

2022-2023
14 Feb, 14 March 2023HKU History “Doing History 101: Workshop for History Students”
1/8 Nov 2022HKU History “Doing History 101: Workshop for First Year History Students”
2021-2022
14 Mar/11 Apr 2022Dr. Alastair McClure, (HKU), “Doing History 101: Workshop for First Year History Students”
2018-2019
9 Nov 2018Dr. Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, “One Degree, Many Paths: Alternative Possibilities for Your Post-PhD Career”
2017-2018
13 Apr 2018Prof. Hyaeweol Choi, (Australian National University), “Transpacific Aspiration toward Modern Domesticity in Japanese Colonial-era Korea”
18 Oct 2017Prof. Erez Manela, (Harvard University), “Workshop in International History (RPG Students-Only)”
2016-2017
15 July 2017Shibusawa Foundation Hong Kong Conference, “Beyond Versailles: Reverberations of the ‘1919 Moment’ in Asia”

BOOK EVENTS

2022-2023
30 March 2023Zach Fredman, (Assistant Professor of History and Associate Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Duke Kunshan University), “Book Talk: THE TORMENTED ALLIANCE: AMERICAN SERVICEMEN & THE OCCUPATION OF CHINA, 1941-1949”
2020-2021
8 Apr 2021Dr. David Schley, (Hong Kong Baptist University), “Book Launch: Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore”
28 Jan 2021Dr. Peter E. Hamilton, (Trinity College Dublin), “Book Launch: Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization”
16 Nov 2020Dr. Joseph McQuade, (University of Toronto), “Book Launch: A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea”
12 Oct 2020Dr. Nurfadzilah Yahaya, (National University of Singapore), “Book Launch: Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia”
2018-2019
25 Apr 2019Dr. Jennifer Altehenger, (King’s College London), “A History of Legal Lessons: Law, Propaganda, and the State in Socialist China”
17 Apr 2019Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn, (Freie Universität Berlin), “Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping”
2017-2018
7 Dec 2017Dr. Robert Kramm, (University of Hong Kong), “Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952”
2016-2017
1 Jun 2017Dr. Victor Zatsepine, (University of British Columbia), “They Came from Everywhere: The People of the Amur”
18 Apr 2017Prof. Robert Bickers, (University of Bristol), “Out of China”

FRENCH CINÉ CLUB

The Department of History invites you to a series of movie screenings related to the course HIST2109 Modern France: Culture, Society, Politics, taught by Dr. François Drémeaux.

2017-2018
26 Apr 2018Gérard Oury’s La Grande Vadrouille
15 Mar 2018Bertrand Tavernier’s Capitaine Conan
8 Feb 2018Claude Berri’s Germinal
25 Jan 2018Patrice Leconte’s Ridicule
30 Nov 2017Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de Torchon
16 Nov 2017Rachid Bouchareb’s Indigénes
26 Oct 2017Jean-Jacques Annaud’s La Victoire en chantant
12 Oct 2017Régis Wargnier’s Indochine

HONG KONG CINÉ CLUB

A series of movie screenings related to the history of Hong Kong.

2017-2018
7 Dec 2017Can To’s YP1967

TALKS

2022-23
2 June 2023Dr. Christine M. Walker, (Yale-NUS College in Singapore), “New Narratives of Empire: Gender, Slavery and Family in the Atlantic World”
1 June 2023Dr Frances O’Shaughnessy, (University of Washington), “Black Revolutions on Sea Islands”
19 April 2023Dr. Ronald C. Po, (London School of Economics and Political Science), “At the Edge of the Maritime Frontier: The Qing Empire and its Coastal Islands Prior to the First Opium War”
2018-2019
12 Oct 2018Dr. Samiparna Samanta, (O. P Jindal Global University), “Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial India”
12 Oct 2018Prof. Peter Harrison, (University of Queensland), “Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and Scientific Explanation”
11 Oct 2018Ms. Wilhelmina Ko, (HKU), “The Devil in the “News”: Symbols, Contexts and Worldview in US Religious-themed Fake News”
2017-2018
21 Mar 2018Dr. Carol Tsang, (University of Hong Kong), “‘Suicide’ or Salvation: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Debate in Interwar Hong Kong”
6 Mar 2018Dr. François Drémeaux, (University of Hong Kong), “Présences françaises à Hong Kong (1841-1941)”
26 Mar 2018Dr. Jeremy A. Yellen, (CUHK), “Japan, Britain, and the Crisis of Empire in World War II: Wilsonian Empires at War?”