Leilah Vevaina, Department of Anthropology, CUHK  Date: 26 February 2026 (Thurs) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU   All are welcome! No registration required. Zoroastrianism, while still a lived religion today, sees its practitioners as not only small in number, but increasingly scattered around the globe. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to merchant trade, Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis) settled in various entrep

Malika Zehni, Society of Fellows ('28), HKU   Date: 9 February 2026 (Mon) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: RRST-4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU   All are welcome! No registration required.   This talk traces travelers through different corners of the Eurasian world during the long nineteenth century as they navigated the bureaucratic labyrinths of empires. From transforming soap wrappers into makeshift passports to commissioning manuscript artists for forged resi

February 9 (Mon) | 5:00PM B0436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Paper Politics Across Empires Malika Zehni, Society of Fellows ('28), HKU   February 26 (Thurs) | 5:00PM B0436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Seas of Charity: Zoroastrian Community Ties through Necrofinance Leilah Vevaina, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong   March 19 (Thurs) | 5:00PM B0436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Peking Man'