Karen L. Thornber Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University   Date: 12 Dec 2025 (Fri) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: RRST-4.35, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU   All are welcome! No registration required.   The WHO's "Mental Health and Climate Change" June 2022 policy brief calls on world leaders to make mental health a priority in response to climate change. This is one of many appeals in recent years to acknowledge the damag

Date: 24 Nov 2025 (Mon) Time: 5:30 PM Venue: RRST-4.35, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: William R. Kelson, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, HKUArts All are welcome! No registration required.     Often overlooked by historians, the financial crisis of 1883 in China had an enormous impact on the trajectory of the Qing empire (1644-1912). This talk will explore the ways in which a banking meltdown that began in Shanghai and spread across commerciali

Date: 19 Nov 2025 (Weds) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: B0404, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: John Gabriel, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne All are welcome! No registration required.     Racialist ideologies were notoriously widespread in the late nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries, and their legacies endure to the present day. Certain racialist ideologies in music history, like Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitism, have at