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How did Japanese Science Fiction develop? Where should it go?
Schedule of Events: Fall 2026
The Gender of the Operatic Voice from Li Yu (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun (1693-1771)
Habits of Realism: Documenting Reality and Rethinking Social Change through Opera
Rethinking US-China Relations During the Cold War: Decolonization, Left Internationalism, and the “Great Convergence"
Peking Man's Skull, Himalayan Yeti's Hand: Searching for a Chinese Missing Link
Seas of Charity: Zoroastrian Community Ties through Necrofinance
Paper Politics Across Empires
Schedule of Events: Spring 2026
Mental Health, Climate Change, and Connecting through the Arts
Empire Unravelled: The Great Crash of 1883 & the End of the Qing Dynasty
Untangling the “Mongolian-Javanese-Celtic-Nordic-Anglosaxon”:Racialism in Percy Grainger’s Engagement with Non-Western Music
Deep Writing: Human–Machine Co-Creation and the Future of Authorship
Schedule of Events: Fall 2025
Nov 14: Romanticism and The Industrial Gaze
Apr 23: Empire of Translation: Understanding Manchu-language books in Qing China
Apr 16: Ethnography by the Century
Apr 3: "An Old Man is But a Paltry Thing"?: Ageing and Elderly Care in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Mar 28: Mizoguchi and Censorship: Negotiating Archives, Institutions, and Authorship
Schedule of Events: Spring 2024
Feb 23: Keats’s Sceptical Poetics
Dec.4: Ethnographic Distance and the Agency of Knowing: Two Cases from Fieldwork Experiences inChina
Nov 22: Fine-Tuning the Cosmos: Calendrical Astronomy and Tuning Theories in Late Imperial China
Apr 24: Double Trouble: A Poetics of Bombay Cinema
Apr 17: The Longest Days and the Shortest Days: A Dialogue on Art & Tech
Mar 31: Uninformed Consent: Doctors, Lying, and Cancer in Japan
Mar 24: Persian Literati and Chinese Culture: Sinology for All?
August 5: Giuseppe Tucci, his adventurous life, and his scholarly legacy
November 6 - Building Other Bodies: A Conversation About Speculative Fiction In Translation
Call for Papers: Giuseppe Tucci, his adventurous life, and his scholarly legacy
September 7: Linus Huang - Why Explainable AI Needs Feminist Philosophy:
July 5: Beth Harper - Exploring Self and Cosmos on a Mountain
April 27: Scott Trigg - Visualizing the Configuration (hay’a)
April 19: Timothy Gitzen – Security’s Porosity
March 9:Pete Millwood – A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science?
January 28: Peter E. Hamilton Book Launch – Made in Hong Kong
December 1: Nicholas Y. H. Wong – Ritual Time, Secular Democracy
November 16: Nicholas Y. H. Wong – Manufacturing Childhood in Hong Kong
June 6: Paul Anderer Book Launch & Reception – Kurosawa’s Rashomon
April 24: Michael Facius – Time and Tourism in (Post) Colonial Taipei
March 26: HKU Colloquium on Sociolinguistics and the Humanities
February 14: Beth Harper – ‘A disease that’s in my flesh which I must needs call mine’
January 24: Monica Lee Steinberg – “The Legal Medium: An Aesthetics of Uncivil Obedience”
December 1: “Mediating Music/Sound. Discourses, Technologies, Socialities”, Department of Music
November 29: Harriet Hulme Book Launch – “Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation”
November 14: John Gabriel – From Musical Scenery to Sonic Dramaturgy
International Conference Program: Contacts, Collisions, Conjunctions, May 9-10
Roundtable on Research on Gender and Diversity – May 7
‘An act of welcome’: writing as hospitality in Refugee Tales – April 19
Roundtable – The State of the Book in Humanities
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