Date: 21 April 2026 (Tues) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Sarah Collins, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Western Australia All are welcome! No registration required. This paper investigates how techniques of documenting reality in film, theatre, shadow puppetry, and opera offer new ways of understanding processes of social change. These techniques are specific to their media, but they also reach across media in ways...

Elizabeth Ingleson, London School of Economics Date: 14 April 2026 (Tues) Time: 5:45 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU All are welcome! No registration required. For decades, the story of US-China relations during the Cold War has been dominated by the twenty-odd years of diplomatic, economic, and cultural isolation that estranged both nations from 1950 until 1972. Indeed, the “before” and “after” of isolation has become the defining demarcation...

Dihao Zhou, Society of Fellows ('28), HKU Date: 23 March 2026 (Mon) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.30 (Faculty Lounge), 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU All are welcome! No registration required. “Missing link” refers to intermediate species thought to connect apes and humans in the evolutionary lineage. This talk centers on two Chinese candidates for the missing link in the twentieth century and their theatrical incarnations, aiming to disentangle the layered discourses...