School of Humanities HKU

15/11/2022

The SoH is delighted and proud to announce that Dr. Elizabeth LaCouture's book Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin China,1860-1960 is a co-winner of this year's prize for best book non-North American urban history by the Urban History Association: https://urbanhistory.org/awardwinners22

SoH Publication Page: https://soh.hku.hk/publications/dwelling-in-the-world/

16/07/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures
Book Launch: Borderwaters

Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Time: 12NN HK Time (GMT +8)
Speaker: Brian Russell Roberts, Professor of English, Humanities College Professor, Brigham Young University
Via Zoom

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=77011 for Zoom details.

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures Book Launch: Borderwaters Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2021 Time: 12NN HK Time (GMT +8) Speaker: Brian Russell Roberts, Professor of English, Humanities College Professor, Brigham Young University Via Zoom   Brian Russell Roberts proposes a new, watery...

14/07/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

The Concept of Minority at the Dawn of Partition: Ambedkar, Savarkar and Jinnah

Date: Monday, 19 July 2021
Time: 6 PM HK Time (GMT +8)
Speaker: Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Lecturer, History of Race and Ethnicity, University of Manchester
Via Zoom

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=76997 for Zoom details.

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures The Concept of Minority at the Dawn of Partition: Ambedkar, Savarkar and Jinnah   Date: Monday, 19 July 2021 Time: 6 PM HK Time (GMT +8) Speaker: Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Lecturer, History of Race and Ethnicity, University of Manchester Via Zoom ....

17/06/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature presents

Exploring Self and Cosmos on a Mountain: Petrarch’s ‘Ascent to Mont Ventoux’ and Chinese shanshui 山水 Poetry

Date: Monday, 5 July 2021
Time: 3:00pm HK Time (GMT +8)
Speaker: Dr. Beth Harper (Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong)

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75769 for Zoom details.

Exploring Self and Cosmos on a Mountain: Petrarch’s ‘Ascent to Mont Ventoux’ and Chinese shanshui 山水 Poetry   Date: Monday, 5 July 2021 Time: 3:00pm HK Time (GMT +8) Speaker: Dr. Beth Harper (Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong)   The trecento humanist Francesco Petrarca (1...

02/06/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures

Empire and Its Afterlives – Homo Geographicus and the Rise of National Literatures: Navid Naderi and Omid Azadibougar in conversation

Date: 14 June 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 6 PM Hong Kong Time (GMT +8)
via Zoom

Navid Naderi and Omid Azadibougar will consider the historical formation of a particularly geographical concept of the human and will discuss how this particular 18th century conception of the human being is one of the conditions of possibilities of the rise of peripheral national literatures in the 19th and the 20th centuries.

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75529

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures   Empire and Its Afterlives - Homo Geographicus and the Rise of National Literatures: Navid Naderi and Omid Azadibougar in conversation   Date: 14 June 2021 (Wednesday) Time: 6 PM Hong Kong Time (GMT +8) via Zoom   Navid Naderi and Omid Azadiboug...

01/06/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Global Sexualities Book Launch - Queering Chinese Media and the Sinophone Pacific

Date: 16 June 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 PM Hong Kong Time (GMT +8)
via Zoom

Speaker: Hongwei Bao (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in China/Bao/p/book/9780367279455)

Discussant: Jamie Zhao
Speaker: Howard Chiang (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/transtopia-in-the-sinophone-pacific/9780231190978)

Discussant: Alvin K. Wong
Moderator: Grace Ting

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75493

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures Global Sexualities Book Launch - Queering Chinese Media and the Sinophone Pacific   Date: 16 June 2021 (Wednesday) Time: 1:30 – 3:30 PM Hong Kong Time (GMT +8) via Zoom   Speaker: Hongwei Bao (https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in China/Bao/p...

25/05/2021

Message from Department of Linguistics

A MYRIAD OF VOICES: LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY & VITALITY IN MALAYSIA

The documentary film A Myriad of Voices and the website and teaching resource Linguistics Field Trip to Malaysia showcase linguistic diversity and vitality in Malaysia as experienced by students of the University of Hong Kong during a field linguistics excursion (LING3003 Linguistics Field Trip Course). Come along with us to Malaysia, the land of the hibiscus, as we take you on a journey to discover a myriad of vibrant voices.

> LINK TO FILM (35 min): https://youtu.be/D5Tld6sEupE
> LINK TO FILM TEASER (1.5 min): https://youtu.be/ssHB04NVqfA
> LINK TO FIELD TRIP WEBSITE: https://www.fieldtrip-malaysia2019.linguistics.hku.hk

Directed, edited, and filmed by Pang Man Long Michelle
Produced by the School of Humanities (Department of Linguistics), The University of Hong Kong.

This project was funded by the General Research Fund grant No. 17608819 of the Government of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong, School of Humanities Seed Grant to Dr. Kofi Yakpo.

[OFFICIAL RELEASE] A Myriad of Voices: Linguistic Diversity and Vitality in Malaysia (2020)Directed, filmed and edited by Pang Man Long MichelleThis project ...

25/05/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures

Empire and Its Afterlives - Book Launch: Love and Reparation

Date: Monday, 31 May 2021
Time: 5 - 6:30 pm (GMT +8)
Panelists: Danish Sheikh (PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School); Marco Wan (Professor, Department of Law, HKU); Alvin Wong (Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU); J Daniel Elam (Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU); Hong Kong Shax Theatre Group

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75402

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures Empire and Its Afterlives - Book Launch: Love and Reparation   Date: Monday, 31 May 2021 Time: 5 - 6:30 pm (GMT +8) Panelists: Danish Sheikh (PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School); Marco Wan (Professor, Department of Law, HKU); Alvin Wong (Assistant...

12/05/2021

Message from Department of Linguistics

At the centre of it all: How language documentation relates to other subfields of linguistics

Serge Sagna
University of York

4pm, 21 May 2021

Meeting ID: 947 0525 1835
Password: 504049

HKU Linguistics Seminar How language documentation relates to other subfields of linguistics   Serge Sagna University of York   In this presentation, I discuss aspects of my past and present research in the areas of language documentation, linguistic typology, first language acquisition and multil...

12/05/2021

Message from Department of Linguistics

Potential contributions of cognitive neuroscience to the identification and treatment of developmental dyslexia

Urs Maurer
Chinese University of Hong Kong

2.30pm, 20 May 2021

Meeting ID: 954 5194 6980
Password: 442585

HKU Linguistics Seminar Potential contributions of cognitive neuroscience to the identification and treatment of developmental dyslexia   Urs Maurer Chinese University of Hong Kong   The field of cognitive neuroscience has contributed to our understanding of typical and atypical learning and devel...

11/05/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures

(Re)placing Southeast Asia: Erasure and Excess in Crazy Rich Asians

Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021
Time: 5 - 6:30 pm (GMT +8)
Speaker: Kelly Tse, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Alvin Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75119

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (Re)placing Southeast Asia: Erasure and Excess in Crazy Rich Asians   Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021 Time: 5 - 6:30 pm (GMT +8) Speaker: Kelly Tse, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Ko...

06/05/2021

Message from Department of Comparative Literature

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures

Gender/Diversity/Democracy - The Gendered Pandemic in China A Feminist Online Ethnographic Study

Date: Friday, 14 May 2021
Time: 9 - 10:30 PM (GMT +8)
Speaker: ZHAO Feng Chenzi, PhD Candidate, Western University, Canada
Moderator: Laura Meek, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine

Please register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75113

Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures Gender/Diversity/Democracy - The Gendered Pandemic in China A Feminist Online Ethnographic Study   Date: Friday, 14 May 2021 Time: 9 - 10:30 PM (GMT +8) Speaker: ZHAO Feng Chenzi, PhD Candidate, Western University, Canada   Covid-19 has posed vari...