Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

22/05/2026

🎉 Registration is open for 第二屆「早期中國發展及其長久影響」研討會 the Second “Early China Development and Its Long-Term Impact” Workshop!🎉

📅 May 29–30, 2026
📍 May Hall, HKU
🗣️ Language: Mandarin

Join scholars to explore how early Chinese development shaped long-term social structures, institutions, and economic-geographic patterns—through archaeological evidence, network analysis, quantitative approaches, and digital humanities.

✅ Click to register / learn more: https://cqh.hku.hk/events/quantitative-history-workshops/the-second-early-china-development-and-its-long-term-impact-workshop/


The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所
HKU Business School

18/05/2026

Join us for an insightful IHSS Seminar: "How the Tang Fed Its Frontiers: Military Farms and Environmental Constraints in the Northwestern Borderlands" with Professor Maddalena Barenghi from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia! 🏯🌿

🗓️ Date: May 28, 2026
🕙 Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am HKT
📍 Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the fascinating history of frontier management during the Tang Dynasty! More details and registration: https://ihss.hku.hk/events/how-the-tang-fed-its-frontiers-military-farms-and-environmental-constraints-in-the-northwestern-borderlands/


The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

12/05/2026

🎓 Quantitative History Webinar
Join David de la Croix (UCLouvain) to explore how pre-modern universities and scientific academies (1084–1793) helped spread intellectual ideas across Europe—through networks of affiliations, scholar mobility, and institutional connections.

🔍 Topic: Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
🗓 May 14, 2026
🕓 16:00–17:30 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore)
💻 Zoom Webinar | Language: English
🎙️ Discussant: Ying Bai, Professor, Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Ying is also our Fellow)

📌 Register: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/3717687926344/WN_Wc-HDc79RtOU-3AbUlqXZQ


The University of Hong Kong
HKU Business School
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

04/05/2026

🌟 Join Us for the Upcoming Webinar! 🌟

📅 Date: May 7, 2026
🕓 Time: 16:00 HKT
💻 Platform: Zoom
🗨️ Topic: Transport and the Transmission of Plague across Settlements in Early Modern England
🗣️ Speaker: Eric Schneider of The London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE

👥 Discussant: Hanzhi Deng of Fudan University & Xiaowen (Oliver) Zhou of Fudan University Huashan Hospital
🔗 Register now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/2517696671795/WN_kztm08BpRSWoHhn65LXDmA


The University of Hong Kong
HKU Business School
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

04/05/2026

🚜 Discover the fascinating history of transportation in Beijing! Join us for the Chinese Business History Webinar: "Mule Carts in Beijing: Knowledge and Ignorance in Transportation Planning in the 1950s" with Professor Yujie Li of Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education.

🗓️ Date & Time:
May 15, 2026 (Fri), 09:00 – 10:00 HKT
May 14, 2026 (Thu), 18:00 – 19:00 PDT

📍 Format: Via Zoom

Don't miss this insightful look into China's transportation past and its lessons for today! 🔗More details & registration: https://ihss.hku.hk/events/mule-carts-in-beijing-knowledge-and-ignorance-in-transportation-planning-in-the-1950s/


University of Florida
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

29/04/2026

Join our research cluster online for an upcoming webinar featuring Lukas Rosenberger at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München on a new approach to technological progress and economic growth during the Industrial Revolution—combining modern growth theory with detailed micro-data.

Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 16:00–17:30 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 10:00 Munich
Venue: Zoom Webinar
Topic: Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution

🔗 Register: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/2517696671795/WN_wVguLMu7TVu0fE_HF3iRig


The University of Hong Kong
HKU Business School
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

22/04/2026

✨ Don't miss the final session of this semester's Interdisciplinary Research Seminar!

Join us for an enlightening talk on "Local Lore of a Sacred Landscape: The Daoist Tradition of Peach Blossom Spring"🌿

Speaker:
Professor Mark Meulenbeld, 香港大學中文學院 School of Chinese HKU

🗓️ Date & Time:
May 5, 2026 (Tue), 12:30 – 13:30 HKT
May 4, 2026 (Mon), 21:30 – 22:30 PDT

📍 Venue:
G01, May Hall, HKU or via Zoom

🔗 More details & registration: https://www.hkihss.hku.hk/en/events/local-lore-of-a-sacred-landscape-the-daoist-tradition-of-peach-blossom-spring/

Discover the mystical stories behind this sacred site and its cultural significance!


The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

16/04/2026

📢 Call for Papers: The 12th Annual Symposium on Quantitative History

We’re delighted to invite submissions for the symposium, held at Central China Normal University (Wuhan, Hubei, China) on July 11–12, 2026. The symposium features plenary sessions and parallel paper sessions in English or Chinese.

✅ We welcome unpublished, original research using quantitative approaches across (including but not limited to): economic & social history, political history, cultural history, business/financial history, and archival history.

💸 Financial support may be available for presenting authors who need help covering travel and accommodation.

📩 Submission deadline: April 20, 2026 (by email)
📨 Send papers to: [email protected]
👤 Contact person: Ms. Peng

Start preparing your paper and join the quantitative history community in Wuhan!


The University of Hong Kong
HKU Business School
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所

16/04/2026

14/04/2026

As part of the HKU Family Wealth Lecture Series, we hosted a fireside chat between Mr. Anthony Tse and Ms. Bonnie Leung on April 9, 2026.

Mr. Tse, an exit founder and TEDx speaker, has worked across financial institutions, family offices and early childhood education. The enlightening fireside chat covered a range of topics, spanning from Mr. Tse’s experience working in a family office to starting his own early childhood education group. Currently a coach to senior professionals and a professional board director, Mr. Tse also imparted valuable lessons to the audience around leadership, entrepreneurship, and ethics, emphasizing the importance of empathy and relationship building in any role.

The chat was moderated by the Programme Director to the Master of Family Wealth Management, Ms. Bonnie Leung. HKU’s Master of Family Wealth Management is a full-time, taught post-graduate programme aiming to groom future family wealth manager through an interdisciplinary curriculum.


The University of Hong Kong
HKU Master of Family Wealth Management
HKU Business School
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences 香港人文社會研究所