The School of Humanities
of The University of Hong Kong
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.
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 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.
Department of Comparative Literature 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.
Department of Comparative Literature 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
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 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
Department of Comparative Literature 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.
A Myriad of Voices: Linguistic Diversity and Vitality in Malaysia (2020) [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
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...
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
Department of Linguistics 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
Department of Linguistics 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
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 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
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 Covid-19 has posed vari...
