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

Book Launch & Christmas Party