Schedule of Events: Spring 2024

February 23 (Fri) | 4:30PM 

Music Library Lecture Room, 11/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

Keats’s Sceptical Poetics

Li Ou (Associate Professor, Department of English, CUHK), Speaker 

Tara Lee (Society of Fellows, HKU), Discussant

March 28 (Thu) | 5:00PM 

Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

Mizoguchi and Censorship: Negotiating Archives, Institutions, and Authorship

Kinoshita Chika (Professor of Film Studies, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)

April 3 (Wed) | 4:30PM 

Music Library Lecture Room, 11/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

"An Old Man is But a Paltry Thing"?: Ageing and Elderly Care in the Long Eighteenth Century

Desmond Bo-Yuan Huang (Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, National Chiayi University)

April 16 (Tue) | 4:30PM 

CPD LG.09, LG/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

Ethnography by the Century

Lynne Nakano (Profoessor, Department of  Japanese Studies, CUHK)

David Palmer (Department of Sociology, HKU)

Alex Gearin (Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, HKU) 

Loretta Kim (China Studies, HKU)

Aaron Jeffrey Hames (Society of Fellows, HKU), Moderator

April 23 (Tue) | 4:30PM 

Room 7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU 

Empire of Translation: Understanding Manchu-language books in Qing China   

 Sarah Jessi Bramao-Ramos  (Society of Fellows, HKU)

 Loretta Kim (China Studies, HKU), Moderator