September 21 (Mon) | 5:00PM Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU The Gender of the Operatic Voice from Li Yu (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun (1693-1771) Judith T. Zeitlin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago November 10 (Tues) | 5:00PM Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU How did Japanese Science Fiction develop? Where should it go? — A brief history of Japanese SF and its development in recent decades Fujii Taiyo,...

Date: 21 September 2026 (Mon) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Judith T. Zeitlin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilzations, University of Chicago All are welcome! No registration required. This lecture examines how engrained notions of gender difference were applied to the training of the operatic voice in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century elite discourse on Kunqu singing. As case studies, I focus on two important...

Date: 21 April 2026 (Tues) Time: 5 PM (HKT) Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Speaker: Sarah Collins, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Western Australia All are welcome! No registration required. This paper investigates how techniques of documenting reality in film, theatre, shadow puppetry, and opera offer new ways of understanding processes of social change. These techniques are specific to their media, but they also reach across media in ways...