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Our Activities

The hub hosts seminar series and other scholarly events that would be of interest to both academics and non-academics, the scope of which is intended to be broadly interdisciplinary, welcoming a range of methodologies and areas of study which shed new light on Hong Kong’s past, present and future.

2024

Hong Kong's Global Localities: A Transdisciplinary Discussions

Speakers: please refer to the poster

  • 4–5 December 2024
  • In-person
  • 9:30 am–6:00 pm
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Book Talk: Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945–97

Speakers: Mark Hampton (Lingnan University) 

  • 27 November 2024
  • Zoom
  • 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
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Lost and Found in Hong Kong: tHe Unsung Chinese Heroes of D-Day

Speakers: John Mak and Angus Hui

  • 14 November 2024
  • Zoom
  • 4:30–6:00 pm
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Hong Kong's Water Shortages and Local Resilience, c. 1960s-70s.

Speakers: Florence Mok and Siu-hei Lai (Nanyang Technological University) 

  • 4 April 2024
  • In-person and zoom
  • 4:30–6:00 pm
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The Promises and Perils of Petrohydrology: Hong Kong's Look On Pai Desalter, Singapore, and the Persian Gulf, 1963 to 1990

Speaker: Jack Greatrex (Nanyang Technological University) 

  • 28 March 2024
  • In-person
  • 4:30–6:00 pm
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2023

Water & its Histories: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Hong Kong and Beyond

Workshop
Multiple speakers

  • 4-5 December 2023
  • In-person
  • Full day
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“Two is Enough”: Class, Gender, and Nuclear Family Ideal in Cold War Hong Kong

Speaker: Carol Tsang (University of Hong Kong)

  • 30 November 2023
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6.00pm
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Rice, Railways: Hong Kong, Britain, and Chinese Post-war Reconstruction, 1945-1952

Speaker: Adonis Li (University of Lincoln)

  • 9 November 2023
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6.00pm
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Deconstructing the Myth of the “Barren Rock”: An Environmental History of Hong Kong’s British Colonialization, 1793-1898

Speaker: Maxime Decaudin (National University of Singapore)

  • 19 October 2023
  • In-person
  • 4:30-6.00pm
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Cinema and The Youths of Hong Kong: Roundtable Session with Director Ho Cheuk-Tin

(Co-organised by Nanyang Technological University and Asia Film Society)

Speaker: Ho Cheuk-Tin

  • 28 September 2023
  • In-person
  • 2:00-3.30pm
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Book Talk: Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, 1966-97

Speaker: Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University)

  • 28 September 2023
  • In-person and Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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‘Water Inspectability: The Post-war Hong Kong’s Separate Water Metering’

Speaker: Siu-hei Lai (Nanyang Technological University)

  • 22 February 2023
  • In-person and Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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Catchwater Colonialism: Reshaping Hong Kong's Hydrology, Infrastructure, and Landscape, 1937 to 1983

Speaker: Jack Greatrex (Nanyang Technological University) 

  • 16 February 2023
  • In-person and Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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2022

Book Talk: Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub

Speakers: John Wong (University of Hong Kong) 

  • 17 November 2022
  • In-person and Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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Book Talk: Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842-1997)

Speakers: Michael Ng (University of Hong Kong) 

  • 3 November 2022
  • In-person and Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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New Trends in Hong Kong Studies: A Roundtable

Speakers: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) and Vivian Kong (University of Bristol)

Chariperson: Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University) 

  • 7 July 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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A Social History of a Cascade that Arguably Named Hong Kong

Speakers: Gary Wong (University of Leeds) and Vincci Mok (University of Hong Kong)

  • 7 July 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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The 1963 Drought: Is It Time to Forget about It? 

Speaker: Frederick Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Discussant: David Clayton (University of York)

  • 30 June 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1960s

Speaker: Loretta Lou (University of Macau)

  • 9 June 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4:30-6:00pm
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Formalizing Colonial Hong Kong: Ending New Squatting in 1984

Speakers:  Alan Smart (University of Calgary), Charles Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • 26 May 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 9.30am-11am (+8 GMT)
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From Endangerment to Ferality: Revisiting the Cultural Imagination of Hong Kong via Animal Tropes

Speaker: Winnie L. M. Yee (Hong Kong University)

Discussant: Helena Wu (The University of British Columbia)

  • 25 February 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 10:00am-12:00pm
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Transnational Hong Kong History
Seminar Series (AY2021-2022)

Hong Kong Research Hub (HKRH)

Collaboration with History Department

  • Various Dates
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4.30pm – 6pm (+8 GMT)
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'The Metropolis of the Far East': Tourism and Recovery in Postwar Hong Kong'

Speaker: John Carroll (University of Hong Kong)

  • 10 February 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4.30pm – 6pm (+8 GMT)
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'The World of Amy Stanton: An Anglo-Chinese Girl's Journey Towards Womanhood and Respectability, 1889-1942'

Speaker: Vivian Kong (University of Bristol)
  • 27 January 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4.30pm – 6pm (+8 GMT)
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‘Radio Broadcasting and the Early Cold War in Hong Kong, 1945-1955’

Speaker: David Clayton (University of York)

  • 13 January 2022
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 4.30pm – 6pm (+8 GMT)
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2021

Hong Kong Uncharted:
Cultural Production and Spirit of Publicness Seminar Series

Hong Kong Uncharted Series

  • Various Dates
  • Online (Zoom)
  • Various Times
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Post-Umbrella:
Cultural Marginalisation and Radicalisation

Hong Kong Uncharted Series

  • 7 May 2021
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 3pm to 5.30pm
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Literature as Means?
— Collectivity, Publicness, Identity

Hong Kong Uncharted Series

  • 21 May 2021
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 10am – 1pm
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2019 and Beyond: Protest Practice and Cultural Production in the Anti-Extradition Bill Protests

Hong Kong Uncharted Series

  • 28 May 2021
  • Online (Zoom)
  • 10am to 12.30pm
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