Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

This lecture examines the ecological footprint of big data and its implications for the future directions of the digital humanities ...

Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe ...

To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century ...

On the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1949, a large number of Chinese intellectuals fled the Chinese mainland, never to return ...

Ancient Mesopotamia is widely known for giving rise to some of the earliest and most enduring and influential urban civilisations in the world ...

In the Second World War, the Chinese Nationalist government mobilized more than 4,000 Chinese college students as interpreters for the American and British Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater ...

1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention ...

This talk briefly introduces HKU's ongoing archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasian country of Armenia ...

Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society...

During the Second World War the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in Talmudic academies or ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe ...

The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...

Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means,

The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act ‘as gods among men’;

This paper examines the transregional thinking that conceptualized the British imperial interests and expansion in Asia from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the Opium War or “First China War” (1840–1842).

Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.

Title: Rediscovering Ni Kwei Tseng and the Rise of the 'Soong Dynasty' in the Republican EraSpeaker: Dr. Annie Hongping Nie (Faith and Global Engagement Research Fellow)Date/Time: March 11, 2025 (Tue) 12:30 – 13:30 HKT (Mar 10 | 21:30 – 22:30 PDT)Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong & Via ZOOMLanguage: EnglishEnquiry:ihss@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RoUcDL7wTXyO3TUJPk01TQ#/registrationAbstractEven […]