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ABSTRACTWhy were there no extradition treaties between China and most Western countries historically? Jenny Huangfu Day traces how the fugitive rendition clauses in the Opium War treaties evolved into informal extradition practices and argues that China’s inability to secure reciprocal extradition treaties was rooted in the legacy of extraterritoriality and semi-colonialism. Through an examination of […]

ABSTRACTUniversities are the Hadron Colliders of ideas – places where ideas are distilled, expressed, critiqued and reformulated. That commitment to critical but attentive listening to other viewpoints has a major contribution to make to a society that is becoming increasingly fragmented along ideological grounds.To further counteract such fragmentation, Dr. Lloyd will argue that beauty and […]

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Title: NATURE MATTERS: WHY BELIEF COUNTS FOR TREE FROGSSpeaker: Peter Harris (Co-Founder, A Rocha)Date/Time: 5 March 2025 (Wed) ,   7:00pm – 8:30pmVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKULanguage: EnglishEnquiry: (Email) faithful@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Cz4HKEqkpP8SMKAbstractThe question of why nature matters is now critical. Over recent decades, we have witnessed the thinning of life on earth and the collapse […]

Title: Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Yangtze valley in the 10th millennium BPSpeaker: Dr. Ting An (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University)Date/Time: March 5 2025 (Wed)  09:00-10:30 HKTLanguage: EnglishVenue: Via ZoomEnquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x8alkmyiRyu4IBiwg4I3XAAbstractThe Middle and Lower Yangtze valley is recognized as the earliest centre of rice […]

Title: 納稅人” 研究：中國天主教史一個被忽視的維度         The Taxpayer: A Neglected Dimension of Chinese Catholic HistorySpeaker: 康志杰教授                Prof. KANG ZhijieDate/Time: February 28, 2025 (Fri) 11:00 – 12:00 HKTVenue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, The University of Hong KongLanguage: Mandarin ChineseEnquiry: (Email) faithful@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07XPvwvJv1XDM8KAbstract天主教是制度型宗教中最為嚴格的一個類型，過往的相關研究多偏重宗教傳播，經濟活動則被忽略。將天主教的身份定位于“納稅人”並進行分析討論，對於廓清宗教與國家，宗教與族群之間的複雜關係，理解傳統的中國財政體制變化，解析棘手的政教關係，具有重要的價值與意義。Catholicism is the strictest type of institutional religion. Previous studies have mostly focused on religious transmission, […]

Title: Adventurers or Scientists? Historical Episodes from the Archaeological Exploration of the Middle EastSpeaker: Dr. Elvan Cobb (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University)Date/Time: February 21, 2025 (Friday) 14:30-15:30 (HKT)Language: EnglishVenue: Room 201, May Hall, HKU & ZoomEnquiry: (Email) ihss@hku.hkRegister Now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A3a8uo4fSKa0rOnpzYm7OQ#/registrationAbstractThe railway engineer who convinced a pair of empires to let him […]

GOD and AI: WHO’s in CONTROL  Professor Ruth OkedijiJeremiah Smith Jr. ProfessorHarvard Law SchoolDate:      12 February 2025 (Wed)Time:        7:00pm – 8:30pmVenue:      Rayson Huang Theatre, HKURegister:  https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2mMDG3fxDaFH1pIDetails:     https://faith.hku.hk/event/god-and-aiAbstractArtificial Intelligence (AI) will increasingly outperform human beings in a growing number and variety of routine and complex tasks. And yet, intelligence alone may not be adequate for a […]

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.

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The transition from mobile foraging societies to settled agricultural communities is a critical period in human history.

A century after the establishment of the Palace Museum in 1925,

This roundtable provides a space to present and discuss your PhD topics. You will each be asked to do a short presentation (10 minutes) on either the main themes of your thesis as a whole, a chapter or section, or an article that you might be thinking of submitting.

What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong ...

ABSTRACT This talk tells the story of Dragon Lady Traders, a US-based company established by Veronica Yhap in the early 1970s that imported clothing from China. Yhap’s experiences highlight the challenges and contingencies of US-China trade relations after 20 years of Cold War isolation. But they also reveal the importance of both the textile industry […]

This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: ...