BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihss.hku.hk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IHSS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT DTSTART:20140101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150331T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150331T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T220251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102920Z UID:88277-1427803200-1427806800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Madness Made in China: Manufacturing Mental Disorders and the Incomplete Medical Modernity DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/madness-made-in-china-manufacturing-mental-disorders-and-the-incomplete-medical-modernity/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150325T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150325T160000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T220648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102921Z UID:88284-1427299200-1427299200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Market of Distrust: Unofficial Payments for Hospital Care in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-market-of-distrust-unofficial-payments-for-hospital-care-in-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150321T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150321T190000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T221044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102921Z UID:88291-1426959000-1426964400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Making Friends with Mr. Zhang (和張老師做朋友) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/making-friends-with-mr-zhang-%e5%92%8c%e5%bc%b5%e8%80%81%e5%b8%ab%e5%81%9a%e6%9c%8b%e5%8f%8b/ LOCATION:T6\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150320T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150320T180000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T222347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102922Z UID:88330-1426869000-1426874400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Panglossian Dream and Dark Consciousness: Modern Chinese Literature and Utopia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/panglossian-dream-and-dark-consciousness-modern-chinese-literature-and-utopia/ LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150322 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T221639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102921Z UID:88306-1426809600-1426982399@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts\, Ideas\, Spaces DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/utopia-and-utopianism-in-the-contemporary-chinese-context-texts-ideas-spaces/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150317T170000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T223103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102922Z UID:88353-1426611600-1426611600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Anthropology in\, of\, and by East Asia: Moving to the Center in the 21st Century? DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/anthropology-in-of-and-by-east-asia-moving-to-the-center-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150317T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150317T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T224323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102923Z UID:88377-1426593600-1426597200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A History of Communications: Bian Zhilin 卞之林\, Li Shangyin 李商隱\, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-history-of-communications-bian-zhilin-%e5%8d%9e%e4%b9%8b%e6%9e%97-li-shangyin-%e6%9d%8e%e5%95%86%e9%9a%b1-and-world-literature-in-chinese-poetry/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150303T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150303T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T224613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102923Z UID:88384-1425384000-1425387600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Localizing Mental Health Practices: Anthropological Research on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Disaster Recovery DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/localizing-mental-health-practices-anthropological-research-on-the-psychosocial-dimensions-of-disaster-recovery/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150210T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150210T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T223843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102923Z UID:88369-1423569600-1423573200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Strange Partners: Japan and the German Alliance\, 1940 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/strange-partners-japan-and-the-german-alliance-1940/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150203T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150203T180000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T224942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102923Z UID:88390-1422981000-1422986400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Story of Risks: How Finance Has Changed the Human Society (風險的故事: 金融如何改變人類社會) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-story-of-risks-how-finance-has-changed-the-human-society-%e9%a2%a8%e9%9a%aa%e7%9a%84%e6%95%85%e4%ba%8b-%e9%87%91%e8%9e%8d%e5%a6%82%e4%bd%95%e6%94%b9%e8%ae%8a%e4%ba%ba%e9%a1%9e%e7%a4%be%e6%9c%83/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150127T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150127T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T225730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102924Z UID:88404-1422360000-1422363600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Beyond the “Three Years and Eight Months”: Understanding the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong during the Second World War DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/beyond-the-three-years-and-eight-months-understanding-the-japanese-occupation-of-hong-kong-during-the-second-world-war/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150120T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150120T120000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T230051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102924Z UID:88410-1421755200-1421755200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Qigong and Healing Communities in Contemporary Shanghai: Techniques of the Body\, State Institutions and Transnational Flows DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/qigong-and-healing-communities-in-contemporary-shanghai-techniques-of-the-body-state-institutions-and-transnational-flows/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150114T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150114T160000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T230441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102924Z UID:88417-1421251200-1421251200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Life after Death in Japan\, China and the United States DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/life-after-death-in-japan-china-and-the-united-states/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150108T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20150108T163000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T230808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102925Z UID:88424-1420734600-1420734600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Communists and Peasants in the Soviet Union and China: A Comparison DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/communists-and-peasants-in-the-soviet-union-and-china-a-comparison/ LOCATION:T6\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141220T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141220T170000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T231344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102835Z UID:88439-1419087600-1419094800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Family Business in Crisis: Ways and Cases DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/family-business-in-crisis-ways-and-cases/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141218T103000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141218T120000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T232235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102843Z UID:88454-1418898600-1418904000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Perils of Pregnancy: Comparing Risk in Chinese and U.S. Advice Books and Websites DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-perils-of-pregnancy-comparing-risk-in-chinese-and-u-s-advice-books-and-websites/ LOCATION:T6\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141216T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141216T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T233455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102925Z UID:88463-1418731200-1418734800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Traditions\, Trends and Testimony: European Art in Qing Dynasty China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/traditions-trends-and-testimony-european-art-in-qing-dynasty-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141218 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240731T234326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102925Z UID:88470-1418688000-1418860799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Food and Health DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/food-and-health/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141212T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141212T140000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T001001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102926Z UID:88498-1418387400-1418392800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Shrinking the Earth: From an Age of Abundance to an Age of Limits DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/shrinking-the-earth-from-an-age-of-abundance-to-an-age-of-limits/ LOCATION:F 520\, Teaching Building\, China CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141211T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141211T160000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T000144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102926Z UID:88488-1418313600-1418313600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Subjects of Debt? Entrepreneurialism and Islamic Finance in Malaysia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/subjects-of-debt-entrepreneurialism-and-islamic-finance-in-malaysia/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141210T143000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141210T143000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T004505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102927Z UID:88506-1418221800-1418221800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Dao of World Religions: The China Problem in Modern Religion DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-dao-of-world-religions-the-china-problem-in-modern-religion/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141209T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141209T163000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T005157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102928Z UID:88514-1418142600-1418142600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Men Plough\, Women Weave”: Joseph Needham\, Feminism and the History of Science and Technology in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/men-plough-women-weave-joseph-needham-feminism-and-the-history-of-science-and-technology-in-china/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141208T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141208T180000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T012443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102928Z UID:88531-1418058000-1418061600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Challenge with Curiosity: Joseph Needham and his Intellectual Heritage (好奇心與挑戰：李約瑟及其知識遺產) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/challenge-with-curiosity-joseph-needham-and-his-intellectual-heritage-%e5%a5%bd%e5%a5%87%e5%bf%83%e8%88%87%e6%8c%91%e6%88%b0%ef%bc%9a%e6%9d%8e%e7%b4%84%e7%91%9f%e5%8f%8a%e5%85%b6%e7%9f%a5%e8%ad%98/ LOCATION:Queen’s College School Hall\, 120 Causeway Road\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141206T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141206T170000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T013745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260507T091449Z UID:88540-1417878000-1417885200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Family Business in Crisis: Ways and Cases DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/family-business-in-crisis-ways-and-cases-2/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141202T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141202T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T014133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102928Z UID:88546-1417521600-1417525200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Kinship and Inequality in China: Big Data for a Big Topic DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/kinship-and-inequality-in-china-big-data-for-a-big-topic/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141129T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141129T170000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T174154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88561-1417273200-1417280400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Family Business in Crisis: Ways and Cases DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/family-business-in-crisis-ways-and-cases-3/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141126T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141126T160000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T173705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88553-1417017600-1417017600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Reincarnation in Africa DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reincarnation-in-africa/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141125T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141125T130000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T174530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102929Z UID:88567-1416916800-1416920400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Can Capitalist Farms Compete with Family Farms? The Role of Technology in Facilitating the Agrarian Change in Shrimp Aquaculture in South China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/can-capitalist-farms-compete-with-family-farms-the-role-of-technology-in-facilitating-the-agrarian-change-in-shrimp-aquaculture-in-south-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141120T140000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141120T140000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T174939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102930Z UID:88573-1416492000-1416492000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Way to Learning (問學之道) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-way-to-learning-%e5%95%8f%e5%ad%b8%e4%b9%8b%e9%81%93/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141119T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20141119T163000 DTSTAMP:20261105T020737 CREATED:20240801T180313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102930Z UID:88594-1416414600-1416414600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Contributions of Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes towards Chinese Traditional Historiography and the Transformation of European Sinology (沙畹對中國傳統史學轉型和歐洲漢學轉型的貢獻) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KB 419\, 4/F Knowles Building\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n November 17\, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Despite the advent of post-modernist aesthetics and notions of embodied perception\, the study of Renaissance architecture remains closely tied to the modernist ocular regime of focused vision and formalist analysis. The limitations of this interpretive paradigm are revealed in studying the authorship question of the Pazzi chapel. A reconsideration of the building-as-body syndrome in medieval and Renaissance architectural thought and practice suggests two new categories of analysis: Tektonikon and Surfacescape. This talk explores the relationship between premodern concepts of the body and the experience of architecture. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n As an undergraduate\, Trachtenberg studied English literature at Yale with Harold Bloom. At the Institute of Fine Arts\, he turned to premodern architecture under Wolfgang Lotz\, Richard Pommer\, and especially Richard Krautheimer\, who supervised his monograph on the Florentine Campanile (Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, 1974).  After a return to modernity with his Statue of Liberty (1976) and a decade producing a survey of architectural history (Architecture\, 1986\, 2002)\, Trachtenberg again focused on premodern Italy\, resulting in a radically revisionist study of trecento urbanism\, Dominion of the Eye (1997\, Hitchcock Prize\, SAH\, and Morey Prize\, CAA\, 1999).  Issues raised by structures with long building histories and multiple architects led him to formulate the ideas resulting in Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (2010\, George Sarton Prize in History of Science\, Ghent University). Recently he was awarded the Agnes Mongan Prize by Harvard for his cumulative work on Renaissance art.  He is currently completing a book for the Yale University Press on Brunelleschi and the Pazzi Chapel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ORGANIZERS \n \n \n \n Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture\, Faculty of Architecture\, The University of Hong Kong URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/contributions-of-emmanuel-edouard-chavannes-towards-chinese-traditional-historiography-and-the-transformation-of-european-sinology-%e6%b2%99%e7%95%b9%e5%b0%8d%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e5%82%b3%e7%b5%b1/ LOCATION:Social Sciences Chamber\, 11/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR