BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:IHSS 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:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T221935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z UID:85580-1632474000-1632477600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/unending-capitalism-how-consumerism-negated-chinas-communist-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210923T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210923T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T222726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z UID:85588-1632402000-1632402000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:History Written in Advance: The Temporal Politics of Learning Mandarin for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Zambia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/history-written-in-advance-the-temporal-politics-of-learning-mandarin-for-jehovahs-witnesses-in-zambia/ CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-mr-justin-haruyama-20210923_1920x1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210921T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210921T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T224023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103328Z UID:85597-1632225600-1632229200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Reason’s Sympathy”: Kant’s Novel Account of Sympathy and Its 18th Century Precedents DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reasons-sympathy-kants-novel-account-of-sympathy-and-its-18th-century-precedents/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210914T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210914T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T224427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103328Z UID:85604-1631620800-1631624400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“I am not an expat\, I am brown”: Racialized Subjectivities of High-earning Mobile Professionals from India in Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/i-am-not-an-expat-i-am-brown-racialized-subjectivities-of-high-earning-mobile-professionals-from-india-in-hong-kong/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210907T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210907T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T225623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103328Z UID:85612-1631016000-1631019600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Why Explainable AI Needs Feminist Philosophy: Epistemic Injustice\, Situated Knowledge\, and the Amelioration of Algorithmic Bias DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/why-explainable-ai-needs-feminist-philosophy-epistemic-injustice-situated-knowledge-and-the-amelioration-of-algorithmic-bias/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210812T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210812T080000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T231149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103329Z UID:85627-1628755200-1628755200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Academic Jobs Outside the U.S. DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/academic-jobs-outside-the-u-s/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210719T073000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210719T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T230144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103328Z UID:85620-1626679800-1626703200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Archives\, Libraries\, and Databases in Taiwan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/archives-libraries-and-databases-in-taiwan/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210630T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210630T093000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T232532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103329Z UID:85633-1625045400-1625045400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Making the Muslim World in the Age of Britain’s Steam and Print Initiative DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/making-the-muslim-world-in-the-age-of-britains-steam-and-print-initiative/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-professor-cemil-aydin-20210630-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210628T073000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210628T073000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T233827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103329Z UID:85641-1624865400-1624865400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Pivoting to a New Research Topic DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/pivoting-to-a-new-research-topic/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210624T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210624T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T235003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85648-1624537800-1624543200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Tropical Enlightenment: Chinese Sugar\, Creole Dutch\, and the First European Learned Society in Asia\, 1778 – 1800 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/tropical-enlightenment-chinese-sugar-creole-dutch-and-the-first-european-learned-society-in-asia-1778-1800/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240722T235707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85655-1624006800-1624010400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Factories and China’s Special Century: A Micro-History of Chinese Industrialization in the Long Twentieth Century DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/factories-and-chinas-special-century-a-micro-history-of-chinese-industrialization-in-the-long-twentieth-century/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T002840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85662-1621587600-1621591200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking\, State\, and Family\, 1720 – 1910 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinese-hinterland-capitalism-and-shanxi-piaohao-banking-state-and-family-1720-1910/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210520T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T004050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85669-1621513800-1621519200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Fueling Imperial Anxieties: Energy and Empire in Interwar and Wartime Japan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/fueling-imperial-anxieties-energy-and-empire-in-interwar-and-wartime-japan/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-dr-victor-seow-20210520-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210519T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210519T090000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T004544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103332Z UID:85677-1621414800-1621414800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Use Hong Kong to Construct Bao’an”: Shenzhen during the Mao Era and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/use-hong-kong-to-construct-baoan-shenzhen-during-the-mao-era-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening/ CATEGORIES:Others END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210518T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210518T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T005635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103332Z UID:85684-1621341000-1621346400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:On Aliveness: Viruses\, Evolution\, Life DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/on-aliveness-viruses-evolution-life/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210517T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210517T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T005936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103332Z UID:85691-1621254600-1621260000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Circulations and Convergences: Mecca in the Conceptions and Mobilities of Chinese Muslim Diasporas in Saudi Arabia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/circulations-and-convergences-mecca-in-the-conceptions-and-mobilities-of-chinese-muslim-diasporas-in-saudi-arabia/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-professor-jeremy-jammes-20210428-p64gqquznic94owe9nnbt73q4tfs0rej7er1n5kvag.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210504T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210504T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T010436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103333Z UID:85705-1620129600-1620133200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Daoist-Marxist Monk of Iraq: On the Life and Thought of Hadi al-‘Alawi DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-daoist-marxist-monk-of-iraq-on-the-life-and-thought-of-hadi-al-alawi/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210427T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210427T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T013647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103333Z UID:85720-1619526600-1619532000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Visualizing the Configuration (hay’a): Thinking with Images in Islamic Astronomical Manuscripts DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/visualizing-the-configuration-haya-thinking-with-images-in-islamic-astronomical-manuscripts/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T015427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85735-1619168400-1619172000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Corporate Conquests: Business\, the State\, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/corporate-conquests-business-the-state-and-the-origins-of-ethnic-inequality-in-southwest-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210421T103000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210421T120000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T014335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103333Z UID:85727-1619001000-1619006400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Home Is Not Here” & “Home Is Where We Are” DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/home-is-not-here-home-is-where-we-are/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/book-webinar-by-professor-wang-gungwu-20210421-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210413T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210413T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T015814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85743-1618317000-1618322400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Spreading the Word of God in Wartime China: The China Bible House in the Second Sino-Japanese War DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/spreading-the-word-of-god-in-wartime-china-the-china-bible-house-in-the-second-sino-japanese-war/ CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85753-1616749200-1616752800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Industrial Craft: A Global History of Chinese Cotton Mills\, 1877 – 1937 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/industrial-craft-a-global-history-of-chinese-cotton-mills-1877-1937/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210323T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210323T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T174546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103335Z UID:85761-1616500800-1616504400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Grammar of Leprosy: Temporal Politics and An Impossible Subject DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-grammar-of-leprosy-temporal-politics-and-an-impossible-subject/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210318T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210318T180000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T174748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103335Z UID:85764-1616090400-1616090400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Politics of Muslim Infrastructure in Tanzania DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-politics-of-muslim-infrastructure-in-tanzania/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-dr-benjamin-kirby-20210318-1240x877-1-p402vl6w98yq9aotmw1ffnixk8uk10u9nrcna1c0ua.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210309T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210309T130000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T175248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103335Z UID:85772-1615291200-1615294800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Source of Vernacular Knowledge or a Final Frontier for Globalized Science? American and Chinese Discourses on Science in the People’s Republic of China\, 1971 – 1978 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-source-of-vernacular-knowledge-or-a-final-frontier-for-globalized-science-american-and-chinese-discourses-on-science-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china-1971-1978/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210308T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210308T160000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T175805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103336Z UID:85779-1615219200-1615219200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:From Medicine to a Staple Food — How Science and Tradition are Shaping the Milk Production and Consumption in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/from-medicine-to-a-staple-food-how-science-and-tradition-are-shaping-the-milk-production-and-consumption-in-modern-china/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-dr-veronica-sau-wa-mak-20210308-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210303T200000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210303T200000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T180346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103336Z UID:85787-1614801600-1614801600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Connecting the Dots: A History of Systems Thinking in Chinese Agricultural Science and Politics DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/connecting-the-dots-a-history-of-systems-thinking-in-chinese-agricultural-science-and-politics/ CATEGORIES:Others ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mmea-lecture-by-sigrid-schmalzer-20210303-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210301T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210301T100000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T181215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103337Z UID:85802-1614592800-1614592800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Universal Enemy: Jihad\, Empire\, and the Challenge of Solidarity DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-universal-enemy-jihad-empire-and-the-challenge-of-solidarity/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brinfaith-lecture-by-dr-darryl-li-20210301-1460x1080-1-p332eco7iajar6mvfwtrfmhho4rijf934ycnvuruwg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T140000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T180845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103336Z UID:85795-1614342600-1614348000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Vice City: Hong Kong in the Anglo-American War on Drugs\, 1970 – 1979 DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/vice-city-hong-kong-in-the-anglo-american-war-on-drugs-1970-1979/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210223T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210223T120000 DTSTAMP:20261028T211423 CREATED:20240723T181748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103337Z UID:85810-1614078000-1614081600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Of Faith and Fortune: Perpetual Trusts and the Muktad Ceremonies DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n KK301\, K.K. Leung Building\, HKU Main Campus\, or Via Zoom\n \n \n \n \n December 12\, 2024 12:30 - 14:00 (Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore) | 23:30 (-1\, New York) | 20:30 (-1\, Los Angeles) | 04:30 (London) | 13:30 (Tokyo) | 15:30 (Sydney)\n \n \n \n\n \n \n cqhmail@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESCRIPTION \n \n \n \n Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. The research by Peter Turchin of Complexity Science Hub Vienna\, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science\, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. During this Quantitative History Lecture\, Peter Turchin will look beneath the surface of day-to-day contentious politics and social unrest\, and focus on the negative social and economic trends that explain our current “Age of Discord.” One of the most important\, but little appreciated\, such hidden forces is a perverse “wealth pump” that\, under certain conditions\, begins to transfer wealth from the “99 percent” to “1 percent.” If allowed to run unchecked\, the wealth pump results in both relative impoverishment of most people and increasingly desperate competition among elites. Since the number of positions of real social power remains more or less fixed\, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants\, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. In America\, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. In historical terms\, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/of-faith-and-fortune-perpetual-trusts-and-the-muktad-ceremonies/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR