2017 | Department of History, HKBU

Featured Activities

Professor Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series 章群教授紀念公開學術講座
Historians Say: A Seminar Series for Newly-appointed Academic / Teaching Staff and Visiting Scholars 史家曰：新任教學人員及訪問學者報告系列

Date: 24 November 2017 Speaker: Prof. Ellen B Widmer (Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies, Wellesley College) Title: A Public Lecture - “Learning to Stand and Speak:” Sarah K. Bolton’s Lives of Girls Who Became Famous (1886) and Its Paths to China via Japan
Date: 14 November 2017 Speaker: Prof. William C Kirby (T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University, USA / Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA / 2017 recipient of Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humanities, Hong Kong Baptist Title: A Distinguished Lecture - A Chinese Century? Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship and Education in the 21st Century
Date: 02 November 2017 Speaker: Prof. Robin D. S. Yates (Visiting University Fellow, Department of History, HKBU) Dr. Noriaki Hoshino (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKBU) Dr. Jatinder Mann (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKBU) Dr. Daniel-Joseph MacArthur- Title: Historians Say: A Seminar Series for Newly-appointed Academic / Teaching Staff and Visiting Scholars Session A: - Researching Recently Recovered Early Chinese Imperial Legal and Administrative Documents: Challenges and Insights - On Transpacific Racial Contacts Between Two Empires Session B: - Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand - East Meets East: The Trans-Asian Pathways of Turkish Opium, 1900-1945
Date: 24 October 2017 Speaker: 張傳華牧師 Rev. Galahad Cheung （建道神學院教牧學博士、美城華人浸信會牧師、多倫多伯特利教會董事會主席） Title: 伯特利教會百年紀念講座（一） - 生死學 Death and the After Life
Date: 18 October 2017 Speaker: Dr. Kam-chau KWOK (Lecturer, Department of History, HKBU) Title: GCHC 1005 China and the Global Economy 1800-2000 Fieldtrips - The Legislative Council Complex - Lai Chi Wo
Date: 16 October 2017 Speaker: Prof. Robin D.S. Yates (Visiting University Fellow, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University / James McGill Professor, Department of History and East Asian Studies, McGill University / Fellow, Royal Society of Canada) Title: Public Lecture - Was the First Emperor of Qin a Totalitarian Despot and Emperor Gaozu of the Han an Enlightened Monarch?
Date: 14 October 2017 Speaker: Title: 2017 Homecoming Day - Campus Tour at History Gallery
Date: 11 October 2017 Speaker: Dr. Kam-chau KWOK (Lecturer, Department of History, HKBU) Title: GCHC 1005 China and the Global Economy 1800-2000 Fieldtrips - Tai Po Market
Date: 11 October 2017 Speaker: 林泉忠博士（中央研究院近代史研究所副研究員） Title: 台灣論壇III - 周旋在中日美之間：沖繩地緣政治與身份認同 Taiwan Forum III - The Geopolitics & Identity of Okinawa in the China-Japan-US Trilateral Relations: Implications for Hong Kong
Date: 14 September 2017 Speaker: Dr. Ronald C Po 布琮任博士 (Assistant Professor, Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science) Title: 公開講座 - 甚麼是海洋史？史學研究的一些問題與反思 What is Maritime History ? Some Observations and Reflections
Date: 20 July 2017 Speaker: Dr. Kam-chau KWOK (Lecturer, Department of History, HKBU) Title: GCHC 1025 Historical Changes and Intellectual Trends in 20th Century China Fieldtrips - Central / Sheung Wan: The Chinese and Western Communities in Hong Kong Island
Date: 11 July 2017 Speaker: Dr.Kam-chau KWOK (Lecturer, Department of History, HKBU) Title: GCHC 1025 Historical Changes and Intellectual Trends in 20th Century China Fieldtrips - Tang Ancestral Hall, Ping Shan Village: Lineage in Hong Kong
Date: 27 April 2017 Speaker: Mr. Jason Wai-li CHU (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Miss Yat-law AL (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Mr. Ka-kin WONG (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Mr. Hin-wai LEE (Research Postgr) Title: 2017 Postgraduate Research Fora – MPhil Students - British Socialism, the Labour Party, and Hong Kong's Social Policies, 1974-1979 - Narratives of Verdicts and Marginal Groups: Maritime Societies of Fujian in the Late Ming Dynasty - Education and Discipline: the Military Education of the Imperial Japanese Army in the Meiji era - Judicial Cases in the Mengshui zhai cundu: Discussion on Local Constables in Late Ming Guangdong - The Changing Public Image of the Nationalist Navy, 1931-1937
Date: 25 April 2017 Speaker: 黃克武教授（中央研究院近代史研究所特聘研究員, 香港中文大學翻譯系訪問教授） Title: 汪精衛出走前後：以《陳克文日記》解析國民黨的派系鬥爭 Before and After Wang Jingwei's Runaway: The KMT Clique Struggle as Analysed in Chen Kewen’s Diary
Date: 07 April 2017 Speaker: 黃嘉康博士（香港樹仁大學歷史學系）劉冠燊博士（香港浸會大學歷史系）李金強教授（香港浸會大學歷史系）雷晉豪博士（香港教育大學文學及文化學系） Title: 台灣論壇II：民進黨執政一年的回顧（2016-2017） Taiwan Forum II: Review of the Governance of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) from 2016 to 2017
Date: 07 April 2017 Speaker: 劉士永教授（中央研究所臺灣史研究所研究員兼副所長） Title: 從熱帶醫學到全球健康：東亞國際衛生的歷史 From Tropical Medicine to Global Health: A Short History of International Health in East Asia
Date: 05 April 2017 Speaker: 袁展聰（香港浸會大學歷史系高級研究助理） Title: 19世紀以來的粵語文化認同問題 Cantonese Language and Identity since the Nineteenth Century
Date: 30 March 2017 Speaker: Miss Zhihui LIN (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Mr. Kelvin Yu-hin HO (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Miss Yuk-chui KONG (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of History) Title: 2017 Postgraduate Research Fora – PhD Students - Functions, Emotions, and Narrations: Women's Writings on Activities Concerning Garments in Qing China - Masculinity versus Femininity: Reflections on Mother-Son Relationship as Seen in Women’s Writings in Ming-Qing China - The Kadoories and the Shanghai Rubber Stock Market, 1910s-1920s
Date: 23 March 2017 Speaker: Dr. Oiyan Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKBU) Dr. Zheng Shanqing (Visiting Scholar, Department of History, HKBU) Title: Historians Say: Seminar Series Session A: - The Contours of Nationality: the Chinese Diaspora and the Shaping of National Lines in Early Twentieth Century China Session B: - The Choices and Mentality of Historians during the Anti-Japanese War 抉擇與心態：抗戰時期的歷史學家們>
Date: 14 March 2017 Speaker: Prof. Edward L. Shaughnessy 夏含夷教授 (Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, The University of Chicago) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2016-17) - Of Trees, a Son, and Kingship: Recovering an Ancient Chinese Dream
Date: 03 March 2017 Speaker: Dr. Pan Kwang-che (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) Title: 公開講座 Public Lecture - 研究晚清西學閱讀史的反思 Some Reflections on the Study of Late Qing Reception of Western Learning
Date: 02 March 2017 Speaker: Dr. Pan Kwang-che (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica) Title: 座談會 Research Colloquium - 新文化史與近代中國政治 The New Cultural History and Chinese Politics
Date: 01 March 2017 Speaker: 郭嘉輝博士（香港理工大學人文學院副項目員） Dr. Kwok Ka Fai (Research Project Associate, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Title: 明清史期中講座：撫卹難夷？當清代外國人遇上「海難」 Mid-term Seminar for the course HIST 3125 "Late Imperial China" - Rescuing the barbarians in adversity? The situation of the foreigners suffering from shipwrecking in the coast of Qing China
Date: 01 March 2017 Speaker: Dr. POON Shuk-wah 潘淑華博士(香港中文大學歷史系 Department of History, CUHK) Title: 護牛與殺牛：民國時期中國耕牛與牛肉出口引起的爭議 Animals, Modernity and Nation-building: Oxen in Republican China
Date: 13 February 2017 Speaker: Professor Ruby Lal (Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University) Title: Gender Studies Concentration Lecture - Feminist Landscapes: Teaching and Writing the History of India
Date: 18 January 2017 Speaker: Prof. Peter K. Bol (Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) 包弼德教授 Title: HKBU 60th Anniversary Shun Hing Distinguished Lecture: The Humanities and the Digital Humanities 香港浸會大學60周年校慶信興傑出學人講座
Date: 12 January 2017 Speaker: Miss Lin Zhihui (PhD Student) Title: Postgraduate Students’ Seminar - Women’s Subjectivity in Everyday Practices in Ming-Qing China

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