2024-2025

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: 5 December 2025 Speaker: Prof. Allan H. Barr (Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Pomona College) Title: CHRP Research Seminar Series - Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587-1641) and the Cultural Discourse on Rock Shelters and Caves in Late Imperial China
Date: 28 November 2025 Speaker: 費樂仁教授（香港浸會大學宗教及哲學系榮休教授） Title: 文史宗哲研究講座系列 - 近現代西歐六位最重要的中國典籍翻譯家及其歷史文化背景探析
Date: 21 November 2025 Speaker: Prof. Ellen Y. ZHANG (Professor Emeritus, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University) Title: CHRP Research Seminar Series - Thinking Through Food
Date: 13-14 November 2025 Speaker: Title: Symposium on Future Readiness of Digital Humanities and Archives
Date: 13 November 2025 Speaker: Prof. Li Gongzhong (Professor, Department of History (Nanjing University); Vice-President, China Sun Yat-sen Research Association) Title: An Event Series in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Passing - Sun Yat-sen: The Formation of a Symbol of Public Memory 孫中山先生逝世一百周年紀念活動 — 孫中山：公共記憶符號之形成
Date: 12 November 2025 Speaker: Dr. Rudolph Ng (Assistant Professor, University of Portsmouth) Title: A Public Lecture - Resilient Strangers, Lasting Citizens: The Chinese in Nicaragua, 1882-1979
Date: 7 November 2025 Speaker: Prof. Zhao Libin (Professor, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University) Title: An Event Series in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Passing - The Symbolic Role of Festivals: Sun Yat-sen Elements and Chinese National Consciousness Formation during the Retrocession 孫中山先生逝世一百周年紀念活動 — 光復後的節日寄托：孫中山元素與中國國家意識的樹立
Date: 4 November 2025 Speaker: Ms. Wendy Ng (President, HK Institute of Architectural Conservationists [2023-2025]) Title: HIST4406 Heritage Field Trip - Understanding the Historic Neighborhood of the Central and Western District
Date: 28 October 2025 Speaker: 方輝教授 (山東大學講席教授) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2025-26) - 從王國初始到王朝氣象
Date: 22 October 2025 Speaker: Dr. Rachel Silberstein (SOAS University of London) Title: A Public Lecture - Western Collecting of Chinese Textiles and Dress: A Case-study of the National Museums Scotland
Date: 17 October 2025 Speaker: Prof. Joseph Sun-pao TING (Adjunct Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Title: A Public Lecture - The Inheritance and Conservation of Hong Kong’s History and Culture 香港歷史文化的傳承與保育
Date: 8 October 2025 Speaker: Prof. Ouyang Zhesheng 歐陽哲生教授 (Department of History, Peking University) Title: A Public Lecture -中西文化交流與文明互鑑啟示錄 (Insights and Lessons from Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges)
Date: 4 October 2025 Speaker: Title: Information Day 2025
Date: 29 September 2025 Speaker: Title: 2025 History Department Annual Assembly and Academic Advising Session
Date: 17 May 2025 Speaker: Title: 香港基督教教育口述歷史研究計劃研討會
Date: 26 June 2025 Speaker: Miss Cho-kiu WONG (PhD Student, Department of History) Title: 研究生講論會 Research Student Seminar - Cultural Crossroads: Kong Ngee Company and the Cantonese Film Industry in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1930s-1960s
Date: 25 June 2025 Speaker: Title: Milestone In Service 2025
Date: 11 August 2025 - 12 August 2025 Speaker: Title: The International Symposium on the Centennial of the Consecration of the Six Chinese Bishops in Rome (1926)—The Indigenization of the Chinese Catholic Church and the Rise of Chinese Cardinals
Date: 01 April 2025 Speaker: Prof. Kin Sum (Sammy) Li (Associate Professor, CHRP / Programme Director, Digital Futures and Humanities) Title: CHRP Digital Humanities Workshop Series 3 - Visualization and Art and Archaeology
Date: 01 April 2025 Speaker: Professor Kuiyi Shen (University of California, San Diego) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2024-25) - Louis Chan and His Hong Kong Kaleidoscope
Date: 27 March 2025 Speaker: Dr. Sharat G. Lin (Past President, San José Peace and Justice Center) Title: An Event Series in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Passing: Looking Back at Dr. Sun Yat-sen a Century On: The Link Between Two Revolutions
Date: 13 March 2025 Speaker: Dr. Jenny Kwok (Research Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong) Title: CHRP Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2 - Beyond Tools and Critics: Human-Machine Synergy in Literary AI
Date: 10 March 2025 Speaker: Prof. Delin Lai (Professor and Head of Art History Program, University of Louisville) Title: An Event Series in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Passing: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Architecture and the Redefinition of and Competition for Sun's Legacy 孫中山先生逝世一百周年紀念活動：中山紀念建築與孫文遺產的再定義與爭奪
Date: 06 March 2025 Speaker: Title: [CHRP] Honouring Our Heritage: Celebrating Founders' Day and the Launch of New Books by CHRP Colleagues
Date: 05 March 2025 Speaker: Professor Robert Antony (Guangzhou University) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2024-25) - The Invention of Zhang Baozai (張保仔), the Pirate
Date: 27 February 2025 Speaker: Title: 2025 Information Session for Freshmen and Academic Advising Session
Date: 25 February 2025 Speaker: 周維強博士 (香港故宮文化博物館研究員兼歷史與圖書館組組長)、高旭陽博士 (香港故宮文化博物館助理研究員) Title: A Public Lecture - Curatorial framework for the exhibition “The Art of Armaments: Qing Dynasty Military Collection from the Palace Museum”
Date: 13 February 2025 Speaker: Dr. Kwong Chi Man (Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of History, CHRP) Title: CHRP Digital Humanities Workshop Series 1 - Research in Spatial Humanities: the Japanese Occupation as an Example

Date: 27 November 2024 Speaker: Prof. Caroline Bassett (Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge) Title: Guest Lecture - After Abstraction, Embodiment: Digital Humanities as a Walking Practice
Date: 25 November 2024 Speaker: Prof. David Faure (Professor Emeritus, Department of History, CUHK; Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford) Title: A Public Lecture - Secret societies? If they were secret, how can historians write their history?
Date: 21 November 2024 Speaker: Dr. Zifeng Liu (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKBU) and Dr. Nikolaos Mavropoulos (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKBU) Title: Historians Say: A Seminar Series for Newly-appointed Academic / Teaching Staff and Visiting Scholars - Translating the Black Radical Tradition: Robert Williams and the Question of Race and Class in 1960s China - In search of prestige: the Japanese and Italian cases in the late 19th century
Date: 18 November 2024 Speaker: Title: Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong Spatial Map Release
Date: 11 November 2024 Speaker: Prof. Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Author, Professor, Department of History, HKBU) Title: Book Launch - Cardinal John Tong Renewal within Tradition in the Catholic Church in Hong Kong
Date: 02 November 2024 Speaker: Title: GCAP3155 Hong Kong Vision: Learning in the Village Community Fieldtrip
Date: 19 September 2024 Speaker: Title: 2024 History Department Annual Assembly cum Academic Advising Session
Date: 26 June 2024 Speaker: Title: The Ninth HKBU Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation Ceremony
Date: 27 May 2024 Speaker: 許秀孟博士（中央研究院近代史研究所博士後研究員） Title: A Public Lecture - Feeding the City: The Transformation of Food Distribution Infrastructure in Shanghai Before and After World War II 餵養城市：八年抗戰前後上海的食物分配基礎設施變遷
Date: 22 May 2024 Speaker: Prof. Cindy CHU（Professor, Department of History, HKBU） Title: A Public Lecture - The Early Years of Cardinal John Tong (湯漢樞機) in Hong Kong and Guangzhou
Date: 24 April 2024 Speaker: Title: 2023-24 Faculty-Student Consultative Meeting cum Academic Advising Session
Date: 24 April 2024 Speaker: Title: 2025 Library Workshop and Honours Project Briefing cum HAA Sharing
Date: 19 April 2024 Speaker: Professor Hans van Ess (Vice President of LMU München, Department für Asienstudien, Institut für Sinologie, LMU München) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2023-24) - The Master and His Students and What Early Chinese Tradition thought About Them
Date: 19 April 2024 Speaker: Prof. CHUNG Po Yin (Interim Head &Professor, HKBU), Dr, KWOK Kam Chau (Lecturer I, HKBU), Ms. Wendy Ng Wan Yee (Research Associate, HKBU) Title: Digital Technology x Oral History: the Legend of Shek Pik
Date: 15 April 2024 Speaker: Dr. LEUNG Chui-wa, Iris 梁翠華博士（Research Fellow, Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong 基督教香港崇真會義務歷史研究員） Title: Lectures on History of Religions in Hong Kong (15) The Clash between Hong Kong Colonial Government and German Missionary Societies 香港宗教史系列講座（15）一戰對決：香港殖民地政府與德國傳道會
Date: 11 April 2024 Speaker: Miss GAO Zhiyue, Mr. HUI Wun Hei Shawn, Mr. JIANG Haoran, Miss WONG Cho Kiu, Miss ZHENG Siyang, Mr. WONG Fei Title: 2024 Postgraduate Research Forum
Date: 21 March 2024 Speaker: Title: 2024 Information Session for Freshmen cum Academic Advising Session
Date: 12 March 2024 Speaker: Professor Peter D. Shapinsky (Department of History, University of Illinois, Springfield) Title: Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2023-24) - Capturing Prestige: Human Trafficking in Tsushima’s Maritime Borderlands, c. 1350-1600
Date: 26 February 2024 Speaker: Dr. Raphael Wong (Associate Curator, Hong Kong Palace Museum) Title: A Public Lecture - Steppe Styles in Early Imperial China
Date: 22 February 2024 Speaker: Mr WONG Fei (PhD Student, Department of History) Title: 研究生講論會 Research Student Seminar - Absence of ‘Good Governance’: the refugee problem and Hong Kong’s labour policy reform, 1946 - 1967
Date: 29 January 2024 Speaker: Dr. CHU Yiu Kwong (Independent Researcher) Title: A Public Lecture - Nothing New under the Sun: Examining Shek Pik Villages through the Lens of Permaculture 太陽底下無新事：從樸門看石壁

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