Events

Professor Hans Ladegaard - Professor - Hong Kong Polytechnic University (https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/people/academic-staff/prof-hans-j-ladegaard/) Abstract Trauma storytelling represents a break not just with a particular form of representation but with the very possibility of representation at all. Extreme suffering is an experience that goes beyond ‘ordinary’ words, and since no vocabulary is available to account for extraordinary subhuman […]

Professor Kendall Johnson - Professor, The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/50/Professor_Kendall_Johnson) Abstract As a printer and distributor of evangelical tracts, Leung A-Fa captured the imagination of the first US missionaries to China as they established and operated the Canton Mission Press in the decades leading to and through the Opium Wars. The Canton Mission Press was but […]

(Virtual Zoom)

(Face-to-face only)

(Virtual Zoom)

Dr. Otto Heim - Principal Lecturer - The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/82/Dr_Otto_Heim) Abstract In this talk I will show and discuss a selection of recent work by Hong Kong artists (ink, photography, video, installation) that captures Hong Kong’s shifting island environment and experience. Approaching this work from an island studies perspective (an interdisciplinary approach […]

(Virtual Zoom)