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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260308T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260308T153000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
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SUMMARY:Faith and Shadows: The Life of Caravaggio
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Hong Kong Arts Festival\nDate: 8 March 2026 (Sunday)\nTime: 2:30pm-3:30pm \nThe celebrated Italian ballet phenomenon\, Roberto Bolle\, honours an earlier Italian cultural icon\, the painter Caravaggio\, in the acclaimed contemporary ballet production Caravaggio.\nDr Elisabeth Berry Drago\, lecturer in the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong\, in this pre-performance talk reveals the mysteries behind Caravaggio’s most famous artworks\, his techniques\, hidden inspirations and the controversies that followed in his footsteps.\nA matinee performance of the contemporary ballet Caravaggio will start at 4pm\, soon after the conclusion of this talk\, at the Grand Theatre in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. \nRead more and register here
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/faith-and-shadows-the-life-of-caravaggio/
LOCATION:Lemna of the alchemist
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Public Lecture,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260304T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260304T194500
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260127T082721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T084603Z
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SUMMARY:Curating Queer Histories
DESCRIPTION:M+ x HKU Art History Lecture Series\nCurating Queer Histories\nDate: 4 March 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:45pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (directions) \nRegistration: CLICK HERE\nFree seating\, with doors open at 6:15pm \nAbstract: Julia Bryan-Wilson will provide a curatorial overview of the 2024-25 show Queer Histories at the Museum of Art of São Paulo\, placing the show within the context of larger debates about queer/trans representation\, space\, religion\, abstraction\, and archives. In doing so\, she raises questions about how to stage political arguments in space. She also argues that art history itself has been a crucial resource for queer/trans artists as they look to alternative modes of cultural inscription. \nSpeaker: Julia Bryan-Wilson teaches contemporary art and gender studies at Columbia University. She is the award-winning author of several books\, including Fray: Art and Textile Politics (2017\, winner of the ASAP Book Prize\, the Frank Jewett Mather Award\, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award) and Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag\, Color\, Join\, Face (2023).  Her first book Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era was translated into Korean and Japanese\, and her co-authored book Art in the Making has been translated into Korean. As Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo\, she co-curated several exhibitions\, including Queer Histories (with Adriano Pedrosa and André Mesquita\, 2024-25). In November 2025 she opened two shows—GUTSY: On Feminist Infrastructures (at MSN Warsaw) and Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces (at the Wallach Art Gallery\, organized with Natalia Brizuela). Her writing has appeared in many venues\, including Art Bulletin\, Artforum\, Art Journal\, Oxford Art Journal\, and Journal of Modern Craft\, and she has authored texts on artists such as Pacita Abad\, Lee Bul\, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Yoko Ono\, and Yinka Shonibare.  In 2024 she served as President of the International Jury of the 60th Venice Biennale.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/curating-queer-histories/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T181500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T193000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260112T063403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T083243Z
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SUMMARY:What Was the Floating World in Japanese Art
DESCRIPTION:What Was the Floating World in Japanese Art\nDate: 24 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:15pm-7:30pm\nVenue: MWT3\, G/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Main Campus\, The University of Hong Kong (directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE (required) \nThe Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868) was established to bring peace after almost a century of civil war. Discipline and order were paramount objectives. Yet the shogunate was fully aware that places of escape and alterity were needed\, that is\, locations of urban delight. These came to be known as the Floating World (ukiyoe). They were sites of a wealth of popular cultural and artistic forms. \nGuest speaker: Prof. Timon Screech  (Chair\, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies\, Kyoto) \nTimon Screech taught the history of Japanese art at SOAS\, University of London\, for 30 years\, before moving to a chair at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto\, in 2021. He has also been guest professor at numerous institutions in the EU\, Japan and USA.\nScreech is the author of some dozen books and many articles on the visual culture of the Japan’s early-modern Edo period. His PhD was published as The Lens Within the Heart and remains in print in a second\, paperback edition. Perhaps best-known is his Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan\, 1700-1820\, which is also available in Chinese\, Japanese and Polish translations. His field-defining study\, Obtaining Images: Art\, Production and Display in Edo Japan was published in 2012.\nIn 2020 he published two further books\, The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God\, Art and Money in the English Quest for Japan and Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo (also available in Chinese). He has just completed a major monograph which will appear in 2026\, Shogun Avatar: The Worship of Tokugawa in Early-Modern Japan\, and concurrently a book on early European contacts with the Kingdom of Lūchū (J: Ryūkyū)\, modern Okinawa. He is now at work on the history of the Rokuhara district in Kyoto.\nScreech is a Freeman of the City of London\, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Art. In 2022 he was awarded both the Yamagata Bantō Prize\, and the Fukuoka Culture Prize\, and in 2024 received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation. \nThis is a public event co-organized by Academy of Visual Arts\, School of Creative Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University through Hong Kong Baptist University\, Research Committee\, International Activities Programme 2025/26\, in collaboration with The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken).\nRegister for other lectures of the same series:
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/what-was-the-floating-world-in-japanese-art/
LOCATION:MWT3\, G/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, Main Campus
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260126T035033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T035033Z
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SUMMARY:SSCC Meeting 2025-2026
DESCRIPTION:Staff Student Consultative Committee Meeting 2025-2026\nDate: 24 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 4-5pm\nFormat: Online via Zoom\nHost: Dr. Sheng \nAgenda: \n\nTo review 2025-2026 (Semester 1) SFTL results\nTo discuss students’ concerns regarding the curriculum and their learning experience\n\nOur Staff Student Consultative Committee (SSCC) meeting takes place twice a year to review student feedback on Art History courses\, and to allow students to discuss various issues of the previous semester with teaching staff\, giving feedback on departmental activities and resources\, acknowledging the department’s strengths as well as voicing out any concerns or suggestions. \nIf you are interested in joining\, please email the department (art.history@hku.hk) with 1) your name and 2) year group. We will be in touch.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/sscc-meeting-2526-a/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T220000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260126T041654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T073157Z
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SUMMARY:Final-Year Student Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Final-Year Student Gathering 2025-2026\nDate: 10 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 8pm-10pm \nThis casual gathering aims to provide our final year art history majors & minors an exclusive mingling opportunity\, to consolidate the bonding of this year group before their graduation.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/final-year-student-gathering/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260121T033134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T101953Z
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SUMMARY:Girl Statue of One’s Own
DESCRIPTION:Art History Public Seminar \nGirl Statue of One’s Own: On Customizing a Public Memorial for “Comfort Women”\nDate: 10 February 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6pm-7pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nFormat: in-person only\, first come first served\, walk-ins welcome \nSpeaker: SaeHim Park (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies\, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies\, CUHK) \nThe Statue of Peace (2011)\, commonly known as the Girl Statue\, is a public memorial dedicated to “comfort women\,” an infamous euphemism referring to gender-based violence under the Japanese Empire from c.1931 to 1945. Drawing from an ongoing book manuscript\, Girl Statue Rush: On Imaging Comfort Women\, this talk examines how the statue’s circulation across scale\, form\, and media reshapes practices of remembrance in the historical present. \nSaeHim Park is an art historian and Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She works on contemporary feminist art and visual culture; memory and trauma; and the environmental humanities across the Asia-Pacific. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Mortality\, Art Inquiries\, Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities\, Capacious\, and Feminist Formations. She received her PhD in Art\, Art History and Visual Studies from Duke University\, and previously taught as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana. \nImage: 작은 소녀상/Peace Statue/平和少女像\, War & Women’s Human Rights Museum\, Seoul.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/girl-statue-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260209T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260126T031837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100022Z
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SUMMARY:Fai-Chun Party 2026
DESCRIPTION:Date: 9 February 2026 (Monday)\nTime: 3-5pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\n \nOur Fai-Chun Party is an informal festive gathering for students to drop in and try their hand at couplet writing. Tools and materials\, including ink and brushes\, red paper of different sizes and shapes\, will be provided. Even if you are new to this local tradition\, our staff will be around to give more guidance if needed. Come and make your own fai-chun\, and help decorate our space with your blessings! \nNo registration is required.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/faichun-party-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260128T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20260114T044720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T092421Z
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SUMMARY:Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Information Session\nThis gathering is scheduled at the beginning of semester 2\, aiming to let new art history students\, majors and minors\, to meet other members of the art history community. We will be giving information on our new courses\, internship opportunities\, travel grant application\, and many upcoming events along with more summer plans. \nDate: 28 January 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:30pm-5:30pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU \nLight refreshment will be provided. \np.s. This is a come and go event. No registration is required. Information presented at the event will be recorded and posted here.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/information-session/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20251227T023225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T062814Z
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SUMMARY:Serial Visions of Socialist Construction
DESCRIPTION:Art History Pubic Seminar\nSerial Visions of Socialist Construction: Li Fenglan\, Lianhuanhua\, and the Metatexts of Mass Art\nDate: 15 January 2026 (Thursday)\nTime: 1pm-2pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nFormat: in-person only\, first come first served\, walk-ins welcome \nGuest speaker: Dr. Angie C. Baecker (Research Assistant Professor\, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\n \n \nThis talk will examine serial comics\, or lianhuanhua\, inked by amateur artist-laborers during the socialist period in the People’s Republic of China. Although the majority of published serial comics were drawn by artists employed by state-run publishing houses\, some were drawn collectively by mass artists as a direct corollary of their productive labor\, with local art centers often organizing agricultural workers to draw cartoon panels depicting the very infrastructure drives that they had been mobilized to work on. Serial comics drawn by amateur artists thus provide occasion to consider the entanglement of artistic and productive labor within the mass art movement in socialist China. Through close readings of lianhuanhua drawn by non-professional artists\, this presentation argues that the seriality of imagery in mass produced serial comics reflected changed concepts of narrative and temporality under the conditions of socialist construction.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/serial-visions-of-socialist-construction/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251126T161500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251126T173000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20251103T041026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251126T022138Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Egyptian Temples: Three Thousand Years of Development
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-organized by Humanities and Digital Technologies program and the Department of Art History\, Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nDate: 26 November 2025 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:15-5:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click for directions)\n \nGuest speaker: Prof. John Baines (Professor Emeritus\, Egyptology\, University of Oxford)\n \nTemples were a central institution of ancient Egyptian society. From modest local shrines\, through intricate structures forming part of pyramid complexes\, to vast enclosures containing several temples in the second and first millennia BCE\, they incorporated core values and were ever more vital to the entire society. Their forms incorporated and spoke to the rural and urban landscape\, they influenced other civilizations\, and today they continue to be salient symbols of Egyptian visual culture. This lecture will explore their development while concentrating on the intricate structures of later periods. \nRegistration: required\, first come first served \nCome early on the day to secure your seat!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ancient-egyptian-temples-three-thousand-years-of-development/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20251016T085939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093654Z
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SUMMARY:Information Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:We are excited about this annual public information day and here are what our department has prepared for you. Come and meet our teachers and students. Fine out what Art History is and why we are all in love with it! \n\nAll day (CPD-LG.07)\, Information booth\n10am (CPD-LG.59)\, Art History Mock Lecture: “What defines Baroque Art?” by Dr. Elisabeth Drago\n2pm (CPD-LG.60)\, Information Session: “Art History @HKU” by Dr. Vivian Sheng\n10am-4pm (CPD-LG.41)\, Art History x VR: Experiencing Art in the Digital World\n\nRegister now!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/information-day-2025/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Information,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20251014T064741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093527Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Pi Li & Pauline Yao
DESCRIPTION:Career Workshop Series\nDate: 24 October 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 4-5pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\n \nGuest speakers: Pi Li and Pauline J. Yao\nPi Li is the Head of Art at Tai Kwun\, co-curator of the current exhibition “Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008.”\nPauline J. Yao\, an independent curator\, is the co-curator of “Sigg Prize 2025” exhibition now on view at M+.\nModerator: Prof. Yeewan Koon\n \nAll students are welcome. No registration required. Free seating.\nThe session will be conducted in English.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-with-pi-li-and-pauline-yao/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conversation,Information,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20251020T033424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T033838Z
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SUMMARY:New Forms of Calligraphy in China: Graffiti Art
DESCRIPTION:This event is co-organized by the CILS of HKU Faculty of Law\, Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC) of HKU\, and the School of Humanities of HKU Faculty of Arts.\nDate: 23 October 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 4pm-5pm\nVenue: Room 723\, 7/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, The University of Hong Kong\nSpeaker: Dr. Marta Rosa Bisceglia (Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow\, University of Bologna) \nThe seminar will begin with a presentation of the European research project WRITE – New Forms of Calligraphy in China: A Contemporary Culture Mirror (国书法新形式：当代文化之镜\, PI Prof A Iezzi). The project investigates how emerging forms of calligraphy in contemporary China are reshaping Chinese cultural identity. At its core\, WRITE undertakes the first systematic analysis of these innovative artistic practices. By creating a comprehensive dataset of artworks and adopting a media-based categorization\, the project explores the development of new forms of calligraphy across multiple creative domains\, including fine and contemporary art\, decorative and applied arts\, architecture\, performing arts\, and graffiti art. \nWithin this broader framework\, the seminar will focus on graffiti as one of the most dynamic and experimental areas where calligraphy is being redefined. Graffiti\, a global art movement in constant evolution\, emerged in China only in the mid-1990s. Despite being relatively underexplored\, it has developed into a remarkably vibrant phenomenon\, giving voice and vitality to the anonymous neighborhoods of the country’s vast metropolises. Chinese graffiti occupies a liminal space between legality and illegality\, free street expression and commercial production\, state endorsement and social critique\, revealing both its unique local character and the complex cultural landscape of contemporary China. \nIn this context\, Dr Bisceglia\, a specialist in Chinese graffiti\, a member of the WRITE project\, and co-author of the book Graffiti in China\, will advance the discussion by presenting her most recent research on the intersections between calligraphy and graffiti in China\, and the emerging new era of Chinese graffiti. \nDiscussant: Koon Yeewan\, Associate Professor\, Chair of Department of Art History\, and Associate Dean (Global)\, Faculty of Arts\, The University of Hong Kong\nChair: Shane Chalmers\, Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law\nTo register\, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=103400. \nFor inquiries\, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.\nTo learn more about The Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies (CILS)\, please go to https://cils.law.hku.hk/. 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/new-forms-of-calligraphy-in-china-graffiti-art/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conversation,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251010T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251010T123000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250908T085310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T094400Z
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SUMMARY:Travel Grants Sharing Session & Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Travel Grants Sharing Session & Award Ceremony\nDate: 10 October 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 11:00am-12:30pm \nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nThis event aims to give 2024-2025 travel grant recipients an opportunity to share their art-oriented travelling experience with our supportive donors\, fellow art history students\, and all others who may want to plan a trip abroad to see art in person! It is also the time when we give more information on 2025-2026 travel grant application. \nCLICK HERE FOR 25-26 APPLICATION GUIDELINES
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/travel-grant-ceremony-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information,Trip
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250919T045417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093712Z
UID:12961-1760029200-1760032800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Academic Advising Session (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Academic Advising Session (Online)\nDate: 9 October 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 5pm-6pm \nFormat: Online (click for zoom link here) -no password needed\nMeeting ID: 953 1876 0280\n \nDr. Sheng and Prof. Thomas are offering an online academic advising session to help majors and minors plan their studies and consider their options within our program. They will give a brief overview of relevant academic issues\, including:\n\ncourse requirements for the major and minor\nsequencing your courses\noptions for the capstone\nissues related to study abroad\ninternships and professional development\npreparing for graduate school\n\nAnd then they will have Q&A to address any questions you have.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/academic-advising-session-online/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250908T075513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T084628Z
UID:12936-1759939200-1759942800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School 2025
DESCRIPTION:Applying to Graduate School 2025\nDate: 8 October 2025 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4-4:50pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\nSpeaker: Prof. Susanna McFadden \nThis talk provides current students with information and advice on graduate school applications\, local and abroad. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA\, as well as MA students who intend to continue on the academic journey. We will discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We will also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/applying-to-graduate-school-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250819T094014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T062623Z
UID:12815-1759426200-1759435200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art History Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:Art History Trivia Night\nDate: 2 October 2025\nTime: 5:30pm-8pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.28\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU \nRegistration is open to all Art History undergraduates. Sign up in the Resource Centre. \nWe look forward to seeing you. Come at 5:30pm for the 6pm start! There will be pizza and drinks provided.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T173000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250901T120547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T122013Z
UID:12915-1758902400-1758907800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Visit HKMoA with Prof. Koon
DESCRIPTION:Close looking at paintings from “The Pride of Hong Kong: Three Preeminent Collections of Ancient Paintings and Calligraphies”\nDate: 26 September 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 4pm-5:30pm\nVenue: Hong Kong Museum of Art \nRegistration is required. Sign up at Art History Resource Centre (Room. 10.29\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU).\nWelcome all. First come first served\, but HKU art history students are prioritized. \nRead more about the exhibition
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/visit-hkmoa-with-prof-koon/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Museum of Art\, 10 Salisbury Rd\, Tsim Sha Tsui\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Exhibition,Trip
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250901T101140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T061537Z
UID:12907-1758308400-1758315600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MA Dinner 2025
DESCRIPTION:MA Dinner 2025\nThis event is co-organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association and the Department of Art History\nLet’s celebrate with our new batch of MAAH graduates (Class of 2025)! Invitation extends to our teaching faculty\, MAAH students from past and current cohorts. \nDate: 19 September 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 7pm – 9pm\nParticipants may come early at 6pm for a happy hour drink\, and try the Department’s latest VR experience on a reconstruction of a Roman Egyptian house!\n \nVenue: Cafe 1951\, 15F\, KK Leung Building\, The University of Hong Kong  \nRegistration: click here FULL\nQuota: 20 (first come first served\, headcount needed by 8 Sep for table reservation) \nGoing Dutch with the bill.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ma-dinner-2025/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250909T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250909T183000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250819T075931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T075814Z
UID:12803-1757437200-1757442600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Info Session & Tea Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Student Information Session & Tea Gathering\nThis gathering is scheduled at the beginning of an academic year\, aiming to let new art history students\, new majors and minors\, to meet other members of the art history community. Refreshment will be provided. Come and meet your art history peers! \nDate: 9 September 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5pm-6:30pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/student-information-session-tea-gathering/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250902T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250822T080946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251121T063557Z
UID:12881-1756832400-1756836000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2025
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk\nDate: 2 September 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5pm-5:50pm\nVenue: CPD-2.14 \nThis in-person meeting will give an introduction to the course ARTH4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions for the academic year 2025-2026. \nOnline recording of the session (expire on 8 Sep 2025) \nView visuals of the session (pdf) \nNote that the application deadline is set on that Sunday\, 7 Sep.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2025/
LOCATION:CPD-2.14
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250828T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250828T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T211212
CREATED:20250820T031413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T035735Z
UID:12818-1756393200-1756400400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MAAH Orientation 2025
DESCRIPTION:MAAH Orientation 2025\nWelcome to HKU Art history! Incoming MAAH students are invited to join this orientation to meet our faculty members and fellow students before the semester begins. Students may learn more about the programme\, general teaching practices at HKU\, and the actual learning environment as well. This can better prepare students for their upcoming academic journey. \nDate: 28 August 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 3pm-5pm (15:00-17:00)\nLocation: Arts Tech Lab (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.35)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nRundown\n15:00 Presentation\, Q & A\n16:00 Refreshment served \nAttendance is strongly encouraged. If you are unable to attend for medical reasons\, or due to visa/travel issues\, please inform us as early as possible. \nNote that attendance at the Orientation is not equivalent to registration as an HKU student. Please follow instructions provided by the Faculty of Arts/the University for registration procedures and related paperwork.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/maah-orientation-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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