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SUMMARY:Can Machines Imagine?
DESCRIPTION:Can Machines Imagine?\nAI\, Art\, and None of the Hype\nDate: 23 March 2026 (Monday)\nTime: 6:15pm-7:45pm\nVenue: Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall\, LE1\, Library Extension Building\, Main Campus\, HKU\nBy MTR: directions from Exit A2 \nBy Taxi: for taxi driver \nRegistration: CLICK HERE\nFree seating\, with doors open at 6pm\nWe have a limited number of Art Basel and Art Central Art Fair tickets to give away to students — first come\, first served (at the registration desk)! \nThis panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Yeewan Koon \nSpeakers: \n\nAlan LAU (Vice Chairman of M+ Board)\nAdrian NOTZ (Curator)\nBianca TSE (Artist)\nTakeshi YAMADA (teamLab)\n\nAlan LAU\nAlan Lau is Vice Chair of M+\, Hong Kong’s largest contemporary art museum. He has been a champion of Asian artists for two decades\, and co-chairs the Asia Pacific Acquisition Committee of Tate\, and the Asia Art Circle of Guggenheim. He has been a technologist for 20 years\, with leadership roles in McKinsey\, Tencent\, and Animoca Brands. He founded McKinsey’s digital practice and led as Asia Head\, co-founded Tencent’s insurance arm WeSure and served as CEO\, and currently leads investment and manages a portfolio of 500 companies as CBO of Animoca. He advises the Oxford University and HK University on AI\, Creativity & Ethics\, and promotes AI adoption and policies as a founding member of The AI Association of HK. In the broader culture sphere\, he serves on the board of Tapestry\, which owns Coach and Kate Spade\, and previously served on the digital board of Burberry. He also makes angel investments in F&B\, entertainment\, and technology. \nAdrian Christopher NOTZ\nAdrian Christopher Notz (*1977\, Zurich) is an independent curator and lecturer based in Zurich. He studied time-based media and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen and Theory of Art and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2024\, he co-curated the AAA Experiments in Kunsthalle Zurich and in 2023 the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara. He is currently lecturer at ETH Zurich\, where he led the AI+Art Program at the ETH AI Center from 2021 to 2024. From 2020 to 2022\, Notz served as curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich. Previously\, he was the artistic director of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (2012–2019)\, following roles as co-director (2006–2012) and curatorial assistant (2004–2006). From 2010 to 2015\, he also headed the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Throughout his career\, Notz has organized and curated numerous exhibitions\, events\, conferences\, and interventions\, collaborating with international artists\, scientists\, activists\, and thinkers both at Cabaret Voltaire and globally. \nBianca TSE\nBianca Tse\, born and raised in Hong Kong of the 80s\, combines her expertise in advertising with a profound passion for documentary work. Having experienced challenging family conditions during her upbringing in Temporary Housing Area\, she consistently feels a deep connection to the themes of chaotic urban life and poverty. Her particular passion and fascination lie in the history of Kowloon Walled City and her hometown\, Hong Kong. Drawing inspirations from local heritage and culture\, as well as her personal memories\, Bianca utilises AI tools to embark on a reimagined journey. Her works transport viewers into a captivating parallel universe of the City of Darkness while simultaneously experimenting with the possibilities of AI documentary. Bianca’s artistic style is rooted in storytelling\, where she weaves together Hong Kong’s collective memories with the boundless possibilities offered by AI as a creative medium. By blending elements of authentic history and imagination\, she creates an intriguing juxtaposition between the familiar and the extraordinary\, breathing life into its forgotten past and presenting it in a unique light. https://www.walledcitywildestdreams.com \nTakeshi YAMADA\nTakeshi Yamada was born and raised in Tokyo in 1990. He studied at Durham University for one year and then graduated from Teikyo University in 2012 with a B.A. in English Literature and History. After working as a Marketing Manager in the travel industry in Zurich\, he returned to Japan to work at teamLab where he is now the Director of Community Engagement.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/can-machines-imagine/
LOCATION:Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall (LE1)\, LE1\, LG1/F\, Library Extension Building\, Main Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260324T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260324T183000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:Introduction to teamLab
DESCRIPTION:HKU Student Event\nTakeshi Yamada: Introduction to teamLab\nDate: 24 March 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5:30pm-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration: CLICK HERE\nSeats are limited; students who attended “Can Machines Imagine?” are given priority\, subject to availability. \nteamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art\, science\, technology\, and the natural world. Through art\, the interdisciplinary group of specialists\, including artists\, programmers\, engineers\, CG animators\, mathematicians\, and architects\, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world\, and new forms of perception. In this session\, a teamLab member will introduce teamLab’s projects and the concepts that drive their creation. The speaker will also delve into the teams behind the work and the technologies they utilize. The presentation will conclude with information on internship and employment opportunities at teamLab. \nSpeaker: Takeshi Yamada was born and raised in Tokyo in 1990. He studied at Durham University for one year and then graduated from Teikyo University in 2012 with a B.A. in English Literature and History. After working as a Marketing Manager in the travel industry in Zurich\, he returned to Japan to work at teamLab where he is now the Director of Community Engagement.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/takeshi-yamada-introduction-to-teamlab/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T032659Z
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SUMMARY:Franki Raffles: Asia and Women's Work
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URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/franki-raffles-asia-and-womens-work/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T121500
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:Can I Pass?
DESCRIPTION:Can I Pass? Firelei Báez and Erica Lord’s Trickster Interrogations of Racialization\nDate: 29 April 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 11:00am-12:15pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome \nHow do artists of the African diaspora synthesize complex networks of cultural influence and relation in a globally interconnected world? My recent scholarship approaches this question through close analysis of artworks by contemporary Afro-Dominican artist Firelei Báez. Working across disciplinary boundaries\, I consider Báez’s work in relation to Indigenous American art and theory\, arguing that Black and Indigenous conceptual practices echo and complicate one another\, especially in their grapplings with the shared ground of settler colonialism and white supremacy across the Americas. Through close observation of Báez’s painting series Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test (2010–2013) and Lord’s photographic works\, the Tattooed Arms Project (2007) and the Tanning Project (2005–2007)\, I demonstrate how each artist challenges systems of legal and social racialization in the Americas through a shared practice of trickster methodology\, inhabiting the edges of racial categories in order to unsettle their foundational logics. \nSpeaker: Aja Edwin Mujinga is a scholar of modern and contemporary art of the African diaspora who specializes in Black–Indigenous and Afro-Asiatic networks of relation. Her doctoral research\, completed through the University of Texas at Austin\, analyzes the practice of “trickster methodology” across artworks by Afro-Dominican artist Firelei Báez. In 2022\, Mujinga was the Mellon Fellow in Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum in Austin\, Texas. Mujinga completed master’s degrees in art history and studio art at the University of Montana following undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. She was an assistant professor at the University of Montana Western for three years and has taught college students at the Kansas City Art Institute\, the University of Kansas\, and Avila University. She sits on the African Art Advisory Group at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City and has presented her research at numerous venues\, including the College Art Association\, the University of Colorado Boulder\, and the Missoula Art Museum.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/can-i-pass-firelei-baez-and-erica-lords-trickster-interrogations-of-racialization/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Archive: Franki Raffles\, Asia and Women's Work
DESCRIPTION:Date: 29 April 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-8pm\nVenue: CCG Library\, Asia Art Archive \nPlease join us for a discussion of the Franki Raffles Photography Collection at the University of St Andrews\, in connection with the current exhibition at HKU. The talk will focus on Raffles’s 1984-85 trip to Eastern Europe and Asia. The year-long voyage catalysed Raffles’s interest in women and work which she would dedicate her career to. \nSpeakers:\nDr. Catherine Spencer (University of St Andrews)\nDr. Vivian K. Sheng (University of Hong Kong)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/reinventing-the-archive-franki-raffles-asia-and-womens-work/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive\, 11/F Hollywood Centre\, 233 Hollywood Road\, Sheung Wan\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260504T171500
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
CREATED:20260421T080727Z
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SUMMARY:John Sloan\, Fordism\, and Mass Automobility
DESCRIPTION:John Sloan\, Fordism\, and Mass Automobility\nDate: 4 May 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4pm-5:15pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome \nThis presentation will focus on the work of the Ashcan artist John Sloan (1871-1951)\, describing and analyzing Sloan’s relation to Fordism and the rise of mass automobility over the duration of his career.  To do so\, I will begin with Sloan’s familiarity with Fordist tropes\, his appeals to them in his writings\, and his remarkable pictorial satire “Ford Tank with Fleeing Figures.” This preliminary discussion will then frame an analysis of what has been called the first truly typical New York Sloan—“Dust Storm Fifth Avenue” of 1906\, which notably depicts a car—and continue through Sloan’s diarized accounts of riding in automobiles. The presentation will culminate with Sloan’s images from Gloucester\, Massachusetts and a discussion of his use of the Maratta scales of colors and pigments\, a commercially produced painting system that can be analogized to Fordist production.  The presentation will then conclude with Sloan’s satirical pictures of the effects of automobiles on indigenous life in the Southwest and with a discussion of Sloan’s relationship to indigenous art and culture. Overall\, the presentation demonstrates how Fordism and the power dynamics associated with automobiles was a recurring interest of Sloan’s\, shaping both his subject matter and his technique over the course of his life.  A key finding of the presentation is to identify a thematic continuity between Sloan’s early\, middle\, and late artistic production\, which are phases of his career that are often treated as disjointed. \nSpeaker: Oliver O’Donnell is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Basel\, and has held research appointments at the Warburg Institute and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.  At Berkeley\, he is a core collaborator on the Depictured Worlds Project\, sponsored by the NOMIS Foundation.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/john-sloan-fordism-and-mass-automobility/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260505T033000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260505T183000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Flatness
DESCRIPTION:Technique Workshop: Beyond the Flatness\nDate: 5 May 2026 (Tue)\nTime: 3:30-5:30pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nInstructor: Bouie Choi\nMedium of instruction: Cantonese (English translation is available)\nClass size: 12 (first come first served) \nBouie Choi employs wood as a spatiotemporal medium\, with a practice consistently centered on the quiet observation of “fragile existence.” While her earlier works distilled collective memory and urban imprints through repetitive processes of preserving\, pouring\, sanding\, and washing\, her recent practice has shifted from cityscapes toward more intuitive and introspective visual narratives. By allowing the natural grain and color washes to guide her imagination\, she captures sensory vignettes woven from fragments of biography\, dreams\, and everyday life. Though her narrative perspective evolves through time and space\, her deep focus on the human condition—navigating between unrest and solace—remains unwavering. \nChoi holds a BA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009) and MA from Chelsea College of Arts\, London (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Those warm and unwavering existences’ (2026)\, solo exhibition in Basel Switzerland (2023)\, and in Grotto Fine Art Hong Kong (2023). Recent group shows include ‘Hybrid Nature’ in Alisan Fine Arts New York (2025) \, ‘Three Tired Tigers’ in Jameel Arts Centre\, Dubai (2024-25)\, and Stanford University (2024). Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. \nMeet the artist and learn more about her creative process. What does it take to turn representations abstract? What role do materials play in an abstract work of art? Is there a formula for it\, or is it meant to be all spontaneous? \nThere will be a hands-on section included in this workshop. All tools and materials will be provided. \nRegistration: Required\, FREE for all current students\nIf you are interested in joining\, please email Nicole (fungnkn@hku.hk)\, and state 1) your name\, 2) your year group\, 3) your phone no. before 30 April\, 2026 (Thu) \nThis activity is supported by Endowment Fund For Music & Fine Arts.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/beyond-the-flatness/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260508T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:HKU Arts Undergraduate Information Sessions
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History will have a booth set up in the Faculty Lounge. Come and talk to our staff. Find out what it means to study Art History at HKU! \nVisit the official website here.\nClick here for online registration.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/hku-arts-undergraduate-information-sessions/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260512T101500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260512T113000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
CREATED:20260423T041303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T045011Z
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SUMMARY:“Hogan-Minded”:  Race and Place in  Georgia O’Keeffe’s Southwest
DESCRIPTION:“Hogan-Minded”: Race and Place in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Southwest\nDate: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 10:15am-11:15am\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome \nThis talk argues that past interpretations of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexican oeuvre have obscured the extent\, character\, and stakes of her engagement with Southwestern Indigenous and Hispanic cultures. It contests the popular notion that after an initial\, ostensibly more touristic period\, O’Keeffe’s New Mexican work evinced a unique sense of place that had little to do with contemporary racial attitudes. Instead\, it highlights the ongoing influence of tourist contexts (including visits to Indigenous ceremonials and involvement in regional commodity markets) on her work beyond the early 1930s\, and suggests that\, in its representation of buildings\, objects\, and places of spiritual significance to New Mexican Indigenous and Hispanic groups\, her Southwestern oeuvre frequently relied upon and perpetuated romantic stereotypes about those cultures circulating within interwar Anglo-New Mexico and the Manhattan avant-garde. This argument unfolds with the help of several case studies\, including discussion of her representations of Native American material objects\, and especially Hopi katsina tithu\, which she found spiritually and personally resonant yet failed to fully understand\, and consideration of her depictions of Indigenous holy sites\, which she often recast through the lenses of personal ownership\, vague spiritual meaning\, and modernist experimentation. Ultimately\, O’Keeffe’s paintings and writings make clear that she saw the region much as countless others had before: both deeply informed by the presence and history of its Native peoples and open\, empty\, and ripe for claiming. \nSpeaker: James Denison is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. A graduate of Bowdoin College\, he completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 2023.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/hogan-minded-race-and-place-in-georgia-okeeffes-southwest/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260604T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260604T123000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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SUMMARY:AI Fluency and Digital Methods
DESCRIPTION:Art History Research Workshop\nAI Fluency and Digital Methods\nDate: 4 June 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 11am-12:30pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration: required\, first come first served. Please register by sending an email to arthist@hku.hk.\nState your 1) full name\, 2) degree (eg. BA\, MA\, Mphil\, PhD)\, and 3) programme/ major (eg. Art History). A confirmation email will be sent before 29 May 2026\, 5pm. \nThis workshop introduces AI-assisted research and digital methods for art historians. Drawing on Provenance Wiki\, a prototype digital tool for processing archival documents\, the workshop demonstrates how AI can help organize evidence\, extract structured information\, generate research questions\, and visualize relationships among objects\, people\, places\, and institutions. Participants will also engage with the broader issue of AI fluency: how to understand what AI tools can and cannot do\, how to evaluate their outputs\, and how digital workflows can be integrated into humanistic research without replacing scholarly interpretation. No technical knowledge or prior experience with AI is required. \nSpeaker: Mengge Cao is the postdoctoral scholar at the Center for the Art of East Asia\, Department of Art History\, University of Chicago. His work combines art historical research and digital curation through the Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project. Mengge received his PhD in art history from Princeton University in 2024\, where his dissertation focused on painting formats and viewers’ experiences in middle-period China from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries. His research has appeared in Archives of Asian Art.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ai-fluency-and-digital-methods/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Research Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T235537
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T032356Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:The event is co-organized by Department of Art History\, School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, Department of History and Gender Studies\, HKU\, with the support of the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity (CGED)\nThe Armenian Woman\, Minoritarian Agency\, and the Making of Iranian Modernity\, 1860-1979\nDate: 23 June 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 4pm-5pm\nVenue: Room 4.16\, 4/f\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome\, no registration required \nWith this book\, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women’s organizations\, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects\, Iran’s central nodes of power\, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties. \nEngaging broader considerations around modernization\, nationalism\, and feminism\, this book makes a conceptually rich contribution to how we think about the history of women and minoritized peoples. Berberian and Grigor read archival\, textual\, visual\, and oral history sources together and against one another to challenge conventional notions of “the archive” and transform silences and absences into audible and visual presences. Understanding minoritarian politics as formulated by women through their various forms of public and intellectual activisms\, this book provides a groundbreaking intervention in Iran’s history of modernization\, Armenian diasporic history\, and Iranian and Armenian feminist historiography. \nClick here to read more about the book \nSpeakers: \nHouri Berberian is Professor of History\, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies\, and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. Her research focuses on late nineteenth/early twentieth-century Armenian history\, especially revolutionary movements and women and gender. Her books include Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: “The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland” (2001); and the multiple award-winning Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian\, Iranian\, and Ottoman Worlds (2019); and Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018)\, coedited with Touraj Daryaee. Her most recent book\, for which she has received grants from the Persian Heritage Foundation\, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research\, is  The Armenian Woman\, Minoritarian Agency\, and the Making of Iranian Modernity (2025)\, coauthored with Talinn Grigor. \nTalinn Grigor is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California\, Davis. Her research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial\, race\, feminist\, and critical theories grounded in Iran\, Armeno-Iran\, Armenia\, and Parsi India. Her books include the winner of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award\, The Persian Revival (2021)\, Contemporary Iranian Art (2014)\, Building Iran (2009)\, and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015)\, coedited with Sussan Babaie. Grigor has received fellowships from the National Gallery of Art\, Getty Research Institute\, Cornell’s Humanities Center\, Princeton’s Persian Center\, MIT’s Aga Khan Program\, SSRC\, and Persian Heritage and Calouste Gulbenkian foundations. Her last book is coauthored with Houri Berberian\, The Armenian Woman\, Minoritarian Agency\, and the Making of Iranian Modernity\, 1860–1979 (2025). Her current book project\, The Hyphenated Architect\, examines the pivotal role of ethnically Armenian architects and artists in the proliferation of the Modern Movement in West Asia. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/book-talk-the-armenian-woman/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Book Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T141011Z
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SUMMARY:A Cultural History of Asian Art in the Long Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE HERE
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/a-cultural-history-of-asian-art-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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