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Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation

Rayson Huang Theatre Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

Department of Art History presents Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation Lee Mingwei’s (b.1964, Taiwan) artistic practice incorporates aspects of installation, performance, and participation. Inspired by multiple sources, his [...]

Decontextualization, Reconfiguration and Symbolization

Department Seminar Room 1028, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

Decontextualization, Reconfiguration and Symbolization: Reinventing Pensive Bodhisattvas in Early Medieval China (3rd to 6th c.) Images of pensive bodhisattva were produced in various Silk Routes regions from Gandhāra to Central [...]

The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers

Department Seminar Room 1028, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers: A View of Transcultural Entanglements in Inner Asia from the Iron Age to the Mongol Era Numerous nomadic and semi-nomadic confederations flourished along [...]

Boating through the Sacred Landscape

Department Seminar Room 1028, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

Boating through the Sacred Landscape: Fang Congyi and the Spiritual Ecology of Yuan China Around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Daoist monks found the many secluded pockets of space, eroded [...]

MA Colloquium 2025

Arts Tech Lab Room 4.35, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The annual MA Colloquium is an open platform for our MAAH students to present their dissertation research to other students, members of our Faculty and their advisors. Date: 12th - [...]

New Forms of Calligraphy in China: Graffiti Art

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 [...]

Conversation with Pi Li & Pauline Yao

Art History Resource Centre 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, Hong Kong

Career Workshop Series Date: 24 October 2025 (Friday) Time: 4-5pm Venue: Art History Resource Centre Guest speakers: Pi Li and Pauline J. Yao Pi Li is the Head of Art [...]

Information Day 2025

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 [...]

Ancient Egyptian Temples: Three Thousand Years of Development

Faculty Room 436 Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong Kong

This event is co-organized by Humanities and Digital Technologies program and the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, HKU Date: 26 November 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 4:15-5:30pm Venue: Room 4.36, [...]

Serial Visions of Socialist Construction

Classroom 242 Room 2.42, Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Serial Visions of Socialist Construction: Li Fenglan, Lianhuanhua, and the Metatexts of Mass Art Date: 15 January 2026 (Thursday) Time: 1pm-2pm Venue: CPD-2.42, Centennial Campus, HKU Format: in-person only, first [...]