Academic Talk
Where Does A Painting End?
Classroom 258 Room 2.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKUResearch Seminar Series 2024/25 Where Does A Painting End? Date: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: CPD 2.58, Centennial Campus, HKU (free seating) Directions: from MTR (click here); from [...]
The Art World 2025
Grand Hall Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial CampusDepartment of Art History presents The Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities How social media, geopolitics, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world's markets [...]
Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation
Rayson Huang Theatre Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU, Hong KongDepartment 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 KongDecontextualization, 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 KongThe 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 KongBoating 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 KongThe 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 KongCareer 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 [...]
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