Academic Talk
The Lamentation of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination
Faculty Room 434 Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Hong KongThe Lamentation of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination Date: 27 March 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Melodrama, as famously defined by Peter [...]
Digital Humanities? Exploring Technology’s Roles…
Faculty Room 434 Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Hong KongDigital Humanities? Exploring Technology’s Roles in Studying the Past Date: 3 April 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:00pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus A recent trend finds humanities [...]
Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America
Faculty of Law A723, 7/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, HKU, Hong KongModels of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity.
The Botanical Illustrations of Boym’s Flora Sinensis and Overlapping Knowledge Networks in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia
Faculty Room 758 Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong KongThe Botanical Illustrations of Boym's Flora Sinensis and Overlapping Knowledge Networks in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia Date: 29 August 2019 (Thursday) Time: 4:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus [...]
Conversation on Technology, Art and Narrative
Common Core Lounge MB150, Main Building, Main Campus, HKU, Hong KongIn conversation with new media Artist Cao Shu
A Tale of Two Books
Faculty Room 758 Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU, Hong KongA Tale of Two Books: Negotiating Art and Commerce in William Alexander’s Visions of Late 18th-Century China Date: 31 October 2019 (Thursday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw [...]
Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
Taikwun Laundry Steps Laundry Steps, Taikwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong KongThe Department of Fine Arts and Taschen Books present a wonderful evening on Rembrandt with Duncan Bull, curator from Rijksmuseum. Taschen Books is also kindly hosting a special Dutch snacks and cocktails reception before the conversation starting at 6pm. So come, enjoy a cocktail, peruse some art books, learn about Rembrandt! Our teachers including Dr. Hammers and Dr. Lastra will also be there joining in the festivities at Taikwun.
Catholic Realism in the Qing Court
Asia Society Hong Kong Center 9 Justice Drive, AdmiraltyOne of the greatest cases of Sino-European cultural interaction before 1911 took place in the Qing court when emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong hosted and patronized a number of Jesuit artists and artisans from Europe. The Jesuits were trying to impress the emperors with supposedly superior scientific knowledge in order to help spread Christianity in China, while the emperors integrated the missionaries’ foreign painting techniques into court art to extend their own political ends.
Colloquium on Pearl River Delta, Art, and Global Exchange in Maritime Trade History
Hong Kong Museum of Art 10 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong KongThis paper looks at the use of portraiture by the Manchu official Qiying (1787-1858) who was sent by the Daoguang Emperor (r.1820-1850) to Guangdong for the negotiations of the Nanjing Treaty after the Opium War (1839-1841). By looking at the different practices involved in the gifting of portraits in Europe and China, the paper will highlight the problems of communications and exchanges between Britain and China during this period. It will also show how Guangdong’s leading merchants were instrumental in these discussions and how they were active players in Guangdong’s local community and Qing politics.
Rome and her Legacy
Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture Rome and her Legacy: Classical Art in the 21st Century Date: 21 April 2020 (Tuesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to register via Zoom (With [...]
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