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SUMMARY:Conversations with Art Professionals
DESCRIPTION:The University of Melbourne X The University of Hong Kong\nConversations with Art Professionals\nDate: 30 June -3 July 2026 (Tuesday to Friday)\nVenue: CPD-LG.59 & 61\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll sessions will begin with the guest speaker’s presentation in CPD-LG.59\nHKU students are welcome to join both the talk and the subsequent discussion in CPD-LG.61 \nRegistration on-site\nFree seating\, first come first served\, student-only \n30 June\n9:30am – 11:30am\nFind a Voice through Sat Jyu: Care in HK Art\nGuest speaker: Prof. Yeewan Koon\nAssociated Dean (Global) and Chair of Department of Art History\, HKU \n2pm – 4pm\nThere Was Always Gold: The Development of Hong Kong’s Art Ecology\nGuest speaker: Tobias Berger\nCo-founder and Curatorial Director\, Serakai Studio/ GOLD; Strategic Advisor of the Tanoto Art Foundation\, Singapore \n2 July\n2pm – 4pm\nCulture\, Money and How You May or May Not Change the World: Insights from the Frontlines of Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong Grantmaking\nGuest speaker: Alex Seno\nDirector\, Asian Cultural Council\, HK \n3 July\n9:30am – 11:30am\nArt Publishing: ArtAsiaPacific\nGuest speaker: Elaine W. Ng\nEditor of ArtAsiaPacific magazine and assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversations-with-art-professionals-2026/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T191500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260526T102919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T112612Z
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SUMMARY:On Heroic Maps
DESCRIPTION:The talk is the ending keynote of  “A Cultural History of Asian Art in the Long Nineteenth Century”\nRead more about the conference here \nOn Heroic Maps: Imagining ‘China’ in Premodern Geo-bodies and Modern Historiography\nDate: 24 June 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6pm-7:15pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegister here \nOn opposite sides of a twelfth-century stele appear two of the most famous maps in Chinese history\, the Tracks of Yu 禹跡圖 and the Map of Chinese and Foreigners 華夷圖. The two have different origins and employ very different visual and technical vocabularies in depicting ‘China’. As such\, their pairing by an unknown official in the early years of the Jin state (1115–1234)\, when the future of ‘China’ as both unified polity and coherent concept was much in doubt\, has given the maps an almost heroic status in the historiography of Chinese cartography. Beginning with this famous stone\, my talk explores the geographical imagination of ‘China’ in premodern maps and modern historiography\, considering efforts in both Asia and Europe to define Chinese society and civilization through its technical accomplishments. In so doing\, I reflect on the role of canons and icons in the construction of national histories and the potential of cultural history for articulating alternative narratives. \nSpeaker: \nStephen Whiteman 魏瑞明 is a historian whose research draws on art and architectural history\, cultural geography\, and technology studies to explore the visual and spatial cultures of early modern and modern China. Author of the award-winning Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe\, his work has been supported by the British Academy\, the Getty Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts\, and Dumbarton Oaks\, amongst others. He is coeditor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin and a Trustee of the Association for Art History\, and currently serves as Professor of the Art and Architecture of China at the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/on-heroic-maps/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Conference,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260519T103100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T072954Z
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SUMMARY:A Cultural History of Asian Art in the Long Nineteenth Century (Panel)
DESCRIPTION:VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE FOR PROGRAMME DETAILS
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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T191500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260526T103830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T104353Z
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SUMMARY:Iran: Modernity\, Photography and the Painter’s Dilemma
DESCRIPTION:The talk is the opening keynote of  “A Cultural History of Asian Art in the Long Nineteenth Century”\nRead more about the conference here \nIran: Modernity\, Photography and the Painter’s Dilemma\nDate: 23 June 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6pm-7:15pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegister here \nIt is commonly assumed\, in much of scholarship on 19th-century photography\, that the introduction of the new technology to societies outside Europe and especially those in Asia was so irresistible to have upended\, almost automatically\, the local ‘traditions’ of image making and especially of portraiture. The story of photography in Iran\, where it arrived early in the 1850s offers a cautionary example of the complexity of that transition from tradition to modernity. This talk focuses on a single painting dated to 1854-1855 which depicts a photographer in the process of taking a daguerreotype picture of a seated man. This in fact is a portrait of the making of a portrait: one is with brushes\, watercolours\, and inks on paper; the other with a camera. The two modes of representation clash over their disparate concepts of ‘reality’ and its hold onto portraiture. When photography arrived\, I argue\, there was already a movement underway towards making visible an idea of ‘likeness’ in portraiture. That idea was not of European origin but had filtered in through the tight-knit cultural worlds spanning West and South Asia\, especially through their shared linguistic and literary predilections across the Persianate sphere. Here\, I shall argue that artistic reverberations across Iran and India in the case of portraiture\, had already prepared the scene for that transition to modernity. Photography had of course immense role to play but not everything was so simply and slavishly surrendered to the new. The painting of a photographer by Mirza Riza Tabrizi asks us to rethink such facile conclusions. \nSpeaker: \nSussan Babaie is Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld\, University of London. A graphic designer by training (BA\, Tehran University)\, she earned her PhD in Art History from IFA\, New York University. Among her publications are Isfahan and Its Palaces (2008\, 2018) and Persian Kingship and Architecture (2015) edited with Talinn Grigor\, as well as on modern and contemporary arts of Iran and West Asia. She is currently working collaboratively on several projects focusing on the arts across trans-Asian networks: co-editor with Stephen Whiteman and author\, Cultural History of Asian Art\, six-volume series (Bloomsbury); co-curator of an exhibition on the Arts of the Great Mongol World; and lead scholar on Mongol Connections\, a traveling seminar supported by Getty Connecting Art Histories.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/iran-modernity-photography-and-the-painters-dilemma/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Conference,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260515T053411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260528T065319Z
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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:Classroom 416\, Room 4.16\, 4/F\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260604T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260604T123000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260518T044940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T032746Z
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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:20260512T101500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260512T113000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
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:20260508T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260508T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260506T105925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T110856Z
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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:20260505T033000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260505T183000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260423T111427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260504T102200Z
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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:20260504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260504T171500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260421T080727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260430T111324Z
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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:20260429T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T200000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260420T084634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T061538Z
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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:20260429T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260429T121500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260420T071036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421T080157Z
UID:13342-1777460400-1777464900@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260410T032659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T032659Z
UID:13337-1777248000-1779494399@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Franki Raffles: Asia and Women's Work
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/franki-raffles-asia-and-womens-work/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260324T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260324T183000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260310T050132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260312T072947Z
UID:13297-1774373400-1774377000@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260323T181500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260323T194500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260306T110736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T031938Z
UID:13286-1774289700-1774295100@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260320T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260224T021334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T020651Z
UID:13277-1774029600-1774033200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Legacy of Eternal Egypt in the Greco-Roman Imagination
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association (HKUFAAA)\nDate: 20 March 2026 (Friday)\nTime: 6pm-7pm\nFormat: online\, registration required\, zoom link will be sent one day before the talk \nThis online talk will delve into the fascinating cultural exchanges between ancient Egypt and the Greco-Roman world\, highlighting how Greco-Roman artefacts feature the imagined Egypt\, how Egyptian art\, architecture\, and mythology had an enduring impact in the art production of later centuries. This talk pairs beautifully with the current exhibition “Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums” at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. \nSpeaker: Prof. Susanna McFadden (Assistant Professor\, Department of Art History\, HKU) \nRead more and register via HKUFAAA
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-legacy-of-eternal-egypt-in-the-greco-roman-imagination/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260314
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260610T093945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260610T094458Z
UID:13633-1773273600-1773446399@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Jumpstarter 2026
DESCRIPTION:The event is co-organized by Department of Art History\, the Faculty of Arts\, and the Arts Technology Lab.\nJumpstarter 2026: House of Serenos VR Experience\nDate: 12-13 March 2026\nVenue: Hall 5BC\, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre \nThe House of Serenos VR experience is a collaborative project that brings together art history\, archaeology and technology\, allowing viewers to travel back in time to discover Roman life in 4th century Egypt. We were pleased to showcase the project to industry professionals and to members of the public at Jumpstarter 2026\, a startup and tech event. \n \nLearn more about the House of Serenos VR Experience. 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/jumpstarter-2026/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Outreach
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260308T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260308T153000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260224T014508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T014835Z
UID:13271-1772980200-1772983800@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260304T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260304T194500
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260127T082721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T084603Z
UID:13214-1772649000-1772653500@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T181500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T193000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260112T063403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T083243Z
UID:13138-1771956900-1771961400@arthistory.hku.hk
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T220000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260126T041654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T073157Z
UID:13207-1770753600-1770760800@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260210T190000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260121T033134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T101953Z
UID:13173-1770746400-1770750000@arthistory.hku.hk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260209T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260209T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260126T031837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100022Z
UID:13198-1770649200-1770656400@arthistory.hku.hk
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260128T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260128T173000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
CREATED:20260114T044720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T092421Z
UID:13152-1769617800-1769621400@arthistory.hku.hk
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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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T130000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260710T214700
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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:20260710T214700
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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:20260710T214700
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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:20260710T214700
CREATED:20251014T064741Z
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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:20260710T214700
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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