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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
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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:20260504T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260504T171500
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
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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:20260505T033000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260505T183000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
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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:20261114T034731
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:20260512T101500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260512T113000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
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:20261114T034731
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:20260623T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T170000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
CREATED:20260515T053411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T082230Z
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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:20260623T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260623T191500
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
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:20260624T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T170000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034731
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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:20260624T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T191500
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
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=UTC:20260629T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260629T160000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260727T014036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260727T014100Z
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SUMMARY:Preparing for the Art World
DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday\, 29 June\nTime: 2:30-4:00 pm\nLocation: Art History Resource Centre (CRT10.29) \nSpeakers: Elaine C Kwok and HG Masters \nThis practical session will cover what employers look for in CVs\, presentations\, and job applications. As you begin your careers\, this is an invaluable opportunity to understand what the art world expects and how to present yourselves effectively. \nPlease bring a copy of your CV to the workshop. \n(This event is open to registered participants only.)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/preparing-for-the-art-world/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260704
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260615T080649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T082151Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260817T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260817T120000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260806T080413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T013120Z
UID:13784-1786964400-1786968000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:SSCC Meeting 2025-2026
DESCRIPTION:Staff Student Consultative Committee Meeting 2025-2026\nDate: 17 August 2026 (Mon)\nTime: 11am-12pm\nFormat: Online via Zoom\nHost: Dr. Sheng (UG coordinator)\, Prof. Mcfadden (RPG coordinator) \nAgenda: \n\nTo review 2025-2026 (Semester 2) 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-2025-2026/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260823T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260823T180000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260810T073439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T082113Z
UID:13795-1787481000-1787508000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Unsubscribe All!
DESCRIPTION:2026 Para Site International Conference\nDate: 23 August 2026\nTime: 10:30 am – 6:00 pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, The University of Hong Kong\nMedium: English\nRegistration: click here and read more \nSchedule\n10:30 – Introduction\n10:50 – Bahar Noorizadeh: Technofictions\, or Future as Mode Collapse\n11:20 – Günseli Yalcinkaya: Myth as Medium \n*** 11:50-12:00 Break *** \n12:00 – Ziyang Wu: From Systemic Contingencies to New Silk Frequencies:\nPre-enactment and Planetary Computation\n12:30 – Stanley Qiufan Chen: The Making of Myths Yet Unborn\n13:00 – Liam Young: New Planetary Imaginaries\n13:30 – Charis Poon: Respondent \n*** 13:45-15:00 Midday Intermission ** \n15:00 – Introduction\n15:15 – Iris Long: Speaking Nearby Infrastructures: Curatorial Methods for\nTechnoscientific Research\n15:40 – Winnie Soon: ^(Coding|Publishing)( Otherwise)$\n16:05 – Sophie Penkethman-Young: A personal take on a digital praxis\n16:30 – Sunday Chatroom: Iris Long\, Winnie Soon and Sophie Penkethman-Young\n(moderated by Clara Che Wei Peh)\n17:30 – Audience Q&A and Concluding Remarks
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/unsubscribe-all-2026-para-site-international-conference/
LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Conference
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260828T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260828T163000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260826T123738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T123943Z
UID:13847-1787929200-1787934600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MAAH Orientation 2026
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to HKU Art history! Incoming MA in Art History students are invited to join this orientation. This is an opportunity to meet and greet with our faculty and your fellow students\, to learn about important dates and policies\, and to begin your academic journey. \nDate: Friday\, August 28th\nTime: 3:00pm-4:30pm\nLocation: CRT7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nStudents will receive a copy of the MAAH student handbook and there will be time for questions and conversation. Following this\, there will be an optional department tour and social hour starting around 4:30pm.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/maah-orientation-2026/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260903T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260903T181500
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260814T102324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T122640Z
UID:13803-1788454800-1788459300@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Relief and the Sacred Monument: Entering the Space
DESCRIPTION:Relief and the Sacred Monument: Entering the Space\nDate: 3 September 2026 (Thu)\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (directions) \nAll are welcome\, no prior registration needed\, free seating \nAbstract: This paper compares two very different monuments\, which were completed some two centuries apart\, from distant cultures with no direct connection of influence: the great Buddhist stupa at Amaravati in Southern India (completed at the end of the third century CE) and the Orthodox Baptistery at Ravenna (mid fifth century CE). Yet they show surprising similarities in the use of relief to articulate the penetration of supra-human forces into the human realm within sacred space. Both operate on the round\, using the cardinal points and intermediate directions as key devices of orientation; both conduct their ritual process at least in part through forms of ceremonial and processional circumambulation; both are concerned with surface on the voluminous round (whether concave or convex) and the penetration of that surface by relief sculpture in animate forms resembling the human body but representing super-human beings. The theoretical challenge is thus to find ways of explaining the parallels\, that are not dependent on models of contiguity or appropriation or influence. \nSpeaker: Jaś Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at Oxford and Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago.  He has taught and researched the religious arts of Eurasia since the 1990s and has published on early Buddhist art in India as well as the Pagan Polytheist and Christian arts of the Mediterranean\, with a special focus on pilgrimage\, description and the receptions of ancient visual culture in later periods. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Accademia die Lincei in Rome.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/relief-and-the-sacred-monument-entering-the-space/
LOCATION:CPD-2.58
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260904T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260904T170000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260826T030837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T031042Z
UID:13839-1788537600-1788541200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2026
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk 2026\nDate: 4 September 2026 (Friday)\nTime: 4pm-5pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nThis meeting will give an introduction and more information to ARTH4005 Art History Internship and ARTH2123/ARTH2124 Professional Experience I/II. Representatives from some institutions will also attend the meeting to have a conversation about their internship programmes. \nArt History students from all year groups are welcome. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260917T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260917T180000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260820T084605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T082038Z
UID:13810-1789662600-1789668000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art History Tea Gathering 2026
DESCRIPTION:Art History Tea Gathering 2026\nDate: 17 September 2026 (Thu)\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nThis gathering is scheduled at the beginning of an academic year\, aiming to let new art history students\, new majors and minors\, to meet other members of the art history community. Refreshment will be provided. Come and meet your art history peers! \nAll are welcome\, no prior registration needed.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-tea-gathering-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260929T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260929T180000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260908T030620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T033648Z
UID:13953-1790701200-1790704800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Graduate Talk 2026
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Talk 2026\nDate: 29 September 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5-6pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\nSpeaker: Prof. Susanna McFadden \nThis talk provides current students with information and advice on graduate school applications\, local and abroad. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA\, as well as MA students who intend to continue on the academic journey. We will discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We will also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/graduate-talk-2026/
LOCATION:CPD-2.42\, CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261022T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261022T193000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20260923T112703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T083615Z
UID:13957-1792693800-1792697400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Jin Zhang\, Jin Cheng\, and the Visibility of the Chinese Artist
DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by HKU and the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong\, supported by Susan Chen Foundation\nJin Zhang\, Jin Cheng\, and the Visibility of the Chinese Artist\nDate: 22 October 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU (Directions)\nDoors open at 6:15pm\, free seating \nRegistration: required\, click here\nHKU students with priority \nAbstract: The artist Jin Zhang (1884-1939) and her brother Jin Cheng (1878-1926) were unusual among late Qing artists in the length of time they spent in Europe\, in the decade prior to World War One. Yet these painters\, who had the widest exposure to Western work\, are often spoken of as among the most ‘traditional’ in style. This talk will explore the role of European sojourns in the lives of these two significant figures\, and examine the ways in which they negotiated the increasingly firm boundary being drawn at the time between ‘Chinese’ and ‘Western’ art. \nSpeaker: Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art\, University of Oxford\, and the author of over a dozen books on Chinese art and culture. They include\, Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in China (1991)\, Art in China (2009)\, and Chinese Painting and its Audiences (2017). His most recent book is Sons of Heaven: Family and Dynasty in Ming China (Reaktion Books\, 2026). He has taught extensively on twentieth-century Chinese art\, and is the author of 回音室：跨國的中國畫 1897–1935/The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting\, 1897-1935\, (Horizon/世紀文景 : Beijing\, 2024). A Fellow of the British Academy\, he has lectured internationally and curated several exhibitions including Ming: 50 Years that Changed China at the British Museum in 2014.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/jin-zhang-jin-cheng-and-the-visibility-of-the-chinese-artist/
LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,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:20261024T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261024T170000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261005T041617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T070412Z
UID:13972-1792832400-1792861200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Information Day 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join the University’s annual information day! \nMeet our teachers and students\, and find out what Art History is\, how we teach the subject\, and why we are all in love with it! \n\n10am (CPD-LG.60)\nArt History Mock Lecture: “The Art of Impressionism in Paris” by Prof. Greg Thomas\n12noon (CPD-LG.60)\nInformation Session: “Studying Art History at HKU” by Dr. Vivian Sheng\n11am-3pm (CPD-LG.42)\nLearning with Technology: VR Dunhuang\nAll day (CPD-LG.42)\nConsultation\n\nREGISTER NOW \nApply Now (HKU Admission)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/information-day-2026/
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Information
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261029T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261029T200000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261014T015454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T024820Z
UID:14017-1793296800-1793304000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art History Trivia Night 2026
DESCRIPTION:Art History Trivia Night\nDate: 29 October 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6pm-8pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU \nRegistration: sign up in the Resource Centre\nArt History students only \nJoin us for an evening of terrifying art history trivia\, test your knowledge\, meet fellow art history students\, and see who will be crowned this year’s champions!\nThere will be prizes\, pizza\, and drinks. Costumes are optional\, but highly encouraged.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-trivia-night-2026/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Social
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261102T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261102T173000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261026T081309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261029T014558Z
UID:14063-1793633400-1793640600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Manuscript Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Manuscript Workshop led by Stephen Whiteman\nDate: 2-3 November\, 2026\nVenue: Room 10.28\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, The University of Hong Kong\nConvened by Prof. Yu-chuan Chen \n2 Nov (Mon)\n15:30-17:30 Session I \n3 Nov (Tue)\n13:30-16:00 Session II \nBy invitation only
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/manuscript-workshop/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Publishing Workshop,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:20261102T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261102T183000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261014T024733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261016T073647Z
UID:14024-1793638800-1793644200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Painting into Being
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by School of Chinese and the Department of Art History\, HKU\nPainting into Being: Underground Art during China’s Cultural Revolution\nDate: 2 November 2026 (Mon)\nTime: 5pm-6:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower HKU\nRegistration: required\, via School of Chinese website \nAbstract: Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It focuses on the Wuming (No Name 無名) Painting Group\, active from 1972 to 1981\, in conjunction with other clandestine cultural movements. Aihe Wang brings a singular perspective to this history as both a former Wuming artist and a Harvard-trained historian and anthropologist. In this book\, she examines how underground artists cultivated individual agency and forged collective solidarity in challenging times\, while creating a distinct form of Chinese modernism. Interweaving art\, history\, theory\, and lived experience\, Painting into Being expands our understanding of modern Chinese history\, global modernism\, and the power of creative expression. \nSpeaker: Aihe Wang is a former member of the Wuming (No Name) group\, and her paintings have been collected by M+ and Tate Modern. She served as an Associate Professor in the School of Chinese at The University of Hong Kong 2001-2015 and is currently an Honorary Associate Professor. For this book project she was selected as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2013. Her other books include Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (2000\, Chinese translation 2011) and the 13-volume Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue (2009).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/painting-into-being/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Book Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261104T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261104T173000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261014T021543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T081915Z
UID:14020-1793809800-1793813400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Ports of Profit: European Trading Hubs in Asia\, c. 1500-1800
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Department of History\, HKU\nPorts of Profit: European Trading Hubs in Asia\, c. 1500-1800\nDate: 4 November 2026 (Wed)\nTime: 16:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nRegistration: required\, via the Department of History website \nAbstract: Well before the rise of 20th-century Special Economic Zones and world financial centres\, the ports of maritime Asia were areas of global trade and nodes of capitalism. Today ‘factories’ are places of industrial production\, but they owe their name to these pre-modern Asian trading ports\, European-controlled commercial hubs headed by company servants called ‘factors’.\nAround 200 of them were founded by European powers in Asia for trade. These ports were places where commodities for intercontinental trade were assembled\, stored\, and shipped.\nThis paper investigates their genesis\, evolution\, activities\, and connections\, and asks what kinds of economic activities were carried out in these Asian trading centres and what the interactive roles of European and local merchants were. \nSpeaker: Giorgio Riello is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute\, Florence\, Italy and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick\, UK (currently on secondment). He has published widely on the material exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period.\nAmong his books Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013)\, Luxury: A Rich History (2016)\, and the forthcoming In Times of Wealth (2027). Giorgio coordinates a European Research Council Advanced grant Project entitled ‘CAPASIA: The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism\, 1500-1800’ considering the system of trade in the Indian Ocean (2022-27).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ports-of-profit-european-trading-hubs-in-asia-c-1500-1800/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261113T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261113T203000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261111T023426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261111T023558Z
UID:14095-1794596400-1794601800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Final Year Student Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Final Year Student Gathering (Class of 2027)\nDate: 13 November 2026 (Friday)\nTime: 7pm-8:30pm\n \nThis casual dinner gathering aims to strengthen the bonding of Class of 2027. All final-year art history majors and minors are welcome to join. Register with Nicole at the Resource Centre.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/final-year-student-gathering-2/
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/13112026-Final-Year-Student-Gathering.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261119T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261119T193000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261027T053553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261109T100835Z
UID:14073-1795113000-1795116600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Conversation with Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:This event is supported by the Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nConversation with Trevor Paglen\nDate: 19 November 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU (Directions)\nDoors open at 6:15pm\, free seating \nRegistration: required\, click here \nSpeaker: Trevor PAGLEN\nTrevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing\, engineering\, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art\, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada\, Milan; the Barbican Centre\, London; Vienna Secession\, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul\, and participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Tate Modern\, and numerous other venues. Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT\, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour\, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima\, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography\, artificial intelligence\, state secrecy\, military symbology\, photography\, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, Wired\, the Financial Times\, Art Forum\, and Aperture. In 2014\, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016\, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. In March 2026\, Paglen was named the winner of the LG Guggenheim Award. Paglen’s sixth book\, “How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI“\, was released by Verso Books in the same year. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley\, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago\, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. \nModerator: Adrian Christopher Notz\nAdrian Christopher Notz 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.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-with-trevor-paglen/
LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Conversation
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261210T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20261210T190000
DTSTAMP:20261114T034732
CREATED:20261106T034237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261111T024529Z
UID:14091-1796925600-1796929200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Assembling the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Assembling the Sacred: Architecture\, Sound\, and Devotion in Late Chosŏn Korean Buddhist Temples\nDate: 10 December 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6pm-7pm\nVenue: Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nAll are welcome\, free seating \nAbstract: Scholarship on Korean Buddhist art has largely treated altar paintings\, sculptures\, and architecture as discrete objects of study. Drawing on Dr. Stiller’s new book\, Sensing the Buddha Land\, this talk presents a new methodological framework for examining how late Chosŏn (ca. 1600–1900) artisan-monks assembled timber-frame architecture and mural programs into spatial environments that rendered Buddhist doctrine materially perceptible. Inscribed ceilings articulated complex doctrinal classifications and protective formulas\, while images of celestial musicians transformed local performance cultures into imagined celestial sound. Artisans also organized devotional practice across intimate and expansive spatial scales by including niches dedicated to Kwanŭm (Avalokiteśvara) and serial buddha arrays. Grounded in a relational database that includes more than two hundred temple halls and approximately 5\,300 murals\, this study intervenes in a field long dominated by isolated case studies\, revealing regional configurations\, workshop practices\, and doctrinal priorities that object-centered approaches have so far obscured. In doing so\, this talk advances a spatial and multisensory model for the comparative study of sacred interiors across East Asia. \nSpeaker: Maya Stiller is an Associate Professor of Korean Art History & Visual Culture at the University of Kansas. She earned a doctorate in East Asian Art History from Freie Universität Berlin and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from UCLA. Through both conventional art historical methodologies and innovative digital approaches\, she examines the lived devotional practices and patronage networks that characterize premodern Korean Buddhism. Her research particularly examines how diverse social actors including carpenter-monks and female rulers shaped the iconography\, style\, and material production of non-modern Buddhist art. Dr. Stiller recently completed her second book\, Sensing the Buddha Land: Architecture\, Sound\, and Devotion in Late Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2027)\, which reconceptualizes Buddhist temple space as a richly sensory environment. \nThis event is organized by the Department of Art History with support from the Department of History
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/assembling-the-sacred/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Seminar
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