BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Art History @HKU - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Art History @HKU
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Art History @HKU
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0800
TZOFFSETTO:+0800
TZNAME:HKT
DTSTART:20240101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20240101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250919T045417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T093712Z
UID:12961-1760029200-1760032800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Academic Advising Session (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Academic Advising Session (Online)\nDate: 9 October 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 5pm-6pm \nFormat: Online (click for zoom link here) -no password needed\nMeeting ID: 953 1876 0280\n \nDr. Sheng and Prof. Thomas are offering an online academic advising session to help majors and minors plan their studies and consider their options within our program. They will give a brief overview of relevant academic issues\, including:\n\ncourse requirements for the major and minor\nsequencing your courses\noptions for the capstone\nissues related to study abroad\ninternships and professional development\npreparing for graduate school\n\nAnd then they will have Q&A to address any questions you have.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/academic-advising-session-online/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20251009-aas-graphic-web.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251008T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250908T075513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T084628Z
UID:12936-1759939200-1759942800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School 2025
DESCRIPTION:Applying to Graduate School 2025\nDate: 8 October 2025 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4-4:50pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, 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/applying-to-graduate-school-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20251008-grad-talk-graphic-web-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250819T094014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T062623Z
UID:12815-1759426200-1759435200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art History Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:Art History Trivia Night\nDate: 2 October 2025\nTime: 5:30pm-8pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.28\, 10/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU \nRegistration is open to all Art History undergraduates. Sign up in the Resource Centre. \nWe look forward to seeing you. Come at 5:30pm for the 6pm start! There will be pizza and drinks provided.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Game-Night-Flyer.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T173000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250901T120547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T122013Z
UID:12915-1758902400-1758907800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Visit HKMoA with Prof. Koon
DESCRIPTION:Close looking at paintings from “The Pride of Hong Kong: Three Preeminent Collections of Ancient Paintings and Calligraphies”\nDate: 26 September 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 4pm-5:30pm\nVenue: Hong Kong Museum of Art \nRegistration is required. Sign up at Art History Resource Centre (Room. 10.29\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU).\nWelcome all. First come first served\, but HKU art history students are prioritized. \nRead more about the exhibition
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/visit-hkmoa-with-prof-koon/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Museum of Art\, 10 Salisbury Rd\, Tsim Sha Tsui\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Exhibition,Trip
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250926-hkmoa-visit-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250919T210000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250901T101140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T061537Z
UID:12907-1758308400-1758315600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MA Dinner 2025
DESCRIPTION:MA Dinner 2025\nThis event is co-organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association and the Department of Art History\nLet’s celebrate with our new batch of MAAH graduates (Class of 2025)! Invitation extends to our teaching faculty\, MAAH students from past and current cohorts. \nDate: 19 September 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 7pm – 9pm\nParticipants may come early at 6pm for a happy hour drink\, and try the Department’s latest VR experience on a reconstruction of a Roman Egyptian house!\n \nVenue: Cafe 1951\, 15F\, KK Leung Building\, The University of Hong Kong  \nRegistration: click here FULL\nQuota: 20 (first come first served\, headcount needed by 8 Sep for table reservation) \nGoing Dutch with the bill.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ma-dinner-2025/
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250919-ma-dinner-01-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250909T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250909T183000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250819T075931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T075814Z
UID:12803-1757437200-1757442600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Info Session & Tea Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Student Information Session & Tea Gathering\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! \nDate: 9 September 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5pm-6:30pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/student-information-session-tea-gathering/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250909-tea-gathering-graphic.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250902T180000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250822T080946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251121T063557Z
UID:12881-1756832400-1756836000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2025
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk\nDate: 2 September 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5pm-5:50pm\nVenue: CPD-2.14 \nThis in-person meeting will give an introduction to the course ARTH4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions for the academic year 2025-2026. \nOnline recording of the session (expire on 8 Sep 2025) \nView visuals of the session (pdf) \nNote that the application deadline is set on that Sunday\, 7 Sep.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2025/
LOCATION:CPD-2.14
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250902-internship-graphic-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250828T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250828T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250820T031413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T035735Z
UID:12818-1756393200-1756400400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MAAH Orientation 2025
DESCRIPTION:MAAH Orientation 2025\nWelcome to HKU Art history! Incoming MAAH students are invited to join this orientation to meet our faculty members and fellow students before the semester begins. Students may learn more about the programme\, general teaching practices at HKU\, and the actual learning environment as well. This can better prepare students for their upcoming academic journey. \nDate: 28 August 2025 (Thursday)\nTime: 3pm-5pm (15:00-17:00)\nLocation: Arts Tech Lab (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.35)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \n  \nRundown\n15:00 Presentation\, Q & A\n16:00 Refreshment served \nAttendance is strongly encouraged. If you are unable to attend for medical reasons\, or due to visa/travel issues\, please inform us as early as possible. \nNote that attendance at the Orientation is not equivalent to registration as an HKU student. Please follow instructions provided by the Faculty of Arts/the University for registration procedures and related paperwork.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/maah-orientation-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Information,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250828-maah-orientation-web-01.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250512T090125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095449Z
UID:12558-1747008000-1747267199@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:MA Colloquium 2025
DESCRIPTION:The annual MA Colloquium is an open platform for our MAAH students to present their dissertation research to other students\, members of our Faculty and their advisors. \nDate: 12th – 14th May 2025 (Monday to Wednesday)\nTime: 9:30am-1pm\, 2:30pm-5:15pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nNo registration required\, open to all\, free seating. \nA hardcopy of the presentation schedule (with individual abstract) is available in our Art History Resource Centre.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/ma-colloquium-2025/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250512-ma-colloquium-entrance-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250429T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250416T030434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250416T030434Z
UID:12544-1745940600-1745946000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Boating through the Sacred Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Boating through the Sacred Landscape: Fang Congyi and the Spiritual Ecology of Yuan China\nAround the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries\, Daoist monks found the many secluded pockets of space\, eroded caves\, and zoomorphic peaks of the Wuyi Mountains in southeastern China conducive to their spiritual practices. They meditated\, harvested medicinal herbs\, and boated along Wuyi’s Nine Bend Stream to engage with its exceptional terrain. Notably\, the topographic painting Drifting in the Wuyi Mountains (1359) by Fang Congyi (c. 1302–1393) captures a virtual threshold\, where a scholar sails in a small boat toward a towering peak shaped like a sacred lingzhi mushroom. In contrast to previous scholarship that foregrounds the painting’s scholarly and Daoist associations\, my research applies an ecocritical perspective to examine how the work mediates embodied encounters with the physical environment. What does it mean for a painting to not only represent the natural world\, but to participate in shaping how it is experienced\, remembered\, and spiritually activated? Fang’s scroll serves as a point of departure for exploring the spiritual ecology of Wuyi—an inspirited realm where specific plants\, terrain\, and rituals supported a Daoist quest for spiritual transcendence. Ultimately\, this project advocates for close engagement with local environments and attention to nonhuman agents in order to understand how art mediates ecological relationships and contributes to a more inclusive\, materially grounded history of Chinese art and visual culture. \nDate: 29th April 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Yu-chuan Chen \nYu-chuan Chen is Assistant Professor of Art History at Oakland University and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research and curatorial practice center on eco-art history in East Asia\, focusing on 10th to 14th century Chinese art and visual culture. His work examines how the visual and material entanglements of humans\, natural organisms\, and sacred environments shape cultural and artistic imaginaries. His exhibitions—including A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography and Earthly Hollows: Caves and Kiln Transformations—explore how spiritual agents and topographies animate spiritual and artistic expressions. His current book project\, Activating the Sacred Landscape: The Visual Culture of the Wuyi Mountains\, utilizes boat journeys as a critical lens to explore artistic visions of this sacred Daoist mountain since the twelfth century. His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, among other institutions.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/boating-through-the-sacred-landscape/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250429-Chen-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250425T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250415T022856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T030020Z
UID:12533-1745595000-1745600400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers
DESCRIPTION:The Zoomorphic Visual Language of China’s Frontiers: A View of Transcultural Entanglements in Inner Asia from the Iron Age to the Mongol Era\nNumerous nomadic and semi-nomadic confederations flourished along the Chinese northern periphery from the middle of the first millennium BCE well into the 15th century. Amid their intensive interactions with sedentary neighbors – namely China – steppe societies invented and circulated a unique approach to image-making. Loosely known in art-historical discourse as “animal style”\, this zoomorphic visual language was inspired by the nomad’s psychology of mobility and their constantly shifting place in an increasingly interconnected cultural and political milieu. Steppe visuality was rooted in a metonymic mode of expression\, creating an alternative ecological reality where animal bodies existed in a constant state of flux\, metamorphosis\, and “in-betweenness”. This study makes two primary observations. Firstly\, it contends that this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became a shared political strategy and a coping mechanism for the elite nucleus of reluctant and culturally diverse nomadic alliances in the face of their geopolitical rival. The analysis will show that animal-style design was at the heart of a self-fashioning dilemma\, as all Inner Asian societies\, from the Xiongnu to the Mongols\, wished to reconcile two distinct identities – that of a worldly politician in a global Eurasian milieu\, and that of a fearsome warrior with a sacral connection to the steppe environment. Secondly\, the lecture will demonstrate how steppe-inspired zoomorphic idioms permeated Chinese material and visual culture and became a new mode of framing the “nomadic Other” far beyond the northern zone – as far as China’s southern borders and distant outposts on the Korean Peninsula. \nDate: 25th April 2025 (Friday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Petya Andreeva \nPetya Andreeva is an Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at Vassar College. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Andreeva is the author of the monograph “Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies” (Edinburgh\, 2024)\, and the editor of the volume “The Zoomorphic Arts of Ancient Central Eurasia” (MDPI\, 2023). Her work on cross-cultural exchange in ancient and medieval Chinese and Central Asian art has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society\, Early China\, Fashion Theory\, Archaeological Research in Asia\, to name a few\, and her most recent work will be published in the Art Bulletin later this year. Her scholarship has also been featured on popular news outlets such as the History Channel and Voices on Central Asia. She is the recipient of several international awards\, including UNESCO’s Silk Road Research Grant and the Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art. Dr. Andreeva has given talks at institutions worldwide\, including Cambridge\, Yale\, Harvard\, the Institute for Advanced Study\, Heidelberg\, the American Center for Mongolian Studies\, and the China Institute of America.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-zoomorphic-visual-language-of-chinas-frontiers/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250422-andreeva-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250422T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250414T070142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T030323Z
UID:12530-1745335800-1745341200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Decontextualization\, Reconfiguration and Symbolization
DESCRIPTION:Decontextualization\, Reconfiguration and Symbolization: Reinventing Pensive Bodhisattvas in Early Medieval China (3rd to 6th c.)\nImages of pensive bodhisattva were produced in various Silk Routes regions from Gandhāra to Central Asia\, China\, Korea and Japan. His identity in each area is highly controversial. I argue that the key threshold of pensive image existed in fifth- and sixth century China\, where he was placed in some new pictorial contexts. These contexts suggest contradicting identities of him including Siddhartha (悉達多\, pre-enlightened Sākyamuni)\, Maitreya [彌勒] and several types of devotees/practitioners related to them. \nThis paper examines the shifting meanings of pensive bodhisattva. I propose that unlike its counterparts in Gandhāra and Central Asia\, pensive bodhisattva in China never exist within a full representation of Siddhartha watching the ploughing event and experiencing his first meditation\, whose repertoire typically includes farmers\, bulls and kneeling Śuddhodana [淨飯王]. I argue that pensive bodhisattva no longer embodies Siddhartha in the moment of evoking bodhicitta\, the compassionate mind to rescue all beings from suffering. Instead\, it had been decontextualized from the original narrative and constructed as a visual sign pointing at the Bodhisattva path\, a trajectory starting at the bodhicitta moment and culminating at the attainment of Buddhahood. \nIn 470s\, pensive bodhisattvas were incorporated into the iconography of Tuśita Heaven [兜率天] as attending figures flanking Maitreya to elevate Tuśita’s status to a quasi-Pure Land\, by visually connecting a rebirth in Tuśita with attaining Buddhahood. In sixth century\, pensive bodhisattvas were depicted as focal images within donor portraits/processions and later created as independent icons. I consider they embody the guaranteed\, future Buddhahood of the principal donors. In other words\, pensive bodhisattva is an “iconic narrative”: an anthropomorphic embodiment of the key morality behind the narrative of the historical Buddha’s life that we all Mahāyana [大乘] believers pursue our liberation by following and reenacting the trajectory of Sākyamuni Buddha. \nDate: 22nd April 2025 (Tuesday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, HKU\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Zhao Yi (Joey) \nZhao Yi (Joey) is a historian of medieval Chinese art and material culture. His research focuses on Chinese Buddhist art and its “horizontal” interactions with the wider Silk Routes regions as well as its “vertical” negotiations with the indigenous Chinese culture. His first book (GRF project) will examine the shifting Chinese conceptions on “afterworld paradise” along with the introduction and development of Buddhism in China between the 2nd- and 6th century. His new projects address Chan art in East Asia and Tibetan Buddhist art in late imperial China. \nHe obtained his PhD in Art History from the University of Kansas in 2023. He has taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Colorado College as an assistant professor and visiting assistant professor respectively. He is the recipient of Annual Graduate Research Award of 2022 from the Early Medieval China Group. His articles appear on major journals such as Archives of Asian Art\, Artibus Asiae\, Religions and etc. He is also an archaeologist who participated in the excavation of the Dayunshan Mausoleum of Prince Jiangdu (d. 128 BCE) in 2012.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/decontextualization-reconfiguration-and-symbolization/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250422-zhao-web.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250324T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250324T143000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250307T035244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095612Z
UID:12472-1742821200-1742826600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Lee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nLee Mingwei and the Art of Transformation\nLee Mingwei’s (b.1964\, Taiwan) artistic practice incorporates aspects of installation\, performance\, and participation. Inspired by multiple sources\, his works follow no set medium or material and are often repeated in different locations. Through his iterative projects he builds connectedness and helps us see art as a space for transformation and change. This talk will cover key works in Lee’s career\, giving special attention to the large-scale sand painting installation Guernica in Sand currently on view at M+. \nDate: 24th March 2025 (Monday)\nTime: 1-2:30pm\nVenue: Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit) (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE – Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating \nSpeaker: Pauline J. Yao \nPauline J. Yao is an independent curator and writer based in Hong Kong. From 2017 to 2024 she was Lead Curator\, Visual Art\, at M+. Since joining the M+ curatorial team in 2012\, Yao played an integral role in building the museum’s collection and acquiring works of art from East Asia\, Southeast Asia and internationally. She curated the first display of the visual art collection exhibition Individuals\, Networks\, Expressions and organized Antony Gormley: Asian Field\, both in 2021. Other M+ exhibitions include In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (with Shirley Surya\, 2018) and Five Artists: Sites Encountered (2019)\, both presented at the M+ Pavilion. Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum International and her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues\, online publications\, and edited volumes.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/lee-mingwei-and-the-art-of-transformation/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Public Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lee-Mingwei-poster.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250323T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250323T153000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250217T085419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095545Z
UID:12419-1742738400-1742743800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Art World 2025
DESCRIPTION:Department of Art History presents\nThe Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities\nHow social media\, geopolitics\, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world’s markets and modus operandi. \nDate: 23rd March 2025 (Sunday)\nTime: 2pm-3:30pm\nVenue: Grand Hall\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (click here for directions)\nRegistration: CLICK HERE– Registration is now closed\, but we welcome walk-in participants\nFree seating\, with doors open at 1:30pm \nSpeaker: Marc Spiegler (Cultural Strategist) \nSpiegler was the Global Director of Art Basel from 2012 to 2022\, and helped bring Art Basel to Hong Kong in 2011. He now works independently with cultural organizations such as the LUMA Foundation and for companies such as Prada Group\, KEF and Sanlorenzo. In the immersive space\, he is President of Board of Superblue and chairman of the UBS Digital Art Museum’s advisory board. Spiegler has been a Visiting Professor in cultural management at Milan’s Universita Bocconi for a decade and recently cofounded the Art Market Minds Academy\, a virtual education startup.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-art-world-2025-blurred-lines-and-new-realities/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Grand Hall\, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Public Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250323-spiegler-poster.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250319T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250319T173000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250228T093528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T101052Z
UID:12446-1742400000-1742405400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Tea Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Tea Gathering\nDate: 19 March 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4-5:15pm\nVenue: Art History Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nLong day? Need a break? Come and meet some friends over drinks and refreshments. All Art History students are welcome. Teaching staff will be there too!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/tea-gathering-6/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Tea-gathering-2025-01-1.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250310T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250304T025542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T030136Z
UID:12460-1741631400-1741636800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Collective Memories Reimagined with A.I.
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association\, supported by the Department of Art History \nDate: 10 March 2025 (Monday)\nTime: 6:30-8:00pm\nVenue: Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nSpeaker: Bianca Tse (artist)\nMedium: Cantonese \nFree for all \nEvent Registration: required\, click here
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/collective-memories-reimagined-with-a-i/
LOCATION:Arts Tech Lab\, Room 4.35\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus. The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250310-ai-talk-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250121T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250122T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20250110T085724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T101119Z
UID:12359-1737473400-1737565200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Resource Centre Fai-chun Party
DESCRIPTION:Date: 21 & 22 January 2025 (Tuesday & Wednesday)\nTime: 3:30-5pm\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. \nCome and make your own fai-chun\, and help decorate our space with your blessings! \nNo registration is required. Bring your friends\, the more the merrier!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/resource-centre-fai-chun-party/
LOCATION:Art History Resource Centre\, 10.29 Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250121-faichun-poster.jpeg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241107T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20241031T042559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241101T013616Z
UID:12251-1730997000-1731002400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Glass as a Fine Art Medium
DESCRIPTION:Glass as a Fine Art Medium: History and Practice\nDate: 7 November 2024 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6pm\nVenue: CPD-3.15\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Dr. Goshka Bialek  \nAbstract\nThe lecture explores the role of glass as a medium in the fine arts rather than as a craft form. It includes a short history of glass as an art medium\, the development of glass technologies and their application in the field of fine art. It reflects the distinctiveness of glass as a sculptural medium due to its optical properties and transparency; glass’s inherent characteristics create the unique possibility of using the space both outside and inside a solid object. This talk\, furthermore\, demonstrates the importance of specific individuals in bringing glass as a fine art medium to the fore. Also how well-known sculptors such as Ai Weiwei\, Tony Cragg\, Olafur Eliasson\, Louise Bourgeois applied the medium. \nSpeaker\nGoshka Bialek\, a sculptor\, educator\, animator\, and researcher\, is known for her innovative approach to art. She works with various techniques and media\, particularly transparent and translucent materials\, often using new technologies to explore truth and internal space in sculpture. \nShe holds a BA\, MA\, and PhD in Fine Arts\, specialising in sculpture\, ceramics\, and glass from the UK\, and an MSc in Economic Cybernetics and Computer Science from the University of Warsaw\, Poland. She has had the opportunity to exhibit her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions on most continents\, teaching and collaborating with many academies\, universities and research institutes worldwide\, such as Caltech NASA Laboratory. Her sculptures in public spaces can be seen in Tehran\, London\, Edinburgh\, Moscow\, Krakow\, and Poznan.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/glass-as-a-fine-art-medium-history-and-practice/
LOCATION:Classroom 315\, Room 3.15\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2024-2025
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Glass-talk-final-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241030T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241030T183000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20241009T034210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T015555Z
UID:12190-1730307600-1730313000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Where Does A Painting End?
DESCRIPTION:Research Seminar Series 2024/25\nWhere Does A Painting End?\nDate: 30 October 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nVenue: CPD 2.58\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (free seating)\nDirections: from MTR (click here); from car park (click here)\nSpeaker: Prof. Yeewan Koon \nAbstract\nThis presentation is of an ongoing project examining the conceit of a copy and pictorial wit in the Ming dynasty\, a time when a sophisticated art market for forgeries and originals was forming. By interrogating traditional paradigms of understanding copies\, this paper considers how artists employed emulative strategies to reflect on how paintings – as artifact and as image – inhabit their own social and cultural worlds. It asks what is the implication of a “double-looking” that demands acknowledging the presence of original artworks (and not of a former artist) within the replicant? Challenging the biases of historical lineages in our current art canon\, the speaker proposes that copies were instrumental in the making of visual knowledge and\, more importantly\, reveal what happens when copies escape time. \nSpeaker\nProf. Yeewan Koon is the Chair of the Department of Art History and Associate Dean (Global) at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research focuses on Ming and Qing art history\, with projects that re-evaluate established canonical narratives for diverse perspectives and alternative methodologies. Additionally\, she is active in contemporary art\, contributing to publications and curatorial projects at institutions such as Asia Society and Gwangju Biennale. Her current research project is a thematic study of Chinese export paintings.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/where-does-a-painting-end/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Academic Talk,Lecture Series,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/30-oct-event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241026T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20241002T071921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T083234Z
UID:12170-1729933200-1729965600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Information Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:HKU Information Day\nDate: 26 October 2024 (Saturday)\nTime: 9am – 6pm\nVenue: Centennial Campus\n \nOur booth will be set up in CPD-LG.07. Find out more about Art History and our students’ learning experience inside and outside the classroom. \nProf. Thomas will give a special lecture on Impressionism at 10am in CPD-3.04 and a more general programme overview talk at 11:30am in CPD-LG.62. (click to see the 1000-level course flyer) \nIf you are keen on technology\, try our Buddhaverse: VR Dunhuang in CPD-LG.41 as well. No registration is required\, but first come first served! \nGO TO HKU INFORMATION DAY OFFICIAL WEBSITE \nFind out more about the Arts Programmes
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/information-day-2024/
LOCATION:Classroom 304\, Room 3.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Information
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/20241026-minilecture-poster-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240929T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240920T043512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250819T095707Z
UID:12124-1727614800-1727632800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Small Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering
DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by Para Site. \nSmall Acts / New Flows: A Public Gathering\nDate: 29th September 2024 (Sunday)\nTime: 1pm-6pm\nVenue: Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU (HKU MTR A2 exit)\nRegistration: Required. Click here\nEvent details: Click here  \nLanguage: English to Cantonese simultaneous interpretation will be available through the day\, with Putonghua/Cantonese to English available for round table 1.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/small-acts-new-flows-a-public-gathering/
LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, Rayson Huang Theatre\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Conversation
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/A3_poster_B_20240919b-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240819T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240819T150000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240809T022228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T022251Z
UID:12028-1724076000-1724079600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Internship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Date: 19 August 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 2pm-3pm\nVenue: Online via Zoom \nThis Zoom meeting will give an introduction to the course ARTH4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions—Asia Art Archive\, Centre for Heritage\, Arts and Textile\, and University Museum and Art Gallery—for the academic year 2024-2025. \nHost: Prof. Caitlin Karyadi (Assistant Professor\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\nGuest Speakers: \n\nJocelin Kee\, Learning and Curatorial Assistant\, Asia Art Archive (AAA)\nWang Weiwei\, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections\, Centre for Heritage\, Arts and Textile (CHAT)\nLi Chuqi Catherine\, Former ARTH4005 student\n\nRegistration: required  (CLICK HERE)\nRegistrants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-information-session/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2024-2025,Information
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240819-intership-info-session-01-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240813T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240813T163000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240725T090221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240802T023336Z
UID:11992-1723559400-1723566600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Painting Rocks
DESCRIPTION:Technique Workshop: Painting Rocks\nDate: 13 August 2024 (Tue)\nTime: 2:30-4:30pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nInstructor: Shum Kwan Yi Sim\nMedium of instruction: Cantonese (English translation is available)\nClass size: 12 (first come first served) \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 6 August\, 2024 (Tue) \nAll tools and materials will be provided. This activity is supported by Endowment Fund For Music & Fine Arts.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/painting-rocks/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240813-ink-workshop-shum-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240625T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240628T113000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240613T014605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T094312Z
UID:11778-1719307800-1719574200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art History & Curatorship Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The University of Melbourne X The University of Hong Kong \nArt History & Curatorship Seminars 2024\nDate: 25-28 June 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)\nTime: 9:30-11:30am\nVenue: CPD-2.58\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU*\nRegistration: Required. Email art.history@hku.hk and indicate the session(s) you plan to attend and your year group. First come\, first served.  \n\nHong Kong art instutitions: a personal perspective (25 June)\n\nSpeaker: David Clarke (Honorary Professor (modern and contemporary art history)\, Department of Art History\, HKU)\n\n\nHong Kong arts development and funding (26 June)\n\nSpeaker: Johnson Chang Tsong-zung (Independent curator; Director\, Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong))\n\n\nResearching\, curating and practicing art in Hong Kong now (27 June)\n\nSpeaker: Michelle Wun Ting Wong (Independent curator; PhD candidate (Art History)\, HKU; Co-foundaer\, New Park)\nSpeaker: Eunice Tsang (Founder and Curator\, Current Plans; Associate Curator\, M+ Moving Image)\n\n\nArt publishing: ArtAsiaPacific (28 June)\n\nSpeaker: Elaine W. Ng (Editor\, ArtAsiaPacific; Assistant Professor\, Academy of Visual Arts\, Hong Kong Baptist University)\n\n\n\n*All sessions will begin with the guest speaker’s presentation in CPD-2.58. Registered students are welcome to join the subsequent discussion in CPD-LG.61. \nJoin us to explore aspects of the art eco-system in Hong Kong.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/art-history-curatorship-seminars-2024/
LOCATION:Classroom 258\, Room 2.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240625-flyer-2-01.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240520T183000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240508T040219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T043743Z
UID:11746-1716224400-1716229800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors
DESCRIPTION:Rock\, Paper\, Scissors: Durable Ephemera and Networks of Stone in Quanzhou’s Zhenguo Pagoda\nDate: 20 May 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5pm\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Prof. Jennifer Purtle\, University of Toronto \nAbstract\nTo build a pagoda is to mobilize durable materials into architectonic form\, timber and stone\, allowing it to stand and indeed rise stories above ground level\, perhaps for several centuries. But pagodas can also be crafted using images and objects wrought in ephemeral materials: fragile printed texts and paintings on silk\, indestructible objects fashioned from valuable metals ultimately recycled\, and evanescent forms no longer produced. Once these ephemera disappear\, they exist only as embodied in the fabric of the pagoda. The pagoda thus becomes a nexus of textual\, pictorial\, and formal transfer\, a site at which imperishable media preserve others easily destroyed through artistic and intermedial processes\, to create abiding texts and images able to outlive their models. \nThis talk examines how\, in the Zhenguo pagoda 鎮國塔 (lit. “Stabilizing the State Pagoda”) at the Kaiyuan temple 開元寺 in Quanzhou 泉州\, Fujian 福建\, rock—covered with the imagery of paper (and silk\, and other fugitive media) by means of scissors (or\, more precisely\, the carver’s knife)—preserved traces of evanescent forms\, sustained their lost networks\, and served as a lexicon for decoding the forgotten iconographies of other monuments. This talk articulates the relationship of paper-based editions of the Buddhist canon\, especially printed ones\, to the stone-carved narrative program and demonstrates how single reliefs combine content from multiple sutras; it also asserts that artisans employed the logographic schema of printed-paper primers as well as pictorial styles drawn from court painting on silk\, known locally\, to maximize the intelligibility of the reliefs. Furthermore\, this essay contends that\, by representing small\, free-standing bronze (and stone) pagodas—their corpus\, like those of their paper- and silk-based counterparts\, now largely lost—the reliefs establish links to overlapping local (Quanzhou)\, regional (Min-Yue/Fujian)\, imperial\, and maritime (Indian Ocean) object networks. Finally\, by using the durable images of the Zhenguo pagoda as indices of long-lost monuments\, this essay recovers the identity of an unusual local type of monument\, thereby validating the hypothesis that this pagoda serves as a repository of\, and lexicon for\, now-lost ephemera. \nSpeaker\nProfessor Jennifer Purtle (Chinese name: 裴珍妮) teaches at the University of Toronto. She researches the artistic landscape of China\, especially that of Fujian province\, engaging questions of local and regional production of painting in relation to Chinese empires. These aspects are central to her forthcoming monograph\, The Problem of Place: Artistic Geography and Cultural Transactions in Min [Fujian] Painting\, 909–1646. She is also interested in the circulation of art objects in the medieval world system\, especially in the Great Mongol Empire and is currently working on a book-length project that traces the intersection of local and global art history in Fujian during the Song and Yuan dynasties. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/rock-paper-scissors/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240520-seminar-purtle-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240321T081532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T081803Z
UID:11710-1712770200-1712775600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:David Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nDavid Diao: To Paint a De-Aestheticized Picture\nDate: 10 April 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD 2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Alex Jen\, MPhil candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nDavid Diao\, perhaps by his own creation\, has long been an artist difficult to classify. Emerging in the storied New York art world of the 1960s\, which gave rise to such movements as Pop\, Minimalism and Conceptualism among others\, Diao took a studiously uncommitted position and developed a citational painting that continues to this day. His lasting concern has been the history of abstraction as he was\, or failed to be\, a part of it; in turn\, by banalizing the life and practice of the artist in his paintings — detailing legendary exhibitions\, sales records and stereotypes — Diao has laid bare the myths and structures that organize art history and the art world itself. This presentation provides an overview of my research with a focus on Diao’s early career from 1966 to 1973\, wherein he actively (and humorously) refused conventions of persona and process in the pursuit of a “de-aestheticized” painting. \nSpeaker\nAlex Jen is an MPhil candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong. His criticism on art\, architecture and poetry has appeared in Frieze\, The Financial Times\, Gulf Coast and other venues\, and he has curated projects at galleries and artist-run spaces in Chicago and Taipei. A graduate of Williams College\, Jen was previously the Special Assistant to the President and Director at The Art Institute of Chicago. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/david-diao-to-paint-a-de-aestheticized-picture/
LOCATION:CPD-2.45\, CPD-2.45\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240410-alex-rpg-seminar-web-01-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240320T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240306T021822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T101154Z
UID:11692-1710955800-1710961200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Mingle & Munch!
DESCRIPTION:Mingle & Munch!\nDate: 20 March 2024 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-7pm\nVenue: Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nLong day? Need a break? Come and meet some friends over drinks and refreshments. All Art History students are welcome. Teaching staff will be there too!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/mingle-munch/
LOCATION:Resource Centre\, Room 10.29\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Social
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-tea-gathering-02.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240305T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240305T170000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240226T090929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240607T091327Z
UID:11772-1709650800-1709658000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Literati Gathering with Chui Pui-chee
DESCRIPTION:Literati Gathering with Chui Pui-chee\nDate: 5 March 2024 (Tuesday)\nTime: 3:00-5:00pm\nVenue: Artist’s studio in Kennedy Town \nArtist: Dr. Chui Pui-chee (read more)\nMedium of instruction: Cantonese (English translation is available) \nThis ink-play opportunity is primarily for the class of ARTH2091 Foundations of literati art and culture\, but Dr. Ruby Leung has kindly extended the invitation to all interested students. There is a very limited quota\, please register before Tuesday 27 Feb 5pm by emailing Nicole (fungnkn@hku.hk) if you are interested. First come first served! This activity is supported by Endowment Fund for Music & Fine Arts\, HKU. While it is free of charge for student attendants\, students still need to visit the Resource Centre in person and pay a refundable deposit of HK$300 (cash) on or before 28 Feb in order to complete their registration. The deposit will be fully refunded after attending the event on March 5.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/literati-gathering-with-chui-pui-chee/
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240222T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240108T032350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T083859Z
UID:11614-1708626600-1708632000@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Curatorial Workshop with Pauline Yao
DESCRIPTION:Art History Workshop\nCuratorial Workshop with Pauline Yao\nDate: 6\, 8 & 22 February 2024 (Tuesday\, Thursday)\nTime: 6:30-8pm\nVenue: CPD-LG.18\, Centennial Campus (6 Feb)\nVenue: CPD-2.42\, The Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus (8 & 22 Feb)\nSpeaker: Pauline Yao (Lead Curator of M+) \nThis workshop opens to all current art history students. Registration is required. To register\, send an email to maah@hku.hk with your full name by 26th Jan 2024. Registrants are expected to attend all three sessions and make a short presentation in the last one.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/curatorial-workshop-with-pauline-yao/
LOCATION:Classroom 242\, Room 2.42\, Jockey Club Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/curatorial-workshop-2-01-1.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240205T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260711T044359
CREATED:20240122T035730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T035730Z
UID:11647-1707154200-1707159600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:To be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nTo be Hong Kong and Modern: Ha Bik Chuen’s Sculptures \nDate: 5 February 2024 (Monday)\nTime: 5:30-7:00pm\nVenue: CPD G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nSpeaker: Michelle Wong\, PhD candidate\, HKU \nAbstract\nThis presentation examines a selection of sculptures by the late Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen (1925-2009) and argues that artistic modernism in Hong Kong was a self-aware response to the diverse current of ideas and information on art circulating in the city. Ha’s sculptures encompassed self-conscious references to artistic modernism from Europe and America\, inherited elements of Chinese aesthetics\, and his lived experiences in Hong Kong. These lived experiences included urban life\, the changing values of labour within a developing consumer economy\, and the cosmopolitan aspiration that accompanied Hong Kong’s rapid modernization. For Ha\, sculpture was also a creative and social domain where he established himself as a modern artist in Hong Kong by producing works with a highly individualized visual language. This study thus takes into consideration the social and cultural aspects of the mid-twentieth century Hong Kong art world\, and how they\, alongside the city’s rapid modernization\, found ways into Ha’s sculptures as material\, imagery\, and process. \nSpeaker\nMichelle Wun Ting Wong is a PhD candidate in Art History at The University of Hong Kong\, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art\, 1945–1990 (2018) and the journal Southeast of Now (2019). She was previously Researcher at Asia Art Archive\, focusing on Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Curatorial projects include Portals\, Stories\, and Other Journeys at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021)\, Afterglow\, Yokohama Triennale 2020\, and 11th Edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/to-be-hong-kong-and-modern-ha-bik-chuens-sculptures/
LOCATION:CPD-G.02\, CPD-G.02\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2023-2024,Academic Talk,Seminar
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arthistory.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240205-michelle-rpg-seminar-web-01.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR