A Cruise through the Brokers’: Wardour Street and the London Antique and Curiosity Markets in the mid 19th century Date: 17 January 2012 (Tuesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main [...]

Immortalising an Empress in Ming China: The Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493) Date: 8 February 2012 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU At the Taoism and [...]

Check Me Out: Representation of Checkpoints in Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian Art and Film Date: 2 April 2012 (Monday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU The talk will [...]

Grounds for Photography in Authoritarian South Korea Date: 22 May 2012 (Tuesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU Between 1968 and 1970, a number of photographers turned their [...]

The Evolving Latin American Canon Date: 7 June 2012 (Thursday) Time: 12:30-2:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU In this seminar the following questions will be examined: How do Western [...]

Hogarth and the Other Date: 12 October 2012 (Friday) Time: 5:45-7:15pm Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Speaker: Peter Wagner Dr. Peter Wagner, Professor of English Studies, [...]

Protocols: What Xu Wei’s Art Tells Us about Literati Painting Date: 24 October 2012 (Wednesday) Time: 5:45-7:15pm Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Speaker: Jonathan Hay Jonathan [...]

Desire Is Everywhere: Mao and France, 1966-1976, In Art, In Theory, In Situ Date: 28 November 2012 (Wednesday) Time: 6:40pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In [...]

Picasso’s Plants Date: 15 April 2013 (Monday) Time: 5:30pm Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In June 1932, the first comprehensive Pablo Picasso retrospective ever to be [...]