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Departmental Workshop
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14-15 January 2010
Workshop
International History in Hong Kong:
The Present and Future
Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong |
A workshop on the present state and future potential of International History in Hong Kong will be held at the University of Hong Kong on January 14-15, 2010. This is one of several events organized in connection with the appointment of Prof. Chen Jian, Michael J. Zak Professor of US China Relations in the Department of History of Cornell University, as a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. Prof. Chen Jian, one of the world's most renowned scholars in his field, will spend six weeks annually at the University of Hong Kong over the next four academic years, 2009-2013. His presence in Hong Kong will enable the University to develop its potential as a major research centre of international history, taking advantage of its interstitial position between Asia and the rest of the world and building on the impressive strengths in international history of its academic staff.
The opening day of this workshop will include a plenary address by Prof. Chen Jian, on January 14, 2010. Sessions over the two days of the workshop will highlight Hong Kong's wealth of talent and expertise in the broad field of international history, featuring a wide range of papers by scholars at all stages of their career, including research postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, junior and mid-career scholars, and senior professors, as well as independent scholars. Featured speakers will also include international scholars from outside Hong Kong.
A final round table will discuss strategies to enhance Hong Kong's position as a major centre of international history, particularly over the following three years of Prof. Chen Jian's visiting research appointment.
Programme
Day One: Thursday, 14th January, 2010
Opening Ceremony
9.30-10.00 a.m., Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Session 1: Hong Kong and South China in the World Setting (1)
10.00 a.m.-12.00 noon , Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Dr. Peter Cunich, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- Ad Hoc Foreign Policymaking in the Early Republic: Thomas Handaysyd Perkins, the Boston-Canton-Smyrna Opium Trade and Congress's Rejection of Aid for Greek Independence
Michael Chapman, Peking University
- 'He catchee walk': Anglo-Chinese Relations in the First Construction of Hong Kong, 1841-46
Christopher Cowell, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- A Neglected Partner: A Critical Analysis of Hong Kong-Macao Relations
Vincent Ho, Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Macau
- "White Gloves for the Authoritarian Diplomats? " The Role of the Hong Kong Diaspora in Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy
Simon Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, HK Institute of Education
12.00-1.30 p.m., Lunch Break
Session 2: Hong Kong and South China in the World Setting (2)
1.30-3.30 p.m., Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Prof. John Carroll, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- Research in the Maritime History of Hong Kong and South China in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Jebsen History Project
Bert Becker, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- A Faithless Gesture: The Reinforcement of Hong Kong, 1941
David Macri, Postgraduate Student, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong and the Overseas Chinese Policies of China and Taiwan in the 1950s
Michael Chan Man-lok, Postgraduate Student, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- The Policy of the Hong Kong Government in Financing Schooling: A Historical Comparative Analysis According to Theories of the State
Steven Hung, Tarlac State University, Republic of the Philippines
Keynote Address
4.00-5.30 p.m., MB150, 1st Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Priscilla Roberts, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- Positioning 1949 in Chinese and World History
Chen Jian, Michael J. Zak Professor of the History of Sino-US Relations, Cornell University, and Visiting Research Professor, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
Day Two: Friday, 15th January, 2010
Session 3: Conflict, War, and the State
9.00-10.30 a.m., Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Chair: Victor Zatsepine, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- How External Intervention Made the Sovereign State: Foreign Rivalries, Local Collaboration, and State Formation in China and Indonesia
Ian Chong Ja, HK University of Science and Technology
- Anglo-Chinese Cooperation and Conflict in Customs Affairs
Henry Choi, postgraduate student, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Laborers in France during World War I
Xu Guoqi, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
Session 2: The Second World War and Beyond in Asia
11.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m., Convocation Room, 2nd Floor, Main Building, University of Hong Kong
Chair: David Pomfret, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- The Indian Ocean and the Second World War
Dr. Ashley Jackson, Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London
- "Sink the Bismarck!: The Atlantic Charter in the Pacific War"
Paul Spooner, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
- "Ethnopolitics and Geopolitics in Stalin's Asian Strategy, 1944-1947"
Sergey Radchenko, University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus
- Re-Setting the Consensus: American Think Tanks and China Policy in the 1950s and 1960s
Priscilla Roberts, Department of History, University of Hong Kong
1.00-2.30 p.m., Lunch Break
Round Table Session
2.30-4.30 p.m., Room 150, Main Building
- Developing International History in Hong Kong
Discussion Leaders: Chen Jian, Priscilla Roberts, Ashley Jackson, Sergey Radchenko
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