CHINA, THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, AND WORLD WAR II
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, 3-5 APRIL 2013

Dr. Peter Cunich receives the Knowledge Exchange Awards 2012

Prof. Xu Guoqi receives the Research Output Prize 2011-2012

Dr Robert Peckham receives the Outstanding Teaching Award 2012

Dr. David Pomfret is awarded the UGC Teaching Award for 2012.

'This Award was launched by the UGC in 2011 to honour academics in the UGC-funded institutions for their outstanding teaching performance and achievements, as well as their leadership in and scholarly contribution to teaching and learning.

Since joining the University in 2001, Dr. Pomfret has distinguished himself as a teacher, a pioneer and a leader within HKU, and beyond. The depth of Dr. Pomfret’s engagement with students and reflections on their learning processes, the thoroughness with which he choreographs his teaching, the tirelessness with which he pursues perfection, and his remarkable record of sustained teaching excellence mark him as a highly unusual, talented and charismatic teacher.'

- Professor Lap-Chee Tsui, Vice-Chancellor

Dr. David Pomfret is awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award of the Teaching Excellence Award Scheme (TEAS), HKU, for 2010.

Dr. Charles Schencking has been awarded Arts Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2009-2010 (see photo here).

Distinguished Visiting Professor

Professor Jay Winter:
The First World War - Lecture and Seminar Series
The Soldiers' War 1914-1918, 7 March 2013
The Lost Generation of the First World War, 21 March 2013
Remembering the Great War, 27 March 2013

Departmental Seminar Series

PACIFIC CROSSING: CALIFORNIA GOLD, CHINESE MIGRATION, AND THE MAKING OF HONG KONG, 30 May 2013

Art, Ambition and Empire: British Artists in India, 1770-1800, 25 April 2013

*Postgraduate seminar*Doing Postgraduate Research in History, 18 April 2013

How Did East Asians Become Yellow?, 11 April 2013

Riches, Rags and Rogues: The Many Faces of the British in Egypt, 1882-1922, 5 Mar 2013

Compradors in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong: New Approaches and Perspectives, 26 Feb 2013

Soviet Imperialist Decolonization in Central Asia: Nomads, Peasants, and the State from WWI to the Great Famine, 7 Feb 2013

THE ENIGMA OF ZHOU ENLAI
A ROUND TABLE "Zhou Enlai and China's Prolonged Rise", 10 Jan 2013

In the Dark Shadow of History and Memory: Revisiting the 'Rape of Nanjing' in Light of Diaoyu/Senkaku, 14 Dec 2012

Local Acts; Global Impact: Religious Freedom and Colonialism in China, 1862-1899, 22 Nov 2012

Global Health Citizenship from Historical Perspectives: The Case of the World Health Organization, 15 Nov 2012

Braving Disease and Death: The Contribution of Nursing to the Feminisation of the British Empire, 1896-1948, 22 Oct 2012

The Qing Government's Efforts to Control and Mobilise Chinese Boat and Fishing Populations During the Anti-Opium Campaign and the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-1842), 11 Oct 2012
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Hired to Care: Civil War Nurses and the Military Body, 19 April 2012

The Bandung Conference of 1955: An Indonesian Theatre of Diplomacy, 5 April 2012

The Sound of Empires Meeting:Soundscapes of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Canton, 29 March 2012

Religion and Politics in the Athenian Empire: The Case of the Eleusinian First-Fruits, 15 March 2012

The Catholic Church in China, 1 March 2012

Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, 1932-1940, 16 February 2012

Japanese Women and Buddhism: The Lotus, Amida, and Awakening, 8 December 2011

War and Penal Thought Reform in China, 1937-1945, 1 Deceember 2011

Chinese (Over) Civilisation and Britain, c.1850-90s, 24 November 2011

FEARFUL SYMMETRY: The Medici - from Utility to Design in the Renaissance Garden, 27 October 2011

Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910, 6th October 2011

Understanding Sun Yatsen: Exploring a Macro Issue through Micro Research, 15 September 2011

Academic Symposia and Conferences

Spring History Symposium 2013, 3 May 2013

Spring History Symposium 2012, 3 May 2012

Conference on Mao's China, Non-Communist Asia, and the Global Setting, 1949-1976, 14-15 February 2012

Pharos II: 2nd Postgraduate History Archival Research Orientation Seminar, 7-8 February 2012

Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park, 9 February 2012

The Grantswoman's Bible: Workshop on Outside Grants for Research Postgraduate Students, 9 June 2011

Spring History Symposium 2011, 6 May 2011

Talk by Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, China in the 21st Century: New Directions and Old Dilemmas, 7 March 2011

Pharos I: 1st Postgraduate History Archival Research Orientation Seminar, 4 January 2011

HKU Centenary Activity: Conference on Hong Kong on the Global Setting, 10-12 January 2011

Film Series: Latin American History in Film - Part 1 Old World Meets New, Room LE 4, 15, 22, 29 September 2010

Press Releases

History Department celebrates 100% rating in RAE Exercise 2006

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