
Past Events

History in the Making
September 9, 2026
Childhood journeys across the seas: Locating children in shipboard spaces
Catherine Ladds
Associate Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University

Social Event
September 18, 2026
History Pizza Gathering
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History in the Making
September 23, 2026
Laid to Waste: Exploration as Dispossession in Japanese Hokkaido
Michael Roellinghoff
Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong

Book Talk
September 24, 2026
Death and Emotions in Anglo-China
Bobby Tam
Lecturer
The University of Hong Kong

Career Workshop for History Students
October 5, 2026
Career Workshop series: Talk to Secondary School Teachers
HKU Alumni

History in the Making
October 7, 2026
Steering Through Chaos: The Yannoulatos Brothers and Transnational Shipping in China
Nikolaos Mavropoulos
Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University

History Talk
October 9, 2026
History Talk - What’s the USSR got to do with it? Raw materials, technological change, and late industrialisation in resource-rich countries
Franco Galdini
Fellow
University of Birmingham

History in the Making
October 21, 2026
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Affective economies and Litigation in the Early Modern Iberian Empire.
Michelle McKinley
Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law
The University of Oregon

History in the Making
November 4, 2026
Ports of Profit: European Trading Hubs in Asia, c. 1500-1800
Georgio Riello
Professor
European University Institute

History in the Making
November 11, 2026
The Sogdian Wine Question along the Silk Road: "To Drink or Not to Drink?"
Nargis Nurulla-Khoja
Professor
The University of Hong Kong

History in the Making
November 25, 2026
Decolonizing in Japan: Leftist Zainichi Koreans in a Postimperial Society
Sayaka Chatani
Associate Professor
National University of Singapore
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History in the Making
December 2, 2026
Empires and Ethnology: A New Perspective from the Ottoman Empire
Giancarlo Casale
Professor & Head of Department
European University Institute
