
Past Events

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

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

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

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

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

History Talk
9 October 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

Career Workshop
30 October 2026
Career Workshop Series: Postgraduate Studies Q&A
John Carroll, Li Ji, Alastair McClure, Christine Walker
The University of Hong Kong

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

History in the Making
11 November 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
25 November 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
2 December 2026
Empires and Ethnology: A New Perspective from the Ottoman Empire
Giancarlo Casale
Professor
European University Institute
