IHSS Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series (Spring Semester 2026)
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series
(Spring Semester 2026)
January 27 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Sijie Hu (The University of Hong Kong)
Knowledge for Lineage: Queen, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China
February 3 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Dollar: Mediating China’s Participation in Global Capitalism since the Nineteenth Century
February 10 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Elizabeth Sinn (The University of Hong Kong)
The Pain and Pleasures of Writing the Biography of Mr Ho Amei (何崑山J) (1838-1901), Pioneer Entrepreneur
February 24 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Billy K. L. So with Professor Sufumi So (The University of Hong Kong)
The Guomindang Doctrine Against Capitalism and the Original Intent Behind the 1929 Company Law
March 24 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Yuqi Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
When AI Reads Emotions: Affective Computing Approaches to Historical Psychology
March 31 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Zhiwu Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
Stone Grinding as New Military Technology: How Early Complex Societies Rose in Neolithic China
April 21 I 12:30 pm HKT
Ms Ye Hua (The University of Hong Kong)
Recasting the National Fengshui Master: Local Knowledge, Textual Authority, and Centralized Order in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
May 5 I 12:30 pm HKT
Professor Mark Meulenbeld (The University of Hong Kong)
Local Lore of a Sacred Landscape: The Daoist Tradition of Peach Blossom Spring
** Seminars usually take place on Tuesday in Room 201, May Hall, HKU and online **
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