Date Title Photo 13 June 2018 Hong Kong Keywords Workshop 2018 18 May 2018 Symposium: Thinking Sound in Hong Kong: Practices and Prospects 27 April 2018 Talk: Italian discourse particles in a cross-linguistic perspective 3-27 April 2018 Japan Month at HKU 2018 24 April 2018 Talk: Construction Identitaire et Competence Plurilingue 23 April 2018 Talk: Pour Une Phonetique Contextualisee 19 April 2018 Film screening: Dolores 18 April 2018 SMLC seminar: Variant Accounts and the Nature of Early Japanese Mythology 17 April 2018 Talk: Debt Diplomacy and World Peace: The Mongols and the Political in China's Quest for a Global Superpower Status 13 April 2017 Workshop on Korean Studies: Transpacific Aspiration toward Modern Domesticity in Japanese Colonial-era Korea 11 April 2018 SMLC seminar: From Internment to Occupation: A Japanese American Observer’s Transpacific Sociological Practices 11 April 2018 Talk: SAINT-ANTOINE: RENCONTRE-DISCUSSION: avec Véronique Cnockaert Université du Québec à Montréal 9 April 2018 Film screening: Los que se quedan (Those Who Remain) 9 April 2018 Online SETL questionnaires 4 April 2018 SMLC Seminar: Local Causes and Global Consequences: the 1528 Hispanic-Genoese Alliance, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific 3 April 2018 Film screening: Mei Fung 28 March 2018 Advertisement: Assistant Lecturer in Italian in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures 28 March 2018 Advertisement: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in French in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures 28 March 2018 Open Class: China Studies at Berkeley in 2000s: A Dialogue with Dr. Dong Tiezhu 董鐵柱 27 March 2018 SMLC Seminar: Miao in China and Hmong in the US: History and Homelands 23 March 2018 International Conference on German as a Foreign Language through Cross-cultural Perspectives - Opportunities and Challenges in Germany, Hong Kong and Mainland China 21 March 2018 Film screening: An Autumn without Berlin (Un otoño sin Berlín) 21 March 2018 Open Class: French Sinology and China Studies in France: A Dialogue with Professor Angela Ki-che Leung 梁其姿 14 March 2018 SMLC Seminar: Deluge and Reconstruction: Modernist Developmentalism in the Huai River Basin, 1927-37 2 March 2018 《亂世破讀》散文攝影集分享會 Book Talk on Against The Grain 28 February 2018 Open Class: China Studies at Stanford in 1970s: A Dialogue with Prof. Helen Siu 蕭鳳霞 28 February 2018 SMLC Seminar: Home Out of Place. Writing, reading, translating and teaching as forms of exile 8 February 2018 Briefing: China Studies Field Trip: Harbin and Heihe, Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省哈爾濱市及黑河市學術考察之旅 7 Feb - 9 Apr 2018 Crossing borders film series: The many faces of the struggle for a better life in the Iberian American world 7 February 2018 Open Class: China Studies at Harvard in 1950s: A Dialogue with Prof. Paul Cohen 柯文 7 February 2018 Crossing borders film series: The Second Mother (Que horas ela volta?) 24 January 2018 SMLC Seminar: Book Launch - Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past 18 January 2018 SMLC Seminar: Chinese relations with Central and Eastern Europe: The New Diplomatic Frontier 18 January 2018 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 4 December 2017 REMINDER & IMPORTANT: Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning (SETL) 4-6 December 2017 International Conference on Re-Thinking China’s North ”再談中國北方”國際學術研討會 20 November 2017 Advertisement: Temporary full-time Research Assistant II, School of Modern Languages and Cultures 20 November 2017 Swedish Rainbow Short Films at HKU 15 November 2017 SMLC Seminar: Brexit: where are we? 14 November 2017 Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning (SETL) 10 November 2017 Loy Krathong - Thai Lantern Festival 10 November 2017 素娜．祖巴特 示範講座 Sona Jobarteh Lecture Demonstration 8 November 2017 Film Screening: Jauja 1 November 2017 Seminar: Africans in Asia 1500-1900 1-2 November 2017 HKU Korean film screening nights 24 October 2017 Advertisement: Executive Assistant (at the rank of Clerk II) in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures 24 October 2017 Seminar: 香港週與菠蘿陣—五十年前的一闋插曲 The “Hong Kong Week” and the Bombs Parade: A Small Episode in the Year 1967 16-18 October 2017 Lecture & Workshop: The Fourth Policeman: Reconsidering FDR’s Vision for China’s Postwar Role 12 September 2017 Seminar: The Sacred Fonts of the American Mission Press: Printing Mongolian in Canton between the Opium Wars 11-18 September 2017 Exhibition & Talk: The Auschwitz Album and its Historical Significance 8 September 2017 Introduction to the new Major in Italian 14 August 2017 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 24 June 2017 Hong Kong Keywords Workshop 2017 香港關鍵詞工作坊 9 June 2017 Advertisement: Part-time Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (German) 25 May 2017 Seminar: National Sovereignty in times of crisis: Borderless Europe and its Discontents, and 'One Country Two Systems in China' 24 May 2017 Talk: Constellating Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas in A World Literary Dialogism 23 May 2017 Talk: The Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong: The Cultural Revolution Discourse in Hong Kong Leftist Newspaper Wen Wei Po (「文革在香港」: 香港《文匯報》中的「文革」話語) 22 may 2017 The Poetics of "Vibrant Objects": An Analysis of Natalia Chan's The Flying Coffin (飛天棺材 2007) 22-23 May 2017 Fulbright Conferences: Imagining Asia in the Era of Trump 12 May 2017 Documentary film + Round Table discussion: Ousmane Sow 26 April 2017 Talk: Applied Linguistics and Second Language Learning: current situation, emerging lines of research and future challenges 26 April 2017 Talk: A Korean-language Student from the Kumamoto Prefecture, 1895-1922: The Progress of Nakamura Kentarō, Protectorate Censor of Korean Newspapers 19 April 2017 Talk: Some Reflections on Human Communities and their Boundaries 6 April 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: “A Dam Against the Spring Tide of Memories”: Collecting/Collective Identity and the African American Past 6 April 2017 Korean Studies Lecture Series: Medicine as Moral Practice in Chosŏn Korea 3-28 April 2017 日本之月 Japan Month 2017 31 March 2017 Local Music and Cultural Politics in Hong Kong 香港本土音樂與文化政治 29 March 2017 SMLC Seminar: The Un-dead History of Residual Hauntings: Transgressive Identities in Alvin Lu's The Hell Screens 23 March 2017 HK Studies Talk: 端Talk - 本土? 國際? 世界公民在香港 23 March 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: Afro-Asian crossings: Langston Hughes and WEB Du Bois in China 20-28 March 2017 Swedish Film Week 17 March 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: “Set Adrift: Lois Mailou Jones and the Fluidity of Blackness” 15 March 2017 SMLC Seminar: Drawing Close to the Heart: Post-disaster Mental Health Care and Grassroots Therapy in Japan 13-17 March 2017 HKU Francophone Film Festival 2017 13 March 2017 Talk on North Korea's Modernization and China-DPRK Relations 2 March 2017 Film Screening and Q&A session with Creator Patrick Sammon: CODEBREAKER 23 February 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: “Damn that Jim Crow”: Blues Songs Confront American Apartheid 23 February 2017 Talk: Global Historical Research in the United States and Germany. Comparative Perspectives 22 February 2017 SMLC Seminar: Divided Church, Reunified Nation: Christian Leadership in Discussing Reunification in South Korea 16 February 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: The Promise and Imperialism of Free Trade: China and the “Long Arm of Commerce” in Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1882) 15 February 2017 Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo: Summer Internship Programme 2017 (Korean Speaking) 13 February 2017 Talk: A Bag(gag) of Identities: How ‘Red-WhiteBlue’ Travels from Hong Kong to Louis Vuitton 9 February 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: Quantum Aesthetics: The Color of Light in Beauford Delaney’s “Untitled” 8 February 2017 SMLC Seminar: Desire, History, Work, Death: an approach to Alexandre Kojève’s reading of Hegel 6 February 2017 Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo: Summer Internship Programme 2017 (Korean Speaking) 26 January 2017 Rising Above Lecture Series: No Man Can Be Prevented From Visiting His Wife: Henry Butler and Enslaved Manliness in Family and Intimacy 26 Jan - 6 Apr 2017 Rising Above African American History and Culture Lecture Series 25 January 2017 SMLC Seminar: “The Slippery are Very Crafty”: The Politics of Translation in David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish 17 January 2017 Talk: Micha Gelber: A Dutch Survival Story of the Holocaust 27 December 2016 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 4 December 2016 浪人劇場《雕刻城市》-「劇場與文學的結合」分享會 Theatre Ronin – ‘Sculpting the CITY’‘When Theatre and Literature Integrate’ Sharing Session 30 November 2016 Seminar: One Belt One Road and a Prosperous Africa (OBORPA) 28 November 2016 Reminder: Online SETL of the first semester of 2016-2017 25 November 2016 Film Screening and Discussion with Director Slawomir Grunberg 23 November 2016 SMLC Seminar: The Crisis of Leadership in the EU 18 November 2016 Loy Krathong - Thai Lantern Festival 17 November 2016 HK Studies Forum「香港音樂的本土味道」 16 November 2016 Seminar: Making Space for Engineering Education: the South China Institute of Engineering 14 November 2016 Talk: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist – Writing a Novel on Protest and Globalization 9 November 2016 SMLC Seminar: Anecdotes of the Sublime 7-14 November 2016 Argentine Movie Days at HKU 3 November 2016 SMLC Seminar: The Chosen Path of the Idea(lisms) of the 60s: Anti-domination, Limitless Freedom and the Politics and Ethics of the Impossible 3 November 2016 Talk: South Korea's Democratic Transition: A Social Movement Perspective 2-3 November 2016 HKU Korean film screening nights 19 October 2016 Launch of the "Professors from Afar" section on the HKU website 18 October 2016 Arabic Learning Workshop 12 October 2016 SMLC seminar: A Cross-Cultural and Evolutionary Examination of Prepubescent Children’s Hormone Responses to Physical and Non-Physical Forms of Competition 11 October 2016 HK Studies Forum: 《江湖‧文學‧現實‧香港》 陳冠中x馬家輝 5 October 2016 SMLC seminar: When Not In Rome: The Legend of the Citizen-Soldier in the Early Modern Atlantic World 5 October 2016 Talk: Auguste Borget in China 29 Sep - 7 Oct 2016 Photo Exhibition: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Glimpses and Insights 27 September 2016 Public Lecture: A Closer Look at Ethiopia: Visit of HKU Students 26 September 2016 US Presidential Debate 2016 in Hong Kong 21 September 2016 SMLC seminar: Nineteenth-Century Canton Trade and its Relevance to Hong Kong Studies 21 Sept - 23 Nov 2016 SMLC Seminar Series 19 September 2016 Public film-screening and talk: Sugihara Conspiracy of Kindness 12-28 September 2016 Mandela Exhibition 2 September 2016 Talk: How to be “The Most Lustful Man Ever” and Be Guilt-free: Some Thoughts on the caizi Baoyu, and Book Launch 29 August 2016 Talk: New Models for Monograph Publishing 24 August 2016 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses (7 September 2016) 18 August 2016 Talk: Canton’s India Connections - A Dialogue with Amitav Ghosh 16 August 2016 Advertisement: Part-time Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (German) 27 July 2016 Advertisement: Teaching Assistant in the Common Core Curriculum (Global Issues), School of Modern Languages and Cultures 25 July 2016 Educational Fieldtrip to Ethiopia 2016 25 June 2016 Open Symposium: Multilingual Hong Kong as seen through the eyes of Japanese 23-25 June 2016 Conference: World Studies: Approaches, Paradigms, and Debates 7-8 June 2016 Workshop: Hong Kong Keywords: A Vocabulary of Hong Kong Theory 6 June 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: A Special Trialogue: Hong Kong in China Studies 1 June 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: China in the World 25 May 2016 Murakami Fuminobu Memorial Prize in Japanese Studies 21-22 May 2016 Fulbright Conference: Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11 20 May 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: Ethnic Studies in China 19 May 2016 seminar: Brokering China’s extroversion: Intermediaries in the Sino-African transborder trade 4 May 2016 Advertisement: Temporary Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Japanese Studies) 29 April 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: War Memories in China Studies 28 April 2016 Forum Theme: 2047 New Voices in Politics 25 April 2016 Talk: Approaches to women's or gender history: A Dialogue between Elaine Crane and Mary Beth Norton 21 April 2016 Workshop and Film-screening: China in foreign eyes 20 April 2016 Seminar: Art in Southeast Asia: Curatorial and Archival Projects 13 April 2016 Seminar: An Orgy of Cheerful Giving: American Humanitarian Aid to Disaster-stricken Japan 13 April 2016 Talk: Floating Mountain: A comparative approach for the understanding of an oyster farming community in Hong Kong 7 April 2016 Advertisement: Part-time Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Korean Studies) 5-29 April 2016 Japan Month at HKU 2016 5 April 2016 Talk: Europe, Germany and the Refugee Crisis 31 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Panorama of Contemporary Cinema from Latin America and Spain at The University of Hong Kong 31 March 2016 Talk: Chinese Suffragette: Tang Qunying (1871-1937) and a ‘Woman’s Republic 23 March 2016 Seminar: Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery 22 March 2016 Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Finding Samuel Lowe - From Harlem to China 21 March 2016 Movie Screening: Timbuktu 21 March 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: Digital Humanities in China Studies 18 March, 2016 Japanese Studies internship 17 March 2016 Talk: Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Adam Johnson reads from his short story collection Fortune Smiles (2015) 17 March 2016 Talk: Micro & SME Financing in Africa and in China: A French Approach 17 March 2016 Seminar: Yasukuni Shrine and mourning the war dead in Japan 14-24 March 2016 HKU Francophone Film Festival 2016 14 March 2016 Talk: Transforming the Industrial Sector in Ethiopia: A path to sustainable Development 10 March 2016 Lecture: Critical Dialogues about China: Digital Humanities in China Studies 7 March 2016 Italian Summer Courses at the University for Foreigners in Perugia 2 March 2016 Seminar: Empire, Rebellion, and the Politics of Surf Tourism 29 February 2016 Presentation: Study in Spain 24 February 2016 Seminar: Maids, Mistresses, and Wives: Rethinking Kinship and the Domestic Sphere in Twenty-First Century Global Hong Kong 17 February 2016 Seminar: Language Ideology and Literature in Imperial Japan and Beyond 29 January 2016 Conference: Bridging Korea Old and New: Re-Periodizing the History of Korea for a Global Age 25 January 2016 Panel discussion: The Rainbow Workplace, on the path to more women leading change 22 January 2016 Seminar: Migration and the Great Divergence: The Euro-Atlantic world and East/South Asia, 1800-1930 18 January 2016 Workshop: A Re-examination of the Records by the Iwakura Mission in Meiji Japan 31 December 2015 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 29 December 2015 Advertisement: Half-time Teaching Assistant SMLC (closing: 6 January 2016) 2-10 December 2015 A Photo Exhibition: Everyday Life in North Korea 1 December 2015 Urgent: SETL 2015-2016 (First semester) 26 November 2015 Movie Screening: China Remix 26 November 2015 Forum: From Culture to Business: A Crossover 24 November 2015 Talk: Coming to Terms with the Holocaust: Restitution, Responsibility, and Justice 23 November 2015 Visual Poetry Reading and Talk: MothSutra (& matters of migration, love, and identity) 20 November 2015 Loy Krathong Night - Thai Lantern Festival 20 November 2015 Talk: Israel and Germany: From Enmity to Friendship 20 November 2015 Talk: Biotech in Hong Kong: How Biologist-Entrepreneurs Pursued ‘Hong Kong’s Bioscience Dream 19 November 2015 Talk: Making religion, making local society: private life of a Chinese Catholic village 18 November 2015 Seminar: The “National Question” and the Stories of Hong Kong 11 November 2015 Advertisement: Part-time Lecturer in Korean Studies SMLC (closing: 30 December 2015) 10-20 November 2015 Argentine Movie Days 30 October 2015 Talk: Africa’s Premier Diva Angelique Kidjo @ HKU 29 October 2015 Electoral Dysfunction: Documentary Screening and Discussion With Filmmaker Bennett Singer 28 October 2015 Seminar: Tea Politics and Propaganda in the American Revolution, 1773-1776 23 October 2015 A Warm Family: Conversation with a poet Kim Hu-ran 20 October 2015 Poetry Reading: The Nanjing Massacre with Wing Tek Lum 8 October 2015 Seminar: Reflections on the Historical Study of Asians in the United States 7 October 2015 Seminar: Reconsidering Japan's Decision to Surrender, 1945 5 October 2015 Talk: Postgraduate Studies in Germany 24 September 2015 Seminar: Global Talent: Foreign Students in Korea as Transnational Bridges 9 September 2015 Book Launch and New Talk: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes in China 20 August 2015 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 7 August 2015 Workshop on Nation, Gender, and Genres: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea, 1930s~1960s August 5, 2015 Advertisement: Part-Time Lecturers for Korean studies Programme (applications to be reviewed from August 25, 2015 until the post is filled) 28 July 2015 Advertisement: Teaching Assistant in the Common Core Curriculum (Global Issues) (closing: 15 August 2015) 13 July 2015 Lecture: Hong Kong 1957: Colonial Re-set in the New Territories 1 June 2015 Workshop: When Did They Decide? Understanding and Teaching the Development of the Final Solution 30-31 May 2015 Fulbright Conferences: East Goes West - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States 9 May 2015 Seminar: Fashionable Tigers 4 May 2015 Murakami Fuminobu Memorial Prize in Japanese Studies 30 April 2015 Student Performances: By the Department of Japanese Studies 28 April 2015 Seminar: The Role of Environment in Language Learning: Swedish inside and outside of Sweden 28 April 2015 Japan Jazz Live: Anime, drama, J-Pop theme songs by HKU Big Band 27 April 2015 Japanese Cultural Festival: Featuring Yosakoi Sooran Bushi dance and kendo sparring 24 April 2015 Seminar: Teaching and Learning Arabic in the 21st century: Shifting paradigms 24 April 2015 Seminar: (Re) Creating Creative Industries in Hong Kong 23 April 2015 The Austrian Short Film Series 2015 23 April 2015 Korean Studies Lecture Series: Theorizing Colonial Cinematic Networks in East Asia 23 April 2015 EU+ Series Mini-Conference & Roundtable Discussion: Greece, Germany and the European Union - between Anxieties and Anger 23 April 2015 Talk: Protest Culture in Postcolonial South Korea: The Student Vanguard 22 April 2015 Seminar: Subcultures in Flow, Visual Solidarity and Trauma in East Asia 22 April 2015 Seminar: Intimate Empire 21 April 2015 Talk: The Birth of the Yangban in Medieval Korea 20 April 2015 Talk: Christian Extraterritoriality: Recasting Missionaries, Converts, and the State in Korea, 1907-1931 24 Mar-30 Apr 2015 Japan Month @ HKU 2015 18 April 2015 Conference: From Culture to Business and Vice Versa 8 April 2015 Italian Summer Courses at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (Deadline 15 April 2015) 8 April 2015 Sacred Ground - Film Screening and Discussion 31 March 2015 Africa @HKU - Ethiopia Today 28 March 2015 Seminar: Kung Fu & Hong Kong Culture 24 Mar- 30 Apr 2015 Exhibition: Hong Kong – Japan Connections: In the Air and On Campus 24 March 2015 Seminar: We are what we eat? Cantonese cuisine in Hong Kong. 23-27 March 2015 HKU French Film Week 20 March 2015 Seminar: Minding the Gaps between Politicians' Promises, Governments' Policies and Citizens' Perceptions 17-31 March 2015 Hispanic Month 2015 4 March 2015 Seminar: Will China Ever Have Its Own Barack Obama? Some Reflections on the African and Arab Diaspora in Guangzhou 27 February 2015 Talk: Ancient Texts and New Cures: Transformations of Medical Knowledge in Tokugawa Japan 26 February 2015 Talk: A Disharmony of Blood: 'Mixed-Race' Children and the Production of Purity in Postwar Japan 11 February 2015 Seminar: Passions and Interests: The Euro Crisis as a Clash of Cultures 9 February 2015 Film Screening: Cabeza de Vaca 2 Feb - 2 Mar 2015 Passing on the Tradition with Creativity: Family Heritage and Creativity Forum Series 29 January 2015 Guest lecture by Rick Carrier 28 January 2015 Talking Genocides (Special roundtable discussion) 18 December 2014 Talk: African Studies in the United States of America: Structure, Governance, and Funding Opportunities 7-9 December 2014 Hong Kong As Method (香港作為方法) International Conference 27 November 2014 El Greco movie screening 27 November 2014 Talk: Coalition Building in the Early Gay Liberation Movement: The Hong Kong Connection Before & After the First Lesbian & Gay March on Washington in 1979 26 November 2014 Seminar: Non-Aligned Architecture: China's Designs on/in Ghana and Guinea, 1955-1992. 22-23 November 2014 3rd International (Non) Western Fashion Conference: The Global Politics of Fashion 21 November 2014 Loy Krathong Night 2014 11-18 November 2014 Argentine Movie Days 10-13 November 2014 Swedish Film Week @ HKU 10 November 2014 Seminar: Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past 7 November 2014 Advertisement: Part-Time Lecturers for Korean Studies Programme (closing: 5 December 2014) 29 October 2014 Talk: Chinese Translocal Migration to Peru, 1849-1890 28 October 2014 The Austrian Short Film Series 2014 28 Oct - 6 Nov 2014 Africa @HKU – Angola Today 23-24 October 2014 Conference: After the Leviathan? About the Creation of Global lines of politics and polity in and after the Age of Extremes 10 October 2014 趁香港還有我們 - 周耀輝博士 While Hong Kong Still Has Us 8 October 2014 Talk: South Korea's Elusive Middlepowermanship in the US-South Korea-China Strategic Triangle 29 September 2014 Spanish videoartist Alex Pachon. Videoart, visual effects, music and contemporary dance. Sharing session about his work and influences 17 September 2014 Seminar: Rethinking the Rise of Confucianism in Medieval Korea 25 August 2014 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 21 August 2014 Advertisement: Assistant Lecturer in Korean Studies (Closing: 26 September 2014) 12 August 2014 HKU-University of Tokyo Joint Summer Program - Student Presentation Session 4 August 2014 Advertisement: Teaching Assistant in European Studies (closing: 15 August 2014) 10 July 2014 Advertisement: Post-doctoral Fellow in China Studies (closing: 25 July 2014) 9 July 2014 SMLC Newsletter 2014 13 June 2014 Advertisement: Part-Time Lecturers for German Programme (closing: 10 July 2014) 7 June 2014 Talk: Jornada de Formación en Hong Kong (Teacher-Traning Workshops) 6 June 2014 Talk: Harnessing The Human Frontier: The Orochen And Qing Borderland Administration 5 June 2014 Talk: Cultural Paranoia and Purgation of Chinese Ghost Stories 4 June 2014 Talk: Public Health and Private Charity in China: Lessons from the Early Twentieth Century 13 May 2014 Talk: Semantische Textvernetzung und Leseverstehen (Semantic text network and reading comprehension) 25 April 2014 Talk: Teito Tokyo: Imagining the Imperial Capital 24 April 2014 Talk: Ethical Negotiations of Human Feeling and the Production of Literature in Nineteenth Century Japan 23 April 2014 Talk: El español de América y el conflicto de la norma 22 April 2014 Talk: Between Hong Kong and Japan: The Violence of Disappearance in Ye Si and Tomatsu Shomei 17 April 2014 Talk: Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo 16 April 2014 Seminar: Holocaust Literature and the Taboo 15 April 2014 Screening and Round Table Discussion: Holocaust Impiety: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds 12 April 2014 Symposium Intercomprehension and Multilinguism: Contextualizing Intercomprehension Strategies in Hong Kong Foreign Language Classes 10 April 2014 我所愛的香港 - 林夕 The Hong Kong I Love 7 Apr - 2 May 2014 Japan Month 2014 1-11 April 2014 The World, Europe and Hong Kong in the Age of Extremes 1 & 8 April 2014 Visual Feast Film Series 28 March 2014 Italian Summer Courses at the University for Foreigners in Perugia 26 March 2014 Seminar: Chinese American Women: Photography, Memoir and History 21 March 2014 Talk: Disease, Medicine and Colonialism in Africa: Robert Koch's 1898 Medical Expedition in German East Africa 20 March 2014 Seminar: Hailing the Subject: Visual and Narrative Progression in Nananan’s Blue 14-15 March 2014 Annual Meeting of Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong 5-28 March 2014 Hispanic Month 2014 5 March 2014 Seminar: Lost (and Found) in Transition: Hong Kong Culture Reconfigured in the Age of China 12 February 2014 Seminar: Behind the Suez Canal: Colonial Geopolitics and Anglo-French Rivalry, 1859-1869 10-14 February 2014 Global Creative Industries Presents: Movie Week 2014 29 January 2014 Meeting with German Olympic medalist Marcel Nguyen 德國奧運體操名將阮馬素 20 January 2004 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 3 December 2013 Round-table Discussion & Exhibition: We want to be free! 28-29 November 2013 EUAP Annual Conference 2013 27 November 2013 Seminar: Mark Twain in China 15-17 November 2013 The 10th Anniversary of the American Studies Network (USCET-ASN) in China 13 November 2013 Talk: A Postmortem of the Canton System 11-26 November 2013 Argentine Movie Days 8 November 2013 Call for Paper - Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK) Conference 4 November 2013 Talk: Mythical Muses of the Land of Ice 2-3 November 2013 The 9th International Symposium on Oral Proficiency Interview 30 October 2013 Seminar: Looking for a Modern Hercules: The Strongman Figure in American and Global Culture 28 October 2013 Talk: U.S. Diplomacy in China and the Asia-Pacific 23 October 2013 Seminar: Everyday Lives and Economic Conditions in the DPRK 22 Oct - 13 Nov 2013 Arabic Learning Workshop 22 October 2013 Talk: Learn about the new trend in Hollywood: TransMedia, the future of entertainment and media 13 October 2013 Workshop on Curriculum Design and Development for Japanese Language Education 11 October 2013 Creative Management in Luxury Industry Programme 2013-2014 9 October 2013 Briefing Session: Creative Management in Luxury Industry Programme 9 October 2013 Talk: Tocqueville on religion in democracies: natural or supernatural? 4 October 2013 Talk: Pursue Your Entrepreneurial Ambitions 3-7 October 2013 Peruvian Movie Days 3 October 2013 Making Films My Way: In Conversation with Director Kang Je-gyu 5 September 2013 Direct entry Placement Test for Japanese Language Courses 2 August 2013 Advertisement: Part-time Language Lecturer in French (closing: 31 August 2013) 2 August 2013 Advertisement: Teaching Assistant (closing: 18 August 2013) 17 July 2013 Advertisement: Laboratory Assistant (Closing: 9 August 2013) 27 June 2013 Talk: Chinese Textbooks (1902-1937) - Telling Stories and Socializing Elites 15 June 2013 Workshop on The Underground Economy in East Asia: Impact on Human and Health Security 14 June 2013 Advertisement: Assistant Lecturer in Korean Studies (Closing: 23 June 2013) 1-3 June 2013 Fulbright Conferences: New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History 24 May 2013 Advertisement: Assistant Lecturer in Spanish (Closing: 7 June 2013) 8 May 2013 Murakami Fuminobu Memorial Prize in Japanese Studies (deadline: 3 June 2013) 7 May 2013 SMLC6002 Research Postgraduate Presentation Day 30 April 2013 Lecture: Spoken Italian - a sociolinguistic and linguistic profile 24 April 2013 Seminar: Cantonese opera and the Mei-Ou challenge: Regional theater in the age of nationalism 23 April 2013 Talk: Selling American Popular Culture in China: Managing the Public Image of Disneyland Hong Kong 18-19 April 2013 Exhibition: 50 Years of the Elysée Treaty 11 April - 3 May 2013 Japan Month 2013 10 April 2013 Seminar: Home Away From Home: Displacement and Cosmopolitanism in the Itinerary of Xiao Hong 28 March 2013 Book Launch: China Fashion: Conversations with Designers 28 March 2013 Lecture: The Margins of Love in Contemporary Korean Cinema 27-28 March 2013 Workshop: Young Scholars Workshop on Creativity in Cultural and Business Practices 27 March 2013 Seminar: Race, Ideology, and the Logistics of Perception: Cold War Optics in Asia 26-27 March 2013 Workshop: Film Production in the Greater China Region 24-25 March 2013 Conference: Politics of Creative Industries: Critical Reflections 19 March 2013 Advertisement: Post-doctoral Fellow in Sino-Korean Cultural Interactions (Closing: 15 April 2013) 2-24 April 2013 Arabic Learning Workshop 14 March 2013 Italian Summer Courses at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (Deadline: 12 April 2013) 13 March 2013 Seminar: Collecting social credit: Pop culture’s impact on cultural capital 6 March 2013 Seminar: Ventriloquism, or How to Make Gay Art in the American 1950s 5 March 2013 Talk: In the footsteps of Alexandre YERSIN, discoverer of the plague bacillus in 1894 in Hong Kong 4-27 March 2013 Hispanic Month at HKU 2013 6 February 2013 Seminar: From Conceptual History to Iconology - From Carl Schmitt to Reinhart Koselleck 25 January 2013 Workshop: Grammar in the classroom. Learning grammar structures TO KNOW them, or TO USE them? 13 January 2013 Part-time Student Research Assistants Recruitment (Deadline: 5 February 2013) 19 December 2012 Seminar: Japanese Popular Culture and Teaching 14 December 2012 Mexican Folklore Dance by Ballet Folklorico del Estado de Mexico 13 December 2012 Talk: Love and the Sentimental Family in Qing China 28 November 2012 Loy Krathong - Thai Lantern Festival 28 November 2012 Seminar: Madonna Verde: New Reproductive Technologies in Japanese Popular Culture 21 November 2012 Seminar: Cognitive Hands: What Gestures Tell US About Bilingualism and Language Development 19 November 2012 Talk: Practical Business and Cultural Insights of Latin America 14 November 2012 Seminer: Racialization and Intimate Colonial Space: Intermarriage in Korean Literature in the1930s-1940s 6 November 2012 American Pop Culture Illustrated by Michael Sloan 5-6 November 2012 All day long : Day of the Dead 2 November 2012 Scholarships for Italian Winter Language Courses at the University for Foreigners Perugia 2 November 2012 Seminar: The Holocaust as a Unique Event in History 1 November 2012 Seminar: China’s New Economic Elites: Family histories and social change 25-26 October 2012 Lectures: Shortcut to Korean culture 24 October 2012 Seminar: Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food in America 8 Oct - 1 Nov 2012 German October 2012 10 October 2012 Seminar: The Idea of European Literature 9 October 2012 Flash Fiction and Slam Poetry with Thaddeus Rutkowski 8-12 October 2012 Korean Film Festival at HKU 4 October 2012 Seminar: Varieties of European Capitalism: the Legacy of the Euro 26 September 2012 CNN U.S. Election Debate: Asia Matters 24 September 2012 Lecture: Ahab/Pip and Melville's Novel Governmentality 24 August 2012 Direct entry Qualifying Test for Japanese Language Courses 19 July 2012 SMLC Removal notice 4-6 June 2012 Conference: Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies 17-19 May 2012 Seminar: From Frame to Frame and Across the Gutters: Asian American Graphic Narratives 14 May 2012 Research Colloquium: Soft Engagement VS Hard Engagement: a Comparative Study on Chinese and European Cooperation Mechanism with Africa 7 May 2012 Research Colloquium: Cultural power - the socio-cultural study of fashion system in contemporary China 30 April 2012 Research Colloquium: Trust and Welfare 24 April 2012 Talk: So... what are you anyway? 23 April 2012 Research Colloquium: The role of human rights NGOs in foreign policy decision-making 16 April 2012 Research Colloquium: History of Adult Video Censorship in Japan 11 April 2012 Seminar: China’s Road Ahead: Cultural and Political Choices 3-26 April 2012 Japan Month at HKU 2012 30 March 2012 Seminar by Mr. Suga Tsutomu, Travel Writer 28 March 2012 Talk: 1989 - Global or Goofy History? 27-29 March 2012 Conference: Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict 26 March 2012 Research Colloquium: Western and Chinese foreign and development cooperation policies in Africa 19 March, 2012 Perugia Summer Course Briefing 19 March 2012 Research Colloquium: The influence of Japan Culture in HK pop scene in the 80’s 14 March 2012 Norwegian Jazz Night with Excess Luggage 14 March 2012 Seminar: Consuming Latin/o American Popular Culture in China 14 March 2012 Talk: Reflections on the Nordic Welfare Model 13 March 2012 Talk: The Art and Practice of Bullfighting 12 March 2012 Seminar: Globalising Chinese Gender and Masculinity 13-29 March 2012 Hispanic Month at HKU 2012 12 March 2012 Research Colloquium: Comparative studies on Japanese and American animated film 10-11 March 2012 The European Higher Education Fair 2012 1 March 2012 Talk: A Historical Review of Japanese Policies on Inbound Tourism 29 February 2012 Seminar: Doing Business in China… in the Early Nineteenth Century 27 February 2012 Research Colloquium: Cultural Localization- A case study of BL Culture 27 February 2012 Talk: Fountains of Culture: Hollywood, MacArthur, and the American Reconstruction of Japan after World War II 22 February 2012 Talk: Spider-man India: Comic Books and Translating American Mythologies of Heroism 20 February 2012 Research Colloquium: Guoxue (National Learning) since the 1990s: a Discourse Analysis 15 February 2012 Talk: Dr. Freud's Little Jokes or How the Jews Became Funny? 13 February 2012 Research Colloquium: A case study of an AV actress’s image-building in Chinese text 9 February 2012 Talk: The Future of the EU's Political Economy- the German Perspective 8 February 2012 Seminar: Censorship of Visual Culture in the United States 6 February 2012 Research Colloquium: Theorizing Women’s Writing in Women’s Press 3 February 2012 Arabic Learning Workshop 2 February 2012 Talk: The Future of the EU's Political Economy 19 January 2012 Talk: Wastefulness and Reinvention in Millennial Japan 13 January 2012 Class venues for 2nd semester 2011-2012 classes 28 December 2011 Advertisement: Research Assistant II 30 November 2011 Talk: Dysfunctional Democracy in America 29 November 2011 Research Colloquium : Constructing Climate Policy - China & The European Union 24 November 2011 Talk: Archipelagos of Faith - American Religion; Chinese Religion 23 November 2011 Seminar: Revisiting the Chinese Discourse on Chinese Cultural Nationalism of the 1990s 22 November 2011 講座: 大陸央企企業文化的淵源 18 November 2011 Staff-Student Consultative Committee (Language Programmes) 16 November 2011 Talk: From the U.S. to Asia: Localizing American Animation for Asian Markets 15 November 2011 Film Show: An Autumn's Tale - Meet University Artist Mabel Cheung 11 November 2011 Thai Lantern Festival 9 November 2011 Film Show: Gran Torino 9 November 2011 Seminar: 'Troubling' American Women: A Coda 7 November 2011 Talk: The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation: Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality? 2 November 2011 Film Show: The Wedding Banquet 26 October 2011 Seminar: From Ah Q to Lei Feng - Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China 25 October 2011 Screening Autumn Gem - A Documentary on Modern China’s First Feminist 22 October 2011 Concert: An exceptional evening with the Manfred Quartet 20 October 2011 Talk: Joual in Canadian Translational Spaces in Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles-soeurs 12 October 2011 Seminar: Asian Modernity - Images of New Women from Chinese and Japanese Posters in 1920-30s 6 October 2011 Talk: Spain - a social and economic portrait 4 October 2011 Talk: The Challenges Graduates Face in Today's Labour Market 3-27 October 2011 German October 2011 28 September 2011 Seminar: Transnational Solidarity among Women Activists in Hong Kong 22 September 2011 Arabic Information Talk 14 September 2011 Seminar: Sequencing and Contingent Individualism in the Graphic, Postcolonial Spaces of Satrapi's Persepolis and Okubo's Citizen 13660 18 June 2011 Sad Loss of Mr. Fuminobu Murakami 31 May 2011 Talk: Bob Dylan in China - Visions of Beatitude 23-24 May 2011 Colloquium: A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in Chinese Port Cities, 1840-1950. 17 May 2011 Seminar: Writing Book Reviews - Handy Hints and Cautionary Tales 3 May 2011 Research Colloquium: Family communication in Japanese films 28 April 2011 Seminar: Filipino Women’s Movements in Transnational Spaces 27 April 2011 Research Colloquium: The changing face of a Japanese casual wear company in Hong Kong 21 April 2011 Talk: Listening to Lovecraft: 'Weird Fiction' Among the New Media 21 April 2011 Seminar: Crossing Boundaries & Lesson Drawing: Bridging gaps in Knowledge Exchange from Developed Countries to Developing Countries 20 April 2011 Research Colloquium: National Learning Craze 20 April 2011 Talk: Puerto Rican Culture and Literature in its Caribbean Historical Perspective 18 April 2011 Talk: A Task-Based Advanced-level Language and Culture Education - A Showcase of Korean Language 12 April 2011 Research Colloquium: Studying Japanese Style Girl Fashion in Taipei 7-21 April 2011 Japan Month at HKU 2011 - Ganbare Japan 6 April 2011 Film Show: The Wild Bunch (1969) 31 March 2011 Talk: Studying in Germany 8-31 March 2011 Hispanic Month at HKU 2011 30 March 2011 Talk: Challenges faced by the Portuguese Education System 29 March 2011 Lecture: The Wild, Wild... East? - The Boxer Uprising in American Popular Culture 22 March 2011 Research Colloquium: Man in the modern world - the paradoxical existence in the works of Italo Calvino 15 March 2011 Lecture: Them's Fighting Words - Masculinity, Violence, and the American Cowboy in the Late Nineteenth Century 15 March 2011 Research Colloquium: Bl manga study 9 March 2011 Seminar: We are victims, aren’t we? 9 March 2011 Talk: Small Country - Big Brand 8 March 2011 Film Show: Shane (1953) 8 March 2011 Film Show: Celda 211 (Prison Cell 211) (2009) 8 March 2011 Research Colloquium: Presentation of a comparative study of European and Chinese foreign and development cooperation policies in Southern Africa 7-8 March 2011 Workshops with renowned German graphic novelist Reinhard Kleist 24 February 2011 Talk: Study in France 23 February 2011 Seminar: Sex and the City - German Culture after the Fall of the Wall 22 February 2011 Film Show: High Noon (1952) 22 February 2011 Research Colloquium: The Spirit of Repentance - A German-Jewish Legacy in Postwar Europe 17 February 2011 講座: 漢語精神與中國思維 16 February 2011 Research Colloquium: Portrayal of Women Images in Japan Pop swayed the Asia Entertainment Media 15 February 2011 Lecture: Revising Authorship for a Digital Age - Henry James and the Remediation of the Author 14 February 2011 Love around the World 13 February 2011 Talk: Effective instruction for Japanese writing 9 February 2011 Seminar: R.W. Fassbinder’s Whity - Addressing Race Through Hollywood Genres 28 January 2011 Talk: Mapping Genders in Post-War Japan 26 January 2011 Seminar: Was Twain White? The Transnational Frame of Blackness in the Work of Mark Twain 26 January 2011 Talk: Dear Boss. How are you? Addressing superiors in letters 25 January 2011 Film show: The Western - Deconstruction of a Genre: The Searchers (1956) 13-15 January 2011 Conference: The Power to Heal - Ways and Obstacles to Collective Reconciliation in Eastern and Western Traditions 12 January 2011 Talk: The use of E-mail as a Teaching and Learning Tool 16 December 2010 Talk: The Model Minority Debate in the US: A Current Perspective 11-12 December 2010 Workshop: Inventing Commercial Culture in East Asia - A historical study on Advertising 4 December 2010 Talk: Oral Proficiency Interview and its Application to Classroom Activities 1 December 2010 Talk: Periodic Struggles - Origins of Menstruation Leave in 20th century Japan 26 November 2010 Talk: Britain in the 1960s - Happy Days or Prelude to a Long Road Down? 17 November 2010 Seminar: A Tale of Many Newspapers: Reflections on the Reportage of the Edison Chen Scandal 15-17 November 2010 The Festival of Lights 6 November 2010 Talk: Assessment in Japanese Language Education 5 November 2010 Talk: Listening to Late Mao China - Auditory Culture and Daily Practice in 1970s Chinese Cities 3 November 2010 Seminar: Political Attitudes of Young Chinese, Japanese and Koreans 2 November 2010 Talk: The Challenges Facing Graduates in Today’s Labour Market 29 October 2010 Talk: Beyond the Gulag - Solzhenitsyn and Dissent in the Soviet Union 4 Oct-10 Nov 2010 German October 2010: 20th Anniversary of German Reunification 27 October 2010 Seminar: Monomania, Science, and the Birth of American Sinology 26 October 2010 Guten Appetit – German Food Fest 13 October 2010 Talk: European and Chinese thoughts on diplomacy, statecraft and international law 13 October 2010 Talk: Germany - Your Destination for Study and Research! 11 October 2010 Performance: Tuna de Melilla 6 October 2010 Seminar: Commodore Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan 4 October 2010 Panel Discussion: 20 Years of German Reunification: Success or Failure? 29 September 2010 Seminar: Creating a Colonial Home: Domesticity in the East Asian Colonies 27 September 2010 Talk: What future for the French Language? A Prospective Analysis. 24 September 2010 Talk: One Woman, ‘Five Lives’ - A Trajectory through 20th Century German Art, Politics and Pop 2 September 2010 Portuguese Tuna Performance 13-15 August 2010 Conference: Harmony and Order vs. Spontaneity and Revolt in Eastern and Western Philosophies 30 July 2010 New course prefixes 2 July 2010 Talk: Life in a Dovecote: Housing in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1941 24 May-16 Jun 2010 Portuguese Poster Exhibition: Fernao, Are You Lying? 14 June 2010 Talk: China, the Chinese Diaspora and Spain 9-10 June 2010 Conference: From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism 4-5 June 2010 Workshop: The Built Environment of East Asian Colonial Coastal Cities: 1840-1925 19 May 2010 Seminar: Politics of Realism in Contemporary Venezuelan Filmmaking 11 May 2010 Research Colloquium: Man in the modern world - the paradoxical existence in the works of Italo Calvino 5 May 2010 Research Colloquium: Japanese TV Drama Study in Hong Kong 5 May 2010 Seminar: A Floating Sense of Selves: Kikou Yamata's Mediation of Japan 3 May 2010 Research Colloquium: German Repentance and European Reconciliation - Methodological Issues and Preliminary Findings 30 April 2010 Talk: Discourse Politeness Theory and Language Education Studies 28 April 2010 Seminar: What Can a National Anthem Tell Us? The Tale of the 'New' Balkan Anthems 28 April 2010 Talk: Comparing Academic Writing: Some Lexical and Stylistic Features of German and English 24-25 April 2010 Workshop: Inter-Asian Gender and Health 16-23 April 2010 Japan Month 2010 22 April 2010 Talk: Reconceptualizing Writing as an Intellectual Act 21 April 2010 Research Colloquium: Branding and promotion - Japanese corporate ethnography in Cosmetic Industry in China 21 April 2010 Seminar: Demonstrating the Superiority of European Civilization to the Chinese, 1793 and 1860 15 April 2010 Seminar: Demographic Change and the Future of American Politics 13-14 April 2010 Luso-Afro-Brazilian Festival 14 April 2010 Talk: The EU and the US at the UN: A New Treaty, a New Administration, a New Hope? 14 April 2010 Talk: The Character of the French Language 13 April 2010 Talk: The Perils and Pitfalls of Editing Academic Books 8 April 2010 American Studies Field Trip 2010 Briefing Session 7 April 2010 Talk: The Making of a Chinese American Community in Boston, 1870-1965 7 April 2010 Talk: Study in France 31 March 2010 Talk: Current Food Practices in the USA: Health and Environmental Consequences 31 March 2010 Talk: The Nordic Model - A Successful Combination of Capitalism and Welfarism? 31 March 2010 Talk: France and Europe, Why? 1-30 March 2010 Hispanic Month at HKU 2010 30 March 2010 Career Talk for BBA and BA students: National Australia Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd 30 March 2010 Hispanic Month: Talk by the Consul General of Venezuela in Hong Kong 24 March 2010 Talk: Leadership and Diplomacy in European Integration 24 March 2010 Talk in French by Canadian writer Marie Laberge: How to become a writer? 23 March 2010 Research Colloquium: Managing the Energy Security-Climate Change nexus: European Union as a Normative Power? 18-20 March 2010 Conference: Revolutions - Finished and Unfinished, From Primal to Final 18 March 2010 Talk by Man Asian Prize Winner Su Tong 17 March 2010 Seminar: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami 17 March 2010 Talk: The Great Chocolate Wall of Hong Kong 17 March 2010 Talk: New Initiatives in Education, Integration and Research in Germany 13-14 March 2010 The European Higher Education Fair 2010 11 March 2010 Seminar: President Obama - One Year Later 10 March 2010 Seminar: Tensions of Power in World History: Eric Voegelin's 'Order and History' 9 March 2010 Research Colloquium: Contouring city-mosaic in a glocalizing world 6 March 2010 Inter-University French Speech Competition 4 March 2010 Call for Papers: Harmony and Order vs. Spontaneity and Revolt in Eastern and Western Philosophies 1 March 2010 Research Colloquium: The Dandyism of Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde 24 February 2010 Seminar: Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy 23 February 2010 Working Holiday Visa for Japan Orientation Session 22 February 2010 Language Without Boundaries 18-20 February 2010 Conference: Translatio Imperii in the 3rd Millennium 10 February 2010 Seminar: Female Spies and Sexspionage: Barrack whores or noble patriots? 8 February 2010 Research Colloquium: German Coverage of China in the Age of Globalization 4 February 2010 Talk: Voltaire and China 3 February 2010 Talk: A Double Sense of an Artistic Revolution 3 February 2010 Research Colloquium: An Analysis of Arashi (1999-2009) & Fans Practices Research 27 January 2010 Seminar: Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers - How 'National' Went Global via Hong Kong 22 January 2010 Talk: The Rise of Chinese Liberal, Conservative and Moderate Socialist Thought in the Early Republic 13 January 2010 Seminar: The Praise of Idiocy - Rhetoric in Breton, Beckett, Faulkner, and Cortázar 8-9 January 2010 The Fifth Annual Conference: The Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong 8 January 2010 Book Launch: Where there are Asians, there are Rice Cookers 3 December 2009 Talk: Cultures and Trajectories of the Avant-garde in the Chinese Performing Arts 20 November 2009 Talk: Media Culture in Ireland and its lesson for China 18 November 2009 Talk: Italian Visions and Ideas on China 1750-1870 13 November 2009 Open Forum on American Studies at The University of Hong Kong 5 Oct - 6 Nov 2009 German October 2009 30 October 2009 Talk: The Thinking Patterns of the Leaders of Chinese Companies 23-26 October 2009 Conference: Love in the Religions of the World 16-17 October 2009 Symposium: Politics and Poetics of Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage 15 October 2009 Talk: Languages, Nationalism and Internationalization 13 October 2009 Talk: Text and Translation - Implications for Teaching 28 September 2009 Talk: Geox - How a Simple Idea Can Lead to a Fortune 18 September 2009 Storytelling with Valentina Ortiz 21 July 2009 Japan Education Fair 15 July 2009 Fu-Fu Live from Japan 5 July 2009 Summer Course for Children 29-30 June 2009 Symposium: Southeast Asia between Japan and China 25-28 June 2009 Conference: The Hidden God and Traces of the Sacred 24 June 2009 Talk: How to understand the ups and downs of post-war Japanese economy 23 June 2009 Research Colloquium: From "V is the Sign" to "Love Generation" 19-20 June 2009 Conference: Europe and China - Changing Global Roles 15-17 June 2009 Research Colloquium on Narratives of Free Trade in Early Sino-American Relations 30 May 2009 Languages Funfair 24-27 May 2009 Sino-Japanese Relations Research Symposium 2009 6 May 2009 Research Colloquium: 会(Hui) and its practice in circulation in a Chinese rural community 5 May 2009 Research Colloquium: An anthropological study of a Japanese supermarket in the Chinese context 30 April 2009 Talk: Two Types of Nonrestrictive Relatives 29 April 2009 Talk: The Motif between Islamic Art and Arabic Folklore 8-25 April 2009 Japan Month 2009 24 April 2009 Lusophone Cinema - Film Show 22 April 2009 Research Colloquium: The German Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 16 April 2009 Research Colloquium: Riding Langston Hughes’s “Freedom Train” to the Musical Poetry of Nas 15 April 2009 Talk: The Crisis of the Humanities and the Redefinition of Hispanism 15 April 2009 Research Colloquium: An anthropological study of Johnny’s fans in Hong Kong 14 April 2009 American Studies “Urban Culture” Film Series 14 April 2009 Talk: Study and Research in Germany - The International Way 8 April 2009 Research Colloquium: The production process of Japanese cultural industry in the age of globalization 8 April 2009 Talk: Women's Suffrage in China 7 April 2009 Research Colloquium: Japanese Human Resource Management in Mainland China 1 April 2009 Swedish Easter Celebration 31 March 2009 Talk: Unemployment in Europe - Implications for China? 9-30 March 2009 Hispanic Month at HKU 2009 25 March 2009 Talk: China and Japan - Competitors or Partners? 23 March 2009 Italian Film Show 21 March 2009 French Speaking Day 18 March 2009 Research Colloquium: Relations between China and Germany 18 March 2009 American Studies Lecture Series 11 March 2009 Talk: German - Chinese Relations: An Overview 7-8 March 2009 European Higher Education Fair 2009 25 February 2009 Talk: Does Sweden prosper despite or because of its social welfare structure 23 February 2009 Italian Programme Film Show 19 February 2009 Lecture: Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow 18 February 2009 Research Colloquium: Revolution of Nintendo 18 February 2009 Lecture: Barack Obama and the President's Race 15 February 2009 From Kowloon City to the World 7-9 February 2009 Workshop: Intercultural flow in East Asia 16 December 2008 Call For Papers: The Koreas between Japan and China 16 December 2008 Call for Papers: The United States between Japan and China 10 December 2008 Research Colloquium : The Comparison in Dandyism between Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde 9 December 2008 Talk: Perceptions of Europe since world war II 26 November 2008 Talk: France for You 21 November 2008 Thai Lantern Festival 13 November 2008 A Dialogue on Sino-Japanese Relations 8-9 November 2008 The Eighth International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies 6 November 2008 Documentary Film Show & Panel Discussion: The Blood of Yingzhou District 5 November 2008 Talk: France in Europe 5 November 2008 Talk: Key Moments in American Literature to 1865 23-26 October 2008 Conference: Faith in Reason and Reason in Faith 20-21 October 2008 International Conference on Korean Language Education in Asia 3 October 2008 Mo Yan wins Newman Prize for Chinese Literature 3 October 2008 Talk: Pompeii and Stabiae 2-30 October 2008 German October 2008 23 September 2008 Talk: The Image of Spain in Contemporary Spanish Cinema 8 September 2008 Talk: The Glorious Revolution and the Birth of Modern Britain 16-17 June 2008 France and China Conference 2008 10-11 June 2008 Sino-Japanese Relations Symposium 5 June 2008 Exchange meet with Japanese School students 2-4 June 2008 Workshop on Governing Global City-Regions in China and the West June - July 2008 Language Without Boundaries 30 May 2008 Seminar: On the Geopolitical and Discursive Origins of Cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong 29 May 2008 The First HKU French Alumni Reunion 23 Sept - 22 Oct 2009 French Festival 29 May 2008 Seminar: Boundary and Power in Globalizing China and Taiwan 8 May 2008 Lecture: Through the windows of memory 30 April 2008 Research Colloquium: Field work in a Japanese Woman's Company 25 April 2008 Students in Japanese Studies: Plays, Poems and Presentations 24 April 2008 Japanese Traditional Inns and their Great Female Managers 23 April 2008 Research Colloquium: Working in Japanese MNC subsidiaries 16 April 2008 Research Colloquium: Think Globally Act Locally: Japanese Retail Organization in Anthropological Perspective 16 April 2008 Talk: Turkey - Outlook for Political Risks 16 April 2008 Get into the J-pop Groove 11 April 2008 Seminar: (Re)Constructing Chinese National and Cultural Identit(ies) in the Age of Globalization 9 April 2008 Research Colloquium: Christian Girls' Schools and the Discourse of Girls' Education In Meiji Japan (1868 - 1912) 2 April 2008 Research Colloquium: Common Sense & Alice in Wonderland 2 April 2008 Germany and China - A Talk by the German Consul-General 1 April 2008 Talk: An Assessment of EU Policy Towards Asia 28 March 2008 Talk: Getting into Synch with the World- Time and the Global in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke 26 March 2008 Talk: Post-Mortem Mailer - A Retrospective on America's Journalist and Critic 26 March 2008 Research Colloquium: A Study on Women in Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera 20 March 2008 Peacefulness through a Bowl of Tea 20 Mar - 25 Apr 2008 Japan Month 2008 19 March 2008 Research Colloquium: Popularization of Japanese Videogame - Nintendo Revolution 17 March 2008 Korean Cinema Seminar: Lee Chang-dong and the Cinema of Critical Reflection 15-16 March 2008 European Higher Education Fair 2008 13-28 March 2008 Hispanic Month at HKU 10-12 March 2008 Workshop: Reception of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia 7 March 2008 Talk: Studying Modern Chinese Literature after Theory 6 March 2008 Talk by Ms Mitsuyo Kakuta 29 February 2008 The Eighth International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies - Call for Paper 28 February 2008 'Alexandre Yersin' Execellence Scholarship 2008 - Call for Applicants 24 February 2008 From Kowloon City to the World Carnival 15 February 2008 Talk: The Age of Openness: China before Mao 15 February 2008 Recruitment Talk: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ 29 January 2008 Japanese Studies Student Wins First Prize in Essay Writing Competition 18 January 2008 Talk: Anthropology in China: Thought and Methodology 17 January 2008 Talk: Governance and the Production of Public Goods in a Contemporary Chinese Rural Community 12 January 2008 SMLC's Yoshiko Nakano hosts HKU Arts Talk on RTHK Radio 4 7-11 January 2008 Beijing Foreign Studies University Delegation Visits SMLC 18 December 2007 Certificate Courses offered in 2nd semester2007-08 6-9 December 2007 Conference: St. Augustine: His Legacy and Relevance 30 November 2007 Public Lecture: Sino-Japanese Relations 28 November 2007 Sino-Japanese Culture Exchange Forum 23 November 2007 Za Ondekoza - Japanese Drumming Group 22 November 2007 French Pop Evening 13-16 November 2007 Thai Week 2007 5-10 November 2007 14th European Film Festival 9 November 2007 Seminar: His Influence on Contemporary Society 9 November 2007 Eliana Burki - The Other Face of Swiss Alphorn 5-6 November 2007 Conference: Decolonisation of the Soul - Hong Kong, China and Japan 29 October 2007 Talk: A Winning Strategy - German Companies in Hong Kong : Present and Future Outlooks 29 October 2007 Talk: Structural Changes in Trade & Economic Relations in the Pan-Pacific - A Japanese Perspective 5-31 October 2007 German October 2007 4 October 2007 Launch of Korean Programme 27 September 2007 Talk: Marketing Scents and the Anthropology of Smell 13 September 2007 Talk: GEOX - An idea is worth more than a factory 5-7 August 2007 The 4th International Conference on Japan-Korea-Asia Education 4 July 2007 Research Colloquium: Once were Japanese - a study of the elder native Taiwanese 27 June 2007 Lecture: Secrets and Lies in Aki Shimazaki’s Pentalogy 26 June 2007 Lecture: Dissociation and Solidification - Keys to “Complex Interculturality”? 18 June 2007 Lecture: Study abroad and the development of oral proficiency 7 June 2007 Exchange meet with Japanese School students 4 June 2007 Discussion Session with Students of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University 18-20 May 2007 Workshop on Japanese Language and Japanese Education 16 May 2007 Research Colloquium: Working for Japanese companies versus non-Japanese companies 15 May 2007 Research Colloquium: Images of Japanese women in Hong Kong Print Media 9 May 2007 Talk: Issues in the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language 9 May 2007 Research Colloquium: Why Japanese women enter entrepreneurship 3-11 May 2007 French Week 2007 2 May 2007 American Studies Book Launch and Fulbright Lecture 30 April 2007 Okinawa Eisa Dance at the Triennial Intervarsity Games Pledge Ceremony 3-30 April 2007 Japan Month 2007 18 April 2007 Research Colloquium: Christian Girl’s Education in Meiji Japan 11 April 2007 Research Colloquium: Japanese TV Drama in Hong Kong 4 April 2007 Lecture: German - Chinese Relationship 4 April 2007 Research Colloquium: Problems of Translating Contemporary Japanese Comics into Chinese 31 Mar - 1 Apr 2007 European Higher Education Fair 2007 19-29 March 2007 Hispanic Week at HKU (Semana Hispánica de HKU)) 15 March 2007 Seminar: The Japanese Economy - Today and Tomorrow 12-15 March 2007 Workshop on Japanese business 7 March 2007 Recruitment Talk: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ 28 February 2007 Portugal Film Show 9 February 2007 Hong Kong English-German poetry: A celebration 2 February 2007 Love, Loss, and Laughter - German Cabaret Songs by Eva Meier Dec 2006 - Jan 2007 SMLC Overseas Language Course Study Grants 2006-2007 21 December 2006 Seminar: Is Japanese Higher Education Really in Crisis ? 7 Apr - 2 May 2014 Japan Month 2014 7-9 December 2014 Hong Kong As Method (香港作為方法) International Conference 4 Nov - 2 Dec 2006 From Kowloon City to the World 30 November 2006 Spanish Serenades Lunch Concert: Male 'Tuna' Group 13-18 November 2006 13th European Film Festival 7 November 2006 Talk: Creative Translation 25-31 October 2006 The Portuguese Language, an Ocean of Cultures - 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