Application for the Scholarship for History Undergraduate Students to Undertake Research Work of Eminence History Department Fund

The scholarship is now open for applications. The application deadline is 31 March 2023. Late or incomplete applications will NOT be considered. For details of the Scholarships and the application form, please click here to download.

Should you have any questions, please call at 3943 7117 or email to vickitsang@cuhk.edu.hk.

 

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Recapping the World History Seminar “When Rhetoric Didn’t Work: Cultural Gifts and Early-Modern Diplomacy” conducted by Prof. Brian MAXSON on 23 February 2023

Prof. Brian MAXSON from the Department of History, East Tennessee State University, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “When Rhetoric Didn’t Work: Cultural Gifts and Early-Modern Diplomacy” on 23 February 2023. To present a succinct historical context of this topic, the speaker retrospectively examined Florence and pertinent diplomatic zones. He then elucidated diplomatic relations between different political powers via exemplars culled from various geographical locations including the Italian peninsula, northern Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the early modern era. Such relations relied heavily on the practice of rituals and gift exchanges as a means of fostering mutual trust and cooperation. Specifically, he paid attention to diplomatic entrance rituals and regular diplomatic partners. In the context of inter-power interactions, there was a shared understanding regarding the fundamental tenets of the involved rituals among the participating powers and their neighbors. However, upon extending the geographical scope of these interactions to more distant entities, the involved powers encountered a dearth of shared perspectives pertaining to the establishment of adequate levels of trust required to initiate negotiations.

 

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Briefing Session for Summer Internship Programme 2023

The Department of History has organised the Summer Internship Programme for its students since 2000. For the current year, 7 partner organisations in Hong Kong, which include government departments, publishers and museums, offer over 20 intern positions to History full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students (including the MA Programme in Comparative and Public History). The application deadline is 24 March 2023. Please visit our website or attend the following briefing session to learn more about this programme.

No need to register. For enquiry, please call Miss Tsang at 3943 7117.

 

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The 34th Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture

To enhance academic and cultural exchange, New Asia College of the University established the “The Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture” since 1978. This year, Prof. Nicolas STANDAERT, Professor of Sinology of the University of Leuven, Belgium, has been invited as the guest speaker of the following three public lectures:

All lectures will be conducted in English. Participation in person or via ZOOM online is welcome.
Online registration: Click here
For enquiries, please call at 3943 7609.

 

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World History Seminar (2022-23)

Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541

 

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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Hong Kong Studies from Cross-disciplinary Perspective

The Business, Economic and Public Policy Research Centre of Hong Kong Shue Yan University and the Leung Po Chuen Research Centre for Hong Kong History and Humanities, Department of History of CUHK co-organise the “International Conference on Hong Kong Studies from Cross-disciplinary Perspective” in June 2023. The Organising Committee invites scholars and graduate students to present their research findings from all disciplines in Hong Kong history, culture, economy, and public policy.

Please fill in the submission form and along with paper title, abstract, name, affiliation, and contact details for registration. Abstracts can be in English or Chinese of up to 500 words.

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 March 2023 (Monday)
Date of result notification: 1 April 2023 (Saturday)
Deadline for paper submission: 30 May 2023 (Tuesday)
Dates of the conference: 23-24 June 2023 (Friday – Saturday)

Enquiry: intlcon.hkstudies.2023@gmail.com

 

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Exhibition

 

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For teachers and students who have information to share with the Department, please email your articles in both Chinese and English to chanfiona@cuhk.edu.hk by 4:00pm every Monday.