Academic Activities
Recapping the Academic Seminar “Examining US Culture and History through Memorials and Monuments” on 18 March 2024
On 18 March, Mr. Colin CROSBY, Deputy Consul General from the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong and Macau, was invited by the Department to deliver a lecture on “Examining US Culture and History through Memorials and Monuments”, to the students of HIST3701 History, Memory, and Monuments. The lecture was divided into three parts: an overview of the United States in general, examples of different types of memorials and monuments, and changes in memorials and monuments. During the Q&A session, he responded to students’ questions about American history education and monument conservation, and presented gifts. The lecture ended with applause.
Recapping the World History Seminar “The Servant of One Master: Controlling English Labour Mobility through Identity Documentation, c. 1550–1700” on 21 March 2024
Dr. Sonia TYCKO, from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “The Servant of One Master: Controlling English Labour Mobility through Identity Documentation, c. 1550–1700” on 21 March 2024. This talk focused on the system of servant testimonials in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, which obliges servants to carry identity documents known as “testimonials” when finishing their term of employment with a master to seek job elsewhere. The speaker challenged the mainstream viewpoint of the historians who believe that the system of servant testimonials did not exist in practice. By searching the parish records, Dr. TYCKO found considerable registration documents for servant testimonials from different parishes in different counties from 1563 to 1731. In one case of a registration from Cuckfield, Sussex, the document records the name of the servant, the name of the former master, the length of service with the former master, and the fact that this servant was to be worked elsewhere. Although most of the servant testimonials themselves have not survived today, the speaker corroborated their common existence at the time through documents like the registration records.
Upcoming Events
Workshops for the First-Year RPg Students 2023-24
Session 1: 9:15am-1:00pm
| Presenter | Topic | Language |
| WANG Guanqi | 吳興郡與陳代政治 | Putonghua |
| HO Wing Yan | 魏晉南北朝時期的流民救濟措施 | Putonghua |
| GAN Lin | Emigration and Political Credibility: Overseas Trafficking of Women and Children in Qing Official Views | English |
| GUIANG Francisco Jayme Paolo | Pensionados in the University of the Philippines: Medicine and Public Heath in the Context of Filipinization (1916-1935) | English |
| TICAO Mar Lorence Gamboa | Tondo Through the Lens of the Colonizers: Representations of the Densest District of Manila in Newspapers during the American Colonial Era (1898-1946) | English |
| WANG Shu | Building the Modern Capital: Henry Murphy and the Urban Planning of Nanjing in the Republican Era (1927-1948) | English |
Session 2: 2:30pm-5:30pm
| Presenter | Topic | Language |
| HUANG Xiadong | Americans in Early 19th-Century Southwest Indian Ocean | English |
| YANG Yunfei | 真偽復誰知：秦檜專權前形象探研 | Putonghua |
| HOU Menglun | 寺與產：以山東濟南靈岩寺《泰安州申准執照之碑》為中心 | Putonghua |
| PEI Xiaoshan | 惟駝運便：捐駝事例所見康熙朝之軍需駝運與駝政 | Putonghua |
| ZHANG Junlong | 浙江文革中的 “地縣問題” —— 一場 “反革命武裝叛亂” 的由來 | Putonghua |
For enquiry, please call 3943 7448.
World History Seminar (2023-24)
| Date: | 5 April 2024 (Friday) |
| Time: | 7:00pm-8:30pm |
| Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183) |
| Topic: | Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations: Postwar African Nationalism, the Cold War, and Western Foreign Policy |
| Speaker: | Prof. Joseph SNYDER Department of History and Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 11 April 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 6:30pm-8:00pm |
| Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183) |
| Topic: | Myth America: Tea, Boycotts, and the American Revolution |
| Speaker: | Prof. James FICHTER School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong |
| Language: | English |
Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541
Academic Seminar
| Date: | 11 April 2024 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 3:00pm-5:30pm |
| Venue: | Onsite: Room 220, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK; and Online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 919 1197 2954) |
| Topic: | The Song Historiographical Turn: A Chinese Dynasty Shapes its Past |
| Speaker: | Prof. Charles HARTMAN Department of East Asian Studies The University at Albany, State University of New York |
| Language: | English |
Organiser: Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541
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.
