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Recapping the “Workshops for the First-Year RPg Students 2023-24” held on 5 April 2024

The “Workshops for the First Year RPg Students 2023-24” were satisfactorily concluded on 5 April 2024. The Workshops offered an interactive platform for the Department’s research postgraduate students to exchange and discuss their research findings.

 


Recapping the World History Seminar “Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations: Postwar African Nationalism, the Cold War, and Western Foreign Policy” on 5 April 2024

Prof. Joseph SNYDER, from the Department of History and Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University, was invited by the Centre for Comparative and Public History to deliver a lecture entitled “Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations: Postwar African Nationalism, the Cold War, and Western Foreign Policy” on 5 April 2024. The speaker delved into the dynamics of Sudan’s position in the intricate geopolitical situation in the early phases of the Cold War. Both the British and Egyptian governments used the Sudanese self-determination as a strategic point to cement their own diplomatic stances. Prof. SNYDER elucidated that while Britain sought to use Sudan’s status as a means to maintain its military foothold in the Canal Zone amid rising Arab-Israeli tensions, Egypt, under the sway of nationalist fervor, insisted that discussions on Sudan’s future could only commence following the cessation of British military activities in the Canal Zone. The lecture concluded with an examination of the critical yet understated decision by the British Government in 1951 to disagree with Egypt over the Sudan issue, which set the stage for an accelerated British evacuation of both Sudan and Suez.

 


Upcoming Events

Academic Seminar

18 April 2024 (Thursday)
Making Obeisance to Mothers: Gender, Networking, and Quasi-kinship Bonds in Tang China
Date: 18 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Venue: Room 101, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Topic: Making Obeisance to Mothers: Gender, Networking, and Quasi-kinship Bonds in Tang China
Speaker: Dr. HUANG Chih-yen
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Language: English

Organiser: M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 7448

 


 

World History Seminar (2023-24)

18 April 2024 (Thursday)
In Search of “Western Civ”
Date: 18 April 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Venue: Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183)
Topic: In Search of “Western Civ”
Speaker: Prof. Thomas KEELINE
Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English

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

 


 

Academic Seminar

3 May 2024 (Friday)
學問的幾個階段
Date: 3 May 2024 (Friday)
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Venue: Swire Hall 1, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK (SWH 1)
Topic: 學問的幾個階段
Speaker: Prof. WANG Fan-sen
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Language: Putonghua

For registration, please complete the online registration form.

Organiser: Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541

 


 

Academic Seminar

6 May 2024 (Monday)
Voting with Your Hooves: The Flight of Mongol Herdsmen from Inner Mongolia to the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1962-1977
Date: 6 May 2024 (Monday)
Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Topic: Voting with Your Hooves: The Flight of Mongol Herdsmen from Inner Mongolia to the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1962-1977
Speaker: Dr. WANG Anran
Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK
Language: English

Organiser: M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 7448

 


 

Others

The newsletter will resume in September 2024.
The Department of History wishes you all a fruitful and enjoyable summer!

 


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.

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