Department News
The Launch of “Hong Kong Oral History Website”
We are very excited to share with you that the Hong Kong Oral History Website has been officially launched.
The Department of History has set up the “Oral History” website, aiming to share the collection of New Territories literature, field photographs, and oral materials collected by the department. The platform centralizes the oral materials and New Territories literature collected by scholars in the past 40 years to create a database that facilitating research and making it available to researchers and people with different needs in the community for free, to expand the social impact of historical research. The website will also gradually increase the number of audio recordings and transcripts of oral interviews to share the voices of different groups of people. It helps the public to integrate personal experience with the development of villages, communities, and societies, in order to understand more diversified aspects of history.
Academic Activities
Welcoming Teacher and Students from Department of History, Xiamen University
On 26 August 2024, a group of teachers and students from the Department of History of Xiamen University visited our department for academic exchange. The group was welcomed by Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai, Chairman; Prof. PUK Wing Kin, Vice Chairman; and Dr. CHEN Wenyan. They had a lively exchange with our teachers and students and visited the exhibitions in the library.
Upcoming Events
World History Seminar (2024-25)
| Date: | 25 September 2024 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 10:00am-11:30am |
| Venue: | Conducted online via ZOOM (Webinar ID: 982 9976 4121) |
| Topic: | Population Decline in the Early Medieval West: Causes and Significance |
| Speaker: | Prof. Shane BOBRYCKI Department of History, The University of Iowa |
| Language: | English |
Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK
Enquiry: 3943 8541
Lecture on Frontiers in Humanities
| Date : | 27 September 2024 (Friday) |
| Time : | 4:00pm-5:30pm |
| Venue : | Auditorium, University Gallery, University of Macau; Conducted online via ZOOM (Meeting ID: 971 8736 1093 | Passcode: 738508) |
| Speakers : | Prof. SO Kee Long Billy HKIHSS Fellow, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong; Adjunct Professor, Department of History, CUHK Prof. SO Sufumi Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
| Language : | Chinese |
Organiser: Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macau
Co-organisers: Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong; Department of History, CUHK; M.A. Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press; MSc Program in Global China Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Chiu Chin Yin Visiting Scholar Lecture: Public Lectures by Prof. Huang Ko-Wu
Prof. HUANG Ko-Wu, Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, has been invited by the Department to serve as the 14th Chiu Chin Yin Visiting Scholar and give the following three public lectures:
| Date: | 27 September 2024 (Friday) |
| Time: | 4:30pm-6:00pm |
| Venue: | LT 3, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK (LSK LT3) |
| Date: | 2 October 2024 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 4:30pm-6:00pm |
| Venue: | LT 6, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK (YIA LT6) |
All lectures will be conducted in Putonghua. All are welcome.
For enquiries, please call 3943 8541.
Organisers: Department of History, CUHK; Centre for Chinese History, Department of History, CUHK
Sponsor: Chiu Chin Yin Fund
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.
