| 12 Mar 2024 |
[Mar 12] Film Screening: Blurring the Color LineQ&A with Director Crystal Kwok |
| 22 Feb 2024 |
[Feb 22] Black Art Movements in the US |
| 6 Feb 2024 |
[Feb 6] Sacred Ground - Film Screening and Discussion |
| 11 Nov 2021 |
Focus on Latin America Seminar Series |
| 28 Oct 2021 |
Australia and the Orchestration of the 1973 Coup in Chile |
| 18 Aug 2021 |
Listening through the Unheard: A Reflection on 100 Years of U.S. Women’s Suffrage and its Connections with Asia |
| 26 May 2021 |
Focus on Latin America series:
Latin America in the aftermath of Covid-19: What is next? |
| 17 May 2021 |
Seminar: Wynn Chamberlain’s Brand X and the Wasteland of American Television |
| 26 Apr. 2021 |
Seminar: Deep Listening: The Uncanny Algorithmic Aesthetics of DeepDream and Early Computational Music Composition |
| 1 Mar. 2021 |
Seminar: Pranks and Self-Censorship: Duchamp, Dada, and the 'Image Withheld’ |
| 25 Nov. 2020 |
Seminar: The Chilean Plebiscite Digested |
| 28 Oct. 2020 |
Call for Papers: Contemporary Fictions of Migration and Exile: Writing Diaspora in the 21st Century |
| 14 Oct. 2020 |
Presentation: Cultural Sino-Latin American Relations: Between Poetry and Diplomacy |
| 21 Sep. 2020 |
Talk: Gender/Democracy/Diversity: Pepe the Frog and Cuteness Activism Amongst Sinophone Youth |
| 12 Aug. 2020 |
Panel: How will Latin American countries cope with the global competition and cooperation between China and the United States? |
| 14 Nov. 2019 |
[Cancellation] Lecture: Modern Brazilian theatre – a construction |
| 17 Oct.2019 |
Keynote Lecture: Jews as Books and Books as Jews: On History, Memory, People and Objects |
| 23 Sep. 2019 |
Memory at the Margins - Photo Exhibition Opening |
| 7 May 2019 |
Talk:
Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Three Decades of Chilean Women’s Poetry (1980-2010); 1980s Focus. |
| 6 May 2019 |
Talk: ‘Era mejor cuando éramos ilegales – it was better when we were illegals’
Indigenous people, the State and ‘public interest’ indigenous radio stations in Colombia |
| 30 Apr. 2019 |
‘The Weapon of Words’: Language Training, the United States in the World, and the World in the United States, 1941-1970 |
| 29 Apr. 2019 |
Talk: Art and Uncivil Obedience: Radical Rule-Following as Creative Practice |
| 13 Mar. 2019 |
SMLC Seminar: Troubling Memorials: Disgraced Monuments and Problematic Public Art in America |
| 26 Nov. 2018 |
Seminar: English Poetry and the Legacies of Colonialism |
| 15 Nov. 2018 |
Talk: The Changing Media Landscape in a Post-Truth World |
| 14 Nov. 2018 |
SMLC Seminar: Reading the Campus Novel (from a Distance) |
| 22 Oct. 2018 |
SMLC Seminar: The Lost Boys: Kidnapping and Slavery on America’s Reverse Underground Railroad |
| 13 Sep. 2018 |
Screening and panel discussion of Killer of Sheep (1977) |
| 19 Apr. 2018 |
Film Screening: Dolores |
| 27 Mar. 2018 |
SMLC Seminar: Miao in China and Hmong in the US: History and Homelands |
| 7 Feb-9 Apr 2018 |
Film series:
Crossing Borders: The many faces of the struggle for a better life in the Iberian American world |
| 12 Sep.2017 |
Seminar: The Sacred Fonts of the American Mission Press: Printing Mongolian in Canton between the Opium Wars |
| 22-23 May 2017 |
Fulbright Conferences: Imagining Asia in the Era of Trump |
| 6 Apr. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: “A Dam Against the Spring Tide of Memories”: Collecting/Collective Identity and the African American Past |
| 5&11 Apr. 2017 |
Talk: The US and the New Middle East - American Studies Capstone by Fatima Qureshi |
| 28 Mar.2017 |
Talk: From Medicine to Moonlight - how a short film and a scrappy, DIY film festival paved the way for an Academy Award sensation. |
| 23 Mar. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: Afro-Asian crossings: Langston Hughes and WEB Du Bois in China |
| 17 Mar. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: “Set Adrift: Lois Mailou Jones and the Fluidity of Blackness” |
| 2 Mar. 2017 |
Film Screening and Q&A session with Creator Patrick Sammon: CODEBREAKER |
| 23 Feb. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: “Damn that Jim Crow”: Blues Songs Confront American Apartheid |
| 22 Feb. 2017 |
HKU Blues: A Harmonica Extravaganza |
| 16 Feb. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: The Promise and Imperialism of Free Trade: China and the “Long Arm of Commerce” in Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1882) |
| 9 Feb. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture Lecture Series: Quantum Aesthetics: The Color of Light in Beauford Delaney’s “Untitled” |
| 26 Jan. 2017 |
Rising Above - African American History and Culture 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 Jan. 2017 |
SMLC Seminar: “The Slippery are Very Crafty”: The Politics of Translation in David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish |
| 16 Jan. 2017 |
New course: AMER2055 From Slavery to the White House: African American History and Culture |
9 Dec. 2016 -
26 Feb. 2017 |
Rising Above: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection |
| 24 Nov. 2016 |
Invitation to our Thanksgiving Party |
| 14 Nov. 2016 |
Talk: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist – Writing a Novel on Protest and Globalization. Introduction, reading, and discussion with author Sunil Yapa |
| 9 Nov. 2016 |
SMLC Seminar: Anecdotes of the Sublime |
| 8 Nov. 2016 |
Talk: Claiming Her Voice: Female Subjectivity and Representation in Early Asian American Independent Media |
| 26 Sep. 2016 |
US Presidential Debate 2016 in Hong Kong |
| 21-22 May 2016 |
Fulbright Conference: Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11 |
| 25 Apr. 2016 |
Talk: Approaches to women's or gender history: A Dialogue between Elaine Crane and Mary Beth Norton |
| 21 Apr. 2016 |
Workshop and Film-screening: China in foreign eyes |
| 13 Apr. 2016 |
Seminar: An Orgy of Cheerful Giving: American Humanitarian Aid to Disaster-stricken Japan |
| 23 Mar. 2016 |
Seminar: Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery |
| 22 Mar.2016 |
Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Finding Samuel Lowe - From Harlem to China |
| 17 Mar. 2016 |
Talk: Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Adam Johnson reads from his short story collection Fortune Smiles (2015) |
| 2 Mar. 2016 |
Seminar: Empire, Rebellion, and the Politics of Surf Tourism |
| 21-22 May 2016 |
Fulbright Conference: Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11 |
| 26-27 Apr. 2016 |
Conference: Propaganda, Persuasion, the Press and the American Revolution, 1763-1783 |
| 22 Jan. 2016 |
Seminar: Migration and the Great Divergence: The Euro-Atlantic world and East/South Asia, 1800-1930 |
| 3 Dec. 2015 |
Welcome reception and preview of our 2016 collaboration with The Bernard and Shirley Kinsey Foundation for Arts and Education |
| 23 Nov. 2015 |
A Visual Poetry Reading and Talk: MothSutra (& matters of migration, love, and identity) |
| 29 Oct. 2015 |
Electoral Dysfunction: Documentary Screening and Discussion With Filmmaker Bennett Singer |
| 20 Oct. 2015 |
Poetry Reading: The Nanjing Massacre with Wing Tek Lum |
| 8 Oct. 2015 |
Seminar: Reflections on the Historical Study of Asians in the United States |
| 9 Sep. 2015 |
Book Launch and New Talk: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes in China |
| 1 Sep. 2015 |
The American Studies Programme is having an exciting new course on offer: The American City (AMER2015) |
| 30-31 May. 2015 |
Fulbright Conferences: East Goes West - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States |
| 8 Apr. 2015 |
Sacred Ground - Film Screening and Discussion |
| 7 Feb. 2015 |
Film Screening & Panel Discussion - Finding Samuel Lowe |
| 29 Jan. 2015 |
Guest lecture by Rick Carrier |
| 10 Nov. 2014 |
Seminar: Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past |
| 16 Apr. 2014 |
Seminar: Holocaust Literature and the Taboo |
| 15 Apr. 2014 |
Screening and Round Table Discussiont: Holocaust Impiety: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds |
| 1 & 8 Apr. 2014 |
Visual Feast Film Series (2001: Space Odyssey & Days of Heaven) |
| 26 Mar. 2014 |
SMLC Seminar: Chinese American Women: Photography, Memoir and History |
| 20 Mar. 2014 |
SMLC Seminar: Hailing the Subject: Visual and Narrative Progression in Nananan’s Blue |
| 27 Nov. 2013 |
SMLC Seminar: Mark Twain in China |
| 15-17 Nov. 2013 |
Transnational Currents of US-China Relations: The 10th Anniversary of the American Studies Network (USCET-ASN) in China |
| 30 Oct. 2013 |
SMLC Seminer: Looking for a Modern Hercules: The Strongman Figure in American and Global Culture |
| 28 Oct. 2013 |
Talk: U.S. Diplomacy in China and the Asia-Pacific |
| 18 Oct. 2013 |
Lecture: Whales and Lucre: Internationalizing America in the Indo-Pacific, c. 1780-1820 |
| 9 Oct. 2013 |
SMLC Seminer: Tocqueville on religion in democracies: natural or supernatural? |
| 1-3 Jun. 2013 |
Fulbright Conferences: New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History |
| 23 Apr. 2013 |
Talk: Selling American Popular Culture in China: Managing the Public Image of Disneyland Hong Kong |
| 6 Mar. 2013 |
Seminar: Ventriloquism, or How to Make Gay Art in the American 1950s |
| 6 Nov. 2012 |
American Pop Culture Illustrated by Michael Sloan |
| 24 Oct. 2012 |
Seminar: Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food in America |
| 9 Oct. 2012 |
Flash Fiction and Slam Poetry with Thaddeus Rutkowski |
| 26 Sep. 2012 |
CNN U.S. Election Debate: Asia Matters |
| 17-19 May 2012 |
Fulbright Conferences: Frame by Frame and Across the Gutters: Asian American Graphic Narratives |
