Symposium on "Politics and Poetics of Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage" at 16/ 17 October, 2009". [Download: Information & Call for Papers / The poster review / Abstracts / Symposium_Notice / Symposium_schedule]
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Presents a Seminar on "Taoist body techniques and the elaboration of a social person, in a contemporary rural China cult community. Litang (Hunan)", 6 February, 2009. [Details: Poster preview] |
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Seminars on "The New American Specie(s): The Crisis of National Character in Samuel Shaw's Vision of Canton", 21 November 2008 [Details: Poster preview]
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International Conference on "Chinese on the move and the making of individual identities ", 29 November, 2008. [Details: Poster preview]
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Seminars on "Neolithic Emergence: Culture, Environment & Society at the Dawn of Agriculture in the Near East", 31 October 2008 [Details: Poster preview]
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International Conference on "Asian Heritages at the Crossroads", December 4-5, 2007. [Details: Poster preview] |
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International Conference on "Emerging Social Movements in China", March 23-24, 2005, jointly with French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC)[Details: Poster preview]¡@ |
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Second International Symposium on "Log On: Chinese women and their Cyber Networks", 20-21October 2004. [Details: Poster preview] |
International Conference on: Transnational Religions: Intersections of the 'global' and 'local', Jointly organized by: Asia research Institute, National University of Singapore and the Centre for Anthropological Research, Hong Kong University, 5-6 July 2004.
International Conference on "Chinese Culture and Religions", CAR jointly with University of Southern California, Institute of Commerce, Culture and Religion and CUHK, March 2003.
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| February 6, 2009 | Event | Taoist body techniques and the elaboration of a social person, in a contemporary rural China cult community. Litang (Hunan) |
| Speaker | Mr. Georges Favraud is currently in his 4th year of PhD studies, under the direction of Brigitte Baptandier in the Laboratoire d¡¦Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris West Nanterre ¡V La Defense University. He is a fellow researcher of the French centre for research on contemporary China (CEFC ¡V Hongkong). It¡¦s after practicing martial arts and long life techniques in France and then with Daoist masters in China since 2003, that he started this ethnological study. |
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| November 29, 2008 | Event | International Conference 2008 - Chinese on the move and the on making of individual identities |
| Speaker | Antonella CECCAGNO , Kuah-Pearce Khun-Eng,Carine PINA-GUERASSIMOFF,PANG Ching-lin,Eric FLORENCE,Florence LEVY,Antoine KERNEN,Olga ALEXEEVA |
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| November 21, 2008 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2008 - The New American Specie(s): The Crisis of National Character in Samuel Shaw's Vision of Canton |
| Speaker | Professor Kendall Johnson Professor Kendall Johnson is a Fulbright Fellow visiting Hong KongUniversity for 2008-09 and teaching in the American Studies Programme. |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU | |
| October 31, 2008 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2008 - Neolithic Emergence: Culture, Environment & Society at the Dawn of Agriculture in the Near East |
| Speaker | Professor Steven Mithen Professor Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Reading, UK. |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU | |
| September 12, 2008 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2008 - Shanghai Real Estate Broker and the Building of the Land Market |
| Speaker | Professor Gilles Guiheux is Professor at Paris Diderot University in France(Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations). |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU | |
| May 23, 2008 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2008 - Plan D: Is Diversity An Element in European Democracy? European Changes and the Consequences for Equality Advocates |
| Speaker | Professor Alison E. Woodward is Research Professor and Chair of the International Affairs Program of Vesalius College at the Free University of Brussels(VUS) and co-director of the Center for Gender Studies and Diversity Research. |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological research, HKU | |
| April 7, 2008 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2008 - Migration and Identity: The Chinese in Europe/Belgium |
| Speaker | Dr Ching Lin Pang, has an MA in Oriental Philology, KU Leuven, MA in Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, MA and PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven. |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology and Centre for Anthropological research, HKU | |
| February 6, 2007 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2006-2007 (7) - From Flexible to Cosmopolitan Citizenship |
| Speaker | Dr. David Ip.Dr. David Ip is currently Associate Professor at the School of Social Science of the University of Queensland in Australia. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| January 16, 2007 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2006-2007 (5) - Women, Technology and Knowledge Work in Asia: Complicating Empowerment |
| Speaker | Professor Helen Johnson.Professor Helen Johnson holds degrees from MonashUniversity and lectures in Anthropology at the University of Queensland, Australia. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| November 22, 2006 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series 2006-2007 (3) - Immigration from China to Canada in the Age of Globalization: Issues of Brain Gain and Brain Loss |
| Speaker | Professor Peter S. Li.Professor Peter S. Li is Professor of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, and Chair of Economic Domain, Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
June 17, 2006 |
Event | Workshop ¡V Tourism, Identity and Globalization in Contemporary China |
| Speaker | Dr. Sun Jiuxia, School of Tourism, SunYat-SenUniversity Dr. Wang Ning, Department of Sociology, SunYat-SenUniversity Dr. Guo Lixin, Department of Anthropology, SunYat-SenUniversity Dr. Bao Jigang, School of Tourism, SunYat-SenUniversity Professor Ma Xiajing, Department of Tourism, ZhongnanUniversity for Nationalities Dr. Liu Jingyan, Department of Tourism, SunYat-SenUniversity Dr. Liang Mingzhu, JinanUniversity Dr. K.E. Kuah-Pearce, Department of Sociology, HKU |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| May 30, 2006 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series April to June 2006 (3) ¡V A Sociology of Chinese Markets.The Case of YiWu (Zhejiang): From Peddling to International Trade |
| Speaker | Dr. Gilles Guiheux.Dr. Guiheux is Senior Lecturer at the University of Artois (Arras, France) and, since September 2003, Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong and Chief Editor of Perspectives Chinoises and China Perspectives | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| May 15, 2006 | Event | Visit ¡V 28 teachers, graduate and undergraduate students from the Department of Criminal Justice of the University of Houston-Downtown in USA visited the Department |
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| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| May 9, 2006 | Event | Departmental Seminar Series April to June 2006 (2) ¡V The Making of Migrant Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: An Ethnographic Study of Garment Producers in Suburban Guangzhou |
| Speaker | Mr. Gao Chong.Mr. Gao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, HKU. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| December 12, 2005 | Event | Seminar ¡V Creative Social research: rethinking Theories and Methods and the Calling of an Ontological Epistemology of Participation. The seminar explores ways of moving beyond mere denunciations and critiques and embodying transformational theories and methods which would facilitate creative and critical research.It also calls for a new vocation of social research by pleading for a simultaneous engagement in activism and creative understanding, fieldwork and philosophical reflections, ontological self-cultivation and epistemic labour of learning. |
| Speaker | Dr. Ananta Kumar Giri, Visiting Associate Professor, Research Centre of Development and International Relations, Aaalborg University, Denmark. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| June 20, 2005
10:00 a.m. ¡V 12:00 noon |
Event | Seminar ¡V The Humanities and the Idea of the University (2) This seminar explores the role of humanities in University.It attempts to establish a set of indicators to understand the contributions of humanities in higher education. |
| Speaker | Professor Tu Weiming | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| June 7, 2005 3:00 p.m. ¡V 5:00 p.m. |
Event | Seminar ¡V The Humanities and the Idea of the University (1) The primary focus of this talk is on the issue of human rights violations in post-Suharto Indonesia.It argues that unlike in Argentina, Chile and south Africa; Indonesian dictatorship never collapsed where the military and elites retained their power.Mr. Vltchek will illustrate his talk with excerpts from his documentary film ¡§Terlena ¡V Breaking of a Nation¡¨. |
| Speaker | Mr. Andre Vltchek. | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| May 9, 2005 2:00 p.m. ¡V 4:00 p.m. |
Event | Seminar ¡V Our Common Heritage: New Tourist Nations, Postsocialist Pedagogy, and the Globalization of Nature in Russia and China.(joint work with Jana Breidenbach) This paper is about the differing ways in which the globalization of ¡§heritage¡¨ by the UNESCO¡¦s World Heritage Programme is appropriated in two postsocialist countries with booming tourism.While World Natural Heritage is used for tourism development in China, it is deployed against it in Russia.The discussion of the reasons sheds light on the differing modes of governmentality and visions of development in the two countries. |
| Speaker | Dr. Pal Nyiri | |
| Co-organizer | Department of Sociology, HKU |
| May 4, 2005 3:00 p.m. ¡V 5:00 p.m. |
Event | Seminar ¡V French Sociological Theory after Pierre Bourdieu. This seminar examines the debates and new forms of sociological thoughts in French scholarship after Pierre Bourdieu. |
| Speaker | Professor Pierre-Paul Zalio | |
| Co-organizer | The Centre d¡¦Etudes Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine and Department of Sociology, HKU |
| March 10, 2005 1:00 p.m. ¡V 2:00 p.m. |
Event | Seminar - Women's and Children's Rights in Aceh in the Aftermath of the Tsunami. This seminar examines the impact and the aftermath of the tsunami on women's and children's rights in Aceh. It will explore how women and children become victims of exploitation and their rights violated by different groups in Aceh. |
| Speaker | Ms. Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, Chair of the National Committee, Women¡¦s Solidarity for Human Rights, Indonesia. | |
| Co-organizer | Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, Centre for Anthropological Research and Department of Sociology |
Co-hosted Events:International Conference on July 5-6, 2004 presented by various speakers: Transnational Religions: Intersections of the ¡¥global¡¦ and ¡¥local¡¦.Hosted by Asia Research Institute, NationalUniversity of Singapore and the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Anthropological Research, HKU
¡§The Humanities and the Idea of the University¡¨, by Tu Weiming, HarvardUniversity, 20 June 2005, jointly with Department of Sociology.
"Our Common Heritage": New Tourist Nations, Postsocialist Pedagogy, and the Globalization of Nature in Russia and China" by Pal Nyiri (co-author Joana Breidenbach), 9 May 2005, jointly with Department of Sociology.
"French Sociological Theories After Bourdieu" by Pierre Zalio. 4 May 2005, jointly with Department of Sociology.
"Femininity as an Advantage: Japanese Women and Career Development", by Ms Jessica Lam (TokyoUniversity and HKU), 20 April 2005, jointly with Department of Japanese Studies.
"Women's and Children's Rights in Aceh in the Aftermath of the Tsunami" bu Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, 10 March 2005, jointly with Department of Sociology and Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, HKU.
"Indigenous People Vs Immigrants ¡V Exploring Race Relations" by Ip Manying, 3 December 2004, jointly with Centre for Asian Studies.
"Bands of Love, Bands of Identity: the Yaeyama Minsa Sash in Okinawa", by Amanda Stinchecum, 22 November 2004, jointly with Department of Japanese Studies.
"Missionary Motives in the Later Nineteenth Century: The CMS Mission to Japan and the Ainu" by Professor Kirsten Refsing, 10 November 2004, jointly with Department of Japanese Studies.
"Community Volunteering in Japan", by Lynne Nakano, 27 October 2004, jointly with Department of Japanese Studies.
"The Chinese Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean" by Professor Evelyn Hu-DeHart, jointly with Department of History, 27 May 2004.
"Enclave Economy And Community Building" by Professor Min Zhou, Thursday, May 20, 2004.
"From Tung Tau To Shekkipmei: Squatter Fires In The 1950's, Hong Kong Colonialism And The Cold War" by Professor Alan Smart, Friday, January 30, 2004.
"Intra-Ethnic Market Niche Development ¡V A Case Study Of Hong Kong Style (Gang Shi) Cuisine In Taiwan" by Professor Josephine Po-Ling Smart, Monday, December 15, 2003.
"Xiu Gu Gu: The Ritual Refining of Restless Ghosts among the Chinese of Thailand" by Professor Bernard Formoso, CAR jointly with CAS, Monday, 27 October 2003.
"Homo Japonicus: Masculinities in Japan" by Professor Muriel Jolivet, 24 January 2003.
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1. Workshop on "Languages and the Prehistory of South China", By Professor Laurent Sagart, 4 December 2003.
2. Forum on "Chinese and the Emigration Culture", 26 November 2003.
Speakers:
- Zhou Daming (Professor, Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Head, Department of Anthropology, Zhongshan University)
"The Search for an Emigration Culture"- Li Minghuan (Professor, Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University)
"The Origin of Transnational Migration to Europe"- Janet Salaff (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)
"The Immigration Triangle"- Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong)
"Reconnecting to the Source: Use and Abuse of Social Capital and Networks"
3. Workshop on ¡§Tourism in China: Identity and Globalisation¡¨, 17 June 2006, jointly with Department of Sociology
4.Workshop on "Chinese on the move and the making of individual identities2008", 29 November 2008