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2026-01-27 New Book Stegenga

New Book Release: "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" by Prof. Jacob Stegenga

Published on 27 Jan 2026

2025-12-16 Tier 1 Tan

Supporting Impactful Research: MOE AcRF Tier 1 Grant Awarded to Asst. Prof. Tamisha Lauren Tan

Published on 16 Dec 2025

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Body Maps, Invisible Anatomy, and Technologies of Life

16 Apr 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

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Book talk: Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art

06 Apr 2026 02.30 PM - 04.30 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

2026-03-26 History - Ganguly

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Documenting a Freedom Struggle: Oral Histories and Indian Nationalism in Wartime South-East Asia (1940-1945)

26 Mar 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

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Picturing Time: Temporality and US Imperialism in Oceania

23 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom

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Ca. 1945, when nothing seemed more certain than that “the towers of London, Vienna, and Paris were about to fall”

11 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom

2026-03-02 Chinese Language Living Workshop

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Language as a Living System: Cognition, Data, Discourse, and Large Language Models

02 Mar 2026 02.00 PM - 05.30 PM

2026-02-27 MTI - Gaenssbauer

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Translating Ye Si's 也斯 essay collection'Hui ge shi fei - Xianggang biji 灰鴿試飛：香港筆記'(The grey pigeon's pilot flight - Notes from Hong Kong)

27 Feb 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM Zoom

2026-02-26 History - Prosperetti

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Book Talk: An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge University Press, May 2026)

26 Feb 2026 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

2026-02-09 Art History - Burchmore

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A Porcelain Aesthetic? “New Export China” in Contemporary Chinese Art

09 Feb 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM

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Mooktie’s Story: A Micro-History of Disability in the Early Twentieth Century

06 Feb 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Online via Zoom

2026-02-03 Env Hum - Shipworms 2

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From Pests to Promise: Shipworms in Climate, Culture and Health

05 Feb 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom

2026-01-22 LMS - Potter Hepburn

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Anger in interaction – A case for emotionography

22 Jan 2026 02.00 PM - 04.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

Palazzo Centrale, '27th International Art Biennal Exhibition 1954'. Source: Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee (ASAC)

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Art from Asia at the Venice Biennale (1950s–1960s): Before the Infrastructural Turn

21 Jan 2026 02.00 PM - 03.30 PM

2026-01-20 LMS - Daniel Lee

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Man and machine: What makes a voice 'real' in the age of generative Al?

20 Jan 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

2026-01-15 Leah Misemer

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Exploring Graphic Medicine

15 Jan 2026 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Seminar Room 3

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Agrarian Aspirations Among Ageing Farmers: An Ethnographic Inquiry of Fruit Gardening in Rural Chiang Mai, Thailand

24 Nov 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

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A Water History of Hong Kong

20 Nov 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM Lee Foundation Lecture Theatre (WKWSCI, Level 1)

Med Hum - 2025-11-11

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Ontology, Medicine, and Sociopolitical Practices: An Ontological Anthropology of Medicine

11 Nov 2025 02.30 PM - 04.00 PM

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The making of a perfective marker: The case of təʔ⁴ in the Huai’an dialect of Lower Yangtze Mandarin

24 Oct 2025 03.00 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

Hishikaa Moronobu. Procession of a Daimyo. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain.

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Christianity, Translation and War

16 Oct 2025 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM

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