Centre for the Humanities and Medicine | The University of Hong Kong

Events

The Centre for the Humanities and Medicine is pleased to announce the following events:

2022
29 April	“Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series "Indigenous Healers and Ayahuasca Tourists in a Capitalist World" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
30 March	“Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series "Trans-Speciated Thinking: Rat Training as Epistemological Practice in Tanzania" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics
25 March	“HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series "Reimagining Social Medicine from the South" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
23 February	“HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series" The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
10 January	“HKU Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series" Beyond the Substance: Psychedelics and the Challenge of Medical Research and Drug Policy" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
2021
12 November	“Rebuilding Smiles: The Construction of Bodies with Cleft Lip and/or Palate in Medical Practice" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and the Department of Sociology
26 October	“Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
27 September	“Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Gender Studies Programme
14 May	"Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.5 " Seeking Commonality of Mental Suffering in a Divided World-Book Launch" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
16 April	“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.4 "Anxious China" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
12 April	“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.3 "Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1911-1970" co-organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
26 February	“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.2 "Toxic Politics" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
25 February	“Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.1 "Epidemic Illusions" organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, LKS Faculty of Medicine
2020
24 November	“Corrupt Your Flesh and Blood with a Festering, Sickening Pus:” The Politics of the Family and the Anti-Vaccination Movement in the United States, 1890-1920” organized by Centre for the Humanities and Medicine and School of Humanities at CPD-1.24, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
19 September	*Pandemic 101 – Voices from Asia by International Programs, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Iowa Global Health Network
2019
16 July	Understanding Nature through Graphic Representations: Maria Sibylla Merian and Alexander von Humboldt in the Long Eighteenth Century at 4.04 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
18 June	Medicines Across Eurasia: A Digital Humanities Experiment at Room 201 at May Hall, HKU
17 June	American Medicine and Only for You at 4.04 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
3-13 June	Tell Me Why My Children Died: Searching for Justice in an Epidemic of Bat-Transmitted Rabies at G/F Gallery, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
13 June	Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice at 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
5 June	Postpartum Depression: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Reproductive Health and Mental Illness at 4.04 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
3 June	Who is the ‘Common’ in the ‘Common Good?’: The Floating Population and the Bifurcation of Service and Governance in Chinese Public Health after SARS at 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
23 April	Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography, and the House in Late-Colonial Java at 4.04 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
6 April	Bitten: Inside the Mosquito World. Dr. Ria Sinha at Tai Kwun in connection with ‘Contagious Cities’
2 April	Line Over Matter: Mapping, Translating, and Defending Meridians (1931-1981) at 10.66 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
28 March	Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Chakachua (Fakes), Fugitive Science, and Postcolonial Critique in Tanzania at 10.66 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
26 March	Disorder and Diagnosis in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula at 10.66 Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
25 March	Troubling Conscience: Religious Freedom And Health Care In Modern America at Room 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
5 March	Commentary, Criticism and the Making of Knowledge in 15th c. Islamic Astronomy at Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
22 February	Biomedical Odysseys: The Global Quest to Cure the Incurable at Hong Kong Museum of History Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
15 February	Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China at Room 115 Humanities Building New Asia College, CUHK
1 February	Professor Peckham participated in a panel titled "Contagion and Hygiene" at Tai Kwun
22 January	Starvation as Experiment and Experience During World War II at Room 4.04, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Past symposia and workshops include:

2018
19 December	Film screening: Bending the Arc. Lecture Theater 2&3, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre, G/F, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road
14 December	Warwick Anderson - Global Health in the Anthropocene: The History of (and History in) Planetary Health CPD 2.58, 2/F The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
13 December	Population in Histories and Ecologies of Health CPD 2.58, 2/F The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
13-14 December	International Conference on Histories and Ecologies of Health. CPD 2.58, 2/F Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
30 November	Ayo Wahlberg - Good Quality
20 November	Research Seminar on Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial India
6 November	Noise, Sound and Sleep: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
11 October	Research Seminar on Medical Violence: Assaults on Medical Workers in Urban Chinese Hospitals
17-18 May	International workshop on Phones, Drones, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communications in East Asia
18 May	WHO Global Health History Seminar on Global Health Histories 106 - 'Strategies of Anti-Panic: A New Approach to Epidemic Panic'
10 April	Research Seminar on Historical Epidemiology and Contemporary Disease Challenges
2017
24 July	Research Seminar on Dreams of Infrastructure and the Pasts of Global Health: Examples from Senega
20 July	Research Seminar on Agency, Assemblage and Care in Contemporary Life Writing by Migrants in Germany
18 July	Research Seminar on Technologies of Care in Chinese Hospitals
25 April	Research Seminar on A Panoply of Reason: Anti-Epidemic Masks as Visual and Material Technologies
11-12 May	International Workshop on Infectious Routes: Epidemics and Migration in Asia
28 March	Research Seminar on Between Securitisation and Neglect: Managing Ebola at the Borders of Global Health
2016
25 November - 24 December	Academic Visit by Visting Research Professor - Professor Srikant Sarangi
5 April	Public Lecture on Rumour and Secret Space: Organ Snatching Tales and Medical Missions in Nineteenth Century China
24 March	SMT Research Seminar on Geo-psychology
23 February	Public Lecture on Epidemic Risk: A Communication Perspective
18 February	SMT Research Seminar on A Tale of Secrets and Sintok: An Eighteenth-Century Swiss Surgeon in the Dutch East India Company
4 February	SMT Research Seminar on Health: History and Communication
2015
5 November	Research Seminar on The Greening of Asia
15 October	SMT Research Seminar on Finding Faults: Seismology and the Politics of Predictive Science
8 October	SMT Research Seminar on Sentinels for the Environment: Birdwatchers in Taiwan and Hong Kong
24 September	SMT Research Seminar on Exploring The Rockefeller Archives 2015
25 April - 31 August	Fever: The History of Malaria in Hong Kong Exhibition
20 April	Centre for the Humanities and Medicine "Open Day"
26 -27 March	Animal Histories in Human Health: Comparative Perspectives from East Asia, 1850-1950
27 March	Public Lecture on Profiting from the Past: Has History Helped us Understand Infectious Diseases?
4 March	Special HKU Event X Ajahn Brahm’s Hong Kong Teaching Tour 2015: Panel Discussion “The Meaning of Human Life in the Universe with Evidence from Buddhism and Science”
2014
11 -14 June	Mortal Histories: Death in Mass Culture
3 - 17 March	Academic Visit by CHM/Leeds Arts Engaged Fellow - Dr Laura King
25 February	Seminar on Was it measles – or influenza – that killed thousands of soldiers in the American Civil War?
25 January	Seminar on Facing Illness with Compassion for healthcare professionals by Ven Dhammadipa
2013
19 November - 18 December	Academic Visit by Visting Research Professor - Professor Srikant Sarangi
10 December	Film contest on Testing Saves Lives by Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health (SESH)
7 -8 December	3rd Winter School for Health Communication with Professor Srikant Sarangi
5 -6 December	International Conference on Viral Imaginaries:Infectious Disease and Society in Contemporary China
22 November	Health communication across private and public spheres: Mapping a research agenda
21 November	Research Seminar on The Making of Modern Anthrax
14 November	Museum Talk at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences ( Register Now!)
11 - 24 November	Academic Visit by CHM/Leeds Arts Engaged Fellow - Dr James Stark
24 April	Public Lecture on The Birth of Public Health: A Contemporary Story
25 -26 April	International Conference on Making and Breaking the Humanitarian
12 April	Social Entrepreneurship and Creative Aging
12 April	EngAGE Across Intergenerations - A Student Forum with Tim Carpenter
7 March	Seminar on The "Untimely" Story of Cancer (and Its Othered Realities) by Vicky W.K. Yau (Co-sponsored with the Department of Comparative Literature)
2012
10 - 11 December	Panic: Disease, Crisis and Empire
8 - 9 December	2nd Winter School on Health Communication
4 December	Seminar on Sex, Gender and ICD-11: what to do about all those people down there in Blocks 64-66 by Dr. Sam Winter
15 November	Seminar on Global Health Citizenship from Historical Perspectives: The Case of the World Health Organization by Dr. Harry Wu
1 November	Social Entrepreneurship for Health: Enhancing Networks & Building Capacities
22 October	Seminar on Braving Disease and Death by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty
21 - 28 May	Humanitas 2012
27 April	Lunchtime Seminar on Sympathy and Contagion: Epidemic Behaviours in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Professor Pamela Gilbert
16 - 20 April	Consultation visit for Medical Humanities by Professor Jane Schultz
19 April	Lecture on Hired to Care: American Civil War Nurses and the Military Body
9 - 11 March	International Conference on Music and the Body
11 February	Day of Mindfulness Retreat
2011
17 - 18 December	1st Winter School on Health Communication
4-5 December	Workshop on Mindful Communication
24 November	Public Forum on Social Entrepreneurship for Health
24-25 November	Workshop on Social Entrepreneurhsip for Sexual Health
20 October	Roundtable session on The Folk and the Formal - Common Sense, Experience, and Official Authority in East Asia with Prof. Judith B. Farquhar
19 October	Public lecture on Healing and Heritage
17 October	Seminar on Validating Concepts of Mental Disorder:Precedents from the History of Science
13 October	Seminar on Confronting Plague through Literature: New Perspectives on an Old Theme
16 May	The Art of Humanity: A Public Conversation
13 May	Lunchtime seminar on Global Health and Conspiracy Theories
11 May	Public lecture on When Humanitarianism Goes to War
18 - 19 April	International conference on Disease and Crime: Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
18 April	Seminar on The Official World
15 April	Seminar on Contextualising 'Communication' Skills/Knowledge in Healthcare Research and Training
17 February	Seminar on Seeing Pain
15 February	Seminars on The Power of Mindfulness and Compassion for Health Care Professionals / Success Redefined
17 January	Seminar on Mad Lit.
14 January	Public lecture on "Stand Up Straight": Posture and the Meanings Attributed to the Upright Body
2010
30 November - 3 December	9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics
23 November	Symposium on The Nature of Altruism
22 November	Lecture on HIV/AIDS - a Scientific and Human Adventure in Response to an Emerging Epidemic
3 November	Day of Mindfulness
24 September	Seminar on The Touching, Feeling, Flourishing Body: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Touch
13 September	Seminar on Brain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China
24 -26 July	International conference on Communicating with Patients in the Genetic Counselling Setting in Hong Kong
13 July	Special Session of the international conference: Constructing Pandemics
12 July	Symposium on Body Films: New Approaches to Medicine and Film
19 May	Public lecture on The Boundaries and Definition of Mental Disorder: Evolutionary Theories and the DSM
14 May	Forum on Re-Generation, De-Generation
29 April	Seminar on Goethe and Reichenbach: the heritage of Romantic philosophy in post-Linnaean Botany
23 April	International workshop on Death: Philosophy, Therapy, Medicine
25 -26 March	International workshop on Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia
11 February	Public lecture on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Consumption Cure
20 January	Public lecture on New Media and the Changing Horizons of Medical History: Using the Language of the Future Present to Reconceive the Distant Past
2009
9-11 December	International workshop on Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949
27 April	Beyond the Individual: People, Populations, Genetics
2008
15 December	Framing Histories in Medicine