Schedule of Events: Fall 2026

September 21 (Mon) | 5:00PM

Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

The Gender of the Operatic Voice from Li Yu (1611-1680) to Xu Dachun (1693-1771)

Judith T. Zeitlin, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

November 10 (Tues) | 5:00PM

Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

How did Japanese Science Fiction develop? Where should it go? — A brief history of Japanese SF and its development in recent decades

Fujii Taiyo, Japanese SF writer

November 17 (Tues) | 5:00PM

Room 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Sonic Immaterialism: Music, Neoplatonism, and the Fin de siècle Occult

Maurice Windleburn, Society of Fellows ('27), HKU

November 25 (Weds) | 5:00PM

Room 7.58, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Destination Hong Kong: South Korean Cinema’s Encounters with the Sinophone World

Sangjoon Lee, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong