21 February 2020 + Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.1 "Epidemic Illusions”
26 February 2021 + Global Health & Humanities Book Talk Series No.2 "Toxic Politics”
2020
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
24 November 2020 + "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"
2019
16 July 2019 + Understanding Nature through Graphic Representations: Maria Sibylla Merian and Alexander von Humboldt in the Long Eighteenth Century
18 June 2019 + Medicines Across Eurasia: A Digital Humanities Experiment
17 June 2019 + American Medicine and Only for You
Exhibition – Tell Me Why My Children Died: Searching for Justice in an Epidemic of Bat-Transmitted Rabies
5 June 2019 + Postpartum Depression: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Reproductive Health and Mental Illness
3 June 2019 + Who is the ‘Common’ in the ‘Common Good?’: The Floating Population and the Bifurcation of Service and Governance in Chinese Public Health after SARS
23 April 2019 + Bamboo Dwellers: Plague, Photography, and the House in Late-Colonial Java
6 April 2019 + Bitten: Inside the Mosquito World. Dr. Ria Sinha at Tai Kwun in connection with ‘Contagious Cities’
2 April 2019 + Line Over Matter: Mapping, Translating, and Defending Meridians (1931-1981)
28 March 2019 + Pharmaceuticals in Divergence: Chakachua (Fakes), Fugitive Science, and Postcolonial Critique in Tanzania
26 March 2019 + Disorder and Diagnosis in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
25 March 2019 + Troubling Conscience: Religious Freedom And Health Care In Modern America
1 Feb 2019 + Professor Peckham participated in a panel titled "Contagion and Hygiene" at Tai Kwun
22 February 2019 + An Anthropological Talk by Priscilla Song – Biomedical Odysseys: The Global Quest to Cure the Incurable
22 January 2019 + Commentary, Criticism and the Making of Knowledge in 15th c. Islamic Astronomy
2018
19 Dec 2018 + Film screening: Bending the Arc
14 Dec 2018 + Global Health in the Anthropocene? The History of (and History in) Planetary Health
13 December 2018 + Population in Histories and Ecologies of Health
13-14 Dec 2018 + International Conference on Histories and Ecologies of Health
30 Nov 2018 + Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China
20 Nov 2018 + Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial India
6 Nov 2018 + Noise, Sound and Sleep: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
11 Oct 2018 + Medical Violence: Assaults on Medical Workers in Urban Chinese Hospitals
17-18 May 2018 + International workshop on Phones, Drones, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communications in East Asia
18 May 2018 + Global Health Histories 106 - 'Strategies of Anti-Panic: A New Approach to Epidemic Panic'
10 Apri 2018 + Historical Epidemiology and Contemporary Disease Challenges
2017
24 July 2017 + Dreams of Infrastructure and the Pasts of Global Health: Examples from Senegal
20 July 2017 + Agency, Assemblage and Care in Contemporary Life Writing by Migrants in Germany
18 July 2017 + Technologies of Care in Chinese Hospitals
25 April 2017 + A Panoply of Reason: Anti-Epidemic Masks as Visual and Material Technologies
11-12 May 2017 + International Workshop - Infectious Routes: Epidemics and Migration in Asia
28 March 2017 + Between Securitisation and Neglect: Managing Ebola at the Borders of Global Health
2016
25 November - 24 December 2016 + Academic Visit by Visiting Research Professor - Professor Srikant Sarangi
24 March 2016 + SMT Research Seminar on Geo-psychology
23 Feb 2016 + Epidemic Risk: A Communication Perspective
5 April 2016 + Rumour and Secret Space: Organ Snatching Tales and Medical Missions in Nineteenth-Century China
18 Feb 2016 + SMT Research Seminar on A Tale of Secrets and Sintok: An Eighteenth-Century Swiss Surgeon in the Dutch East India Company
4 Feb 2016 + SMT Research Seminar on Health: History and Communication
2015
5 Nov 2015 + Research Seminar on The Greening of Asia
15 Oct 2015 + SMT Research Seminar on Finding Faults: Seismology and the Politics of Predictive Science
8 Oct 2015 + SMT Research Seminar on Sentinels for the Environment: Birdwatchers in Taiwan and Hong Kong
24 Sept 2015 + SMT Research Seminar on Exploring The Rockefeller Archives 2015
20 April 2015 + Centre for the Humanities and Medicine - Open Day
25 April - 26 July 2015 + Fever: The History of Malaria in Hong Kong
26-27 March 2015 + Animal Histories in Human Health: Comparative Perspectives from East Asia, 1850-1950
27 March 2015 + Profiting from the Past: Has History Helped us Understand Infectious Diseases?
4 March 2015 + 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 2014 + Call for Paper: 10th International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society Mortal Histories: Death in Mass Culture
3 - 17 March + Academic Visit by CHM/Leeds Arts Engaged Fellow - Dr Laura King
25 January 2014 + Seminar on Facing Illness with Compassion for healthcare professionals by Ven Dhammadipa
25 February 2014 + Was it measles – or influenza – that killed thousands of soldiers in the American Civil War?
2013
19 November - 18 December 2013 + Academic Visit by Visting Research Professor - Professor Srikant Sarangi
10 December 2013 + Film contest on Testing Saves Lives by Social Entrepreneurship for Sexual Health (SESH)
7-8 December 2013 + 3rd Winter School for Health Communication with Professor Srikant Sarangi
5-6 December 2013 + Viral Imaginaries: Infectious Disease and Society in Contemporary China
22 November 2013 + Health Communication Across Private and Public Spheres: Mapping a Research Agenda
21 November 2013 + The Making of Modern Anthrax
14 November 2013 + Engaging Audiences in the Medical Museum
11-24 November 2013 + Academic Visit by CHM/Leeds Arts Engaged Fellow - Dr James Stark
24 April 2013 + The Birth of Public Health: A Contemporary Story
25-26 April 2013 + Making and Breaking the Humanitarian
12 April 2013 + Social Entrepreneurship and Creative Ageing
12 April 2013 + Engage Across Generations: A Student Forum with Tim Carpenter
7 March 2013 + 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 2012 + Panic: Disease, Crisis, and Empire
8-9 December 2012 + 2nd Winter School on Health Communication
4 December 2012 + Sex, Gender and ICD-11: what to do about all those people down there in Blocks 64-66
15 November 2012 + Global Health Citizenship from Historical Perspectives: The Case of the World Health Organization
1 November 2012 + Social Entrepreneurship for Health Enhancing Networks & Building Capacities
22 October 2012 + Braving Disease and Death: The Contribution of Nursing to the Feminisation of the British Empire, 1896-1948
21-26 May 2012 + Humanitas 2012
27 April 2012 + Sympathy and Contagion: Epidemic Behaviours in Nineteenth-Century Britain
16-20 April 2012 + Consultation visit for Medical Humanities by Professor Jane Schultz
19 April 2012 + Hired to Care: American Civil War Nurses and the Military Body
11 February 2012 + Day of Mindfulness Retreat
9-11 March 2012 + International Conference on Music and the Body
2011
17-18 December 2011 + 1st Winter School on Health Communication
4-5 December 2011 + Workshop on Mindful Communication
24 November 2011 + Public Forum on Social Entrepreneurship for Health
20 October 2011 + Roundtable: The Folk and the Formal - Common Sense, Experience, and Official Authority in East Asia
19 October 2011 + Public Lecture on Healing and Heritage
17 October 2011 + Validating Concepts of Mental Disorder: Precedents from the History of Science
13 October 2011 + Confronting Plague through Literature: New Perspectives on an Old Theme
16 May 2011 + The Art of Humanity: A Public Conversation
13 May 2011 + Global Health and Conspiracy Theories
18 April 2011 + Seminar on The Official World
18-19 April 2011 + Disease and Crime: Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
15 April 2011 + Contextualising 'Communication' Skills/Knowledge in Healthcare Research and Training
17 February 2011 + Seeing Pain: From Hippocrates to the 21st Century
15 February 2011 + Seminars on The Power of Mindfulness and Compassion for Health Care Professionals / Success Redefined
17 January 2011 + Mad lit.
14 January 2011 + "Stand Up Straight": Posture and the Meanings Attributed to the Upright Body
2010
30 November - 3 December 2010 + 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics
23 November 2010 + Symposium on The Nature of Altruism
22 November 2010 + Lecture on HIV/AIDS - a Scientific and Human Adventure in Response to an Emerging Epidemic
3 November 2010 + Day of Mindfulness
24 November 2010 + The Touching, Feeling, Flourishing Body: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Touch
13 September 2010 + Seminar on Brain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China
13 July 2010 + Special Session of the International Conference: Constructing Pandemics
12 July 2010 + Body Films: New Approaches to Medicine and Film
19 May 2010 + The Boundaries and Definition of Mental Disorder: Evolutionary Theories and the DSM
29 April 2010 + Goethe and Reichenbach: The Heritage of Romantic Philosophy in Post-Linnaean Botany
14 May 2010 + Forum on Re-Generation, De-Generation
19 May 2010 + The Boundaries and Definition of Mental Disorder: Evolutionary Theories and the DSM
25-26 March 2010 + Convergence and Collisions: Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia
11 February 2010 + Arthur Conan Doyle and the Consumption Cure
20 January 2010 + 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 2009 + International Workshop on Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949
27 April 2020 + Beyond the Individual: People, Populations, Genetics
