Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue will be coming out in August 2025! We now have a book website (services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowin…) thanks to Lever Press. More on chapters by Alexis Lycas Gail Chen Patricia Murrieta Digging Into Early Colonial Mexico Mariana Favila Barbara E. Mundy

𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨! CSSL@CUHK Webinar 🗣Topic: Using LLMs for Computational Social Science: Challenges and Opportunities 👨‍🏫Speaker: Prof. Diyi Yang Stanford University 🗓Date: 17 December 2024 (Tuesday) 🕤Time: 12:00 – 13:30 (UTC+8, HKT) 📌Details: linktr.ee/cssl.cuhk

Fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong 'The application process closes on February 28, 2025.' sof.arts.hku.hk/call-for-appli…

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍Topic Making History, Writing History, and Becoming History: The Life, Work, and Legacy of #Xuanzang 📆14 Jan 25 (Tue) HKT 9:00am-10:30am 🖥ZOOM Meeting ID: 982 9976 4121 👤Prof. Benjamin BROSE,University of Michigan

A nice mention in the Harvard History newsletter

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍Non-European Perspectives on the Global Renaissance 📆25 Feb 2025 (Tue) HKT5:00pm -6:30pm 🖥ZOOM Meeting ID: 982 9976 4121 👤Prof. Joan-Pau RUBIÉS, Pompeu Fabra University

📚 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐛 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐥, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour was shrouded in fog over the weekend - readers shared photos of the skyline with HKFP. Photos: Waddle Kong, Walter Leung, Alan Kwok & Sean Cheng.

📢 JOB OPENINGS! 📢Come work with me at Oxford! As part of my ERC project UNSEEN, I am recruiting a full-time 5-year project admin, two 3-year post-docs and one fully-funded PhD. The first position is already advertised, the others will follow shortly my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍 Virtue at the Dawn of Modern Capitalism: Richard Price’s Idea of Prudence and How Numbers and Finance Became Moral (1750-1790) 📆20 Mar(Thu) 16:30 - 18:00 🏨Room 918, Esther Lee Building, CUHK (ELB 918) 👤Prof. Jacob SOLL, USC

1st-year DH student final projects for this term: lots of interesting tutorials and reviews of DH projects to peruse: youtube.com/@HistoryforTom…

Ruh roh. Open-weight LLMs can quote nearly all of a Harry Potter book from memory. Lawyer up Meta. @afedercooper, Aaron Gokaslan, Percy Liang et al. spill the copyright beans. ~thread~ arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

The HKADH 2026 Conference is now calling for papers! Theme: Distant Reading | Viewing | Perceiving | in the Age of AI 23 - 25 Jan 2026 @ CUHK Submission deadline: 31 August. Visit 2026.hkadh.org for details Stuart M. McManus CUHK Libraries CUHK Faculty of Arts

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumni, David Webb (1983, Mathematics) and Robert Noel (1981, Hebrew), who were both recognised in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ exeter.ox.ac.uk/exeter-college… #ExeterCollegeOxford

[Conference] HKADH2026 kadh.org/conference-hka…

📜Join the #WorldHistory Seminar(2025-26) on "A Victorian Ecumene of Cosmopolitan Science: The Purposes of Natural History in Colonial Asia" by Prof. CHAN Ying-kit from #NUS! 📍ZOOM ID 982 9976 4121 🔍Engage, Explore, Excel in History at tiny.cc/macph

🚨JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor, Ancient history, any geography, any focus 1000 BCE - 500 CE 2-2 teaching load, ~US$140,000 salary. All teaching in English. cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…