Projects

This seminar gathers researchers from varied disciplines from around the world and is a unique experience of global academic collaborations.

Our project investigates how cultural practitioners from Colombia are employing the humanities to promote peace and respond to a long history of political and social violence.

How did British society respond to the use of torture, the massacre of civilians, and other atrocities which took place in its overseas empire after 1945?

My dissertation is about how body-worn recording technologies in policing are affecting the production, admissibility, and evaluation of evidentiary claims.

This dissertation explores how music and musical performances are used to mediate trauma and memory, and the influence that these mediations have on identities at individual and community levels.

My work approaches Tibetan migration to India in the second half of the twentieth century through the longer history of lay and monastic movement in the region to ask new questions of nationalism and bureaucratic regimes of citizenship in South Asia.

This project will investigate the impact of high-tech corporate construction on urban and suburban conditions in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

My project explores the creation of sacred space and the treatment of 'special dead' (victims of the plague and leprosy) within a newly excavated cemetery in Late Antique Thebes, Greece.

Mr. Guoqi Xu is Kerry Group Professor in Globalization History and Professor of History, the University of Hong Kong.

Part of acknowledging the new epoch we live in, the Anthropocene, requires we redefine our politics to acknowledge that climate change knows no borders.