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[Photos] End-of-term Celebration 2022/2023

April 14, 2023

For those who might have missed this talk, here are the photos. Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/celebration-2022-2023/


[Awards] HKSI Associate Dr. Shannon Walsh receives the Governor General’s Award for Artistic Achievement in Visual and Media

March 28, 2023


[Photos] Rouge + Leslie Cheung—Hong Kong Icon

March 26, 2023

For those who might have missed this talk, here are the photos. Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/screening-exhibition-rouge/


[Photos] Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub

March 22, 2023

For those who might have missed this talk, here are the photos. Details: https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/hong-kong-takes-flight/


[Publications] Practicing conjunctural methodologies: engaging Chinese capitalism

March 15, 2023

Check out this journal article by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Jamie Peck


[Publications] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu has published a book chapter on Lion Rock

March 9, 2023

Check out Dr. Helena Wu's book chapter “Revisiting Hong Kong’s Myth of Success: Alternating Utopian and Dystopian Forces in the (New) Lion Rock Spirit”


[Newsletters] The HKSI 2023 March Update is out!

March 2, 2023


[News] The exhibition “Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)”– co-presented by UBC Asian Library and the Department of Asian Studies, and supported by UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and the Department of Theatre and Film–takes place at the Asian Library runs from 16 Feb to 6 April, 2023.

February 16, 2023


[Newsletters] The HKSI 2023 February Update is out!

February 7, 2023


[Publications] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu on citizen-spectator and indie documentaries in Hong Kong

February 2, 2023

Check out Dr. Helena Wu's journal article "The making of the citizen-spectator in postmillennial Hong Kong: Authorial and spectatorial engagement with independent documentary films"