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RELIGION AND EMPIRE
BRINFAITH Online Public Lecture Series
Held once a month, the series invites scholars from all around the globe to discuss their research on the interconnections between religion, infrastructure and empire in Afro-Eurasia. Engaging a wide variety of disciplines and topics, the lectures promise to enrich our understanding of how religiosities are transforming in an infrastructurally-connected yet increasingly de-globalizing world defined by great power competition.
International Collaborative Conferences and Events
“Historical Antecedents of #BRI: Empires, Religion, Material Culture, and Economics of the Silk Road” Workshop
Jointly organized by the University of Virginia, University of Hong Kong, December 3–5, 2020
Webinar Series on 'Religious Practices in the Himalayan Spaces'
Jointly organised by Salesian College Sonada & Siliguri, Siliguri, India, the University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China and St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, India.
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Date October 10, 2023Time 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH, Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster, HKIHSS, HKU
Global China in a Religious World | BRINFAITH 2023 International Conference
Global China in a Religious World | BRINFAITH 2023 International Conference
Date August 17, 2023 - October 28, 2023Time 9:00 am - 11:59 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH, Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster, HKIHSS, HKU, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore, Centre for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai
Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong
Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong
Date April 26, 2023Time 7:30 pm - 9:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH, Asian Religious Connections Research Cluster, HKIHSS, HKU, Centre for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai
The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia
The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia
Date March 27, 2023Time 9:30 am - 11:00 amOrganizer ASIAR Research Cluster, HKIHSS, HKU
Africa in and beyond China’s BRI: Development and Security in a New Era of Global Competition
Africa in and beyond China’s BRI: Development and Security in a New Era of Global Competition
Date February 28, 2023Time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH, ASIAR research cluster, HKIHSS, HKU, Centre for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai
Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia | Green Finance Forum
Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia | Green Finance Forum
Date January 16, 2023Time 4:30 pm - 6:30 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH, ASIAR research cluster, HKIHSS, HKU, The Methods Hub, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU, Hong Kong Financial Services Institute, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, LL.M. Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Faculty of Law, HKU, Centre for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai, Friends of the Earth (HK), The Hong Kong Independent Non-Executive Director Association, CPA Australia
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr
Date November 16, 2022Time 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation, Dispute Prevention and Resolution
Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation, Dispute Prevention and Resolution
Date September 14, 2022Time 10:30 am - 12:00 pmOrganizer Faculty of Law, HKU, BRINFAITH
Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation
Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation
Date September 13, 2022Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities
Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities
Date May 25, 2022Time 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts
“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts
Date May 10, 2022Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
“Without ritual, there would be no ethnic culture”: Religion and changing Chinese diasporic identity in Vietnam
“Without ritual, there would be no ethnic culture”: Religion and changing Chinese diasporic identity in Vietnam
Date April 11, 2022Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Old Roads, Religious Mobility, and Paradigms of Long-Distance Transmission: Epigraphic and Petroglyphic Complexes in a Transit Zone between Eurasian Frontiers
Old Roads, Religious Mobility, and Paradigms of Long-Distance Transmission: Epigraphic and Petroglyphic Complexes in a Transit Zone between Eurasian Frontiers
Date February 25, 2022Time 10:00 am - 11:00 amOrganizer BRINFAITH
Hidden Treasures of the Silk Road— An Ontological Shift in Thinking of Things
Hidden Treasures of the Silk Road— An Ontological Shift in Thinking of Things
Date January 26, 2022Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
New Visions for the New Globality: China’s BRI vs. Russia’s Greater Eurasian Space
New Visions for the New Globality: China’s BRI vs. Russia’s Greater Eurasian Space
Date December 15, 2021Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
E-Workshop: GLOBAL CHINESE CATHOLICISM
E-Workshop: GLOBAL CHINESE CATHOLICISM
Date December 8, 2021 - December 10, 2021Organizer Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics
Reflecting on Maritime Transportation as the Sinew of Commerce and Conflict
Reflecting on Maritime Transportation as the Sinew of Commerce and Conflict
Date November 22, 2021Time 6:30 pm - 7:30 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Infrastructure and Connectivity across the Karakoram-Pamir Watershed, since 1918
Infrastructure and Connectivity across the Karakoram-Pamir Watershed, since 1918
Date October 4, 2021Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
History Written in Advance: The Temporal Politics of Learning Mandarin for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Zambia
History Written in Advance: The Temporal Politics of Learning Mandarin for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Zambia
Date September 23, 2021Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Making the Muslim World in the Age of Britain’s Steam and Print Initiative
Making the Muslim World in the Age of Britain’s Steam and Print Initiative
Date June 30, 2021Time 9:30 am - 10:30 amOrganizer BRINFAITH
Circulations and Convergences: Mecca in the Conceptions and Mobilities of Chinese Muslim Diasporas in Saudi Arabia
Circulations and Convergences: Mecca in the Conceptions and Mobilities of Chinese Muslim Diasporas in Saudi Arabia
Date May 17, 2021Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
The New Faith Roads in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of a Circulatory Missionary Process
The New Faith Roads in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of a Circulatory Missionary Process
Date April 28, 2021Time 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
The Politics of Muslim Infrastructure in Tanzania
The Politics of Muslim Infrastructure in Tanzania
Date March 18, 2021Time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
Date March 1, 2021Time 10:00 am - 11:00 amOrganizer BRINFAITH
Religion as Infrastructure: Congolese Migration, Diaspora, and Religious Networks
Religion as Infrastructure: Congolese Migration, Diaspora, and Religious Networks
Date January 25, 2021Time 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies in World War II
Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies in World War II
Date December 3, 2020Time 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
China’s Islamic Outreach to the Middle East
China’s Islamic Outreach to the Middle East
Date November 25, 2020Time 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: National Imaginaries, Ethnographic Anxieties, and Geopolitical Power
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: National Imaginaries, Ethnographic Anxieties, and Geopolitical Power
Date November 5, 2020Time 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
Islamic Belongings to Chinese Society: Taboo, Tolerance and the Ban on Alcohol in a Chinese Hui Muslim Town
Islamic Belongings to Chinese Society: Taboo, Tolerance and the Ban on Alcohol in a Chinese Hui Muslim Town
Date September 28, 2020Time 11:00 am - 12:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH
The Religiosity of Millennials and the Islamic Movement of Hijrah in Indonesia
The Religiosity of Millennials and the Islamic Movement of Hijrah in Indonesia
Date September 27, 2019Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmOrganizer BRINFAITH