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“Without ritual, there would be no ethnic culture”: Religion and changing Chinese diasporic identity in Vietnam

Via Zoom (Registration required)

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES "Without ritual, there would be no ethnic culture": Religion and changing Chinese diasporic identity in Vietnam ABSTRACTIn this talk, I will present a total of four case studies to analyse the transformations and hidden discourses of ethnic Chinese (người Hoa 華人) rituals dedicated to public gods. Vietnam’s ethnic […]

“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts

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BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES “The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a dynamic infrastructure for contemporary Han Chinese participation in Tibetan Buddhist monastic contexts ABSTRACTDuring the first half of the twentieth century, all but a handful of intrepid Han Chinese practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism undertook the long and difficult journey to the Tibetan plateau. In […]

Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities

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BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in CitiesABSTRACTThis talk analyzes how divine magic power is reconfigured in the urban setting. The speaker will discuss how a spirit medium, who moved from the countryside in Taiwan to an urban area, refashioned the elements of village religion to cope with […]

Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation

via Google Meet (Registration Required)

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation ABSTRACTIran and China’s relationship is following a long tradition of exchanges that can be traced back to ancient times. Certainly, when studying the long tradition of Iran and China, we can perceive that the Silk Road was not only […]

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Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation, Dispute Prevention and Resolution

online via Zoom or in person (11/F, Academic Conference Room, Faculty of Law, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, HKU)

BRINFAITH | Green BRI Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation, Dispute Prevention and Resolution Keynote Speech: Green Investment Principles Along the Belt and Road About the SpeakerDr. Ma Jun is currently the Chairman of the Green Finance Committee, China Society for Finance and Banking, and the former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of […]

Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr

Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr

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BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Sailors and Slaves in Medieval Maritime Asia: from baghdād to baghpūr ABSTRACTThis talk presents some of the preliminary ideas and findings of Dr. Ha Guangtian’s ongoing project which examines the role of multi-racial, multi-religious, and multi-lingual sailors and slaves in facilitating Muslim trans-regional trade in medieval maritime Asia. […]

Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia | Green Finance Forum

Hybrid - HKU Social Sciences Chamber (Jockey Club Tower, 11/F) and via Zoom

BRINFAITH | ESG BRI Green Finance Forum: Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia  Opening Remark:Dr Ma Jun, Co-chairman, G-20 Sustainable Finance Study Group; Chairman, Hong Kong Green Finance Association Keynote Speeches The changing definitions of ESG investment in Asia Speaker: Anthony Cheung, Managing Director, ESG at Polymer Capital; Convenor of Green Finance, […]

Africa in and beyond China’s BRI: Development and Security in a New Era of Global Competition

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Africa in and beyond China’s BRI: Development and Security in a New Era of Global Competition ABSTRACTThis seminar will examine Africa in the evolving BRI with special interest in security. It will firstly take stock of Africa in the BRI at a time of change and questions about the trajectory of a transcontinental nature that […]

The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Spirit Mediums: The Lower Sesan 2 Dam and Sacred Space in Northeastern Cambodia ABSTRACTThe Lower Sesan 2 Dam (LS2) is the largest and most controversial hydropower dam ever developed in Cambodia. The 400 MW capacity project, which blocks both the Sesan and Srepok Rivers in Stung Treng Province, northeastern […]

Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong

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Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong ABSTRACTDams suggest progress – they are a way of arresting the flow of water (and that which it contains) to convert its potential energy into something useable. But in so doing, dams reconfigure the multiple lives and non-lives within […]

Global China in a Religious World BRINFAITH INTERNATIONAL Conference 2023
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Global China in a Religious World | BRINFAITH 2023 International Conference

G/F Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU & Via ZOOM

BRINFAITH 2023 International Conference Global China in a Religious WorldDiscussions on the rise of Global China, through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and beyond, have focused on physical infrastructures, financial investments, commerce, and geopolitics. What about the religious dimension of China’s deepening entanglements with the world? Religion is central to the culture and national […]

Transnational Chinese Religion as Shadow Infrastructure along the ‘Maritime Silk Road’: The Case of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Transnational Chinese Religion as Shadow Infrastructure along the ‘Maritime Silk Road’: The Case of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Date/Time: October 10, 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 (HK time)Language: English Venue: Via ZOOM (Registration is required.) ABSTRACTIn Singkawang, West Kalimantan the local Chinese Indonesian community is currently engaged in a major Chinese Religious revival in which inter-ethnic spirit-medium […]