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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
World Religion Day 2023 Healing Our World: Spiritual Inspirations, Conversations, Actions 療癒我們的家園：知—行—共勉 Interfaith dialogue, devotions and music with members of different religious and non-religious communities in HK. Come to share and learn about healing our world at the personal, community and planetary levels Date: Feb 5 (Sun), 2023 Time: 2 - 5 pm (HKT) Language: English […]
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 […]
Special Lecture of CCHU9014 Spirituality, Religion and Social Change From Faith Statements to Faith Stakeholders - The Growth of the Faith Environment Movement Worldwide Date/Time: March 22, 2023, 16:30 - 18:20 (HK time) Language: English Venue: Knowles Building 223, The Univerisity of Hong Kong Registration is required (except for CCHU9014 students): https://bit.ly/2023March22 ABSTRACT The world’s […]
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 […]
Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically Date/Time:April 18, 2023, 12:00 - 13:30 pm (HK time)Language: English Venue: May Hall 201 AND via ZOOM (Registration is required.) Registration Link: http://bit.ly/KyooTalk ABSTRACTReady? Set, here we go again. “Pathways” (Dao道) in classical Daoist discourses, not really “ready-made,” tend to make themselves anew quite readily, […]
Buddhism in Russia: Introspection of Spirituality and New Modalities Date/Time:April 18, 2023, 7:00 - 9:00 pm (HK time)Language: English Venue: G/F Lecture Hall, May Hall, HKU & via ZOOM (Registration is required.) Registration Link: http://bit.ly/RussianBuddhism ABSTRACTBuddhism is regarded as a traditional faith in Russia and is part of the national spiritual tradition. Buddhism is a […]
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 […]