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

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

Via Zoom (Registration required)

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, […]

Healing Our World 療癒我們的家園 | World Religion Day 2023

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

Via Zoom (Registration required)

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 […]

From Faith Statements to Faith Stakeholders – The Growth of the Faith Environment Movement Worldwide | by Martin Palmer

Knowles Building 223, The University of Hong Kong

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

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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 […]

Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically

May Hall 201 AND via Zoom (Registration is required.)

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

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

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

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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 […]

Religious Organization Ecology: Exploring Schisms in High-Tension Religious Groups

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Religious Organization Ecology: Exploring Schisms in High-Tension Religious Groups Date/Time:July 25, 2023, 12:00 noon (HKT)Language: English Venue: Via ZOOM (Registration is required.) Registration Link: https://bit.ly/ASIARJuly25 ABSTRACTPrevious studies have attempted to synthesize religious economies, new institutional, and organizational ecology theories into a single perspective. Religious organization ecology theory proposes to be that synthesis and attempts to […]

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 […]