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Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture Series

The Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture Series is named in honour of Dr. Albert Hung Chao Hong. The Lecture Series provides an opportunity for a distinguished visitor to address a community audience on a topic of current public interest in the Asia-Pacific region.

Albert Hung Lecture Series

  • De-parochializing Political Theory
    De-parochializing Political Theory
    Aug 2 2012 - 7:30pm - Aug 4 2012 - 3:00pm
    , Victoria BC

    Click here for the conference announcement.

    Guest speaker: Duara Prasenjit

    Please check the following link for more information on the conference program and other updates:

    http://law.uvic.ca/demcon/2012Conference/index.html

     

     

  • Histories and Competitive Societies: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory
    Histories and Competitive Societies: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory
    Aug 2 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    , Victoria BC, UVic

    Narratives of the past are perhaps necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute themselves as such. Before the modern nation-state, however, these narratives not only embedded differences and contestations, they also bore a relationship to universal or cosmological time. The emergence of the modern disenchanted polity converged with the rise of competitive states which viewed all resources and bio-power in its territory as susceptible to mobilization.

  • Celebrating Connections: On Being Indigenous and Human in Oceania
    Celebrating Connections: On Being Indigenous and Human in Oceania
    Nov 12 2010 - 7:30pm - 10:00pm
    , Victoria, British Columbia

    This talk, which took place in Victoria, British Columbia on the evening of November 12, 2010, attempted to explore the following questions: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be indigenous and why is it important to privilege one's indigenous roots?

  • Dr. Carma Hinton (2008-09 Hung Lecture)
    Dr. Carma Hinton (2008-09 Hung Lecture)
    Jan 29 2009 - 7:30pm
    , Victoria

    The 2008-09 Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture was delivered by Dr. Carma Hinton, a documentary filmmaker and the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University. 

  • Dr. James Scott (2007-08 Hung Lecture)
    Dr. James Scott (2007-08 Hung Lecture)
    Nov 27 2007 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm
    , Victoria

    The Inaugural Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture was presented by Dr. James Scott, Department of Political Science, Yale University. Dr. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology.