Seventh Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies

The York Centre for Asian Research at York University is pleased to host the Seventh Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies. Professor Denise Y. Ho's talk sketches three intellectual approaches to developing Hong Kong Studies as a globally relevant and significant field of knowledge. Using recent studies as examples, she illustrates the epistemic possibilities of construing (1) Hong Kong as a case, (2) Hong Kong outside in and (3) Hong Kong as global assemblage. As knowledge production is always and necessarily embedded in historical and social contexts, what kinds of politics and praxis express, enable, and repress this emerging fields.

The 2024 lecture is co-sponsored by the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto.

A beloved teacher and colleague, Professor Bernard H. K. Luk (1946–2016) was an internationally recognized authority on the history of Hong Kong. Endowed by Professor Luk’s friend and former student, the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy, the Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies was created in honour of his work. Organized by a group of Hong Kong scholars at York University, the lectures and accompanying events focus on Hong Kong as a distinct society, its influence on the wider world or the experiences of the Hong Kong diaspora.

J.L. Watson photograph

Host or Publisher York Centre for Asian Research, York University