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THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT
An Anthropological Talk by Mick Atha
From Geomancy to Geophysics: Designing research into Hong Kong's historic landscape
Wednesday 25 April 2012,
7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
The Lecture is conducted in English.
URGENT NOTICE: Due to an accident involving an injury, the speaker for our upcoming talk on Wed 25 Apr (From Geomancy to Geophysics) won't be able to give the talk at that time. We're hoping to reschedule the talk to a date in late May. The talk on 2 May (Is there room for the rise of the individual in the Chinese state education system?) is still going ahead as planned though. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
The historian W.G. Hoskins famously wrote that the landscape was "the richest historical document we possess" (Hoskins 1955). Hong Kong's abandoned agricultural terraces and rice paddies, depopulated villages and fung shui features reflect the lives, labour and beliefs of countless generations of farmers who designed, constructed and managed the NT landscape. While beneath that historic landscape surface, archaeologists have found a succession of buried landscapes stretching right back into prehistory.
This talk explores how the rich multi-period landscape of Hong Kong came into being – a story of balance and conflict between human agency and natural processes. The kinds of landscape research ongoing in other parts of the world and the (so far) limited attempts to investigate and understand the cultural landscape of the SAR will be then examined. The talk will then be rounded off with a vision for future interdisciplinary research into Hong Kong's unique historic landscape which, in true Hong Kong fashion, involves a combination of Western-style landscape archaeology in concert with Chinese understandings of landscape.Mick is a HKSAR licensed archaeologist, researcher and part-time university lecturer with interests in Hong Kong's early historical archaeology, geophysical survey and interdisciplinary landscape research.
THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT
An Anthropological Talk by Mette Halskov Hansen
Is there room for the rise of the Individual in the Chinese State School?
Wednesday 2 May 2012,
7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
The Lecture is conducted in English.
How are young people in China's hundreds and thousands of schools trained to become citizens in the neo-socialist state? What do they learn about hierarchies and democracy? This talk is based on on-going fieldwork in a rural high school. I will not discuss textbooks or official curricula, but rather take a close look at how students are trained through two kinds of organizational practice: The “student cadre system” and the "student association". How do students and teachers experience this training? What are the intentions behind it? What does this tell us about changes in contemporary Chinese society?
Mette Halskov Hansen is professor in China studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has written about minority education, Han migrations to minority areas, rural youth, and processes of individualization.
The HKAS is a member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations