The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has an active research culture that draws Faculty and Graduate Students into collaborative projects.
Our key research interests are in the cultural, anthropological, political, philosophical, historical and literary aspects of diverse countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
We explore the ancient, modern and contemporary contexts of social and cultural change around the globe and publish our research in diverse languages of the world.
This breadth of regions, languages, cultures and disciplines is the foundation of the School’s research strength in interdisciplinary and comparative research projects.
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures has:
• a vibrant research seminar series (all welcome) that operates during university semesters on Wednesday afternoons 4.30-6.00 pm.
• an active research mentoring program for HKU academic colleagues and graduate students.
• regular international conferences and workshops.
• faculty with publications in top academic journals and with prestigious publishing houses
Title | Staff Name | Type | Start date | End date | amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The EU and the global ‘tech war’: how contestation over digital technologies is reconfiguring European diplomacy, security and regulatory activity’ | Vogt Roland | GRF | 2021 | 2023 | |
Weaving Onomastic Tapestries: Corpus-Building and Analysis of Non-Chinese Names in Northeastern China, 1368-1948 | Kim Loretta | GRF | January 1, 2018 | April 15, 2021 | 273000 |
Middlebrow Literature and Feminist Imagination: Towards A New Genealogy of the Novel in Korea, 1930-1960 | Kim Su Yun | GRF | |||
Cinematic Virtual Reality: Defining the Language of a New Medium | Gruenewald Tim | GRF | September 1, 2019 | August 31, 2021 | 262299 |
Between norm entrepreneurship and norm coercion: the influence of European policies on tax evasion on Asian financial centres | Vogt Roland | GRF | January 1, 2017 | April 30, 2020 | 145500 |
Making Hong Kong Home: Economic Take-off, Private-Sector Homeownership, and Accommodating Middle Class Aspirations since the 1970s 此身安處買吾家:上世紀七十年代以降中產置業夢與香港的經濟起飛 | Wong John D. | HSSPFS | 2023 | 2025 | 476100 |
Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar | Kim Su Yun | Other | |||
Fellow, International Center for Korean Studies (ICKS),
Kyujanggak Institute of Korean Studies (KIKS), Seoul National University | Kim Su Yun | Other | |||
Cross-national Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Harvard-Yenching Institute, PI | Kim Su Yun | Other | |||
Five-year tenure-track position Grant, Korea Foundation | Lee Kangsoon | Others | 2014 | 2014 | |
Visiting lecturer Grant, Korea Foundation, Korea | Lee Kangsoon | Others | 2016 | 2020 | |
The EU as a global actor and EU-China relations (Jean Monnet Module, EU Commission ) | Vogt Roland | Others | 2016 | 2019 |
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
SMLC Book Series with Hong Kong University Press
Series Editor: Dixon H. W. Wong
The Global Connections series explores the movement of ideas, people, technologies, capital and goods across national and regional borders. Books in the series reveal how these interconnections have the power to produce new global forms of cultures, politics, identities and economies. Seeking to explore the dynamics of change, the series includes both historical and contemporary topics. It focuses on interactions between the world's diverse cultures through the production of new interdisciplinary knowledge.
Global Connections welcomes submissions to the series from authors working on sole authored or edited volumes. The series has published in Chinese and English at this point but welcomes authors working in other languages as well.
Contact the Editor, Dixon Wong in the first instance to discuss your proposal.
