Training Guardians of Heritage

The Historic City of Vigan in the Philippines, established in the 16th century, is one of the best preserved planned Spanish colonial towns in Asia. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, it experienced two powerful earthquakes in 2022 that severely...

Interactive Excavation

Archaeology investigates the ancient human past based on the things people left behind – from pottery and stone tools to architecture and landscapes. In order to collect information, archaeologists excavate and remove artefacts and structures from a site, so...

When Foreign Governments Meddle in Elections

When Professor Dov Levin of the Department of Politics and Public Administration was embarking on his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 2010s, he picked up a book from the library that would open a whole new field to him. The book concerned...

Storm in a Teacup?

The generally accepted image of the Boston Tea Party is of defiant colonists dumping crates of tea belonging to the East India Company into Boston Harbour in protest at British taxes on tea. Then they opposed the goods themselves, boycotting tea and British products,...

Insights on Indigenous Ainu

Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...