by admin | May 12, 2021
The unique artistic collaboration began with Georges Thiry, a man who worked for Belgium’s colonial offices in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) in the Congo in 1926. His curiosity was piqued when he saw wall murals of crocodiles and birds in the town and arranged to...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
A new approach to ruling has emerged in recent decades that is shaking up the relationship between the state and society. Governments in diverse areas of the world have been mobilising citizens to execute and give legitimacy to their policy aims, in the guise of a...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a respected biologist, who divided the earth into six continental bio-realms. The divide between the animal suites on Australasia and Asia, now known as Wallace’s Line, is especially notable with kangaroos, koalas and echidnas to...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
Erotic literature in traditional Chinese society is famously associated with The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P’ing Mei, which explicitly details the sexual goings-on of a wealthy merchant with multiple wives and concubines. But merchants and scholars did not have...
by | May 3, 2020
The five-year programme marks the beginning of a collaborative research partnership between HKU and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences, as well as multiple cross-faculty collaborations within...
