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Hong Kong Sociological Association 27th Annual Conference

5 Dec 2026

Departmental Seminar: The Will (Not) to Punish: Cybercrime and Criminal Process in China

20 Nov 2026

Departmental Seminar: I Want M.O.R.E.: Why Your Job Still Matters

20 Nov 2026

Departmental Seminar: Digital Empires, Agents, and Subjects in Postcolonial Societies: A Critical Research Agenda on the Intersections of Digitization, Criminalization, and Enforcement

19 Nov 2026

Departmental Seminar: How did All European Ethnics Become White Americans at Once? Two Competing Assimilation and Boundary-Expansion Hypotheses

11 Nov 2026

Global Ideas Competition 2027 – St. Gallen Symposium - Information session

6 Nov 2026

Departmental Seminar: Surviving Chinese Academia: Institutional Change, Knowledge Production, and the Strategies of Early-Career Scholars

26 Oct 2026

Information Day Mock Lecture (2026)

24 Oct 2026

Departmental Seminar: The New Culture Wars: Romantic Expressivism and the Reconfiguration of Political Conflict

22 Oct 2026

Departmental Seminar: How to Publish Peer-Reviewed Articles

29 Sept 2026

Sharing session on 'Preparing a successful application for admission to Sociology MPhil/PhD programmes'

17 Sept 2026

中文播客怎麼了？
What’s Going On with Chinese Podcasting?
Media, Expertise, Creative Labor, and the Making of a Chinese Podcasting Industry

8 Sept 2026

Informal Academic Exchange with Nankai University School of Sociology

19 Aug 2026

Departmental Seminar: The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements and Hope

27 Jul 2026

RPG Writing Retreat (July 2026) & Sharing by Dr. Kate Lowe

13 Jul 2026

Podcaster Series - Narrating Crime: Listening to Violence, Moral Legitimacy, and Amateur Justice in Chinese True Crime Podcasts

29 May 2026

Departmental Seminar - The Status Trap: Examining Gender Disparities in Skill Signaling on LinkedIn

20 May 2026

Staff-Student Consultative Committee Undergraduate Curriculum

30 Apr 2026

Departmental Seminar: On Emotional Discomfort

24 Apr 2026

Departmental Seminar: From the Digital to the Good Life

14 Apr 2026

Departmental Seminar: Extreme Fashion: how the feeling of digital fabrics evokes collaborative futures

14 Apr 2026

Departmental Seminar: When was the “Smart Border”? Tracing historical and contemporary legitimisations of new technologies in border regimes

9 Apr 2026

Methods Hub Seminar: Solving for X: Generative AI, Student Behaviour, and the Evolution of Teaching

27 Mar 2026

Departmental Seminar: Intersections of Purity and Danger in the Civil Sphere: A Cultural Sociology of the Political Compass

10 Mar 2026

Listening to Society: Non-fiction Podcasting and Public Storytelling

27 Feb 2026

HKU Sociology Writing Retreat (Feb) & Sharing by Prof. Claudio E. Benzecry

23 Feb 2026

Departmental Seminar: Subject or object? Cultural Attachment, Infrastructural Labor, and how agency is attributed

11 Feb 2026

Departmental Seminar: Time’s Up: How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action

10 Feb 2026

Departmental Seminar: One Discipline, Two Systems: An Institutional Analysis of Sociological Academia in Beijing and Hong Kong

6 Feb 2026

Departmental Seminar: Platforming the Civil Sector: Connecting Chinese Civic Archipelago

29 Jan 2026

Theory and Practices in Sociological Inquiry:
Conversations between Peking University and The University of Hong Kong

24 Jan 2026

HKU Podcaster Series Event - Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Why (Not) Podcasting to Give Voice?

23 Jan 2026

Departmental Seminar: Mapping the Gig Economy as an Emergent Academic Field

20 Jan 2026

HKU Sociology Writing Retreat (Jan) & Academic Mentoring Session by Prof. Michele Lamont and Prof. Frank Dobbin

19 Jan 2026

Departmental Seminar: Imaginaries of capital convergence in the making of a global web3 hub

13 Jan 2026

Joint keynote: Innovation on the edge

16 Dec 2025

Joint keynote: Climate innovation on the edge of neo-liberalism

15 Dec 2025

Departmental Seminar: A Two-Layer Framework of Digital Surveillance and Collective Action

12 Dec 2025

Departmental Seminar: Social norms and cultural membership among minorities in Germany – an experimental study of ‘recognition gaps’

11 Dec 2025

Podcast Entrepreneurship Across the US and China: Literacy, Capital, and Community

7 Dec 2025

Departmental Seminar: Right-Wing Emotions and Contemporary Battles Over Gender and Sexuality in the US

27 Nov 2025

[HKU Sociology] RPG Writing Retreat (November 2025) & Sharing by Prof Gordon Brett

27 Nov 2025

Departmental Seminar: How Will We Write the Future? Some Questions about AI and Academia

25 Nov 2025

Departmental Seminar : An Ethnographic Study of Divergent Patterns of Intergenerational Relationships of the Elderly in Hong Kong

13 Nov 2025

Integrity Behind Bars: Advancing Anti-Corruption Strategies in Prison Systems

4 Nov 2025

Symposium on ‘Decentralised Technologies and Global Chinese Communities’

27 Oct 2025

Information Day Mock Lecture (2025)

25 Oct 2025

MCCC Talk: Sounding Out China: Advertising, Authenticity, and the Rise of Podcast Culture

24 Oct 2025

Departmental Seminar: Contentious Platforms

21 Oct 2025

HKU Department of Sociology RPG Student Writing Retreat

17 Oct 2025

RPg Admissions Seminar for Sociology Insights for Standout Applications

29 Sept 2025

Book Publishing Workshop with Jack Halberstam

26 Sept 2025

Anarchitecture After Everything

25 Sept 2025

Departmental Seminar: How to Publish Peer-Reviewed Articles

19 Sept 2025

[HKU Sociology] RPG Writing Retreat (September 2025) & Sharing by Dr. Kate Lowe

18 Sept 2025

Departmental Seminar: Demographic Modeling for Global and National Development Assessments

15 Sept 2025

Departmental Seminar: Connective Resource Mobilization: Rethinking Movement Continuity Through Money in Transnational Activism

12 Sept 2025

Departmental Seminar: Guest Talks by Prof. JIA Haiyan and Prof. YAN Shaohua from School of Public Administration, Shandong University of Finance and Economics

3 Sept 2025

[HKU Sociology] RPG Writing Retreat (August 2025) & Sharing by Dr. Yujing Fun

22 Aug 2025

Departmental Seminar: Affirming or Transforming Work? Labour, Care, and Carbon in the United States, 1950–2020

28 Jul 2025

[HKU Sociology] RPG Writing Retreat (July 2025) & Sharing by Dr. L.T. Tsang

21 Jul 2025

Departmental Seminar: Assortative Marriage in China

28 May 2025

RAE Workshop: Some insights into RAE evaluations of research quality for Sociology

20 May 2025

RPG Writing Retreat & Academic Mentoring Session by Professor Liping Wang (May 2025)

6 May 2025

Departmental Seminar: Foretelling a New Chicago Sociology? The work of "Jonesville" in the Committee on Human Development, 1940-1950

6 May 2025

Departmental Seminar: On Institutions and Emotional Regimes

28 Apr 2025

Departmental Seminar: Modelling migration to understand demographic change

23 Apr 2025

Staff-Student Consultative Committee Undergraduate Curriculum

22 Apr 2025

RPG Writing Retreat under the guidance of Professor James Raymer (April 2025)

15 Apr 2025

Departmental Seminar: Doing Comparative Research on Gender, Crime and Justice: Case Studies from South Asia

1 Apr 2025

MH Conversations and Connections Series – Lunchtime Seminar:
Why Patients Stray: Hong Kong Mothers and Traditional Chinese Remedies in Childcare

28 Mar 2025

HKU Sociology Writing Retreat & Academic Mentoring Sessions by Prof. Michele Lamont and Prof. Frank Dobbin

25 Feb 2025

Departmental Seminar - A New Frontier of Work and Family: How Does Telework Matter for American Families with Young Children?

25 Feb 2025

Departmental Seminar: GLOBAL DIGNITY AND “SEEING OTHERS”: POLITICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND WORK-BASED RECOGNITION COMPARED

12 Feb 2025

Departmental Seminar - Do Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Universities Across 20 Years

10 Feb 2025

Departmental Seminar - British Sociology Today: Trends and Challenges

9 Jan 2025

2024 Tri-University Conference: Population, Family and Social Problems in East Asia

17 Dec 2024

Theory and Practices in Sociological Inquiry: Conversations between Peking University and The University of Hong Kong

14 Dec 2024

Reshaping societies: The changing dynamics of race and class in democratic Brazil and post-apartheid South Africa

6 Dec 2024

Departmental Seminar - Beyond East and West: A Sociological Reexamination of Individualism-Collectivism

29 Nov 2024

Information Day Mock Lecture: Of Jobs and Men: An AI-assisted Approach for Studying Skills Mismatch in Hong Kong

26 Oct 2024

Departmental Seminar - Erving Goffman as “folk” Dual-Process Theorist: The Meaning of Automatic and Deliberate Cognition in Improv

24 Oct 2024

Departmental Seminar - Mastering the Art of Publication: Insights on Publishing Journal Articles and Books

13 Sept 2024

Departmental Seminar - Beauty Pays, But Not Under All Circumstances: Evidence From An Experiment Using Deepfakes

5 Sept 2024

Departmental Seminar - Union History and Midlife Health Outcomes

11 Jun 2024

What happens to Sociology’s ‘big questions’ in an age of environmental uncertainty?

14 May 2024

Departmental Seminar - 3D printing and creative labour (dis)empowerment: A case study of Hong Kong startup

19 Apr 2024

Departmental Seminar - From Street Smarts To Org Charts: Professional Expertise And The Organizational Production Of Urban Integration

10 Apr 2024

Departmental Seminar - Zero-sum thinking and the cultural threat of Muslim religious rights

26 Mar 2024

Departmental Seminar - Geopolitical, Neoliberal, and Rescaling Multiculturalism: Southeast Asian and Chinese Second-Generation Children in Taiwan

1 Mar 2024

Departmental Seminar - Malleability of fairness principles and information about inequality in China

29 Feb 2024

Departmental Seminar - Racial Differences in Activity Space Disadvantage and Everyday Perceptions of Safety: Using GPS and Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand Urban Inequality

29 Jan 2024

Departmental Seminar - Risk of Exposure to COVID-19 and Informal Social Control in an Urban Setting: The Case of Hong Kong

23 Jan 2024

Theory and Practices in Sociological Inquiry:
Conversations between The University of Hong Kong and Peking University

20 Jan 2024

Celebrating 10 years of Master of Social Sciences in Media, Culture & Creative Cities

6 Dec 2023

Departmental Seminar – The Dynamics of Change in Cultural Consumption in the UK

30 Nov 2023

Book Talk — Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

13 Nov 2023

Information Day Mock Lecture: Urban graffiti – is it art or crime?

28 Oct 2023

HKU Department of Sociology RPG Student Writing Retreat

16 Oct 2023

How to Sue Your Rapist: Inequality in the Pursuit of Civil Justice

26 Sept 2023

Meeting with the editor of International Migration Review

22 Sept 2023

Publishing in International Migration Review

21 Sept 2023

New Directions in Displacement and Refugee Research

21 Sept 2023

A Counterfactual Framework for Studying the Causes and Consequences of Social Stratification

24 Aug 2023

The Art of Resistance: Three Strategies to Challenge Master Narratives

23 Aug 2023

China: A Powerhouse and Resistor of Restorative Justice

23 Aug 2023

Experience of subjective discrimination in healthcare in superdiverse areas: evidence in four European countries

7 Jun 2023

JUPAS Information Week – Department of Sociology Mock Lecture: Understanding Heritage from a Sociological Perspective

25 May 2023

Public Lecture: Queer Data – Who Counts?

19 Apr 2023

Career Development Seminar with Dr Kevin Guyan

18 Apr 2023

Book Launch: Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. (踏跡尋中：四十年華南田野之旅)

4 Jan 2023

Information Day 2022 Mock Lecture

29 Oct 2022

Contemporary China Research Cluster Public Lecture: Between Hierarchy and Patriarchy: The Duality of Chinese Bureaucracy in History

25 Oct 2022

Staging Cantonese Opera across Time and Place: Pre-performance Appreciation Scheme 穿「粵」戲台：演前導賞計劃——《春滿杏林》及《奉奉天承運》創作分享會

4 Sept 2022

Hong Kong Society in Many Faces in the Past 25 years: Some Sociological Reflections (25年來香港社會多面觀)

30 Jul 2022

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