Book + Author October 2022
Louisa Lim in conversation with Yves Rees about Indelible City.
The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last returned to the ancestral fold. To its inhabitants, the city was a place of refuge and rebellion, whose own history was so little taught that they began mythmaking their own past.
When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who had covered the region for a decade—realised that she was uniquely positioned to unearth Hong Kong’s untold stories.
Lim’s deeply researched and personal account is startling, casting new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the centre of their own story.
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2022 Annual Lecture
HCV's Annual Lecture
Each year, the History Council of Victoria presents a public lecture that shares fresh thinking and new evidence on an historical topic. This year, Associate Professor Catherine Kovesi will present on Beauty in Response to Plague: the city of Venice.
This is a free event and will be presented online.
In October 1347 there was an outbreak of a highly contagious disease in the south of Italy that originated in the East and soon spread like wildfire through the rest of Europe. In its first 18 months, the so-called Black Death killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe alone and resurfaced repeatedly for the next three centuries until its last outbreak in Marseilles in 1720. It was port cities above all that faced the greatest ongoing threat from plague and which were by default at the frontline of pandemic control, all instituting a range of measures both during and after successive outbreaks.
One port city, that of Venice, was remarkable not only for the innovative role it played in instituting a comprehensive plague defensive strategy, but for the staggering beauty of its responses to the possible threat, present danger, and aftermath of each outbreak of plague. The entire city and the wider lagoon area is marked by these responses – in art, architecture, and ritual commemorations – which have left an indelible imprint upon the city scape which is so familiar to the world’s imaginings of Venice
This lecture will outline Venice’s comprehensive systems for pandemic control before concentrating on the breathtaking model it provides for a response of beauty even in the face of unbearable trauma and death.
Associate Professor Catherine Kovesi
Catherine Kovesi is Head of the Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies. She has published widely on the debates surrounding luxury consumption in early modern Italy to the present, on Florentine and Venetian social history, and the history of women religious in Australia. She is on the Editorial Board of Brepols Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies series, and is co-General Editor of Bloomsbury’s forthcoming six-volume Cultural History of Luxury. She takes students from Melbourne to the city of Venice and curates bespoke cultural events in the city.
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Causes of Revolution with Dr Julie Fedor
Consequences of Revolution with Professor Mark Edele
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From custodianship to the Anthropocene with Prof Richard Broome (Environmental Management & Mismanagement: Deep Time to 1901)
War and Upheaval with Dr Richard Trembath
Power and Resistance with Dr Richard Trembath
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Ancient Mesopotamia: Development of Writing
Ancient Mesopotamia: Rise of the Assyrian Empire
Ancient Egypt: Narmer Palette
Ancient Egypt: Deir el-Bahri
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Causes of Revolution with Professor Peter McPhee
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Causes of Revolution with Dr Rebecca Cairns
Consequences of Revolution with Dr Rebecca Cairns
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Booking form for History Roadshow - Empires
Register below for the video lecture recording with Dr Richard Trembath:
Empires
Please note that this lecture was recorded in 2021, and focusses on the European settlement of America, and relates to Area of Study 2.
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Register below for access to four video lectures with Professor Tim Parkin:
Ancient History: Living in an Ancient Society (Rome and Greece)
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