THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT
An Anthropological Talk by Alexander Cheung
Tai Po Wun Yiu latest archaeological discovery and its future
Friday 15 March 2024, 7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Wun Yiu Blue and White Porcelain Kiln Site in Tai Po is one of the better preserved kiln sites in China. This is also one of the major archaeological resources in Hong Kong. Numerous fieldworks have been conducted by different archaeologists over the years, unearthing some fruitful archaeological finds and discoveries. However, its potential in the aspects of heritage tourism and cultural education seem to be neglected. In this talk, I will present his recent discoveries in Tai Po Wun Yu and discuss its potential for Hong Kong cultural heritage management.
Mr. Alexander CHEUNG RPA, Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Archeological Society, graduated from Western Washington University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He became a Registered Professional Archaeologist in the United States in 2012. His research focuses on the neolithic maritime substance and adaptation, and lithic technology of the coastal people around the pacific rim. Alexander is working as an independent cultural heritage consultant in Hong Kong.
THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT
An Anthropological Talk by Don Kulick
What Good is Anthropology?
Friday 23 February 2024, 7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Kulick addresses the question "What Good is Anthropology?" via a discussion of cultural critic Susan Sontag's review of photographer Diane Arbus's 1972 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Sontag asserts that Arbus, in depicting individuals whom Sontag regards as "ugly", is necessarily exploiting them. He perceives an exact comparison between Diane Arbus's photographs and anthropology as an epistemological project and a representational practice. Kulick argues that anthropology, like Arbus's photographs, is good for subverting the smug, privileged protocol articulated by critics like Sontag, who are prepared to contemplate "ugly" people, vastly different from themselves, but only through an optic of pity, or of vicarious indignation at the supposedly unrelentingly grim conditions under which such people are imagined to live their lives.
Don Kulick is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on topics that range from the lives of transgendered prostitutes in Brazil to the anthropology of fat. He is Chair Professor of Anthropology at Hong Kong University and Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT
An Anthropological Talk by Winsome Hin-Shin Lee
"Skeleton out of the Closet": Moving Forensic Anthropology in Hong Kong from the Past for the Future
Friday 19 January 2024, 7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Forensic anthropology in Hong Kong has a long, fascinating and at times arduous history. In such a landscape, the medicolegal study of human remains has a great deal of potential to develop. In this talk, Lee will introduce forensic anthropology and its humanitarian foci to push forward the potential of forensic anthropology work, and discuss the significance for forensic anthropology in terms of modern human skeletal variability in Hong Kong in the hope of paving the way for such research here to benefit science and society.
Winsome Lee is currently a Body Donation Program Officer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a biological anthropologist and works for various organizations, from humanitarian NGO to law enforcement agencies. Since 2017, she has partnered with a private DVI company working on disaster relief and response. She has published 8 books in Hong Kong and Taiwan and received various awards. In 2021, she was awarded the Hong Kong Humanity Award 2021 organized by the Hong Kong Red Cross and RTHK.