Date: November 7th, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Kathryn Gin Lum (Stanford University)
Moderator: Prof. Wu Ka-ming (CUHK)
Discussants: Prof. Cheung Shoan Yin & Prof. Guo Ting (CUHK)
Registration：https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13697573
About Speaker:
Kathryn Gin Lum is Professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford. She is also Professor, by courtesy, of History in affiliation with American Studies and Asian American Studies. Her teaching and research focus on the lived ramifications of religious beliefs; she specializes in the history of religion and race in America.
Professor Gin Lum’s most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press 2022), looks at how the figure of the “heathen” in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race. Heathen received the 2023 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and the 2023 S-USIH Book Award from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.
About the book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674976771
Organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Venue sponsor: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library
Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk